American Megatrends India (AMI) is targeting 10 percent of IP-SAN market in India by 2008. Jayaram Krishnan, director and CEO of AMI, tells R Jai Krishna of CyberMedia News on the current IP-SAN scenario and the company's new StorTrends iTX solution and the continuous data production technology offerings for the Indian market: Excerpts:

CMN: What is the size of the current storage market and what are the problems faced by organizations?

Jayaram Krishnan: Based on the Gartner report, the storage market in India was $152.01 billion during 2006. The revenue growth was seen at 23 percent. IP-SAN is likely to garner more than 25 percent of the global market by 2007.

Among many the problems faced by organizations today are huge time consumption for data back-up, substantial service disruption during back-up, tedious restoration process involved in tape backup, and also the data is not done very often.

Some other problems include unexpected disasters leading to loss of data, virus attack on systems, data security, centralized accessing and management of data and multiple user access.

CMN: Which are the products that AMI offers in countering these storage problems?

JK: AMI India offers storage products (IP-SAN and NAS Storage Systems) and vehicle tracking solution (GSM/GPRS/GPS technology based). Our services range includes BIOS & IPMI Firmware development and customization, Embedded OS Porting and customization (Win CE, Linux), Driver development, Storage Engineering & Solutions Services.

One of the prime technology features amongst the other that AMI offers is the Snapshot technology in our storage solution, StorTrends. The advanced snapshot technologies found in StorTrends iTX enables both Read-Only and Write-Only snapshots at the block or file level.