Auspex Systems was a computer data storage company founded in 1987 by Larry Boucher, who was previously CEO of Adaptec.

[3] Their 4Front or NS2000 model, initially offered in 1999 as a stackable system, held drawers of disks and was plagued by Mylex RAID controller issues which contributed to their bankruptcy in June 2003.

Their last product, the NSc3000, was the first multi-vendor SAN-NAS gateway and essentially kept the same NAS front-end but could connect via Fibre Channel to any SAN disk array.

[citation needed] After the burst of the dot-com bubble, in February, 2000, the company worked with Regent Pacific to select Gary J. Sbona as interim chief executive.

[4] When the company was liquidated in 2003, its patent portfolio was acquired by NetApp[5] and its services business went to GlassHouse Technologies for about $280,000.