XAM Status and Upcoming Activities:

• Congratulations to Sascha Homeier the winner of the TopCoder XAM Newsfeeder Prototype Contest
• Congratulations to Bruce Zhang the winner of the TopCoder XAM Amazon S3 Prototype Contest
• XAM v1.0.1 released by the SNIA as a Technical Position to the public. Download XAM v1.0.1.  Next step for XAM v1.0.1 is submission by the SNIA to INCITS for ANSI standardization.  
• NEW! Version 1.0.1 The XAM SDK is now in the process of becoming a SNIA Software Release and is available for download at XAM SDK.