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Top Ten Summer Tweak: Page 16 of 17

Other than that, SANcastle hasn't really seen much action; hence, it drops off the list.

Next to drop: Scale Eight Inc. Back when we first compiled this list, we picked Scale Eight because it looked like the only storage service provider (SSP) with a hope of making it (see SSPs: RIP).

But eventually, after all the other SSPs had already figured out that the business model sucked and morphed into software companies, Scale Eight followed suit (see Scale Eight Smells the Software).

It has also been through a tumultuous year on the management side and still does not have a CEO, from what we can tell (see Scale Eight Shapes Up).

Rules are rules, and Scale Eight has broken too many of them. Later!