IBM Monday unveiled its first virtual tape library for open systems and plans to release the next version of its TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller virtualization engine, which pools storage resources from heterogeneous arrays behind an appliance.
IBM this week trotted out the latest version of its storage virtualization software, which includes support for all EMC Symmetrix and Clariion storage systems.
IBM Corp. will push its Power5 line of servers down into the low end of the market, taking Linux with it, when it unwraps an aggressively priced series of Linux-only systems on Monday that will go up against the offerings of Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co.