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Storage administrators seeking an alternative to EMC Corp. for a high-end network-attached storage gateway to Fibre Channel disks will get a new choice next year from Hitachi Ltd. and Network Appliance Inc.

An as-yet unnamed product the two companies are developing will ship early next year and will connect Hitachi's midrange Thunder and high-end Lightning storage series behind NetApp's technology, executives from both firms said Wednesday.

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