Management Monogatari: Tales of Resource Management from Mark A. Carlson

The eXtensible Access Method (XAM) 1.0 specifications are now available as work in progress drafts on the SNIA web site. This includes the XAM Architecture spec (details all the semantics of the XAM interface), the XAM Java API (Java language binding) and the XAM C API (C language binding).

SNIA also issued a press release announcing this and the code donations by Sun, EMC and HP to the XAM SDK effort. The XAM SDK is a toolkit and source code that implements XAM and will be made available after XAM 1.0 finishes the SNIA Architecture vote by it's members later this year.

I am here at Storage Networking World in Orlando this week to give a XAM tutorial and help with a multi-vendor XAM demonstration in the Tech Edge area of the show floor. Stop by and say hi if you are attending.

Also, EMC has announced that they will be using the XAM SDK in their own developer platform. This is great news and follows on Sun's own announcement last month. Update: original Sun Blog post: 4/7/08