Network Computing is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLC

This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.

Top Ten Private Storage Networking Companies: Page 22 of 26

Another important feather in its cap is its VC roster – Oak Investment
Partners
, Crown
Advisors
, InterWest
Partners
, and Center
Point Venture Partners
. It’s raised $31 million in two rounds from these folks
and hopes to get a final round under its belt by the end of the third
quarter 2001, before testing the IPO waters.

It’s worth noting that Gartner/Dataquest estimates the SSP (storage service provider) market will be
worth $8.8 billion by 2003. A pretty fat piñata, in other words.

Three’s company?

“Forget TCP/IP,” for connecting pools of storage servers together, Troika Networks CEO Alan
Skidmore told Byte and Switch, “It’ll never work.”

Well, there’s a statement. So what does Troika propose instead?