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VentureWire Announces Investors' Choice Award at Datacenter Ventures; Award Recognizes 10 Security and Storage Start-Ups With the Potential for Success
NEW YORK --(Business Wire)-- Sept. 28, 2004 -- VentureWire, the premier source of news and information about private technology companies, venture-capital firms and the people who manage and finance them, today announced the recipients of its Investors' Choice awards at its annual Datacenter Ventures Private Equity conference held in Redwood City, Calif., on Sept. 21 and 22. The award recognizes start-up technology companies that are best positioned for long-term success in the security and storage industry.
"The corporate datacenter is of increasing importance, and these Investors' Choice winners have the best chance to make an impact in this market," said Richard A. Shaffer, editor in chief of VentureWire, which is published by Dow Jones Newswires.
More than 350 business leaders, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and industry analysts attended the conference and judged the competition. They selected the 10 award winners out of 68 closely held companies that were invited to present their business plans at the conference.
The recipients of the Investors' Choice Award, in alphabetical order, are:
Conformative Systems, Austin, Texas (www.conformative.com)--provides application-specific parallel computer systems for service-oriented enterprises.
COPAN Systems, Longmont, Colo. (www.copansys.com) --develops data-storage products.
EqualLogic, Nashua, N.H. (www.equallogic.com)--provides ISCI-based storage-area networking.
Nevis Networks, Santa Clara, Calif. (www.nevisnetworks.com)--provides enterprise security products.
Precision I/O, Palo Alto, Calif. (www.precisionio.com)--develops a high-performance server I/O architecture based on Ethernet.
Revivio, Lexington, Mass. (www.revivio.com)--develops data protection appliances.
Riverbed Technology, San Francisco (www.riverbed.com)--provides software that accelerates data transfer over distributed networks.
Seclarity, San Francisco (www.seclarity.com)--provides hardware-enforced endpoint security.
Transitive, Los Gatos, Calif. (www.transitive.com)--develops run-time software products that translate software applications to run on different CPU hardware.
Verari Systems, San Diego (www.verari.com)--provides high-density rack servers, blade servers and supercomputer clusters.
The Datacenter Ventures conference evaluates strategies that can generate revenue and profit in a difficult market environment, and examines the technologies, services, and products that will enable businesses to maximize the value of their IT budget. Topics at this year's conference included on-demand computing, data protection/recovery issues, datacenter management and datacenter security.
Keynote speakers at this year's event included Thomas Edsall, chief technology officer of storage, Cisco Systems; Greg Papadopoulos, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Sun Microsystems; Dave Roberson, president and chief operating officer, Hitachi Data Systems; and Amit Yoran, director, national cyber security division, Department of Homeland Security.
About Dow Jones Newswires
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