History (1997): Seagate Invests $10 Million in Gadzoox

Seagate Technology has invested $10 million in Gadzoox Microsystems, one of the rare supplier of a complete family of FC SANing (SAN) solutions.

Seagate will also take a seat on Gadzoox’s board of directors.

The partnership is focused on developing the SAN market through joint marketing and product development activities.

Last March, the 2 companies began collaborating with Interphase and W L. Gore to provide OEMs, VARs and system integrators by means of the industry’s first pre-integrated, turn-key package for deploying FC SANs. The kit includes all the equipment needed to configure a dual-host SAN topology: a Gadzoox FC-AL active hub, a Seagate Barracuda 9GB FC drive in a single disk enclosure, 2 Interphase 5526 PCI adapter cards with Windows NT drivers and copper FC cables from W L. Gore.

This article is an abstract of news published on ≠114 on July 1997 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.