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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. article is at by ChrisGilliard · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://fr.sys-con.com/read/145401.htm

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  2. no link in summary, here's one by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5912912.html

  3. Here's the link! :D by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=124913 2

    And the obligatory coral link.

    http://abcnews.go.com.nyud.net:8090/Business/wireS tory?id=1249132

  4. Re:Doesn't IBM sell data storage solutions? by cerelib · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, that is completely the wrong way to think about it. This is a way to be able to sell to customers whose entire infrastructure is from a competitor(EMC, Sun, Fujitsu) by being able to integrate or "virtualize" all of it so it works as a cohesive unit. It is all about virtualization of storage.

  5. Re:Doesn't IBM sell data storage solutions? by superpulpsicle · · Score: 3, Informative

    I talk to a lot of companies deploying big servers & storage of all size all year round. Here is the current picture.

    EMC sym - They are only popular because they dominated the market in the 90s with many places already invested in them. Old school technology. Bloated as hell software, too many pieces.

    HDS - Tagma and lightning is the best technology in the market by a long shot period! However they are unfortunate in selling the best product in a shitty market.

    IBM - Shark has the ugliest hardware & software userbility there is. If you don't mind it, go for it.

    HP - If they didn't oem from HDS, they would have been toast.

    Sun - Storedge line started out confusing. Their marketing makes it even worse.