IBM, Veritas Software, Hitachi and Sun Microsystems have joined to spruik for standards for interoperability between storage management applications overseen by the Storage Networking Industry Association.
Australasian distributor Digistor has signed a deal with IBM to onsell its TotalStorage NAS 100 hardware, using the marketing gimmick of likening the device to a pizza box.
McData will pitch the new device in its Sphereon range of Fibre Channel switches to what it calls the "mid-range market" of storage area network users.
IBM's quarterly results, which showed what amounted to parity in its storage business, gave a nice polish to what was a largely positive week for tech stocks in general, including storage.
Quantum has said it will spin off its network attached storage business into a separate company called Snap Appliance which will merge with a third independent company.
Australian storage vendor executives are in the midst of some furious back-room lobbying in planning for the establishment of a local chapter of the Storage Networking Industry Association.
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young has joined with Documentum, Plumtree Software and Oblix to create an integrated package of technologies for rapid Web application deployment.
Hawaii-based Pihana Pacific is celebrating its three-way merger by taking its storage service provider business to Singapore in a deal with a local ISP.
Seagate Technology Holdings has re-emerged from a period of over two years of being a private company by filing to relist its shares, in a move that could herald M&A activity in the depressed storage sector.
