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In the market for storage management software, there's no lack of vendors who will sell you tools to help you regain control of your storage resources, but most seem to come from four basic heritages.
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VENDOR TYPES
PROS
CONS
SAMPLE VENDORS
Storage hardware
Deep integration with their own offerings
Poor support for heterogeneous environments; not software developers
EMC, Hitachi, Sun, IBM
Management software
Extensive management experience
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o storage-specific expertise
Tivoli, Computer Associates, BMC, Hewlett-Packard
Storage software
Vendor agnostic; storage specific
Overly storage-centric view of the IT universe
Veritas, Fujitsu Softek, StorScape, TrueSAN
SSPs
Products developed out of real-world experience; intimate knowledge of interoperability issues
Experienced with system administration - not software development
StorageNetworks, ManagedStorage International, Creekpath
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