XAM
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Xam may refer to: * XAM, a data storage standard * Xẩm, a type of Vietnamese folk music * ǀXam language, an extinct language of South Africa * Xam Wilson Cartiér (born 1949), writer from Missouri, United States
XAM, or the eXtensible Access Method, is a standard for computer data storage developed by IBM and EMC and maintained by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). It was ratified as an ANSI standard by early 2011. XAM is an API for fixed content aware storage devices. XAM replaces the various proprietary interfaces that have been used for this purpose in the past. Content generating applications now have a standard means of saving and finding their content across a broad array of storage devices. XAM is similar in function to a file-system API such as the POSIX file and directory operations, in that it allows applications to store and retrieve their data. XAM stores application data in XSet objects that also contain metadata.
See also
Content-addressable storage
References
External links
XAM Initiative – Provides good material both at the overview and detail level XAM SDK download – An open source reference implementation of the API XAM Developers Group – Provides information to assist developers working with XAM
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