Pushing the open source idea deeper into computing, several companies led by IBM are teaming up to develop programs for letting big businesses uniformly manage their increasingly vast warehouses of data, Data Storage Today reports.
The companies have formed a group known as Aperi. The group will attempt to free up bottlenecks that can occur when a business has bought tape and disk storage systems from a variety of vendors.
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