• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  
  

Other Universities/Research Institutes

Europe

• Data Storage Network (University of Exeter) Research in David Wright's group at Exeter concentrates primarily on advanced optical recording, both MO and PC, and scanning probe-based storage.
• Information Storage Research Group (University of Manchester) The ISRG, within the Manchester School of Engineering, is one of the largest applied magnetism research groups in Europe, with a particular emphasis on modelling and recording systems
• Information Storage Technology Group (University of Twente) Research in the ISTG concentrates on high-density recording, both magnetic and magneto-optical.
  

North America

• National Institute of Standards and Technology The program in magnetics technology at NIST is a rapidly growing laboratory and computational effort in support of U.S. industries which rely on magnetics. Advanced Technology Program The ATP's mission is to stimulate U.S. economic growth by developing high risk and enabling technologies through industry-driven cost-shared partnerships.
• Information Storage Industry Consortium The INSIC mission is to enhance the growth and technical vitality of the information storage industry and to advance the state of information storage technology.
• Centre for Magnetic Recording Research (UC San Diego) CMRR was founded in 1983 by a consortium of the U.S. magnetic recording industry to perform research in magnetic disk and tape storage. Professor Talke's Group (UC San Diego) - part of CMRR, with a particular emphasis on tribology
• Data Storage Systems Center (Carnegie Mellon University) The DSSC is an NSF Engineering Research Center whose mission is to advance the state-of-the-art in magnetic and magneto-optic recording for the U.S. data storage industry
• Center for Materials for Information Technology (University of Alabama) The Center for Materials for Information Technology pursues basic research in materials and processes used in information storage devices such as magnetic hard drive and tape systems.
• Communications and Data Storage Lab (University of Minnesota) This is Prof. J. Moon's research group, associated with the center for Micromagnetics and Information Technologies. Their research focuses on signal processing for communications and data storage.
  

Asia

• Information Recording Laboratory Research Institute of Electrical Communication (Tohoku University) Professor Muraoka's group studies ultra high density information storage.
• Recording Engineering Laboratory (Ehime University) This is Professor Osawa's research group.
• Akita Research Institute of Advanced Technology (Akita)
• Data Storage Institute (Singapore)