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Top Ten Summer Tweak: Page 11 of 17

Its growing reseller channel also gives it a clear edge over all the other next-generation switch startups, none of which are shipping. For this reason, Pirus remains a contender and a key player on this Top Ten.

Hanging on at No. 7 is Alacritech Inc., now shipping its iSCSI and TCP/IP offload cards (see Alacritech Releases GigE Accelerator and Alacritech Ships NIC).

It has announced some flashy benchmark results, but, sadly, these count for diddly when it comes to paying employees at the end of the month (see Alacritech Touts NAS Testing).

To stay on this list much longer Alacritech needs to announce some major OEM deals or significant customer wins – fast.

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.