"Sistina's first-mover advantage and its ability to deliver proven data-sharing and protection technology to the enterprise will continue to drive Linux deeper into the data center," Reeves says. "As Linux continues to gain momentum in mission-critical enterprise environments, we've noticed a shift where companies are quickly adopting an incremental, Intel-based approach to computing. Sistina is in the right place at the right time."
Ruiz says Sistina is on course to become profitable in 2004. The Minneapolis-based company has grown from 30 employees a year ago to 45, and has more than 100 customers.
"We're in the eye of a perfect storm," Ruiz says, referring to the growth of Linux, storage, and clustered computing. [Ed. note: In an interview with Byte and Switch last month, new Sistina CEO Ian Bonner described the company's technology as being "right in the eye of the perfect storm." Is this catchphrase tattooed on the arm of every Sistina employee or something?!] (See Sistina Taps Bonner.)
Sistina's partnerships include storage vendors Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) and Fujitsu Systems Europe, Linux vendors SuSE Inc. and Red Hat Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), and backup and recovery software company CommVault Systems Inc..
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