BLADE Network Technologies

About BLADE Network Technologies

BLADE Network Technologies (BLADE) is the industry's leading provider of network fabrics for high-performance data centers. Its blade switches, top-of-rack RackSwitchT, VMreadyT network virtualization software, and Smart Server ControlT software are key elements of the company's Unified Fabric Architecture. BLADE's "Rackonomics" approach makes it simple for businesses to rapidly deploy and configure massive amounts of server and storage infrastructure, interconnect the various infrastructure elements, virtualize the infrastructure to maximize efficiency and utilization and easily manage the infrastructure to achieve the most optimal TCO. With 7.5 million ports in production deployment, BLADE's proven fabric products connect millions of server and storage systems at over 9,500 enterprises in over 26 different industry verticals, including 350 of the Fortune 500.  Visit: http://www.bladenetwork.net. Twitter: @BLADENetwork.

Dot Hill

Delivering innovative technology and global support, Dot Hill empowers the OEM community to bring unique storage solutions to market, quickly, easily and cost-effectively. Offering high performance and industry-leading uptime, Dot Hill's RAID technology is the foundation for best-in-class storage solutions offering enterprise-class security, availability and data protection. The company's products are in use today by the world's leading service and equipment providers, common carriers, advanced technology and telecommunications companies as well as government agencies. Dot Hill solutions are certified to meet rigorous industry standards and military specifications, as well as RoHS and WEEE international environmental standards. Headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif., Dot Hill has offices and/or representatives in China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States.

For more information, visit us at www.dothill.com.

FalconStor Software, Inc.

FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC) is the market leader in disk-based data protection. We deliver proven, comprehensive solutions that enable the recovery of business-critical data with speed, integrity, and simplicity. Our technology independent solutions, based on the award-winning IPStor® virtualization platform, include the industry-leading VirtualTape Library (VTL) with Single Instance Repository (SIR) for de-duplication, Continuous Data Protection (CDP), storage virtualization, and Replication for disaster recovery and remote office protection. Our products are available from major OEMs and solution providers including EMC, SUN, Brocade, H3C, and COPAN and deployed by thousands of customers worldwide, from SMBs to Fortune 1000 enterprises.

FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, NY with offices throughout the globe.

For more information, visit www.FalconStor.com.

JANET(UK)

JANET(UK) manages the operation and development of JANET on behalf of JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) for the UK Further and Higher Education Funding Councils. JISC also works in partnership with the Research Councils. JANET(UK) is government funded, with the primary aim of providing and developing a network infrastructure that meets the needs of the education and research communities.

The concept of a community underpins everything JANET(UK) does and the network is based on the need for organisations to communicate, collaborate and co-operate in the shared interests of education and research. JANET(UK) offers many feedback mechanisms to ensure that an open communication channel exists between itself and the community it serves.

JANET

JANET is the network dedicated to the needs of education and research in the UK. It connects the UK's education and research organisations to each other, as well as to the rest of the world through links to the global Internet. In addition, JANET includes a separate network that is available to the community for experimental activities in network development.

The JANET network connects UK universities, FE Colleges, Research Councils, Specialist Colleges and Adult and Community Learning providers. It also provides connections between the Regional Broadband Consortia to facilitate the DfES initiative for a national schools' network. Over 18 million end-users are currently served by the JANET network.

The range of activities facilitated by JANET allows individuals and organisations to push back the traditional boundaries of teaching, learning and research methods. For example, JANET's videoconferencing and video streaming capabilities are being used to deliver lectures to remote groups of students. For researchers, the high capacity of the JANET backbone allows the linking of large data storage and high performance computing facilities at a national and international level.

Trademarks

JANET® and JANET(UK)® are registered trademarks of the Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland and Wales. The JNT Association is the registered user of these trademarks.

JISC

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) supports further and higher education by providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities to use Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to support teaching, learning, research and administration. JISC is funded by all the UK post-16 and higher education funding councils : JISC - www.jisc.ac.uk.

Network Instruments

Network Instruments provides in-depth network intelligence and continuous network availability through innovative analysis solutions. Enterprise network professionals depend on Network Instruments' Observer product line for unparalleled network visibility to efficiently solve network problems and manage deployments. By combining a powerful management console with high-performance analysis appliances, Observer simplifies problem resolution and optimises network and application performance. The company continues to lead the industry in ROI with its advanced Distributed Network Analysis (NI-DNAT) architecture, which successfully integrates comprehensive analysis functionality across heterogeneous networks through a single monitoring interface. Network Instruments is headquartered in Minneapolis with sales offices worldwide and distributors in over 50 countries.

For more information about the company, products, technology, NI-DNA, becoming a partner, and NI University please visit www.networkinstruments.co.uk.

Next Generation Data

About Next Generation Data

Next Generation Data is an independent privately-owned data centre operator   offering customers the highest quality of service, flexibility, scalability and cost effectiveness. NGD Europe, the company's newly opened data centre located near Newport, South Wales, is one of the largest and most technologically advanced of its kind in Europe. 

NGD Europe is a purpose-built Tier 3 facility offering 75,000 sq metres of highly secure flexible space that can be arranged into self-contained data halls of various sizes all with independent services, resilient power and cooling systems. This makes it especially suited for accommodating larger scale businesses requiring far more cost-effective space-only solutions by enabling them to consolidate their existing space- or power-restricted operations under one roof.

For further information, visit www.nextgenerationdata.co.uk

Radware

About Radware

Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR), the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assures the full availability, maximum performance, and complete security of business-critical applications for nearly 10,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolute­, Radware's comprehensive and award-winning suite of application delivery and network security products, companies in every industry can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks "business smart". For more information, please visit www.radware.com.

Secure Passage

About Secure Passage

Secure Passage is a customer-focused company that brings innovative solutions to security management. The leading provider of firewall policy, risk, and compliance management solutions, Secure Passage' s flagship product, FireMon, simplifies and automates the analysis of configuration and change management processes to enhance security, optimize performance, and speed compliance reporting. FireMon analyzes changes and performs audits in real time; simplifies policy management; and enforces configuration governance across firewalls, switches, routers, and other network devices. FireMon is the only solution on the market that can be customized to meet the unique audit and compliance reporting requirements for networks of all sizes while enabling IT organizations to do more with less effort. Enterprise-strength deployments of FireMon around the world support more than 35,000 security devices from vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, Check Point, and McAfee. For more information, visit www.securepassage.com. 

Pacific Retail Systems

Formed in 2005, Pacific Retail Systems acquired all product, sales and marketing rights to the StoreTrader Windows-based EPOS solution initially developed and brought to market by Epsilon Technologies. Pacific Retail is totally committed to marketing, further developing and supporting StoreTrader and all future enhancements. The company offers a consulting and custom service to those retailers requiring major modifications to StoreTrader, as well as selling through a network of specialist distributors and systems integrators.

For more information please visit www.pacificretailsystems.com.

Vocollect

Since 1987, Vocollect, Inc. has delivered proven performance improvements in productivity, accuracy, cost reduction and job satisfaction for mobile employees. Vocollect Voice literally talks people through their daily tasks, replacing cumbersome lists and traditional data capture methods with hands-free, personal voice dialogs. Through a premier global network of resellers and supply chain performance experts, hundreds of thousands of people on six continents use Vocollect Voice to improve work every day. Vocollect is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.A., and supports its clients and resellers through offices in Europe, the Americas and Asia.

For more information, visit www.vocollect.com.

Operative

Operative enables interactive publishers and agencies to meet the demands of an increasingly dynamic internet marketplace and to improve their bottom lines by providing expert management of ad operations through their industry-leading technology and truly obsessive service. Operative's flagship subscription-based software - accessed by clients via the Operative Dashboard, an ASP software solution - automates the entire ad operations process, from insertion order through trafficking, campaign optimization through CRM, with sales force automation built in. Headquartered in New York City with its international base in London and offices around the world, Operative provides a full range of outsourced ad operations to many of the world's leading media companies including AOL, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, MSN, Business Week Online, iVillage, Omnicom, and WPP.

For more information visit www.operative.com

allpay.net

With over 750 clients and over 1700 payment schemes in operation, allpay.net is the UK's leading end-to-end 24/7 payment and revenue collection service provider for the public and private sectors.

Over 45,000 outlets now accept payments on allpay.net's electronic swipecard network with other payment methods including the Internet, interactive TV, telephone (IVR), Direct Debit and barcoding.

For more information visit www.allpay.net.

Yodlee

Yodlee delivers innovative financial applications that make online banking more profitable. Yodlee's financial software solutions help customers and small businesses achieve greater financial awareness, control, and satisfaction through their online channel.

For more infomation visit www.yodlee.com.

Continental Truck Tyres, Europe

As one of the largest manufacturers of premium tires for commercial vehicles, Continental carries a broad range of high performance products finely tailored to specific application areas for heavy duty and light trucks, buses and off road vehicles. Continental AG produces truck and bus tires under the Continental, Uniroyal, Semperit and Barum brand names. In existence since 1978, the ContiBreakdownService is an immediate response network of authorised dealerships providing an added margin of safety in the event of tire failure.

The Continental Corporation is a leading automotive supplier of brake systems, chassis components, vehicle electronics, tires and technical elastomers. In 2006 the corporation realised sales of EUR14.9 billion. It has a worldwide workforce of around 85,000.

For further information visit the websites www.conti-online.com

About ZF Trading UK Ltd

ZF Trading UK Ltd (‘ZF Trading’) is a leading supplier in the independent aftermarket of powertrain, suspension and steering components for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The company is owned by ZF Friedrichschafen AG, one of the world’s foremost providers of automotive driveline and chassis technologies. The ZF Group employs a workforce of almost 58,000 in 120 plants across 25 countries. Successful cooperation between the ZF Group and vehicle manufacturers ensures that ZF Trading can rapidly introduce technical innovations to the independent replacement parts market.

ZF Trading is an attractive supplier for its trading partners because it offers a large number of product groups from a single source. Through the SACHS, LEMFÖRDER, BOGE and ZF Parts brands, ZF Trading is synonymous with competence, quality and service in the UK automotive aftermarket. The organisation prides itself on supplying OE-quality products to its partners, with the ultimate aim of providing the driver with a safe, reliable and comfortable motoring experience.

In keeping with its tradition of innovation, ZF Trading is the only supplier of dual-mass flywheels and auto-adjusting clutches for the commercial sector. For the passenger car market, 2008 sees the launch of the ZF Parts brand, a new range of OE-specification steering racks and pumps developed with the joint expertise of ZF and Bosch.

Further information about ZF Trading and its brands is available at www.zf-trading.co.uk.