Indeed. Sante says Sanrad has about 100 customers and around 200 units shipping. Sanrad's products are two V-Switch boxes that use iSCSI to link storage devices and servers. He says most of the sales have come since December. The two-port V-Switch 2000 that rolled out in January is running neck and neck with the four-port V-Switch 3000 that started shipping last September (see Sanrad Aims Small and Sanrad Offers iSCSI Switch).
The smaller switch has a list price of about $11,000 compared to $20,000 for the four-port. Sante says the two-port boxs typical customer is an SMB. Were not replacing Fibre Channel. Were winning customers who are creating new SANs, says Sante, who we hope is better at marketing than he is at counting.
Sante says about 70 percent of Sanrads sales have come through a partnership with Nexsan Technologies Inc. Customers use the V-Switch to convert Nexxans ATAboy and ATAbay ATA arrays into IP SANs (see Unknown Document 52387 and ATA Is Where It's AT).
While Sanrad's move west is an uplifting vote of confidence in the market and the location, its dream path to $50 million in revenues is cluttered with iSCSI startups and established switch vendors. The company's low-end box competes with the likes of EqualLogic Inc., Intransa Inc., LeftHand Networks Inc., and StoneFly Networks Inc. The higher end bumps heads with Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BRCD), Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO), and McData Corp. (Nasdaq: MCDTA).
Sanrad, founded in April 2000, has received $7 million in funding from the RAD Group -- an Israel incubator -- and $5 million from the Israeli government (see Sanrad Comes to America).
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