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2006: The B&S Report Card: Page 3 of 8

Prediction: An IPO or Two

Reality: Try Four Or FiveGrade: A

Forecasting two storage IPOs in one year might have seemed bold a year ago, but we actually undershot. We were right about CommVault filing early in 2006, and we listed Isilon as a long shot. But we failed to see WAFS startup Riverbed’s meteoric rise and replication vendor Double-Take’s emergence. InfiniBand chip vendor Mellanox has also filed to go public but won’t price shares this year.

Prediction: InfiniBand In the Data Center

Reality:Not Yet Grade: D