'Nuff said. Nishan stays in the Top Five, for now.
It is tough to find winners in the ever-crowded storage management software market, but we think that Acirro Inc., new to our list at No. 5, looks like the one (see Acirro Breaks Cover).
Why Acirro, you ask? First, its product isn't trying to change what companies are already doing, as many next-gen storage startups are suggesting. It's simply offering them an improved way to manage what they already have.
More specifically, Acirro's software provides a way to manage different NAS devices over a wide-area network. It's a globally distributed file system, much like Scale Eight Inc.'s, except Acirro is shipping today and already has a customer under its belt. Which is more than can be said for Scale Eight, still trickling along with its SSP business while simultaneously trying to convince people that it's a software company. Forget it, Scale Eight. Time for a spell in the Bit Bucket. A company with less baggage is stealing your thunder.
Next, Acirro's management team is rock solid. The company recently hired Joel Harrison, industry luminary and founder of Quantum Corp. (NYSE: DSS), as its CTO. It also has Anson Chan, VP and general manager of network management at Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO), on its advisory board.
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