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Top Ten Summer Tweak: Page 7 of 17

But when we got in touch to let them know we were updating this list, Nishan told us "an army of people were at the end of the phone to provide us with whatever we needed."

So here's what we need:

  • One small tropical island
  • One World War II-era Sherman tank
  • One Byte and Switch genetically cloned sheep
  • A never-ending supply of M&Ms (with all the green ones taken out)

Until then, a list of paying customers will be fine.

Can't argue with this one: Carlson Companies, a privately held hotel, restaurant, travel, and marketing services company, has deployed an IP-based SAN that uses TWELVE of Nishan's IP-to-Fibre Channel switches -- one of the largest storage networks to date that uses IP as its core fabric (see Nishan Bites Into the Core).

Mesaba Airlines Inc., a regional carrier based in Minneapolis affiliated with Northwest Airlines Inc., is using two Nishan storage-over-IP switches, along with other storage equipment in its network, for disaster recovery and business continuity. Apparently it's a $250,000 buildout, instead of the contract worth millions of dollars this was supposed to be a few years ago.