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Datahive Networking Inc. plans to begin selling soon a device for managing the storage of information on corporate networks. The new products will join its established line of inexpensive computer servers it has been marketing to small businesses.
The Fairport-based company is not making any revenue projections, but will sell the product for approximately $3,000, in line with its existing upper-end computer server. Fellow Fairport firm, InSciTek Microsystems Inc., is ready to go to market with a combined corporate server and telephony platform, costing some $5,000,
Datahive's new network-attached storage device reflects the start-up's efforts to widen its appeal to small-business owners. James McCartan, executive vice president of strategic development, said that strategy might lead eventually to a blade server product, a higher capacity server that would allow an engineer to add or subtract capacity by slotting in a card.
Network-attached storage has been in use for years and represents the second major leap in corporate computer storage devices. By attaching NAS devices at intermittent points on a network, workstations throughout an organization can tap into stored data.
Robert Dorin, vice president of research in the enterprise server group of Boston analyst firm Aberdeen Group Inc.,...