Someone over there better get out the chickens and start doing an iSCSI rain dance, or something, as this market isn't happening any time soon.
The second new company on this list, PolyServe Inc., joins at No. 8
despite its name, which sounds like something you use to mix cement.
It actually sells host-based file clustering software that enables "dozens" of servers to have concurrent read-and-write access to shared data on a SAN. Apparently, this is really hard to do, according some people at PolyServe who told us it's really hard to do (see PolyServe Hits the Comeback Trail).
Not just any old people, though: Most of PolyServe's engineering team came from Sequent, creators of NUMA, the first clustering technology that IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) acquired, for $810 million in 1999. [Ed. note: Bodes well, no?]
PolyServe is shipping and has several customers, including the Burlington Coat Factory, which is impressive for a company that only recently launched.
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