Short Take: Storage start-up grabs funding

TrueSAN Networks has received $30 million in second-round financing from Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse First Boston, Woodside Fund, Finisar, QLogic and the Woodside Fund, the San Jose, Calif., company said Tuesday. TrueSAN builds storage area networks, sophisticated but expensive special-purpose networks dedicated to data storage.

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