The Storage Networking Market has traditionally been driven by the Fibre Channel equipments and product offerings.The market from then onwards has been a fight between the companies championing the cause of the Fibre Channel and the more recent proponents of iSCSI/IP Storage technologies. Companies like Adaptec (Acquisition of Platys Communications) , Alacritech, Qlogic, LSI Logic came out with their offering on iSCSI/TOE Offloaded PCI/PCI-X NIC Cards. iSCSI as a protocol was pushed strongly by Cisco/IBM. (Julian Satran , You listening ?? ) The product offering of all these companies fall into the Storage Initiator Segment, Storage Target Segment and as a switch in between (Remember Maranti Networks ??). The IP Storage market has thus far been very slow in developing and has been growing at a snails pace. Braodcom too has iSCSI chips.Of late Cavium with it's latest Octeon General purpose processor have been trying to address the IP Storage Vertical. How would they fare , given the fact that there are already existing BIG storage players ? This remains a question which their Storage Clientele would only tell.
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