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printTechnologic Names Top Ten at Datacenter Ventures9/19/2002Technologic
Partners, the publisher of VentureWire, announced the winners of its prestigious
Investors' Choice award at the conclusion of its two-day Datacenter Ventures
private equity conference held this week in Burlingame, Calif. The Investors'
Choice award goes to the ten privately held companies presenting at the
conference judged most likely to succeed.
The winners, in alphabetical
order, are:
CenterRun of Redwood City, Calif.
Entercept Security
Technologies of San Jose, Calif.
Netezza of Framingham, Mass.
NetForensics
of Edison, N.J.
OuterBay Technologies of Campbell, Calif.
PolyServe of San
Francisco
Sistina Software of Minneapolis
Tripwire of Portland,
Ore.
Waveset Technologies of Austin, Texas
Zambeel of Fremont,
Calif.
Winners were selected from the 70 privately held companies that
presented their business plans at the conference. The awards were based on
voting by the audience of more than 400 entrepreneurs, investors, and industry
executives, as well as a panel of experts comprising Laurent Huguenin, principal
of Catapult Advisors; Ian MacLeod, general partner at ABS Capital Partners; Gary
Little, general partner at Morgenthaler Ventures; and Neeraj Bharadwaj,
principal at Apax Partners. Technologic Partners founder and VentureWire
editor-in-chief Richard A. Shaffer presented the awards.
Datacenter
Ventures takes the place of Technologic's long-running Internet Outlook
conference. The data center has become a strategic asset in today's enterprise
with new startup opportunities in security, reliability, cost control, and
business planning. Datacenter Ventures spotlights emerging companies in data
security, information storage, secure communications, and management systems as
well as in new server, interconnect and query designs for massive databases. It
is produced annually by Technologic Partners and VentureWire and held in the Bay
Area.
Among the keynote speakers at this year's conference were John
Arquilla, associate professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate
School; Clodoaldo Barrera, director of stategy and storage systems at IBM; Mary
Ann Davidson, chief security officer at Oracle; Al Decker, executive director of
security and privacy services at EDS; and Lin Nease, chief technologist in
business critical systems at Hewlett-Packard.
Technologic Partners is a
publishing and events firm that has been covering venture capital and high-tech
startups since 1984. Technologic publishes the VentureWire newsletters, as well
as ComputerLetter and VentureFinance, and also produces a series of premier
investor conferences. More information is available at
www.venturewire.com.
For more information on Datacenter Ventures, visit
www.datacenterventures.com.
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