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IBM adds support for EMC's arrays; EMC product due next year
IBM and EMC Corp. last week vied for an edge in the emerging market for storage virtualization technology, with IBM contending that EMC is late to the party and EMC claiming that software sold by IBM lacks functionality EMC will bring to the table.
In addition to taking verbal shots at each other, the storage rivals made dueling product announcements related to virtualization. IBM released an upgrade of its TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller software, which, like other virtualization tools, is designed to make disk arrays from different vendors look like a single pool of storage to users.
The Version 1.2 upgrade adds support for managing EMC's Symmetrix and Clariion disk arrays as well as Hitachi Data Systems Corp.'s high-end Lightning devices, IBM said. SAN Volume Controller now also supports NetWare and Windows Server 2003, plus server virtualization software from EMC subsidiary VMware Inc.
Not to be outdone, EMC...