With fifteen years of design expertise Promise Technology designs, develops, manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of Serial ATA (SATA), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solutions including Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Direct Attach Storage (DAS) with iSCSI, Fibre Channel (FC) or SAS host interfaces that hold terabytes of data with multiple hard disk drives with advanced data protection and management functionalities, host bus RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk Drives) and ATA interface adapters that plug into internal computer expansion slots, and ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) that are integrated onto computer motherboards.
With such a wide variety of products, Promise has become the "King of ATA" with solutions for home users to corporate-user mission-critical applications that require terabytes of data.
From the introduction of the first ATA RAID controller through to today's advanced SAS solutions, Promise has lead the ATA RAID market in product units shipped with huge market share year after year. According to Gartner Dataquest, Promise continues to dominate the ATA RAID segment with an industry-leading market share in IA (Intel Architecture) file servers. In 2002 Promise ATA RAID host bus adapters for servers outsold every other manufacturers' host bus adapters based on every other storage interface including SCSI and Fibre Channel.
The Company's market leading position is also reflected through its list of top-tier customers and its track record of products installed. Promise products have been specifically tested and chosen for system integration by the world's leading OEMs including Dell, Fujitsu Siemens ; Fujitsu, Gateway, HP, Intel, Maxtor, Micron, NEC, Western Digital, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and Apple, to name just a few. As a measure of this success, between mid 1999 and end of 2002, Promise shipped over 10 million ATA interface solution units to the market.
Promise Taiwan became a publicly traded company listed in the Taiwan stock market (Promise Technology, Inc (3057.TW)) with its Initial Public Offering in 2002. Promise employs over 300 people worldwide, with sales and marketing offices in USA, Taiwan, Europe and China; ISO 9001 certified high quality R&D centers in USA and Taiwan. With engineering that accounts for 45% of the employee head count, Promise remains dedicated to the research and development of storage solutions that leverage each new generation of storage technology. |
