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Sun Microsystems last month pulled out of the IBM-led open-source storage group Aperi, and said it would back an older SMI-S storage management software standardization effort being championed by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). After Sun's move, Aperi said it would place itself under the auspices of the vendor-neutral Eclipse Foundation. With that backdrop, Wayne Adams, chairman of SNIA's board of directors, recently spoke with Computerworld about friction between SNIA members who support the Aperi/Eclipse open source project -- and those who don't.

The Storage Networking Industry Association proposed a specification for an interface between reference information and the location where it is stored on.

Sun touts new eco-friendly chip for servers; storage should follow suit to reduce energy consumption

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.

First National Bank of Omaha said this week that it's nearing completion of a complete changeout of its distributed server infrastructure for a mainframe and blade-server architecture based on Linux. While only 80% complete, the move is already expected to save the company US$1.8 million this year in operating expenses and another US$9.6 million through 2011.

IT managers said they face a daunting task in trying to classify data so it can be stored on systems appropriate to its importance and overall business worth. Not the least of those challenges is changing the attitudes of business units used to getting premium storage for every byte of data.

EMC Monday announced the latest version of its flagship storage management software, which it said offers "more complete support" for competing products such as arrays from Hewlett-Packard (HP), Hitachi Data Systems and IBM, as well as Linux servers.

After years of foot-dragging by vendors reluctant to write their management software to standards, the storage industry has come together around an open management software interface that promises to help users view and more centrally control enterprisewide storage-area networks (SAN).

With the end of 2002 in sight, many in IT will be heading into 2003 happy to put this palindromic year in the rearview mirror. Still, this year offered up some important tech advances: wireless and pervasive computing exploded; edge computing and edge applications often took center stage; and XML and Web services wove themselves further into the enterprise, impacting everything from IT integration plans to EAI vendors' strategies.

System administrators have a smorgasbord of storage management software to chose from in a worldwide market which IDC predicts will be worth $US13.5 billion in 2006.

Don't write off InfiniBand just yet, experts say, as momentum behind the high-speed bus transport has merely slowed, not stalled.