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IBM Leads Team to Alleviate Data Storage Woes

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the square-peg-in-a-round-hole dept.

Kailash Nadh writes to tell us ABC News is reporting that IBM is teaming up with several other companies to form a group called Aperi. This group will attempt to "push the open source idea deeper into computing" and "free up the bottlenecks that can occur when a business has bought tape and disk storage systems from a variety of vendors." The partnership is to include companies like Cisco, Sun, Fujitsu, and several others.

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  1. Now don't tell me to RTFA ok??!?! by ChrisGilliard · · Score: 4, Funny

    EOM

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  2. Haha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So many people don't read the articles anymore that the submitter must have figured, "Screw it, why post it anyway?"

    1. Re:Haha by gstoddart · · Score: 2, Funny
      So many people don't read the articles anymore that the submitter must have figured, "Screw it, why post it anyway?"

      Nah, he figured the next time the story is posted it would have links.
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  3. alleviating woes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    alleviating woes?

    Yep, some might say IBM has a lot of experience working with Deep Blues.

  4. I work for IBM. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I work for IBM.
    So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies.
    Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.
    But trust me.... You don't.
    I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont
    know what you are talking about.
    This is how bad info gets passed around.
    If you dont know about the topic....Don't make yourself sound like you do.
    Cuz some Slashdotters belive anything they hear.

    1. Re:I work for IBM. by DavidHOzAu · · Score: 2, Funny

      Cuz some Slashdotters belive anything they hear.
      Yes, and I work at IBM too. ;-)

  5. Open Source data archive and retrieval tool by Gothmolly · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Tape ARchive tool, reports IBM, will allow users to add and remove files from a data set, called a 'tarfile', via a well-documented API, which IBM wants OSS developers to leverage. This 'tarfile' can be created as a regular Unix or Wintel filesystem file, or directly written to tape or disk. This can be used to create any number of GUI and command line tools to provide low-level access to the data files contained within. A bonus to the extensible format used by IBM is that native Compress, GZ and BZ2 compression libraries can be used, when available on the system. A beta release of the utility set ALSO provides LZIP compression, previously only available as a Sourceforge patch to the existing OSS toolkit.

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  6. Phooey. Article Text With Links by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kailash Nadh writes to tell us ABC News is reporting that IBM is teaming up with several other companies to form a group called Aperi. This group will attempt to "push the open source idea deeper into computing" and "free up the bottlenecks that can occur when a business has bought tape and disk storage systems from a variety of vendors." The partnership is to include companies like Cisco, Sun, Fujitsu, and several others.

  7. Deep by wombatmobile · · Score: 2, Funny

    This group will attempt to "push the open source idea deeper into computing"

    How much deeper can they go?

  8. With IBM, it will be by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    More like a team to alleviate your money storage woes..