Sanera Systems, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, received $35 million in third round financing to support the development of its terabit, protocol transparent SAN switch. Sanera's DS10000 datacenter-class director, introduced in April 2003, scales to as many as 256 non-blocking 2 Gbps ports or up to 64 10 Gbps ports per chassis. The platform can be used for SAN consolidation, large fabric deployment and in-network storage services integration. It features a unique dynamic partitioning feature that allows enterprises to consolidate SANs into a single system while maintaining the administrative autonomy and security of independent SAN islands. It includes native multiprotocol support for Fibre Channel, Ethernet/ iSCSI, and FICON. The new funding round was led by Sanera's current investors, including ArrowPath, CMEA Ventures, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Goldman Sachs, Greylock and Storm Ventures. Sanera has raised a total of $101 million in financing to date.
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- Sanera Systems is headed by Larry Sanders, who previously was the president and CEO of Crossroads Systems, a maker of storage routers. Prior to Crossroads, he served as President and CEO of Fujitsu Computer Products of America.
