Aug 20, 2002 : HP, IBM Expand Storage Interoperability

📅 August 20, 2002 - Technology giants HP (hp.com) and IBM (IBM.com) announced on Tuesday that they have formed a new interoperability agreement intended to help customers more easily deploy open storage networks.

The companies say the agreement builds on the interoperability efforts by the two, and serves as a stepping-stone to the delivery of a standards-based management platform based on common information model (CIM) and Bluefin.
According to the terms of the agreement, HP and IBM will cross-license their storage application programming interfaces (APIs) and command line interfaces (CLIs) to help with the development and delivery of storage management solutions for certain storage arrays from both companies. The project will allow HP's OpenView software to manage IBM's TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server, and IBM's management software to manage the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and Enterprise Modular Array storage systems.
"For the past two years, HP and IBM have been driving the storage industry towards open standards and interoperability," said Mark Sorenson, vice president, Storage Software Division, HP Network Storage Solutions. "More progress is needed, which is why we are taking this step today. Multi-vendor storage environments are a reality now, and our customers need tools to more effectively manage their networked storage solutions."
The exchange of interfaces, say the companies, is a step toward standards-based interoperability, the goal of the emerging Bluefin and CIM standard, which provide a common management interface for storage area network components including disk arrays, switches, host adapters and servers.
HP and IBM participated in the drafting of the Bluefin specification, which has been adopted as the basis for future work by the Storage Networking Industry Association.

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