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Foresight part of IBM push for storage biz.(Foresight Technology Group)(Brief Article)

Crain's Cleveland Business, December, 2001 by Weiner, Richard

Think of them as filing cabinets for electronic data - those large boxes with blinking lights in the back of tech-support and information technology departments. Most are made by EMC Corp. of Hopkinton, Mass., or Japan's Hitachi Corp., but IBM wants to change that situation. IBM is vying for a bigger piece of the storage area network business, and it's enlisting its best business partners in the effort.

Among them is Foresight Technology Group of Brecksville. A storage area network is a high-speed subnetwork of shared storage devices. The actual storage device is a machine that contains nothing but a disk or disks used for storing data, plus their controllers and connecting cards. About two years ago, IBM ``embarked on a rebuilding of our storage...

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