Incumbent storage system manufacturers will not begin shipping IP storage arrays until 2004, according to Cmaylo. And how does he know this, you ask? Apparently iStor has development agreements with three such companies, although Cmaylo declined to name names. "We are developing target-side controllers for these specific devices," he notes. Sounds great, but we'll wait until we see them.
The company was founded by brothers Frank and Simon Huang. Previously, Simon founded CMD Technology Inc., a semiconductor company, and then sold it to Silicon Image for $45 million. Frank, meanwhile, founded ASIC developer Vertex Networks and sold it to Mitel Networks for $220 million. It looks as if the Huang brothers know their way around the semiconductor market.
One other sign of life for IP storage: Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) completed an iSCSI plug-fest last week in which 27 iSCSI vendors tested interoperability of their products with the Windows environment -- definitely an encouraging indicator for iSCSI vendors (see Microsoft Won't Ship iSCSI in .NET
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