EMC has outlined its plans to empower developer partners and customers with the tools to drive standards-compliant, open storage management solutions into real-world environments.
"These plans build on EMC`s continuing work with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and its member companies to further develop and speed finalisation of the Storage Management Initiative (SMI) (previously known as CIM/Bluefin) specification," says Alex Robertson, country systems engineering and professional services manager, EMC SA.
The company announced that it will incorporate the emerging SMI specification into the EMC WideSky Developers Suite, allowing developers to quickly and securely create applications that can manage SMI-compliant devices and that it will release SMI-enabled WideSky Software Developer Kits (SDKs) in 2003.
"To further encourage storage hardware and software vendors to incorporate SMI technologies into their products, EMC will be sponsoring the first SNIA Storage Management Summit at the SNIA Technology Centre in Colorado Springs between 3 and 5 December," says Robertson.
In addition to these announcements, EMC also announced the expansion of the WideSky Developers Suite to include new and enhanced interfaces that offer broad heterogeneous device support and increased functionality for managing platform-, connectivity- and server-based storage resources. "Industry leaders have a responsibility to further the acceptance and implementation of standards into customer-friendly applications," says Robertson. "At the same time, we also have a responsibility to provide developers with the capabilities to create solutions that reach across the universe of storage infrastructures and protect customer investments in existing technologies.
"By incorporating the SMI specification into the WideSky framework, EMC is creating a development tool that is greater than the sum of its parts, paving the way for our developer partners to easily and quickly offer next-generation solutions."
Through this development, any WideSky-enabled products offered by EMC or its developer partners will feature SMI compliance, resulting in an immediate extension of SMI into a delivery vehicle that currently addresses nearly 80% of the storage market.
Furthermore, by incorporating the specifications into WideSky, any combination of SMI-compliant and non-compliant applications will be able to manage any combination of SMI-compliant and non-compliant devices, simultaneously.
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