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VENDORS ANNOUNCE EFFORT TO DRIVE CIM PRODUCT
Hitachi, IBM, Sun and VERITAS have announce plans to deliver CIM compliant products and to support joint interoperability guidelines and testing.
Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) members Hitachi and Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc., and VERITAS Software Corporation have announced a new effort dedicated to the promotion and progress of SNIA`s Common Information Model(CIM), Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) technology and Storage Management Initiative (SMI) specifications (formerly Bluefin) for Storage Area Network (SAN)-based storage management.
As part of this effort, the companies are also announcing their individual plans to roll out CIM/WBEM-based products in calendar year 2003. www.ibm.com