IBM is leading a new vendor alliance called Aperi to push new open-source storage management software. Cisco Systems, Computer Associates, Brocade Communications, Network Appliance, McData and Fujitsu are all participating. That’s nice, but critics say it is more of an anti-EMC marketing push. EMC said it wasn’t invited to join, nor are Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Sun Microsystems or Veritas (Symantec) anywhere in sight. The group is also a challenge to the Storage Networking Industry …

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Fujitsu plans to offer data management software by next spring. A tool called Business Information Navigator will provide enterprise-level searching of tagged content and also illuminate the relationships between content. Another tool, of an undisclosed name, is designed to manage syndicated (RSS) data. The enterprise purpose of the RSS manager is vague, but it could be used in contact center suites or for internal communications in companies with many locations.

For more on the software:
– check out this IDG News article

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