King, who attended this week's Storage Networking World conference, co-sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, is one example of what some attendees said could become a major problem for organizations -- the alarming number of women who are currently abandoning IT jobs like storage administration that require workers to be on-call at virtually all hours.
Laura Sanders, IBM/Tivoli's newly appointed vice-president for storage software, recently spoke with Network World Senior Editor Deni Connor about how Tivoli storage offerings are positioned from IBM Corp.'s, the company's acquisitions and where she thinks the storage arena is going. Sanders is an 18-year IBM veteran.
Sun Microsystems Inc. last month launched a new version of its storage area network (SAN) management suite that is the first storage software to use standards central to an industry-wide effort to bridge the interoperability gap in multi-vendor SANs. The new management platform also ties together existing management applications under a single view.
So concerned about delivering a storage solution that adequately addressed the needs of the enterprise, Fujitsu Softek Technology Corp. conducted various focus groups with numerous IT managers, CIOs, and storage administrators.