It may surprise some that the TOE and iSCSI offloaders iReady developed are going to a non-storage company. At one point, Emulex Corp. (NYSE: ELX) was said to be a potential candidate to buy iReady for its HBAs. And LSI Logic Corp. (NYSE: LSI) was also rumored to have an interest based on a licensing deal -- a deal Koyama says never took place.
But Koyama notes that Nvidia's interest in motherboard chipsets for servers, particularly for Ethernet environments, make it a candidate for adding iSCSI and TOE capabilities. Storage via iSCSI is part of any server OEM's future, he indicates.
Nvidia did not return a request for information at press time.
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