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Storage companies seek interoperability

The Storage Networking Industry Association and several prominent storage-hardware companies plan to announce a collaboration Monday to make sure their devices work together. The initiative is the latest in a series of efforts to improve interoperability, an unfulfilled requirement that has held back the shift to new storage devices that are independent instead of subsystems of a server. The new effort, called the Supported Solutions Forum, is backed by most prominent storage-device companies, including EMC, Compaq Computer, IBM and Hitachi Data Systems, as well as storage network companies Brocade Communications and McData, the companies said.

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The Storage Networking Industry Association and several prominent storage-hardware companies plan to announce a collaboration Monday to make sure their devices work together. The initiative is the latest in a series of efforts to improve interoperability, an unfulfilled requirement that has held back the shift to new storage devices that are independent instead of subsystems of a server.

The new effort, called the Supported Solutions Forum, is backed by most prominent storage-device companies, including EMC, Compaq Computer, IBM and Hitachi Data Systems, as well as storage network companies Brocade Communications and McData, the companies said.