The group's principal activities are to design and supply semiconductor and board level input/output products, full fabric switches and enclosure management semiconductors. the group simplifies the process of networking storage for original equipment manufacturers, resellers and system integrators with end-to-end storage area network. it produces controller chips, management enclosure chips, host bus adapters, fabric switches and management software, which are the backbone of storage networks for large corporations and small to medium-sized businesses. the products of the group include sanbladetm hbas, sanboxtm fibre channel switches and sansurfer tool kittm management software. the customers include cisco systems inc, dell computer corporation, emc corporation, fujitsu limited, hitachi limited, hewlett packard company, intel corporation, ibm corporation, quantum corp, sony, storage, technology corporation (storagetek), sun microsystems, inc. and many others.