The Information Storage Industry Center (ISIC) at the University of California, San Diego is a non-profit research program studying the rapidly-evolving and highly-competitive information storage industry. ISIC's research areas include product development, manufacturing, competitive dynamics, economics of organization, and storage system reliability and data integrity. Established in 1998 with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, ISIC is affiliated with UCSD's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), one of world's top international graduate programs specializing in the Pacific Rim.