Techworld: Sun Starts Storage Standards War | Linux Today

Techworld: Sun Starts Storage Standards War

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 22, 2006

“Sun has left Aperi, the IBM-led open source storage management
initiative, causing a big fracture in the world of storage
standards.

“Aperi was founded in October, 2005, and led by IBM, with other
members including Brocade, CA, Cisco, McDATA, NetApp and Sun. It
was seen as a deliberate snub against EMC and HP and also a
reaction to the comparatively weak progress of the storage
networking industry association (SNIA) and its system management
interface specification (SMI-S) effort…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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