Compaq's latest storage software, which will branded SANworks, is intended to help users manage storage and servers from a wide range of vendors within a single SAN; SANs provide high-speed access to distributed storage via fibre channel technology.
HP currently offers a certain degree of storage virtualisation on its Openview range, but has not yet developed an enterprise-level software that supports devices made by multi-storage vendors. HP has boosted its storage management software range...
Storage giant EMC has unveiled storage software to be run with other vendors' hardware. The dramatic announcement covers a variety of storage management software, which can run on rivals' such as IBM's and Hitachi's storage boxes.
Gary Barnett, IT research director at Ovum, says it's bleak out there for vendors without a good ROI story and real referenceable customers. Suppliers cannot just wave their arms around, promising the usual mix of 'time to market', 'ROI', 're-use...
In fact, enterprise portal vendor Plumtree warns that companies that roll out portals without collaboration functionality risk creating 'empty portals' that nobody uses and consequently a zero ROI. Anthony Plewes has some ideas about how process...
CRM vendors are being asked to prove ROI by rolling out projects in more manageable chunks. This made it very hard to prove the return on investment (ROI) of CRM projects. It is much easier to measure ROI if you do one department or stage at a time...
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