Shame..
I know a lot of SME's that would be interested in this, but at least 75% of them use iSCSI!
Permabit has built a front-end SAN box to dedupe and compress SAN data so it needs less disk capacity. The company produces Albireo deduplication and compression software, which it sells on an OEM basis. The idea is to enable disk array vendors to improve the cost/GB of their storage so that they can retain a cost advantage …
Our OEM partners for SANblox are initially targeting appliance sales at the high-end of the market (where iSCSI is deployed in less than 6% of all units). I’m sure they’ll move down market with future offerings and we’ll be able to provide iSCSI support to them when they are. In the meantime, one of the OEMs who licenses our Albireo deduplication software, Stonefly (http://iscsi.com), does deliver a range of virtual and physical iSCSI appliances for SMEs.