25 Coolest Emerging Vendors Of 2009
Sick of single-digit product margins, lackluster service and the runaround from the same old, same old? Then partner up with one of our emerging vendors that are packing more innovative technology at a better price for your customers and putting significantly more cash in your pockets. Here is our pick of the 25 coolest from this year's list of 140 Emerging Vendors.
Product Line: Private-labeled online backup, local backup and e-mail archiving services
Channel Recruitment Goal: 250 partners to 500 partners
Recruitment Goal Reach: Limited international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Managed service provider [read more]
Product Line: Virtual IT services that enhance existing IT networks and, in some cases, eliminate the need for servers and network software
Channel Recruitment Goal: 250 partners to 500 partners
Recruitment Goal Reach: N/A
Ideal Partner: Managed service provider [read more]
Product Line: Virtual hosted desktop software for enterprises to achieve large-scale desktop virtualization
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Enterprise solution provider [read more]
Product Line: Digital pen and paper that provides fast and reliable transmission of handwritten text into a digital format
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 to 250 partners
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad national U.S. recruitment
Ideal Partner: Midmarket-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: Ubuntu open-source software products and services
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer
Recruitment Goal Reach: Limited international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Enterprise-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: The company's "Dead On Demand" products assure data on hard drives that is lost, stolen, or redeployed is destroyed beyond forensic reconstruction
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer
Recruitment Goal Reach: Limited international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Enterprise-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: Integrated suite of Web-based management software
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer
Recruitment Goal Reach: Limited international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Midmarket-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: Helps enterprises prioritize the specific parts of the IT infrastructure that need to be addressed or improved to ensure continuous business operations
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad national U.S. recruitment
Ideal Partner: Enterprise-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: A family of enhanced single and multifactor authentication systems delivering next-generation One Time Passwords (OTPs) for access to computers, networks and the Internet
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad national U.S. recruitment
Ideal Partner: Enterprise-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: Patent Pending Tier 0 Solid state disk (SSD) storage array
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad national U.S. recruitment
Ideal Partner: Enterprise-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: Call recording appliances for VoIP
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Small-business-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: A family of injury avoidance ergonomic keyboards, mice and other peripherals
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Enterprise-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: Compellent Storage Center SAN, which manages data at the block level
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 to 250 partners
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Midmarket-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: Online data storage and backup service
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 to 250 partners
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Small-business-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: A centralized, federated and unified business service management database
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer
Recruitment Goal Reach: Limited international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Enterprise-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: A Storage Virtual SAN appliance that unlocks the resources of VMware ESX Server
Channel Recruitment Goal: 250 to 500 partners
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Midmarket-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: A complete hardware and software solution for centralized virtual desktops
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 to 250 partners
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad national U.S. recruitment
Ideal Partner: Midmarket-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: An end-to-end, Web-based electronic invoicing, payment and management system
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad national U.S. recruitment
Ideal Partner: Managed service provider [read more]
Product Line: A full data loss prevention solution that eliminates the risk of data theft and data loss
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 to 250 partners
Recruitment Goal Reach: Limited U.S. regional recruitment
Ideal Partner: Midmarket-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: A strategic enterprise encryption framework for shared user and key management, policy and provisioning
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Enterprise-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: An employee access management appliance and platform that strengthens user authentication to desktops and networks
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 to 250 partners
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Midmarket-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: Data center Transaction Performance Management (TPM) software aimed at automating infrastructure management
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Midmarket-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: Avocado software converts CCTV security images generated by security cameras into Business Intelligence (BI) in the form of graphs, charts and business metrics
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer
Recruitment Goal Reach: Limited international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Midmarket-focused solution provider [read more]
Product Line: A cloud storage platform that gives managed service providers, IT Hosters, SaaS providers and others the ability to provide multiple cloud storage offerings
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 to 250 partners
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Managed service provider [read more]
Product Line: Next-generation e-mail, calendaring and collaboration software
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 to 250 partners
Recruitment Goal Reach: Broad international recruitment
Ideal Partner: Midmarket-focused solution provider [read more]