The Storage Networking World conference in Orlando last week was bustling with scores of vendors and buyers talking about everything from storage security to storage resource management.
With the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA)-Supported SMI (Storage Management Initiative) near completion and with vendor support anticipated for next year, SRM (Storage Resource Management) vendors are working to differentiate their offerings with a number of features aimed at easing SAN management.
Network professionals could find managing their storage devices and applications easier with software from TeraCloud Corp. and InterSAN Inc., two start-ups that rolled out products last week that monitor and manage statistics gathered from heterogeneous storage resources.