Sun, caught in the pique of shifting development, is letting customers know today that its open systems virtual tape library is no more.
The company, which acquired the StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager last summer, is stopping development of a open systems version of its product. VSM presently works only with MVS mainframes.
Sun has said in the past that developing a virtual tape library for open systems is a much harder affair than that of a mainframe-only version.
That, I guess is the reason, other vendors like EMC, Diligent, Sepaton and a bunch of others have open systems tape libraries -- they are too hard to develop. Only Diligent, IBM and Sun have mainframe versions.
When problems occurred with Sun's VSM Open, the company looked at Diligent as an acquisition target, sources say.
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