Agámi Systems, Inc. was an enterprise-class unified network storage company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California

Sunnyvale, California

Sunnyvale is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley located in the San Francisco Bay Area...

. Agámi Information Servers (AIS) have components of both Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network

Storage area network

A storage area network is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. SANs are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes, accessible to servers so that the devices appear like locally attached devices...

 (IP SAN). AIS storage consolidation enables standards-based support for the iSCSI protocol, thereby enabling concurrent IP SAN block I/O and NAS file I/O through the same device. The flagship AIS6000 series performs at 1 GB/sec and supports 36 terabytes of raw data. Agami Systems struggled to gain any traction in the market place.

The company shut down operations on July 28, 2008. The employees were told of the shutdown at 11:00 AM, and it was effective two hours later, at 1:00 PM.

In October 2008, Ocarina Networks

Ocarina Networks

Ocarina Networks is a technology company selling a hardware/software solution designed to reduce data footprints with file-aware storage optimization. A subsidiary of Dell, their flagship product, the Ocarina Appliance/Reader, released in April 2008, uses patented data compression techniques...

hired Agami Systems India operations and engineering team in Hyderabad.

AIS6136 Specifications

Chassis Form Factor: 5 EIAU high - 19" IEC rack-compliant


Maximum disk drives: 48 x SATA drives


Disk drive densities: 750GB


Disk Controllers: 2 x 24-port SATA


Raw Capacity: 36TB


Processor: 4 x AMD Opteron CPU


ECC Memory: 12GB


NVRAM: 2 GB


Network Connectivity: 12 x 1 Gigabit Ethernet

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