cite any sources . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . august 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message proware technology corporation type private industry information management and storage founded 1992 headquarters taipei taiwan key people richard chiang chairman willy shiau president & ceo s.t. kuo vice president & cto products epica simbolo pronas otto di oro datafree dataplum bambino dataware revenue 23 million usd 2005 number of employees 225 slogan your storage solution partner website www.proware.com.tw proware technology corporation is a manufacturer of raid storage array hardware and software . it is headquartered in taipei taiwan with branch offices in china . proware produces a range of storage products including hardware storage arrays and nas solutions . its flagship product line is the epica series launched in 2006 . background edit proware technology corporation was started in 1992 by richard chiang willy shiau and s.t. kuo . originally a pc manufacturer proware quickly began expanding into the storage industry . over the years the company has been transitioning from a purely hardware driven company to a hardware and software company . in 1994 proware began designing raid das subsystems and then in 1996 proware released its first raid subsystem model series power 5000 . with the power 5000 series proware became the first storage company in taiwan to incorporate a backplane design into its raid subsystems . continuing on its success of the power 5000 series subsystems proware launched its fibre raid product line in 1998 . in 1999 proware released its otto di oro bambino and simbolo series raid subsystems . bambino was the first 2.5 hard drive raid subsystem to be produced in taiwan . in 2001 proware introduced its san ready fibre channel products to the market and in 2004 proware came out with its ultra 320 raid subsystems and its iscsi solution . with the increasing need of high density proware launched a 42 bay storage system called as epica placing proware among the top 3 storage solution providers at this density . proware is not only experienced in hardware design and manufacturing but also in software development . also in 1996 proware released its high availability ha clustering software dataware . with dataware users can make use of an ha utility across a myriad of operating systems ranging from sco open server linux solaris hp ux ibm aix to a wide range of windows platforms . in 2001 proware came out with its free bsd version of nas and then in 2003 realizing that linux was an up and coming operating system developed and delivered its linux kernel 2.4 version of nas . also in 2002 proware introduced its data backup software solution probackup and in 2005 a linux kernel 2.6 version of nas with ha was released into the market . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title proware technology corporation & oldid 731090719 categories companies established in 1992hidden categories articles lacking sources from august 2012all articles lacking sources navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 22 july 2016 at 22 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view