NET I/O

Electronic and electrical devices, namely, micro-circuits, micro-chips, dedicated integrated circuits, custom integrated circuits, and application specific integrated circuits; computer hardware in the form of electronic and electrical controllers, namely input/output controllers, I/O controllers, disk controllers, disk array controllers, storage controllers, data storage controllers, network controllers; storage area network controllers, SAN controllers, network-attached storage controllers, enterprise class storage controllers, redundant array of independent disks controllers, RAID controllers, memory controllers, and cache controllers; computer hardware for use in computer networks, namely, routers, bridges, hubs, and switches all having a network-attached storage device; network equipment, namely, network-attached storage equipment, storage area network equipment, and enterprise class storage equipment; network storage devices, namely, enterprise class storage devices, and routers, bridges, hubs, and switches all having a storage area network device; storage area network devices, namely, storage area network appliances, SAN appliances, storage area network switches, storage routers, multi-protocol storage routers, multi-protocol routers, multi-protocol storage area network switches, storage virtualization appliances; network- attached storage devices, namely, network-attached storage appliances, NAS appliances, network attached storage switches, storage routers, multi-protocol storage routers, multi-protocol routers, multi-protocol storage area network switches, storage virtualization appliances; network storage devices, namely, enterprise class storage devices, and routers, bridges, hubs, and switches all having a storage area network device; redundant array of independent disks controllers; RAID controllers; fiber channel controllers; fibre channel controllers; memory controllers; cache controllers; computer storage and retrieval apparatus, namely servers; software for use in the building and maintenance of databases. storage systems, namely, network-attached storage systems, storage area network systems, enterprise storage systems, enterprise class storage systems, centralized storage systems, and internet storage systems; computer hardware for intelligent storage systems capable of network communication, namely processors, memory, and disk drives for storing data; software for operating computer hardware; software for managing and controlling data; data storage subsystems, namely, network-attached storage subsystems, storage area network subsystems, external storage subsystems, centralized storage subsystems, enterprise storage subsystems, Internet storage subsystems, and direct attached storage subsystems; computer storage devices, namely, computer disk drives, disk controllers, servers, storage and network controllers, SAN controllers, SCSI controllers, ATA controllers, direct access storage devices, network attached storage devices, direct attached storage devices, SCSI attached storage devices, centralized storage devices, external storage devices, server attached storage devices, SCSI attached disk storage devices, and cache memory; network attached disk arrays; disk drives; disk drive arrays; disk arrays; computer hardware; circuits, namely electrical and electronic; wafers; integrated circuits; semiconductors; chips, namely silicon and computer; circuit boards; computer firmware, middleware, and software all for use in controlling storage functions in a storage area network; computer software for use in storage area network devices and for use in managing the storage of data, protection of data, archiving of data, backing up of data, disaster recovery of data, restoration of data, reading and writing of data, transferring of data, mirroring of data, accessing of data, server connectivity, SAN management, network management, interfacing, switching, routing, and protocol conversion. computer programs for use in storage area network devices; storage software for use in storage and network management; data sheets supplied therewith as a unit; application notes supplied therewith as a unit; and users manuals supplied therewith as a unit