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Springtime Top Ten: Page 17 of 17

Rules are rules, and Scale Eight has broken too many of them. Later!

3PARdata Inc. wasn't a difficult one to strike off. It still isn't shipping its so-called utility storage system and clearly doesn't have any paying customers yet, either.

Its goal, like Cereva Networks Inc. and Yotta Yotta Inc. before it, is to come up with the EMC-killer box -- and maybe it will. But it has an incredible task ahead to convince today's market to actually buy it. Not many people are even buying EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) hardware right now, never mind next-gen equipment from an unknown startup. They're looking to manage and get better use out of what they already have.

Eventually, enterprises will need to buy more capacity again. But the question is, when? No one, not even EMC, has an answer to that right now.

Finally, there's Storigen Systems Inc. This startup is shipping its multiprotocol caching appliance, but its two "customers" are still only evaluating the product (see Storigen Systems