Here's how Nimbus's MySAN works: A user downloads the MySAN iSCSI target from Nimbus's Website, selects a Windows system or partitions as iSCSI targets, downloads Microsoft's free iSCSI initiator for the host computers on the network, and assigns targets to hosts.
"You take the Microsoft initiator, MySAN target, any Windows PC with a 20-gig hard drive, and boom, you've got a SAN," Isakovich says.
MySAN is based on Nimbus's Linux-based Halo software, which runs the vendor's Nimbus Breeze IP SANs. Nimbus reworked MySAN to make it Windows compatible. On the downside, it lacks the advanced features in Halo or Microsoft's String Bean software -- such as support for NAS, asynchronous replication, and Virtual Disk Service (VDS) support for data protection and management.
Former String Bean CEO Mickey McIntire says Nimbus's target "will make some waves."
"MySAN sounds similar to what we did; in that, WinTarget would turn any Windows XP, 2000, or 2003 box into an iSCSI target," says McIntire, now a consultant. "But giving away a full-featured iSCSI target that can run on any Windows 2003 box isnt something we ever contemplated. We sold software for a living -- we didnt give it away."
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