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API Swaps: Only Skin Deep
This article is part of the Storage issue of Vol. 1 No. 9 November 2002
@exb Storage management vendors are taking different routes to support the heterogeneous devices. @exe If nothing else, this fall's spate of storage management software announcements - EMC AutoIS "Chapter 2," HP Open View Storage Area Manager 3.0, and Veritas SANPoint Control 3.5, to name a few - has highlighted the ways you can get at a storage device: through an API, SNMP, NFS or CIFS, through a command line or by reverse engineering, a technique that EMC has resorted to. Reverse engineering has obvious downsides. "Sometimes, the firmware in a device changes three or four times a year," says Dan Hoffmann, director of enterprise storage management at BMC Software. "When the firmware changes, the interface changes." It also raises legal concerns, says Mark Sorenson, vice president of HP's Storage Software Division. "Customers should be loathe to bet their business on products that could end up being evidence in a lawsuit." EMC and HP are currently serving each other with copyright infringement suits. But API swaps are not ...
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Storage industry index
May followed April's dramatic decline.
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API Swaps: Only Skin Deep
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Microsoft Scales Data Center Wall with MPIO
Microsoft is exhausting data center managers' objections to running Windows in the data center.
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Bocada clarifies backup picture
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Virtualize the right way
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Network appliance raises the bar for NAS/SAN convergence
The FAS900 series breaks new ground in bringing together file and block storage.
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The Whys and Wherefores of Failed Backups
Despite all the effort storage administrators pour into backup, backups fail about 40% of the time.
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Storage Manager Profile
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