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Top Ten Private Storage Networking Companies: Page 8 of 11

Ding! Ding! Round three! This is it. The update to the Byte and Switch Top 10 List. And there’s no tweaking it this time; we’ve made changes muchos grande. As always, we appreciated and enjoyed your feedback on the last...
December 25, 2001

BlueArc has shipped five of its Si7500 storage servers to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to be used in conjunction with LLNL's accelerated strategic computing initiative (ASCI). BlueArc has confirmed that LLNL did pay for these boxes.

However, other sales have gone to strategic partners, such as Extreme Networks Inc.
(Nasdaq: EXTR) and Juniper Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR) that are demonstrating the equipment in their respective labs as a favor to BlueArc.

A company spokesperson told Byte and Switch that BlueArc is under increasing pressure from Network Appliance Inc. (Nasdaq: NTAP), which is shipping boxes for free, or almost free, to counter the competition.

What’s needed for BlueArc to move back up the list? A few big customer wins.

For the previous Top 10 article about this company, see:

Big BlueArc

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