Top Ten Private Storage Networking Companies
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byteandswitch.com
June 13, 2001
Not only that – it’s got a couple of strong financial backers behind it, including Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. (NYSE: MER) and Credit Suisse First Boston, which recently contributed to its $30 million second round of funding.
TrueSAN plans to hit the road again in October to look for more funding – although it claims it’s not relying on this, as it already has paying customers (see TrueSAN Secures $30M in Funding), a rare phenomenon in this young market. Its customer base includes Personify, an e-business software maker; Mercy Healthcare, a U.S. healthcare provider; and Russo & Hale LLP, an IT law firm in Silicon Valley.
Isakovich's modest goal is to do to EMC what Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: DELL) once did to IBM Corp.
(NYSE: IBM). Maybe he will – but only provided he steers clear of the DOJ.
Big BlueArc
Everything about BlueArc Corp. is BIG: the money – more than $100 million in funding to date (see BlueArc Wins $72M Round); the product – a monster box that uses specialized chips to deliver throughput approaching 2 Gbit/s; but most especially... the buzz.
