With Sun, Oracle would move into direct competition with its partners, selling Sun's server and storage hardware.
Working with NERSC staff, Nugent upgraded the pipeline's computing and storage hardware.
Identified risks exist on the effect on data storage hardware and for computer software.
The first major product in support of the open systems strategy, a software suite called AutoIS that runs storage hardware from many companies, will roll out next year.
For all that, the hottest storage battleground is not storage hardware but software, switches and other components that meld the storage devices into intelligent networks and keep them online.
The companies, which are fierce competitors in the data storage system market, said that they would each provide information about the programming that enables the computer and the data storage hardware to work together.
All of that has raised sales and margins in the group; the overall storage hardware market increased 18.5 percent, to $7 billion, in the third quarter, from a year ago, according to research firm IDC.
In technology, household names such as Facebook, Microsoft, and Intel are at the top of the class while the worst performers in the sector are mainly in enterprise technology, storage, hardware and research.
The number appears to be based on a projection of theoretical failure rates for storage hardware (and such rates are wildly optimistic under production conditions), together with the (unrealistic) assumption that all such failures are statistically independent.
The renewed emphasis on keeping records in a way that will satisfy regulators has become a sales opening for makers of storage hardware, which have been struggling with falling prices for years, to package higher-margin software for managing data with their disk and tape drives.
(BLOOMBERG NEWS Data Storage Companyy to Eliminate 1,000 Jobs The EMC Corporation said yesterday that it planned to eliminate 1,000 jobs, but added that it would have a net gain in total employment by year-end as it moved to emphasize data services and software amid pressure to cut costs in the data storage hardware business.
