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Top Ten Private Storage Networking Companies: Page 18 of 23

Get a drink, sit down, brace yourself. It’s time for the first "seismic adjustment" of the Byte and Switch Top 10 list. Thank you for all the emails about how great this list is; but we don’t do it for...
July 14, 2001

New: 6/13/01

“Forget TCP/IP,” for connecting pools of storage servers together, Troika Networks CEO Alan
Skidmore told Byte and Switch, “It’ll never work.”

Well, there’s a statement. So what does Troika propose instead?

Troika makes “intelligent” HBAs (host bus adapters) that use a new
protocol called Virtual Interface (VI) to connect servers together on an
Ethernet network. Troika will compete with Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq: EMLX), QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq: QLGC),
and JNI Corp. (Nasdaq: JNIC) –

all of which also are planning VI implementations.

Troika’s first product is designed for installation in TCP/IP server
“clusters,” where servers are strung together and managed as a single system
on an Ethernet network.

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