Auspex was fo unded in the 1980s as a provider of network attached storage devices, a product category they invented. They became a leading provider of enterprise storage in the mid-1990s but fell behind Network Appliance in the field. The company was liquidated in 2003, with the patent portfolio going to Network Appliance and the services business to GlassHouse Technologies. Network-attached storage (NAS) systems are generally computing-storage devices that can be accessed over a computer network, rather than directly being connected to the computer (via a computer bus). ... Enterprise storage is the field of information technology focused on the storage, protection, and retrieval of data in large-scale environments. ... Network Appliance, Inc. ... GlassHouse Technologies was founded in 2001 as a dedicated enterprise storage consulting firm. ...
Context Auspex claims to have created the NAS market, and it was certainly first to launch storage-based file servers in the late 1980s, which were mostly sold into the Sun user base.
The Auspex box, derived directly from the current NS3000 range, uses unused LUNs (logical unit numbers on a SCSI bus) and assigns them to the storage controller so that unused portions of the SAN can be overlayed with virtual partitions and file systems.
Auspex still has $47.9m of cash in the bank, and says that with reduced operating expenses it still has enough working capital resources for at least the next twelve months.
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