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XAM Solutions Guide Chart
This XAM Solutions guide is organized three ways: by company, by implementation category, and by industry vertical. The company links in the table will take you to a profile on that company's XAM implementation(s).
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Implementation Category
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Vertical
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Company
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Application
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Middleware
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Storage
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Management
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Cloud Storage Services
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In-House
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Industry
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ByCast
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X
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Medical Records, Preservation
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Commvault
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X
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Preservation, Any
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CASPAR
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X
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X
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Digital Library, Preservation
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Dell
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X
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Preservation, Any
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EMC
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X
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Preservation, Any
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HP
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X
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Preservation, Any
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Informatica
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X
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Any
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OpenText
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X
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Any
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Oracle (Sun)
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X
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X
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Preservation, Any
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Penn State Univ.
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X
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X
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Digital Library, Preservation
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RainStor
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X
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X
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Preservation, Cloud Services
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SAND Technology
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X
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Data Warehousing
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StorageSwitch
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X
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Preservation, Any
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Implementation Category Definitions
- Application: Implemented like a device driver or file system interface at an application level, the XAM API provides the application to storage interface over standard network protocols.
- Middleware: Typically implemented in the form of tools, utilities, or gateways. Middleware is designed to make interfacing between applications and storage systems easier and transparent. They also provide additional functions such as query services and other data-services built around XAM.
- Storage: Implemented at a storage controller, virtualization engine, or storage server level. Storage systems integrate XAM directly into the storage and provide data services to create what is called "XAM enabled storage"
- Management: Tools that can take advantage of the extended metadata attributes of a XAM object and provide enhanced resource, information, and data services based on that metadata. An example would be retention or deletion management.
- Cloud Storage Services: Writing XAM objects into the cloud enables information to reside in the cloud as a portable, secure, information objects with rich metadata. Typical use cases would be for archive or preservation, sharing of reference information, etc.
- In-House: XAM implementations for internal use or as a reference implementation - not in a commercial product.
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