For almost 30 years, Oracle has been helping customers manage their business systems and information with reliable, secure, and integrated technologies.

Today, Oracle is the largest business software company in the world, with 345,000 customers - including 100 of the Fortune Global 100—and supports these customers in more than 145 countries.

Sun Microsystems, now part of Oracle, provides network computing infrastructure solutions that include computer systems, software, storage and services. Its core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor.

By investing in research and development, Oracle creates products and services that address the complex issues that customers face today, including increasing demands for network access, bandwidth and storage being driven by explosive growth in network participation and sharing. Oracle innovates at all levels of the system and partners with market leaders to provide value and choice for its customers.

The Sun Oracle Database Machine combines industry-standard hardware from Sun, Oracle Database 11g Release 2, and Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software to create a faster, more versatile database machine. It's a completely scalable and fault tolerant package for all your data warehousing and online transaction processing applications.

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Fortinet products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure.

Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world.

Fortinet's flagship FortiGate® security platforms offer a powerful blend of ASIC-accelerated performance, integrated multi-threat response, and constantly-updated, in-depth threat intelligence. Employing innovative technologies for networking, security and content analysis, Fortinet systems integrate the industry's broadest suite of security technologies, including firewall, VPN, antivirus, intrusion prevention (IPS), Web filtering, antispam, and traffic shaping, all of which can be deployed individually to complement legacy solutions or combined for a comprehensive threat management solution. The company complements these solutions with an array of management, analysis, e-mail, database and end-point security products.

Fortinet has shipped more than 450,000 appliances to more than 75,000 customers worldwide, including:

• 55 of the Global 100
• 7 of the top 10 Fortune companies in Americas
• 9 of the top 10 Fortune telecommunications companies
• 9 of the top 10 Fortune banking companies
• 7 of the top 10 Fortune defense/aerospace companies

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) operates International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across 18 markets in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and network services providers rely upon Equinix's insight and expertise to protect and connect their most valued information assets. The ideas on which we were founded remain just as true today in our mission to ensure the vitality of an ever growing, information-driven world.

Equinix is the preferred destination for the mission-critical operations of the world's most demanding businesses.

Equinix considers it our responsibility to safeguard our customers' business within our International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers - the most reliable in the industry. Our customers rely on the unique ecosystem of major networks and business partners within our IBX centers to connect to their stakeholders and end-users. Our team of professionals has configured data center installations for some of the most sophisticated businesses in the world.

Level 3 Communications® is an international communications company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. The company operates one of the world's largest communications and Internet backbones over an advanced, IP-optimized network.

Level 3 is focused on delivering premier data, video and voice services - for open IP Tone capabilities to businesses and carriers.  We offer a comprehensive portfolio of network offerings that spans Internet Protocol (IP) services, broadband transport, collocation services, and patented Soft switch-based managed modem and voice services. Level 3 also uses these network services as a foundation for delivering enterprise telecommunications solutions.

Level 3 supports its customers across four groups:

• Level 3 Wholesale Markets serves national and global service providers with integrated data, voice, and video services across one of the world's largest, most-modern networks.
• Level 3 Content Markets combines broadcast and advertising distribution services with traditional Internet services to help rich-media content providers operate at a huge scale among multiple destinations.
• Level 3 Business Markets connects regional enterprises, local service providers, and regional carriers with high-availability, nationwide network access and high-performance data, voice and Internet solutions.
• Level 3 European Markets provides European and Global content and telecom providers with the transatlantic capacity and global connectivity to handle growth across wholesale communications services and bandwidth solutions.

 Level 3 counts among its customers:

• 19 of the world's top 20 telecom companies
• 9 of the top 10 U.S. Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
• 9 of the top 10 U.S. cable companies
• Top 5 U.S. Wireless Service Providers

Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS, companies can requisition compute power, storage, and other services in a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as demands require.

AWS provides a user-defined development platform and programming model with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments. AWS is the most cost-effective way to develop and deliver new web application to customers and clients.

AWS is built on Amazon.com's global computing infrastructure, that is the backbone of Amazon.com's $15 billion retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been honed for over 13 years.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It makes web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing quick scale capacity as computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 provides developers tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.

Developers may chose from multiple instance types, operating systems, and software packages. Amazon EC2 accommodates different system configurations with memory, CPU, instance storage, and the boot partition size that are optimal for each operating system and application.

Amazon EC2 offers a highly reliable environment where replacement instances can be rapidly and predictably commissioned. The service runs within Amazon's proven network infrastructure and datacenters. The Amazon EC2 Service Level Agreement commitment is 99.95% availability for each Amazon EC2 Region.

Secure - Amazon EC2 provides numerous mechanisms for securing compute resources.

• Firewall settings that control network access to and between groups of instances.
• Compute isolation and industry-standard encrypted IPsec VPN support
• Geographic diversity across in multiple locations

Founded in 1992, WeatherBug, a brand of AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. ensures individuals, schools, businesses and government agencies receive the most precise live weather conditions, the most relevant weather reports, and the earliest weather warnings to safeguard property, lives and to plan ahead with confidence.

With 8,000 Weather Tracking Stations and more than 1,000 cameras primarily based at neighborhood schools and public safety facilities across the U.S., WeatherBug maintains the largest weather network in the world.

WeatherBug delivers live weather data to millions of consumers via the Internet, and to more than 100 state and local government agencies including the National Weather Service, and to broadcast television stations, schools, and businesses. WeatherBug data reaches over 80 million households every month.

WeatherBug's Professional products leverage the full power of the WeatherBug Network to deliver real-time weather solutions. Thousands of professional, governmental and educational organizations, including the National Weather Service, rely on WeatherBug to make more informed mission critical decisions that safeguard lives, impact communities and improve business operations. With a comprehensive suite of offerings, WeatherBug Professional delivers:

• Time and mission critical weather information services to NOAA (US government) agencies including the National Weather Service, Air Resources Laboratory, Global Systems Division and National Severe Storms Laboratory for real-time storm tracking and dispersion modeling
• Alerting, severe weather forecasting, graphical visualization and GIS services to state and local public safety agencies nationwide including fire, police and emergency management
• Decision support products and services to commercial enterprise customers including utilities and energy traders for protection of multi-billion dollar distributed assets and financial transactions
• Supplemental math and science curriculum to over 3,000 public and private schools