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InfoWorld celebrates the month of May 2007 by paying homage to business-focused technology startups. Each day we'll feature
a new startup (established no earlier than 2004) that is a rising star in the IT enterprise. Check back daily for executive
interviews, company profiles, and other goodies.
Innovation, startups hot again in the enterprise
The Month of Enterprise Startups looks at companies that could become the superstars and flame-outs of the next two years
How to get bought by Google (or IBM, or Oracle)
Startups are trailblazing in the enterprise sector again, but where will the trail lead?
Startups class of '06: Where are they now?
Buyouts, build-outs, and shakeups shape last year's startups
VCs take startups on the road
VC-sponsored technology days introduce busy execs to the bleeding edge
Wage inflation sinks offshoring for one startup
Riya.com's decision to pull up stakes in India shows that for aspiring startups, offshoring isn't all its cracked up to be
Company Profiles
Panther Express: CDNs for the little guy
The NYC startup is knocking down the barriers to content distribution
Huddle: MySpace for the enterprise crowd
U.K. startup takes collaboration beyond the extranet
OpenSpan: Beyond the enterprise mashup
Company's unprecedented technology helps enterprises breathe new life into legacy apps by integrating them with newer software
oDesk: job search meets the online exchange
Not just an online employment service, oDesk is a virtual environment for contract workers and their employers with collaboration
tools, a time clock, and monitoring features
Riya: New eyes on search
Visual search could revolutionize enterprise search and content management by allowing companies to catalog and quickly access
non-text information.
Can G.ho.st scare Microsoft?
Hosted OS company plays David to Windows' Goliath
SugarCRM: Open source on the fast track
Back in 2004, the idea of an enterprise application based on open source code was off the wall. Today, SugarCRM is a striking
example of what community-based development and viral marketing can do
Blue Lane Technologies: Patching servers in the network
Security startup's inline patch proxy takes the sting out of vulnerabilities in physical servers and virtual machines
Varonis matches data, fishy behavior
Large companies are drowning in data, which often leads to embarrassing and financially damaging leaks. Startup Varonis says
securing networks starts with securing the data itself
Nexo offers quick and easy collaboration
Any group, anywhere can take advantage of this service for creating simple group sites replete with handy little Web applications
3Leaf Systems: Scale up by scaling out
Silicon Valley virtualization startup pools commodity servers, reshaping enterprise datacenters
socialDragon: Advertisers get a piece of Average Joe
Snippets of ordinary life find their sponsor with this social networking startup
Bungee Labs: App dev as a service
Startup provides online incubator from development, to testing, to launch
Talend: Data integration for the masses!
Paris-based startup's Open Studio shaking up market dominated by big players, proprietary solutions
ColdWatt: making servers mean and green
Startup's energy-efficient power supplies take a bite out of operations costs
Provilla plugs enterprise data leaks
Startup targets leaks on PDAs, smartphones, laptops
Not your father’s mashup
Teqlo promises to take Web 2.0 applications to the next level by automating the sequencing of events in mashups
Silver Peak Systems: Transforming WANs into LANs
Latecomer to the WAN optimization market wants to reduce branch office pain
Octopz grabs on to Web collaboration
Social network targets creative professionals by emphasizing visual effects
Vidoop looks to change image of sign-on
With a single sign-on system that uses grids of images to create one-time passwords, Vidoop maintains that it can revolutionize
online authentication
Cleversafe takes a slice out of storage
Open source project taps grids to store massive amounts of data
Hyperic: Open sourcing systems management
Startup using open source, business savvy to challenge systems management giants
MuleSource: Lightweight integration for heavyweight companies
Open source startup's 'meta bus' simplifies software integration
Code Green gives red light to data leaks
Startup brings leak protection to small, midsize firms
Cogneto: to identity and beyond!
Startup uses authentication as springboard to hosted identity services
Truviso: New tricks with old SQL
Event stream processing startup brings tried-and-true database technology to a new world of real-time data management
Venyo improves the reputation of Web 2.0
How can you trust what you read in social media? Get users to rate the source, and make that rating stick
Attensa unlocks knowledge with RSS
Beyond e-mail: feeding information to the enterprise, Web 2.0-style
Securent takes access control to a new level
Going beyond conventional access control, Securent lets administrators determine what users can and can't do after they're
logged in
ConnectBeam: Social bookmarks behind the firewall
Taking collaboration to the next level by tapping into your employees' knowledge
Zenoss: Bringing open source to enterprise management
Startup born from the failure of IBM Tivoli views the community as its foundation for success
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