Network Engines

After the flight, to a large extent under the radar since its establishment in 1997, network companies are working on the engine, so that their high visibility, in a safe space. If you have never heard network engines name, do not feel themselves out of. The company spent a lot of time, the design and construction products for the big vendors such as IBM, EMC, Computer Associates and CommVault. Its initial claim to fame and fortune, is a pioneering 1 U servers netfinity into IBMs server product line - Big Blue feat and access to credit. Network engine, it also has a direct sale, and including such celebrities as Akamai customers, but it is quiet.

to 2000, the network engine, is a package, and in July publicly to transfer 117 million US dollars - and half of the market value, 100 million US dollars.

Then, the high-tech market Collapse. Revenue dropped to a quarter of 18 million US dollars to 2.5 million US dollars in six months, and about 80% of the customer base disappeared overnight. By the end of 2000, stock market crash, from nearly 43 yuan less than the share of the money. The company on the health and sales growth, a large number of excessive.

CEO Dihankedishi In early 2001, in Dihankedishi to act as interim chief executive, to reverse the bloated, fighting company. Curtis is a senior stratus and tree systems, but it has also brought with him dose after dose of some very tough medicine, and then decided to stay.

Curtis cut staff, sliced cut spending and dying products. Once stabilized, Curtis and crew embark on a more difficult task of reshaping the company.

Economic recovery built on the basis of OEM aspects of the business. "We have evolved from the direct business of the necessary" Curtis. Huge private label breakthrough occurred, electromagnetic compatibility requirements of the company to establish their own online Centera file storage devices, the agreement will soon account for about half of the revenue the network engine.

Built on industry-standard hardware, Centera fixed by Curtis thinking on the household appliance market, and has been turning the wheel again about building a network engine brand. "We have been hoping to find a better business profits and better visibility for the network engine," Courtis said.

establishing their own brand names is a challenge, a 18 million US dollars to resolve. In near the end of 2003, the network was all snapped up tidalwire engine, a manufacturer of host bus adapters. Curtis did not so much interested adapter - He was the dollar, 5 billion US dollars - this year Fibre Channel business last year. On the contrary, he needs tidalwire distribution infrastructure, including a base of dealers, CRM software, call center, as well as temper the Fed ex-gratia distribution systems. This makes the network engine, so as to effectively ship its own products, as well as cooperation partners, everything.

And distribution at the local, Curtis Sri Lanka was lofting a brand new production line for Layer 7 firewall around Microsofts ISA Server. NS Series firewall appliances, in addition to filtering traffic in the application layer, including Web caching and VPN functions.

Firewall product line extension of the company the depersonalization - Sales Network engines under the name of the environment, is also the name of the ISV Partner, add additional software systems.