By Jo Maitland
Tivoli Systems Inc reaffirmed its commitment to the storage area networking (SAN) market yesterday, following a recent story in ComputerWire of its plans to buy-in storage management technology rather than develop it in-house.
Tivoli’s director of strategy and business development for SANs, Troy Pladson told ComputerWire the company is spending, far more on internal development in this area than the $23.5m it paid out on Tuesday for Mercury Computer Systems’ SAN management software, SANergy. He was unable to put an exact figure on this amount.
Pladson said that over the coming months Tivoli has pinned down three area of the market that it will focus on. These include: exploiting the movement of data across a SAN through its Tivoli Storage Manager software. A key area of development, he said, was to manage storage at an applications level rather than higher up the chain at the systems level. The most important applications at any one time can then be given priority, he said. The second area is overall management of SAN devices and thirdly, sharing of storage resources and data across multiple platforms including NT and Unix.
