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Taking a lesson from EMC Corp.'s AutoIS enterprise storage management strategy, Hitachi Data Systems Corp. (HDS) unveiled its own enterprise storage management initiative on Tuesday, called True North, at the NetWorld+Interop 2002 trade show in Las Vegas.

Weary storage administrators rejoice, because the first comprehensive storage management solutions are finally here. Fujitsu Software Technology Corp.'s Storage Manager and TrueSAN Networks Inc.'s CloudBreak software deliver a range of functionality, including data management, storage resource management, virtualization, and monitoring -- all through a single interface.

In the corporate world, time is money, and in an era when business hours have been extended from nine-to-five to 24x7, any downtime is lost revenue.

Determined to establish itself as a premier storage provider for the enterprise, Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday will announce it has simplified its storage software offering and will roll out improved storage hardware sharpened by technology licensed from Vicom Systems Inc.

On the software side, Sun is re-packaging its 70-plus storage software products into four simplified suites, said Mark Canepa, executive vice-president of storage products for Sun, in Burlington, Mass.

EMC Corp.'s highly prudent, selective approach to trading its storage subsystem application program interfaces (APIs) with its competitors could impede what experts generally regard as the most likely program to become a de facto storage management standard, EMC's fledgling AutoIS program.

EMC Corp.'s highly prudent, selective approach to trading its storage subsystem application program interfaces (APIs) with its competitors could impede what experts generally regard as the most likely program to become a de facto storage management standard, EMC's fledgling AutoIS program.