Sun announces a development partnership with AppIQ, which offers a combo storage resource management/SAN management product called StorageAuthority Suite.
Acopia is a network-turned-storage-focused company with a new product for managing the network resources that support file access and data movement.
Rainfinity's GridSwitch streamlines moving data across platforms for NFS- or CIFS-mounted storage devices.
A proposal for a “three dimensional approach”: automating storage provisioning and device management, data movement, and data replication.