IBM's open-source storage management software, Aperi, has not made much headway thus far but that may change now that it's been approved by the Eclipse Foundation. Aperi was originally seen as an anti-EMC move, so transforming it into a mainstream Eclipse project lends some credibility. Other companies involved include Brocade Communications Systems/McData, CA, Cisco Systems, Emulex, Fujitsu, LSI Logic, Network Appliance, and Novell. Yet some big names are still missing such as EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Sun Microsystems.

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