How will the Infinite Storage Bean work with the Highground...
Sun Expanding Its Influence In Storage Market
(12/04/00, 3:51 p.m. ET) By Kim Renay Anderson, TechWeb News
Sun Microsystems is making a strong move into the computer storage market, announcing Monday that it is acquiring HighGround Systems for $400 million in stock.
Though details of the deal were not immediately available, industry observers said Sun's purchase acquisition of HighGround Systems Inc., a storage management software company, is part of the continuing trend of consolidation in the storage segment, said Steve Widen, an analyst at International Data Corp., Framingham, Mass.
The recent acquisition of CrosStar Software by EMC Corp. (stock: EMC) -- the industry's storage leader -- reflects a need by some companies to diversify. For instance, CrosStar has a unique file-sharing feature, which can enhance EMC products, Widen said.
"Compaq already has equity in HighGround," he said. "It will be interesting to see the relationship that Sun has with Compaq, a supplier of open systems storage."
Sun Microsystems Inc. (stock: SUNW) wants to be the storage choice of Internet data, said William Hurley, an analyst at the Yankee Group in Boston. As a result of this acquisition, he said Sun has accelerated its efforts to achieve it.
"Sun was already working on its Jiro storage management tool," Hurley said. "Jiro is automated network management software. It will be interesting to see how Sun integrates Jiro with HighGround."
I guess Unisys is the new DELL partner....
Lambert added that the relationship with Unisys was hammered out quite recently, and the two companies are still working out details on product deployment, pricing, and how the company will differentiate itself from other Unisys resellers. Dell will likely bundle the machines with its storage offerings, however, he said.
The storage Tank....
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IBM Readies Storage Software
(12/05/00, 6:57 p.m. ET) By Kim Renay Anderson, TechWeb News
IBM Corp. has announced Storage Tank, software that allows the sharing of data across any storage hardware, platform, or operating system.
The new product, which has not been priced, is scheduled for release in the second quarter of 2001.
Linda Sanford, senior vice president of the storage systems group at IBM (stock: IBM), had first discussed Storage Tank at the Storage Network World, Oct. 30-31 in Orlando, Fla.
The product was scheduled for release in late November, but was delayed a couple of weeks so the company could better prepare for its launch, said Walter Raizner, vice president of marketing and strategy at IBM.
"Customers wanted to know more details about Storage Tank such as, can the software work with our current operating storage system, and what technology would be required for the software to work with their current system," he said. "Therefore, we decided to delay its announcement, so that we could unveil it along with all the details customers would wanted to know."
Raizner said Storage Tank was an open system that would first be sold to the enterprise and later to the mid-market.
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