For a full writeup of who's on and who's off the list, click on the name of a company below:
Table 1: Top Ten Private Storage Networking Companies
| Rank | Name | Last Position on List | Number of Weeks on List |
| 1 | LeftHand | ||
| 2 | Nishan | ||
| 3 | BlueArc | ||
| 4 | NuView | ||
| 5 | DataCore | ||
| 6 | CommVault | ||
| 7 | MSI | ||
| 8 | AppIQ | ||
| 9 | GlassHouse | ||
| 10 | 3PAR | ||
| BIT BUCKET | Name | Last Position on List | Number of Weeks Listed |
| NEW | OuterBay | ||
| NEW | InterSAN | ||
| Alacritech | |||
| PolyServe | |||
| Acirro | |||
| SANcastle | |||
| Scale Eight | |||
| Storigen | |||
| Cereva | |||
| TrueSAN | |||
| Troika | |||
| Zambeel | |||
| Yotta Yotta | |||
The Editors, Byte and Switch
Shooting up eight places to steal the No. 1 spot is LeftHand Networks, following consistent customer traction and a ton of new funding.
LeftHand, which makes Ethernet-based storage arrays, just won $20 million in a Series B round, bringing its total equity investment to date to $39 million. VCs backing the Boulder, Colo., startup say the solid quarter-after-quarter sales uptick convinced them to step up their support of the company (see LeftHand Snatches $20M).
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