Inline also plans to announce next week the shipment of its SAN Foundation (SF) 1200, a storage array with integral switching. Descriptions of the product indicate it's suitably equipped to compete with the likes of "SAN in a box" products from Cereva Networks Inc., 3PARdata Inc., and Yotta Yotta.
The SF 1200 comes with 52 or 116 ports (supporting Fibre Channel) and features throughput in excess of 1 Gbyte per second, according to Inline. Its maximum capacity is 52 terabytes, 288 drives.
On top of these new announcements, Inline already is peddling the Fibre Channel and Ultra-SCSI RAID arrays with which it opened shop seven years ago.
Not bad for a privately held firm that's never taken any outside funding. But all that may change soon. Inline, which is getting to be a bit long in the tooth for a startup, may indeed start looking for some outside help to compete more aggressively in the increasingly hot storage networking market.
"Our CEO [John R. Tibbitts, ex-Falcon Systems] has been talking to groups of investors," says a spokesperson. "While we've been self-sustaining up to now, we'd like to get some input to help with sales and marketing."
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