The Axcient Solution provides affordable enterprise-class backup designed specifically for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Axcient understands the specific needs of many service-based businesses, including compliance-related issues that keep many SMBs up at night. For more information, visit their site.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.�

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.

For more information, visit the WhereNet Web site or call 408-845-8500 (in the U.S.) or +32 3 286 84 50 (in Europe).

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.

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.

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