NetFlash: Cisco storage switches to get IBM smarts

Opinion
Oct 23, 20032 mins

IBM and Cisco continue to be best of friends, this time collaborating on storage-area network products. Specifically, IBM’s SAN Volume Controller software will be offered as an option for the Cisco MDS 9000 family of switches. Cisco storage switches to get IBM smarts http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1023ciscostora.html?net

IBM and Cisco continue to be best of friends, this time collaborating on storage-area network products. Specifically, IBM’s SAN Volume Controller software will be offered as an option for the Cisco MDS 9000 family of switches.

Cisco storage switches to get IBM smarts

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1023ciscostora.html?net

Food maker mixes simple ingredients in IT shop

It’s a common theme among IT shops these days – if you want to cut costs, cut redundancy. Standardize on a single architecture and reduce the number of different platforms you have to manage. This week Network World presents an in-depth case study on how one large company – General Mills – has already executed that strategy.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1020generalmills2.html?net

Cappellas says path ahead is clear

Michael Cappellas, chief executive officer of MCI, said the company is well on its way to emerging from bankruptcy, and provided a glimpse of its plans to move forward after that.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1022capsays.html?net

Legal settlements push CA’s Q2 into the red

One week after fielding the resignations of its top financial executives, Computer Associates posted second-quarter results weighed down by expensive litigation settlement charges.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1022legalsettl.html?net