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Compaq Computer Corp. and EMC Corp., the two largest and fiercest competitors in the storage arena, have opened their programming interfaces to each other, a move that will eventually allow IT managers to integrate storage networks with disk arrays from either company.

Compaq Computer Corp. and EMC Corp., the two largest and fiercest competitors in the storage arena, have opened their programming interfaces to each other a move that will eventually allow IT managers to integrate storage networks with disk arrays from either company.

In the wake of last month's terrorist attacks, IT managers and industry experts at the Storage Networking World conference in Orlando say IT budgets have never been tighter and they will never look at disaster recovery or security of customer information the same way again.

In the wake of last month's terrorist attacks, IT managers and industry experts at the Storage Networking World conference in Orlando say IT budgets have never been tighter and they will never look at disaster recovery or security of customer information the same way again.

Two groups of vendors have set up separate transcontinental and global storage networks based on emerging IP-based data-transport standards. But the storage-over-IP technologies still aren't expected to be robust enough for enterprise uses for at least another year, say analysts.

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Two ongoing projects by U.S. federal agencies underscore the need in the public and private sectors for building storage-area networks because of increasing demands from end users and customers to access data.

The Promontory Project was hailed as the industry