Newisys was founded in July 2000 by Claymon A. Cipione and Phillip Doyce Hester, both from IBM.
[4] In July 2003, Sanmina-SCI (which had been a manufacturing partner) announced it would acquire Newisys for an undisclosed amount.
[7][8] In August 2005, a network-attached storage server product called the NA-1400 was announced, although shipments were reported to be delayed.
[9] In November 2005, Newisys announced an integrated circuit call the AMD Horus, which allowed servers to be built with large numbers of AMD Opteron processors.
[12] In May 2007, the server portion of the company was shut down, leaving storage (developed in Colorado) as the main focus.