Provider of on demand IT Cost Transparency solutions

Apptio is a provider of on demand IT Cost Transparency solutions. Apptio's IT Cost Transparency solutions are designed to provide greater visibility into the cost, utilization and operations of IT products and services so that businesses can identify ways to reduce IT costs, make better IT decisions and benefit from more proactive IT Demand Management. Capabilities include template driven IT cost modeling, interactive reporting and analytics, and business facing IT demand management.

The increasing demand for a then

The increasing demand for a then and there-generation, solid-state storage research is driven by advancements in computer processors which, following Moore's Law, have grown exponentially in performance. Mechanical disks, in return, follow Newtonian Dynamics and experience lackluster performance improvements, introducing a performance gap.

Ushering in a new era of application-centric, solid-state storage solutions for the enterprise, Fusion-io is revolutionizing the way database, application and system administrators architect their data centers. The company is closing the gap between processing power and storage needs by delivering breakthrough performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional disk-based storage systems. Now, the performance of an entire disk array can be placed inside a server. Fusion-io's executive team has a long history of building companies that deliver game-changing and innovative technologies to the marketplace. Fusion-io was founded in 2006 by a team of experts with successful track records in the fields of transaction processing, high-performance networking, storage and superclusters, and computing and image processing.

The transformation to cloud infrastructure

Nicira Networks is accelerating the transformation to cloud infrastructure by delivering software that virtualizes the network. Based on the innovative Network Virtualization Platform? architecture, Nicira solutions provide unprecedented network flexibility and control for service provider and enterprise data centers, leading to dramatically improved scalability, service velocity and costs. The company was founded by networking innovation leaders from Stanford University and University of California at Berkeley, and is led by proven entrepreneurs in networking, virtualization and security.

Okta is the market leading on-demand identity and access management service that enables enterprises to accelerate the secure adoption of their web based applications, both in the cloud and behind the firewall. Okta delivers a complete solution addressing the needs of IT, end users, and business leaders; no customization required. With a catalog of pre-integrated applications and deep integration with Active Directory, Okta provides IT centralized user provisioning, access management, and reporting. Every end user gets a personalized, single sign-on home page for all of their applications, and business leaders get the insight they need to maximize ROI and track compliance.

PiCloud offers an on-demand cloud computing platform in other words easy to use, highly elastic, and free of data lock-in. With PiCloud's unequalled serverless architecture, developers can instantly leverage the compute power of public and private clouds without having to manage, maintain, or configure virtual servers for batch processing,high performance computing, and scientific computing applications.

Platfora is the first company to harness the potential of Hadoop so that any business user can explore, interact with, and derive insight from massive data sets, and all via an intuitive and dynamic interface.

Quantifind Inc. has developed a new paradigm for Business Intelligence solutions that lets you learn things from your data that you didn't know to look for. Whether you are interested in uncovering leading indicators of breakthrough clinical cancer trials, strategizing for novel applications of fuel cell technologies or discovering predictive indicators of mortgage defaults, quantiFind analytics can help you see things in ways the competition hasn't thought to.

Bob Gourley, former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency, is Founder and CTO of Crucial Point LLC, a innovation research and advisory firm providing fact based research reviews in support of venture capital, private equity and emerging innovation firms. He has extensive industry experience in intelligence and security and was awarded an intelligence community meritorious achievement award by AFCEA in 2008, and has as well been recognized as an Infoworld Top 25 CTO and as one of the most fascinating communicators in Government IT by GovFresh.