Tuesday, November 1, 2005 
IBM unveiled plans to develop open source storage management software with endorsement from some key players, but <A HREF="http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1137265,00.html">EMC, HP, HDS and Symantec are missing,</A> leaving users disappointed. IBM's goal, through the community, is to create a single industry standard that would define how to write all the low-level storage management tasks like discovery and topology of devices, and reporting and monitoring of the infrastructure.
