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Oracle is doubling the number of Linux systems pretested by its Validated Configurations program.

EMC said it won't be part of an open-source storage management group that plans to develop software that can not only discover multivendor devices on a storage network, but also control those devices in a standard way.

IBM and eight other storage vendors are teaming up to form an open-source organization initially called Aperi, Big Blue announced Tuesday. The companies intend to work together to develop common storage software to manage different vendors' systems, making it easier for users dealing with disparate storage systems. The software will be made available free of charge.

Sun Microsystems and IBM are among the vendors that will demonstrate heterogeneous storage management at the upcoming Storage Networking World Show this October in Orlando.

Sun Microsystems Inc. announced a storage-area network (SAN) suite of hardware and software products that support 2G bit/sec. Fibre Channel networks, doubling the data transfer rates of its current SANs.

To better assist customers looking for scalable SAN architectures that can start small and grow, Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday will announce a number of inclusions to its SAN product family.

The Storage Performance Council on Wednesday rolled out some of the first vendor results from its SPC Benchmark 1, a newly defined metric for determining the performance of storage sub-systems.

In its quest to enter the enterprise market, Microsoft will launch next week the .NET family of enterprise servers. However, competitors are not convinced that Windows can compete with Unix.