8/3/2004 -- IBM Corp. and Cisco Systems are about as close to kissing cousins as any two publicly-traded companies are likely to get. That collaboration continued apace last week, as the two companies announced several enhancements to Big Blue's TotolStorage SAN Volume Controller for Cisco's MDS 9000.

The TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller is itself the result of a joint development effort between IBM and Cisco. In this case, IBM embedded its SAN Volume Controller storage software into a pair of Cisco's MDS 9000 Caching Services Modules. Officials say that the combined offering gives customers a one-stop-shop from which to manage their data volumes, replicate data, and oversee point-in-time copies directly from the network.

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