Bangalore: Two largest global enterprise storage providers EMC Corporation and Hewlett-Packard, will cross-licence certain storage system application programming interfaces (APIs), according to an official press release.

The companies believe that the move will act as model by accelerating the industry’s progress toward interoperability concerns of customers, the release said.

"This agreement from the two leaders in enterprise storage will deliver on customer demand for solutions that work together and can be managed centrally. The licensing of these APIs will enable both companies to tightly integrate storage and storage management products for the benefit of their customers," Mark Sorenson, vice- president of storage software solutions, HP Network Storage Solutions said.

According to industry analyst estimates, the storage systems technology addressed under this exchange represents more than 70 per cent of the combined revenue market share for networked external RAID storage in 2001, and more than 50 percent of the overall external RAID revenue market share for 2001.

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