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This iSCSI SAN vendor grabbed our attention last September with the launch of software for tying together server and storage resources in a SAN.

Called the SM Series, StorMagic's solution runs on a standard Windows-based Intel server connected to SAN or NAS arrays. It works with agents on other LAN-attached application servers, such as file, print, and Web servers, to create a SAN.

Unlike rivals LeftHand Networks, IBM, and NetApp, StorMagic's focus is solely on SMBs, which could be a shrewd move at a time of increasing competition in the iSCSI SAN space.

Founded in 2006, StorMagic only emerged from stealth five months ago, unveiling its first customer, Oxford University's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, which uses the SM Series to connect 3 Tbytes of data held in a RAID array from Fibrenetix.