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EMC and IBM on Wednesday announced another step in their joint technology agreement, which will now include the midrange iSeries server.
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive.
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IBM will expand its collection of data storage systems later this month by adding a lower-cost disk storage system based on Serial ATA interface hard drives.
The networking giant will soon begin to sell switches that use Big Blue's software for managing and storing huge pools of data.
iSCSI, virtualisation and business continuity are key to EMC's future, as chief technology officer Ken Steinhardt well knows.
To encourage the broadest possible support for its forthcoming "Storage Tank" technology, IBM will release an open-source version of the software needed to let servers tap into the next-generation storage system.
IBM researchers are working on a new storage system prototype that packs hard-drive modules into a dense, Rubik's Cube-like structure.
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