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.
The Fiber Storage Area Networks Stock List

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