sources . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . august 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message atto technology corporation type private industry storage founded november 11 1988 headquarters amherst new york united states key people tim klein president and ceo david snell cto and vice president of engineering website www.attotech.com atto technology is a manufacturer of storage connectivity products for data intensive computing . atto manufactures host bus adapters raid adapters fibre channel switches desklink devices protocol conversion bridges raid storage controllers mac os x iscsi initiator software and acceleration software with storage interface connectivity to scsi sata sas fibre channel fcoe thunderbolt and iscsi . contents 1 history 1.1 1988 founding 1.2 1989 95 first products 2 products 3 references history edit 1988 founding edit the company was founded in 1988 by timothy j. klein and david a. snell and is headquartered in amherst new york . 1 all of atto s products are engineered and assembled in the united states and atto has delivered more than an estimated 2 million products to the market in a broad range of storage applications and environments . 2 1989 95 first products edit atto s first product was the silicondisk a scsi based solid state disk released in 1989 . atto received its first oem contract with kodak shortly thereafter in 1990 . 3 in 1992 atto introduced the isa eisa and microchannel mca host bus adapters for the pc market at the comdex trade show . by 1995 atto added to its product line yet again with the introduction of the expresspci scsi 3 accelerator which received the macusers editor s choice award that year . 4 products edit atto products are sold directly to original equipment manufacturers oems odms white box systems integrators as well as through atto authorized distributors and resellers . products include acceleration software raid adapters and host bus adapters hbas 4gb and 8gb fibre channel 10gbe fcoe ultra320 scsi 3gb and 6gb sas 3gb sata and 1gbe and 10gbe iscsi sometimes called storage adapters or host adapters . other products include raid storage controllers self contained hardware that add raid protection for stored data to sas sata or fibre channel jbod storage enclosures . raid storage controllers also provide a single point of management for shared networked storage . connectivity for all in one laptop and small form factor computer systems which lack pcie slots are served with their desklink devices . these devices support thunderbolt to fibre channel sas sata or 10gb ethernet . protocol conversion products called bridges convert one protocol to another while adding cutting edge monitoring and management features for example fibre channel to sas sata iscsi to sas sata fibre channel to iscsi or fibre channel to scsi . switches are also offered which provide 8 16 or 24 8gb fibre channel ports to enable an end to end san solution when using fibre channel hbas . references edit http www.buffalonews.com city region atto found niche in data storage market 20131205 http dscon.ru docs atto atto resource guid 28th edition web.pdf https www.buffalo.edu content dam www news photos 2014 03 inventors entrepreneurs flyer.pdf http www.thefreelibrary.com the winner atto s expresspci mc scsi 3 accelerator captures ... a017913940 about atto at corporate site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title atto technology & oldid 738539066 categories computer companies established in 1988manufacturing companies based in new yorkhidden categories articles lacking sources from august 2013all 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 add links this page was last modified on 9 september 2016 at 15 27 . 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