Achieva Networks has been founded with a mission to develop low-cost next generation multi-protocol NAS and IP-SAN storage solutions that solve the complex environment of mixed storage devices and all the associated issues that make it difficult for customers to access their mission-critical and large volume of data while performing high speed backup/restore and disaster recovery very quickly compared to other solutions.

BigBangwidth, founded in September 2000, set out to solve the security and bandwidth constraints in Enterprise networks by lifting large data streams off the Local Area Networks and Storage Area Networks through an alternate link.

The heart of the value proposition and solution to LAN and SAN congestion is the BigBangwidth LightPath Accelerator™. Unlike IP and Ethernet packet switches, the LightPath Accelerator™ employs patented NanoGrid™ devices at its core to supply protocol-independent data transfers at virtually any data rate. Data rates up to 10 Gigabit Ethernet can be achieved to the desktop to enable high performance applications.

Data passing through the LightPath Accelerator™ does not experience packet switching latency. The LightPath Accelerator™ eliminates the bottlenecks that exist in accessing massive storage files by optimizing the transport of SAN and NAS protocols.

The LightPath Accelerator™ connects workstations to storage, workstations to workstations and workstations to servers by lifting traffic above congested networks. The LightPath Accelerator™ complements existing copper, fiber and wireless LANs. Finally, LightPath Accelerator™ transports IP, Ethernet, Fibre Channel and iSCSI over the same network using zero latency dedicated connections.

Founded in 2004, DiCOM grid provides the world's first HIPAA compliant, diagnostic-grade service for DiCOM Medical Image Storage and Communication (MISTC™) over the public Internet. MISTC™ enables radiological health records to be stored and moved electronically, securely, and effortlessly among unaffiliated enterprises; from the point where they were acquired (e.g. hospital, imaging center, or physician's office) to physicians anywhere, anytime . The MISTC™ solution from DiCOM Grid introduces a new era of medical Picture Archival and Communications Systems - PACS 2.0 - which is made possible by the move to the Internet as a platform. MISTC™ represents the changing trends in the use of Internet technology to enhance communications, provide secure information sharing, collaboration, and productivity. MISTC™ is offered with a fully transparent pricing model that requires no capital expense, is paid for as it is used and can be installed up and running in a few hours

eKidsMovies.com is a “Kids-Safe” online community that delivers G and PG film and video entertainment to kids from 5 to 13 years old. Our business is to give kids, groups of friends and families easy, affordable access to feature and short subject length independent and studio films from around the world. Films are delivered in native language for viewing in practically any format, from hand-held mobile video player to in-home, Internet-connected entertainment.

High Connectivity Systems (HCS) is a new company focused on delivering first to market a family of WiAD (Wireless integrated Access Devices) based on the WiMAX IEEE 802.16 standard. It is also complementary to existing Wi-Fi and extending 3G. HCS’s WiAD will be a cost effective broadband wireless solution for network service providers enabling them to realize a return on their investment within 6 months. HCS will equip SOHO (Small Office Home Office), enterprises, and rural users with broadband support for Ethernet, Wi-Fi, voice and video streaming.

HCS traces its roots to R&D in broadband networking and CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access). Most of its founding members have advanced degrees and the products they developed were widely deployed. HCS technology expertise heralds from innovators such as AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent, GTE Labs, Motorola and Nokia. HCS is currently designing software as part of its initial product development. HCS has patentable technology and in the process of filing the claims.

Immunix™ is a leading provider of Host Intrusion Prevention solutions. Immunix has developed a suite of unique security technologies that assures the integrity of servers by preventing hackers from exploiting software bugs to compromise critical business data. Immunix provides proactive protection right at the server core and eliminates the requirement for constant security patching, increasing infrastructure up time, and improving resource utilization and efficiency.
Immunix Secured Solutions combine proven host intrusion prevention, advanced server management capabilities and third party enterprise applications in a “soft-appliance” format, resulting in easy to deploy, highly secure and easy to use gateway solutions.

LEGATO (NASDAQ:LGTO) delivers worldwide enterprise class software solutions and services that keep the world’s business-critical information and applications available. With a direct sales force and through strategic partnerships and alliances, LEGATO delivers the advantages of business continuance through enterprise automation with information protection, application availability and storage management solutions. LEGATO’s software solutions and services are what customers need to succeed in today’s competitive environment.

LEGATO has a long tradition of adopting and driving storage-specific standards. LEGATO was the first in the market to introduce a common tape format (OpenTape), common media management interface (SmartMedia), and the industry’s first open storage management framework (GEMS).

In the increasingly important Storage Area Network (SAN) market, LEGATO is both a founding member and a member of the Board of Directors of the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) in the USA and Europe.

Maxspeed Thin Client terminals are the most powerful and cost-effective alternative to running an office of networked PC's. Maxspeed provides thin client terminals for sever-based applications running on a variety of operating systems, including Citrix, Windows, Unix, Solaris, and Linux. Maxspeed thin client terminals are designed to function flawlessly with terminal server software and provide all the advantages of networked PCs with none of the drawbacks - at a fraction of the cost.

With Maxspeed thin clients you greatly decrease cost of ownership with a virtually maintenance free design that provides years of silent and trouble free operation. No more software upgrades or hard drive maintenance, all you do is load your new capabilities on the server and automatically, every user has greater speed, more memory and new applications.

NETSEC’s solution encompasses the security life cycle of your network – from assessing your vulnerability status, to tracking your network activity, to providing real-time threat data. We are your network security solution.
No security solution can be completed or even started before a client knows where their security posture currently stands. NETSEC’s Vulnerability Assessment Services provide several methodologies, ranging from network penetration tests to individual application security analysis, to determine your current security posture as well as making suggestions on improvements.

Device Monitoring & Management strives to enhance the investment that has already been made in personnel and technology by a client. By continuously monitoring key points within a network infrastructure, correlating and analyzing disparate data and escalating to the client’s IT staff only in the case where immediate attention is warranted, we enhance, as opposed to replacing, that investment and staff.

By subscribing to NETSEC’s Intelligence Services, a client is able to tailor and reduce the amount of information they must sift through from the various bug and vulnerability-tracking services, security alerts, underground web sites. This service will present data that is only pertinent to the client infrastructure, allowing them to make improvements on the security posture of the various devices and servers that NETSEC does not have administrative control of.

Each of NETSEC’s service offerings can stand alone as a separate service, providing you much needed experience and knowledge. However, when the tools are used together, information gleaned can help to maximize the effectiveness of your security infrastructure.

Okapi Software, Inc. is the storage industry’s pioneering provider of backup acceleration appliances used as key components in business continuance and data protection strategies. Using iSCSI to build applications that competing storage technologies are unable to deliver, Okapi’s technology and products are competitively priced and go beyond solutions using Fibre Channel and NAS. Okapi was acquired by Overland Storage.

Problem: IT administrators must back up more data to off-site locations in less time; restore processing must be done more efficiently and in less time
Solution: ipXpressBackup™ is up to 20x faster than tape and reduces Disk-To-Disk backup time up to 50 percent; makes restores almost instantaneous
Solution: ipXtensionCords™ keep backup tapes, tape drives and libraries remote and secure

Packeteer offers a comprehensive set of solutions that provide visibility, control, compression, and management of Internet-enabled business applications and managed application services. These solutions - which include PacketSeeker? PacketShaper,® PacketShaper Xpress, ReportCenter, and PolicyCenter - enable businesses to optimize use of WAN connectivity resources, and align application performance with business priorities. For service providers, Packeteer systems provide a platform for delivering application-intelligent network services that control quality of service and expand revenue opportunities.

PERSIST Technologies, Inc. is the leader in storage appliance software that offers enterprises the ability to simplify storage, reduce costs and empower users with immediate and intelligent access to critical information assets. With PERSIST, companies can leverage powerful storage solutions that deliver reliable, anytime access to a their critical data. PERSIST combines its proprietary AppStor™ software with hardware from leading storage vendors to create an active-archive appliance that enables companies to handle the explosive content demands that are taxing their current primary architectures. Now large organizations can manage their reference information, including email, document imaging, and digital media—with application-intelligent technology that outperforms any other solution on the market.

Data and storage needs are rising at a tremendous rate due to the explosive growth of reference information. In fact, according to analysts’ estimates, some 52 billion emails will be transmitted daily within the worldwide enterprise market by the end of 2006. Additionally, new regulations that require some companies to archive and retain all business communication for a minimum of three years has generated an even greater need for reliable, scalable digital storage.

PlanarN - Portland, Oregon

The unique PlanarN network is focused on serving the needs of enterprise customers rather than on becoming a universal service carrier for legacy services like voice. Large enterprises are not satisfied with the telecommunications services because they simply do not provide the bandwidth and geographical coverage to meet their business and applications requirements.

The network is based on proven supercomputer architecture distributed across a national footprint much different than legacy telecom networks. The design produces a 10X performance improvement while requiring only 20% of the capital, operational cost and provisioning effort (time to market) of the current (and projected) network transmission solutions. The end result provides an application platform that addresses the emerging new requirements in the enterprise deploying:

• embedded video marketing
• enormous storage libraries
• new peer-to-peer collaboration
• grid computing
• very high-speed IP delivery
• new architecture to enable VPNs
• faster and more efficient peering
• DNS
• new levels of security.

StoneFly Networks, Inc is the innovator of iSCSI-based storage provisioning appliances that enable optimization of IP SANs. StoneFly Storage Concentrators combine the functionality of an iSCSI router, bridge and provisioning engine to provide advanced storage management, business continuity, and disaster recovery planning.

Symmetricom’s GoLong product family extends the distance of broadband over copper enabling universal DSL. Telephone companies currently deploy GoLong repeaters to extending high-speed access to residential and businesses.

GoLong SHDSL (G.shdsl) can be deployed every 10,000 feet (almost 2 miles), extending G.shdsl full rate service – 2.3 Mbps in each direction – to almost six miles using two repeaters on standard 26 gauge telephone cables, and even farther with additional repeaters.

Virtualization technology is a key building block for next generation enterprise datacenters and infrastructure. Though several vendors (Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and VMware) have stepped up their virtualization offerings to the market, a void remains in the undeveloped area of managing and optimizing those virtualized environments and devices once they are in place. As the number of virtual servers increases, system administrators quickly find themselves in fire-fighting mode. Existing server monitoring tools are not virtualization aware and are unable to take into account the shared resource dependency between host and virtual machine.

YottaYotta enables intelligent globally distributed SAN storage solutions. The YottaYotta NetStorager GSX 2400 provides a geographically aware storage utility. It offers a platform for both partners and customers to merge high availability, scalable performance, and multi-site data collaboration into one coherent offering.

YottaYotta's NetStorager System has demonstrated near-local performance to remote locations while greatly reducing WAN traffic. At distances of 15,000 km, YottaYotta provides a 40-fold increase in I/O performance relative to traditional data sharing models. YottaYotta also delivers a new paradigm for high availability and business continuity, ensuring 24x7 operations are achieved.