SAN Companies

Last updated October 7, 2001

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Nishan: We need to build Storage Area Networks (SAN) in such a way that user or data traffic must not be at the mercy of any backup activity.

Pirus: IDC predicts the storage market will grow from $33 billion in 2000 to over $53 billion in the year 2004. In addition Dataquest predicts that by the year 2004, over 80% of storage will be networked based making networked storage (NAS & SAN) the highest growth segments of the storage market. Storage Area Networks, or SANs, allow storage to be consolidated into a centralized pool using high-speed Fibre Channel connections. Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances provide specialized services that enable different types of computer systems to access data files over an existing Ethernet/IP network.

Company	Location	Products, goals, etc.	Contact(s)
Nishan Systems	San Jose, CA	IPS x000 series switches support Fibre Channel as well as GbE and IP networking: Uses IP cloud as a basis to tie several SAN islands where each island can be backup for any other, and so on. Uses mFCP and iFCP protocols for MAN and WAN scenarios.	Kamran Malik Jayshree Ullal Iqbal Husain
Pirus Networks	Acton, MA	A switch that unifies the needs of SAN and NAS islands.
BlueArc Corporation	San Jose, CA	Highly scalable, 5 9s availability, file server purpose-built to move information between the IP-over-1-Gbit/s-Ethernet network and the Fibre Channel storage subsystems. 250TB, 2 Gbit/s throughput, 10,000 users.