History

1998 – Proof-of-concept (IBM Research). 03/2000 – First draft of iSCSI standard presented at the IETF. Main author is Julian Satran, IBM Haifa Research Lab. Original contributions from IBM and Cisco. 09/2000 – Demo at CERN and Network World+Interop. 06/2001 – GA of IP Storage 200i, first iSCSI appliance in the industry. 07/2001, 11/2001, 02/2002, 07/2002 – iSCSI Interoperability Plugfests. 08/2001 – Boot over iSCSI (iBoot) for Linux. 02/2002 – Boot over iSCSI for Windows. 08/2002 – iSCSI specification passes IP Storage Working Group last call.