mr fork fork_listhotmailcom related ms acquisition xdegrees httpwwwinternetnewscominfraarticlephp1466271 sun nabs storage startup clint boulton amid flurry news sunnetwork 2002 conference san francisco sun microsystems thursday said agreed purchase data storage concern pirus networks undisclosed amount stock palo alto calif networking firm bought acton massbased startup keen eye startups switching define devices virtualization technology used part storage area network define virtualization pooling storage many network storage devices appears operating system single storage device managed central console though major vendors make similar technology pirus competes likes rhapsody networks confluence networks sun plucked pirus scouting 65 companies mark lovington vice president marketing pirus told internetnewscom pirus sun discussion possible acquisition pirus said succeeded goal shares lot storage startups acquired one major systems vendors sun ibm hp hitachi huge opportunity pirus storage market dominated 67 8 systemlevel players lovington said sun sees acquisition critical element n1 initiative synergies quite obvious n1 suns hopeful tour de force distributed computing define architecture involves multiple remote computers role computation problem information processing n1 styled answer companies looking manage groups computers networks single system lower cost greater flexibility lagging behind entrenched players sun gaining ground storage market sun storedge complete storage solutions according new report idc john mcarthur group vice president idcs storage program said sun microsystems ibm posted largest increases total storage revenue q1 2002 32 11 gains respectively q2 sun held 9 percent market share revenues 411 million suns acquisition pirus expected close second quarter suns 2003 fiscal year ends december 29 2002 fri 20 sep 2002 224314 0700 sun nabs storage startup buys pirus networks