Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services–gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you’re trying to solve. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, making AWS the most cost-effective way to deliver your application to your customers and clients.

Application Performance is focused on helping customers improve the performance of business critical applications through all stages of their development, testing and production usage. We have been helping major corporations for over 12 years in all areas of performance. Our DBTuna solution  (www.dbtuna.com) for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and Sybase database monitoring and tuning was developed in response to customer requests for functionality not available in any other tool and is currently used on some of the largest databases in the world. Our WebTuna solution (www.webtuna.com) is an on-demand service for alerting and monitoring the performance of your internet or intranet sites and applications. WebTuna monitors the real user experience (not synthetic HTTP or ping response times) for every page view from every visitor to your site and is offered as a fully hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. For more information, visit http://www.applicationperformance.com.

SOASTA’s mission is to ensure that today’s websites and applications are highly reliable and scalable. The company’s product, SOASTA CloudTest®, delivers performance intelligence by capturing data about all the elements that impact a website and immediately turning it into actionable information. Leveraging a unique, real-time analytic engine built exclusively for testing web and mobile applications, SOASTA CloudTest enables quality assurance and development teams to test and monitor their websites under both typical and extreme traffic conditions, at an affordable price. SOASTA CloudTest is available on-demand or as an appliance. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information about SOASTA, please visit www.soasta.com

Enteros is the emerging leader in Cloud and Production Performance Management enabling companies to transparently migrate to private and public cloud platforms as well as proactively identify and correct business-critical performance issues prior to business impact.

As companies fully depend on their IT systems to manage and grow business, Enteros' products allow them to significantly lower cost of ownership and increase ROI of their IT infrastructures. The Enteros solution impacts every stage of application production and pre-production lifecycle in both cloud and traditional environments. During the pre-production stage, Enteros' Load2Test provides a comprehensive solution to validate application scalability using recorded production workflow as well as synthetic flows. This ensures confident application deployment into production. Once in production, Enteros' UpBeat suite provides the industry's proven technology that proactively and automatically identifies, analyzes, and enables remdiation of performance problems. This recurrent approach allows applications to run with optimal performance, increasing the agility of organizations.

JBoss, by Red Hat, is the leader in enterprise-class open source middleware. JBoss Enterprise Middleware is comprised of certified, supported platform and framework distributions that are based on JBoss Community projects. A truly alternative to pricey, monolithic proprietary software stacks, JBoss Enterprise Middleware is a comprehensive open source middleware portfolio that includes both integrated platforms and plug-and-play frameworks that give users more flexibility and technology choice.

VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven virtualization solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity. VMware accelerates an organization’s transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments and enabling more efficient, agile service delivery without compromising control. Organizations rely on VMware, its partners and its industry-leading virtual infrastructure platform, VMware vSphere, to energize their business through IT, while saving energy—financial, human and the Earth’s. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, VMware has more than 190,000 customers and 25,000 partners worldwide. For more information, visit www.vmworld.com