Axcient is the first data protection solution to make business continuity and online backup simple for SMBs by delivering a secure and cost-effective way to ensure uptime and data recovery. Unlike tape and typical online backup offerings, the Axcient suite of self-managing data protection services preserves application availability even if a server fails and restores lost data in minutes. With industry-leading features such as virtual server failover, onsite/offsite redundancy, multi-tier archiving and open file backup, Axcient’s pay-as-you-grow model supports the rapid growth of today’s small and medium sized businesses.

High up in the Central Sierra, past the vineyards and a bit beyond Big Trees, Bear Valley is one of the Sierra's treasures. With an abundance of natural beauty and slopes that world-class skiers have acclaimed, Bear Valley is an ideal destination for a variety of guests, from families with children to winter sports enthusiasts who enjoy challenging terrain. Bear Valley is under new ownership that includes venture capitalists Kevin Compton and Doug MacKenzie, south bay developer Chuck Toeniskoetter, and Dundee Realty USA LLC which transformed the Arapahoe Basin on Colorado's famed Ski the Summit ski area.

Founded in April 2001, BookCrossing is now the world’s largest online and offline free book club. With over 600,000 members who have registered and released over 4,100,000 books in 130 countries, BookCrossing has been the focus of countless TV, radio, and newspaper features worldwide for its global efforts to improve literacy. BookCrossing has its own category in Google Directory, and has the distinction of having won two Webby awards and been added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as a new word. BookCrossing intends to make literacy obtainable to all, regardless of geographic location or economic means.

Conformia provides Product Conformance Management enterprise software, which enables businesses to integrate and achieve business operational excellence, science , and compliance goals. Conformia's web-based enterprise software products enable regulated, process manufacturing industries to improve product quality and integrity; enhance operational visibility and traceability; improve risk management; and decrease costs and risks associated with non-compliance. The company's initial focus is in life sciences (biotechnology and pharmaceuticals) and beverages (wine, spirits, beer, and juice). The company was founded in July 2000, and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

CREDANT Technologies is the market leader in mobile data protection solutions. CREDANT’s secure mobility solutions preserve customer brand and reduce the cost of compliance, enabling business processes to quickly and safely “go mobile.” CREDANT Mobile Guardian is the only centrally managed mobile data protection solution that provides strong authentication, intelligent encryption, usage controls, and key management that guarantees data recovery. By aligning security to the type of user, device and location, CREDANT ensures the audit and enforcement of security policies across all mobile end-points. Strategic partners and customers include leaders in finance, government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology, and services. CREDANT was selected by Red Herring as one of the top 100 privately held companies and top 100 Innovators for 2004, and was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2005. Austin Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, Intel Capital and Cisco Systems are investors in CREDANT Technologies.

Edge Dynamics is the pioneer and leading provider of dynamic demand management solutions to the life sciences industry. Used daily by four of the top ten U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturers, Edge Dynamics on-premise and on-demand solutions enable manufacturers to sense channel demand, find business exceptions that matter and optimize operational performance in real time. Commercial Operations, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain and Finance gain unprecedented insights into product launches, marketing campaign effectiveness, forecast accuracy, channel sales and inventory and contract and regulatory compliance. Edge Dynamics was acquired by I-many, Inc., in May 2008.

G-Log is the leading provider of global logistics and transportation software for enterprises and logistics service providers. G-Log's single, Web-native GC3 logistics platform optimizes and executes all modes of transportation across all geographies. GLog's clients are reducing cycle times, inventory levels, and total transportation costs while satisfying their customers' demands for real-time information and on-time deliveries. The GLog solution provides a broad range of services in the transportation market, including optimization, order entry, procurement, supply chain event management (SCEM), visibility, track and trace, freight payment, and historical analysis. Recognized as a "Best of the Web" company by Forbes, G-Log clients include Big Lots, Brown Shoe, DuPont, Exel, Family Dollar Stores, Giant Eagle, Halliburton, Kuehne & Nagel, Rohm and Haas, Tesco, Toll Solutions, Total Logistic Control, UPM, and Volvo Logistics. G-Log was acquired by Oracle Corporation.

Girl Ambition is a website designed to prepare girls, ages 8-12, to make the right choices as they begin to explore the Internet’s social networking world. The secure site provides a safe Internet experience offering the latest web features used by today’s teens, while making them tween appropriate. As news of teen girls facing predators, bullies, porn and scams on social networking sites increases, parents grow more concerned. Children can’t be kept off the Internet – nor would parents want to: it’s a part of everyday life and it’s their world. Therefore, this site is created to provide a secure community for tween girls to share with each other, learn to do things they never thought possible and understand how to safely navigate the web with all its offerings. GirlAmbition.com offers up-to-date web technologies –such as “Youtube™-like videos,” secure social networking, music and games. The goal is to encourage girls to learn new things, express their individualism, and feel good about themselves. Girl Ambition launches in early 2008.

Gresham Enterprise Storage delivers data protection with vision, combining the visibility of comprehensive storage analytics with highly scalable and easily manageable backup and restore to optimize operating costs. The world's most successful enterprises, including many of the Global 500 and the world’s largest data centers, use Gresham Clareti VTL and Clareti EDT solutions to manage the unrelenting growth of data with ease, improve their backup/restore performance, and scale their environments cost-effectively to gain a competitive edge in some of the most challenging market sectors, including banking and finance.

HVVi Semiconductors has created the world’s first high–frequency, high-voltage vertical field effect transistor (HVVFET™), effectively redefining the architecture for state-of-the-art RF power transistors. HVVi has enjoyed tremendous market momentum since its inception in 2004. With financial endorsement from venture capitalists Mobius Venture Capital and Advanced Technology Ventures, a strategic manufacturing partnership with a leading semiconductor heavyweight, and a strong reseller partner in Richardson Electronics, the company will launch the HVVFET™ before the end of 2007.

The Jericho Forum is an international IT security thought-leadership group dedicated to defining ways to deliver effective IT security solutions that will match the increasing business demands for secureIT operations in our open, Internet-driven, globally networked world. Our members include multi-national corporate user organizations, major security vendors, solutions providers, and academics, working together to 1) drive and influence development of new architectures, inter-workable technologysolutions, and implementation approaches, for securing our de-perimeterizing world, and 2) support development of open standards that will underpin these technology solutions.

Nanostellar, Inc., is a Redwood City-based Application Specific Nano Materials company that has 40 man-years of experience combining the use of advanced computational methods and proprietary synthesis techniques for the Rational Design and production of various nano-alloys with tailored properties for emissions control. These alloys use non-hazardous materials that are considered to be environmentally safe for emissions control purposes. The company plans to broaden the scope of their activities to include work on clean energy technologies such as catalyst materials for fuel-cells and Gas-to-Liquid/Coal-to-Liquid applications, and energy efficiency technologies in the field of display materials such as transparent conductors, phosphors, and color filters. Nanostellar is privately held, backed by premier investors including 3i, Monitor Ventures, Firelake Capital Management LLC and AsiaTech Management.

ONStor provides clustered NAS solutions for both primary and value tier storage focusing on enterprise data centers and content rich organizations, giving customers the ability to cost-effectively manage the accelerating growth of unstructured data. ONStor’s award-winning solutions deliver flexible data management, protection, and file server consolidation for a new generation of data intensive applications through a combination of advanced technologies including virtualization and energy efficient design.

Proven at customer sites worldwide, ONStor's Pantera clustered NAS systems and Bobcat clustered NAS gateways offer the broadest choice of storage and enable customers to easily scale storage with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).  ONStor solutions are available through a global network of resellers and distribution partners.

Permabit is the leading supplier of scalable data reduced storage for enterprise archiving. Permabit was founded in 2000 by a technical and business team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rohati Systems, Inc. is the leader in high-performance network-based entitlement control (NBEC). Rohati solutions quickly and cost-effectively enable companies to define and enforce access and entitlement policies across all applications and classes of users from a single management console. Unlike traditional approaches to identity and access management that are time- and cost-prohibitive to deploy broadly, the Rohati solution resides in the data center, is network-based to ensure high performance, and does not require agents or changes to applications. Delivering numerous industry firsts, Rohati enables companies to safeguard all their data assets to protect their business and comply with compliance regulations. Rohati is backed by Matrix Partners and Foundation Capital, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. To learn more, visit www.rohati.com.

VANTOS is the leader in the Enterprise Investigation Management market. The VANTOS V-FlexIM product reduces the time, cost and risk of managing enterprise investigations. With the rapid acceptance of V-FlexIM, VANTOS is revolutionizing the way companies manage the rising volume, variety and complexity of their investigations.

Vobile is a leading provider of video content identification and management services. Its core VideoDNA(TM) technology enables fully automated identification, tracking and management of any video content with high performance, accuracy and scalability. Founded in 2005, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

A Zebra Technologies company, WhereNet is the first company to deliver a single wireless location and communication infrastructure that reliably and cost-effectively manages valuable mobile resources and delivers a complete return on investment within 6-12 months. Based on patented, standards-compliant technology resulting from a collective 100+ years of development, the WhereNet active RFID, real-time locating system solutions enable companies such as APL, BMW, Ford Motor Company, and NYK Logistics and facilities like Tobyhanna Army Depot to reduce inventory, lower operating costs, and improve operations. The company has received the Henry Ford Technology Award; was recognized for strong ROI by Computerworld; was ranked among the top 10 in the InfoWorld 100; and has been recognized as a wireless innovator by Forrester Research, Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies, Plant Engineering, and Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazines. WhereNet is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and has offices throughout the United States and Europe.

Workshare, an information security company, delivers Secure Content Compliance solutions to over 6,000 organizations worldwide. Workshare solutions uniquely combine policy enforcement, management control and user entitlement to ensure safe information exchange without business disruption. Its products include Workshare Protect, Workshare Professional, Compare Service and TRACE! Workshare’s customer base spans small to large organizations in every industry segment with more than 60 percent of the Fortune 1000 and 85 percent of the ProServices 250. Over one million professionals in 65 countries use Workshare software. The company has offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Washington DC, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Paris and Sydney. Workshare is the sponsor of: www.metadatarisk.org the definitive source for content security.

Xyratex is a leading provider of enterprise-class data storage subsystems and storage process technology. The company designs and manufactures enabling technology that provides OEM and disk drive manufacturers with data storage products to support high-performance storage and data communication networks. Xyratex has over 20 years of experience in research and development relating to disk drives, storage systems, and high-speed communication protocols. Founded in 1994 in a management buy-out from IBM, and with headquarters in the UK, Xyratex has an established global base with R&D and operational facilities in Europe, the United States, and Southeast Asia.

The Mt. Diablo Region YMCA has served the greater Contra Costa County area for 50 years. With four branches, 23 school-age child-care sites at local elementary schools, and four preschools, the organization is continuing to grow and expand its network to meet the ever-changing needs of the local community. The Mt. Diablo Region YMCA provides program services for all age groups, from toddlers to seniors, to more than 38,000 households. The organization is dedicated to enriching the lives of all people through programs that strengthen spirit, mind and body. Financial assistance is available to all individuals who demonstrate proven need. For more information, visit www.mdrymca.org.

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