"A privately held vendor of Linux-based NAS (network attached storage) appliances has been acquired by a large consumer electronics vendor. Netgear will pay $60 million in cash for Infrant Technologies, which offers a 'ReadyNAS' product line based on a custom Linux implementation called 'RAIDiator.'
"Infrant's ReadyNAS devices run the company's Linux-based RAIDiator OS, said to use patent-pending "X-RAID" (expandable RAID) technology aimed at enabling automatic RAID volume expansion as additional drives are added..."
