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Byline: Brian Deagon
Can't We All
Just Get Along?
Fierce competitors in the data storage industry are planning to join hands and sing the praises of connectivity on Monday.
EMC Corp., IBM Corp. and Compaq Computer Corp. are founding members of the just-created Supported Solutions Forum. They will reveal their plans at what's billed as an "exclusive" press conference. The other founders, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Hitachi Data Systems and McData Corp., also will be there.
The group looks like a spinoff of the 75-member Storage Networking Industry Association that EMC founded. The sole purpose of that group is to promote interoperability between disparate storage systems and software.
Getting products of different companies working together is a key issue for businesses. Seeing EMC work closely with IBM and others would be an accomplishment. Industry watchers say EMC, as the leader in data storage, has been reluctant to make it easier for its competitors' products to work well with its own ...