Storage vendors launch open source consortium

Building on existing efforts
By Lucy Sherriff
Published Tuesday 25th October 2005 16:04 GMT

Eight major storage vendors, including IBM and Cisco, have joined forces to develop a common open source platform for managing storage devices. The idea is that customers will be able to use the result of their labours to make it easier to manage their storage systems, regardless of the vendor.

Brocade, CA, Engenio Information Technologies, Fujitsu and McData complete the line up, while players like Sun, Symantec, EMC and HP are more notable by their absence

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