History 2003: Start-Up’s Profile: Istor Networks

Company: Istor Networks
Location: Irvine, CA
Web: istor.com (no more available)
Founded in: 2002
Investment: $33 million
CEO: Simon Huang then Kevin Daly
Activity: Patented architecture to transfer storage data on IP at 10Gb/s. The company boasts talented executives, some formerly with CMD Technology, acquired by Silicon Image in 2001. The chosen niche – rapid storage transfer over IP – is anxiously awaited by users for remote backup at an affordable price, but the start-up will by no means be alone in this adventure. Its first expected product: a scalable iSCSI wire-speed network storage server blade.

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 183 on April 2003 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.

Note: iStor Networks, Inc. was acquired by Promise Technology, Inc. in July 2010