Tom is active with SMPTE, SNIA, IDEMA, the IEEE Magnetics Society, IEEE CE Society, and other professional organizations.

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Macaulay, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco, says prosecutors cannot confirm a link between Alocozy and Idema.

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Jim was one of the founders of the disk industry equipment trade group, IDEMA, and actively participated in its conferences and various committees.

FORBES: A Silent Voice: James Porter, Dean of Storage Analysts Dies

Through the International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (Idema) all hard drive makers have committed to adopting the 4K advanced format by the end of January 2011.

BBC: Hard drive evolution could hit Microsoft XP users

Jim was a frequent presenter at many industry events including many IDEMA conferences, the Head and Media Technology Review Conference, the 100th Anniversary of Magnetic Recording and Information Storage at Santa Clara University (SCU) as well as other events put on by the Institute of Information Storage Technology at SCU, and at his own DataStorage Conferences.

FORBES: A Silent Voice: James Porter, Dean of Storage Analysts Dies