International Business Machines Corp. on Tuesday said its next generation of data storage software systems, including its long-awaited system code-named "Storage Tank," will go on sale in 2003.
Armonk, New York-based IBM, which has grabbed market share from data storage maker EMC Corp. with its "Shark" storage machine, first announced plans for a new type of storage management system at the end of 2000.
Increased demand for storage software comes in part as companies have begun moving their data onto networks so that the information can be shared.
"There is a new bottleneck that becomes obvious as you start to move storage to the network: How do I manage all of that storage, how do I make it transparent, and then obviously how do I make it less costly?" Linda Sanford, the head of IBM's storage group, said in an interview.
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