SN-2500 R2
[Dec. 29, 2008] Network Engines, Inc. External disk enclosures for SANs scale up to 48 drives (in four 2U enclosures). Targeted to OEMs/ISVs.

SANbox
[Dec. 24, 2008] QLogic Corp. Line of FC SAN switches supporting from entry level to core network deployment scenarios. New IBM BladeCenter switch boasts 8 Gb/sec connections.

FlashDisk HyperSAN
[Nov. 24, 2008] Winchester Systems Inc. "SAN-in-a-box" storage array features all FC (hosts and disks) connections and now expands to 100 TB.

RAID Inc. Storage Arrays
[Nov. 14, 2008] RAID Inc. Storage arrays for SAN or NAS implementations with FC, SAS, iSCSI or InfiniBand interfaces. New platform is accessed via InfiniBand and scales to 1,536 drives.

iQ Series
[Nov. 13, 2008] iQstor Networks, Inc. Line of SAN disk arrays includes FC, SATA, and iSCSI flavors. New model to pack up to 52 TB in a 4U enclosure.

GridVision
[Oct. 28, 2008] Voltaire, Inc. Product portfolio enables the deployment and management of HPC compute clusters leveraging InfiniBand infrastructure. New switches to boast 40 Gb/sec ports.

InfiniteStorage
[Oct. 24, 2008] Silicon Graphics, Inc. Line of SAN and NAS systems and disks for entry level to Enterprise deployments. New NEXIS line focuses on NAS file delivery in multiple configurations.

2000 Series / 5000 Series
[Oct. 22, 2008] Dot Hill Systems Corp. Storage arrays for OEMs feature FC, GigE, and now SAS host interfaces and can be loaded with SAS or SATA II physical drives.

nCipher CryptoStor Tape
[Oct. 13, 2008] nCipher Corp. Ltd. Collection of inline SAN access management and encryption appliances. KeyVault now includes a PKCS#11 API.

UDS 1000 / UDS 2000
[Oct. 10, 2008] Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. WUDSS-based line of storage appliances provide both block (iSCSI) and file (SMB/CIFS, NFS) level data access. New model targeted to entry level deployments.

integraStor
[Oct. 7, 2008] iStor Networks, Inc. iSCSI connected RAID arrays include virtualization features and are served in 2U (12 drives, with expansion) and 3U (15 drive) flavors. New software enables HA failover in dual-controller iS512 models.

Data Storage Server (DSS)
[Sep. 30, 2008] Open-E GmbH. Software platform enables the conversion of x86 hardware into iSCSI or NAS storage servers. Now also available for VMware ESX 3.5.

Brocade DCX
[Sep. 29, 2008] Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Modular platform supports up to 896 8 Gb/sec FC ports and is targeted to the Data Center core. New blade enables fabric-based AES-256 encryption.

3PAR Utility Storage
[Sep. 2, 2008] 3PAR Inc. Disk-array based hardware / software storage platform scales from 16-1,280 drives. New T-Class controllers feature increased performance and hardware-based "fat-to-thin" conversion capabilities.