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Top Ten Private Storage Networking Companies: Page 17 of 26

A brand new Website deserves a brand new Top 10 list, we always say. It’s not a new concept, of course. We borrowed the idea for a Top 10 list from our sister publication, Light Reading. (They, in turn, pinched...
June 13, 2001

EMC Hammer

3PARdata is yet
another stealthy startup squaring up to EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) in the
high-end storage market – and it means business, with a product ominously code-named "Scaffold."

This could mean any number of things. Scaffold, of course, is another word for gallows. It was also a frighteningly
bad 80s rock band led by Michael McCartney (brother of Sir Paul). The name

could also refer to building
scaffolding – modular, flexible, strong, and so on. But that would be
boring.

Unfortunately, we can’t say for sure which of these theories is right, as 3PARdata was too busy thinking up mysterious code-names to speak to us (the company is still in stealth mode).

We did find out enough to build a bare bones sketch of what they are up to, however. Unlike its closest competitor – Cereva Networks –
3PARdata is focused on just the storage array, not the switch. This is the device that holds all the stored data, typically on RAID disks.

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