Technology Partners

IBM

The letters IBM are a constant in the technology world as they sell and manufacture computer hardware and software, along with offering infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranting from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. Known affectionately as “Big Blue”, IBM holds more patents than any other U.S.-based technology company and has nine research laboratories worldwide with five Nobel Prizes, four Turing Awards, nine National Medals of Technology and five National Medals of Science in their house.

Famous inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the Universal Product Code (UPC), the financial swap, SABRE airline reservation system, DRAM, and Watson artificial intelligence. Heard of those? Yeah, we thought so.

BT

With over 24,000 employees, BT is one of the world’s leading communications services companies, serving the needs of customers in the UK and in more than 170 countries worldwide. Our main activities are the provision of fixed-line services, broadband, mobile and TV products and services as well as networked IT services.

In the UK, they are a leading communications services provider, selling products and services to consumers, small and medium sized enterprises and the public sector. We also sell wholesale products and services to communications providers in the UK and around the world. Globally, we supply managed networked IT services to multinational corporations, domestic businesses and national and local government organisations.

RedHat

Red Hat is more than a software company. We are the bridge between the communities that create open source software and the enterprise customers who use it. Red Hat makes the rapid innovation of open source technology consumable in mission-critical, enterprise environments, combining a superior development model with a customer-friendly business model that gives customers the choice, flexibility, and power to build an IT infrastructure that solves their business problems and makes their IT a strategic advantage.

We do this by sharing. We share our expertise, our code, and our knowledge. We sell subscriptions for enterprise technology and services, we stand up for open source ideals, and we foster greater participation in the open source process. Red Hat is a catalyst for a technology movement that has already changed the world.

aiCache

aiCache has a simple passion. Making the life of operations staff better.  The aiCache team has spent 20 years in the trenches building web infrastructure. Having spent too many nights on troubleshooting conference calls they decided operations staff should have a life. aiCache is the a fresh start built on the best technology and code practices.  aiCache maintains offices in the United States, Europe and China. aiCache can be deployed in Datacenters, various clouds and at the edge.

Ask

Founded as Ask Jeeves in 1996 and re-named Ask.com in 2005, Ask.com has spent the last 15 years committed to its mission of increasing personal knowledge by empowering people with answers. In July of 2010, we rolled out a new Ask.com designed to do a better job of just that. As the only Q&A service combining the power of search with the insight of a live user community, Ask.com’s innovative technology scours the web to find answers where they exist online, then turns to a qualified Ask.com user when they don’t. Headquartered in Oakland, California with an international presence in the UK and Europe, Ask.com is the fourth biggest site on the web when it comes to monthly searches and attracts more than 90 million unique users every month in the US alone.

Alertboot

Based in Las Vegas, NV, AlertBoot has a proven track record of delivering comprehensive, customizable disk encryption software applications as fully managed services for companies of all sizes. The underlying design philosophy at AlertBoot is that software doesn’t have to be complicated in order to be powerful. With more than nine years experience delivering software as a service (SaaS), AlertBoot is well positioned to offer the comprehensive, centrally managed AlertBoot endpoint security solution.

Barracuda

Barracuda Networks Inc. combines premises-based gateways and software, virtual appliances, cloud services, and sophisticated remote support to deliver comprehensive content security, data protection and application delivery solutions. The company’s expansive product portfolio includes offerings for protection against email, Web and IM threats as well as products that improve application delivery and network access, message archiving, backup and data protection. Coca-Cola, FedEx, Harvard University, IBM, L’Oreal, and Europcar are among the more than 130,000 organizations protecting their IT infrastructures with Barracuda Networks’ range of affordable, easy-to-deploy and manage solutions.

Catchpoint

Catchpoint provides real time analytics in the end to end performance of internet services. Our web performance and application monitoring tools allow companies to measure the behavior of their services from multiple vantage points to better understand their performance and the factors impacting it. Using Catchpoint’s tools, companies can lower the cost of quality management and protect revenue by quickly discovering and resolving performance issues. Founded in September 2008 by four former DoubleClick executives, they are a team with experience in designing, building, operating, scaling and monitoring highly-transactional Internet services utilized by thousands of companies and impacting the experience of millions of users.

D-Link

Founded in 1986, D-Link is a global leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of advanced networking, broadband, digital, voice and data communications solutions. Following our company motto, “Building Networks for People”, D-Link continually meets the global networking and connectivity needs of digital home consumers, small office professionals, small- to medium-sized businesses, and enterprise environments.

Joyent

Joyent is a global cloud computing software and services company offering cloud computing solutions worldwide since 2004, licensing its cloud software, SmartDataCenter, to service providers, like Dell, who deliver cloud services to their own customers. In addition, Joyent runs an instance of SmartDataCenter for some of the most innovative companies in the world, such as LinkedIn, Gilt Groupe and Kabam. Joyent is the only cloud computing company that has developed a complete software stack, runs a major public cloud on that stack, and offers its cloud data center software to any company that wants to build a cloud.

Opscode

Opscode is the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, helping companies of all sizes develop fully automated server infrastructures that scale easily and predictably, can be quickly rebuilt in any environment and save developers and systems engineers’ time and money. Opscode’s team is comprised of web infrastructure experts responsible for building and operating some of the world’s largest websites and cloud computing platforms.

Rightscale

RightScale is the leader in cloud computing management. Founded in 2006, the company offers a fully automated cloud management platform that enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business critical applications across multiple clouds with complete control and portability. The RightScale Cloud Management Platform is delivered as “software as a service” (SaaS) and is available in a range of editions. To date, thousands of deployments and millions of servers have been launched on the RightScale platform for leading organizations such as PBS, Harvard University, Zynga and Sling Media.

Sendori

Sendori is a cloud-based web service that helps users navigate faster to their favorite websites. It is also a web filtering service that protects users from accessing malicious and phishing sites as well as sites with unwanted or offensive content.

SiteSpect

SiteSpect provides the world’s only non-intrusive site optimization platform, enabling web and mobile marketers to significantly improve key metrics such as conversion rates and engagement, without ongoing IT involvement. Using techniques such as multivariate testing and behavioral targeting, SiteSpect helps create a measurably better user experience with Wal-Mart, Staples, Mozilla, TiVo, PayPal, Overstock.com, Thomson Reuters, and leading financial services companies as clients.

Torbit

Torbit is all about website performance, automating dozens of front-end optimizations to accelerate website speed — all with no software or hardware installation requirements and no downtime.