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According
to Dataquest the SAN equipment market is expected to grow 70%
per year from $478 million in 1999 to $6.8 billion in 2004. Storage
Area Networks are comprised of separate network devices including
hard disks, CD jukeboxes, backup tape drives attached by high-speed
fiber optic cable running a special protocol called Fibre Channel.
Network hubs and or switches connect the storage devices and servers.
Thus far SAN Switches are the fastest growing and most lucrative
portion of the SAN market. Providing switches are companies including
the following; Qlogic (QLGC), Brocade (BRCD), Gadzoox Networks
(ZOOX), EMC (EMC) spin off McData (MCDT), Vixel (VIXL) and SPX
spin off Inrange (IRNG). Other stocks on the list include Tape
Drive Manufacturers: ADIC, IBM, QTMN and STH, Storage Systems
Manufacturers: EMC, HIL, HPQ, IBM, and MTIC, High End Server Manufacturers:
CPQ, HPW, IBM, SUNW and USY, Host Bus Adapter Manufacturers for
servers and mainframes: EMLX, JNIC and QLGC, Commodity Servers:
CPQ, DELL and GTW. You may want to check our our Network
Attached Storage List, our Fiber
Optics List and our Storage
Stock List.
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