Veritas claims that its interoperability efforts will go further soon. It's pushing hard for standardization of storage management interfaces, through the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and has committed to delivering Common Information Model (CIM)-based products by the end of this year (see The Common Code and Four Vendors Back CIM).
But its announcement today doesn't indicate the industry is any closer to reaching standardization. In fact, some observers say, vendor-specific developments -- like those Veritas announced today and the application programming interface (API) swap it announced with EMC last month -- could be a sign that standards in the space are still a long way off.
"I think Veritas has some work to do in this area," says Giga Information Group Inc. analyst Anders Lofgren. "I think they'd like to be doing better in the management space than they are doing... This is a highly competitive area, especially the SRM part of it."
One of Veritas's customers, though, says SANPoint Control offers significant benefits today. Archipelago LLC, an electronic stock exchange, says it has dramatically improved its storage utilization since installing the product last fall.
"We were being very inefficient in the way we were utilizing our storage," says Archipelago CTO Steve Rubinow, saying the company discovered it was previously only using about 30 percent of its storage array. "We realized that we kept on ordering more and more disks... now, we're sharing applications across vendors." The company's storage utilization is now around 80 percent.
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