The rating of the innovation vendors was headed by VMware

Analysts of the InformationWeek edition of an otreytingovala of world IT vendors, having made the list most of the innovative world IT companies. Those who forced business to rethink globally approaches to use of information technologies entered edition TOP-12 most of the innovation world IT suppliers. Experts separately emphasized that the IT suppliers who entered rating not always are dominating in the market, but they are remarkable the fact that they destroy the developed status quo concerning these or those technologies and move the market forward.

Completely TOP-12 the innovative world IT companies according to InformationWeek looks as follows: VMware, Salesforce.com, Google, Amazon.com, Netezza, Vontu, Vidyo, Rimini Street, Splunk, AMD, Riverbed Technology, The Open Source Community.

VMware

Less than in a decade the activity of VMware led to reorganization of work of data centers and management systems of software around the world, having made virtualization one of the main trends in IT. According to a recent research of InformationWeek Analytics, 45% of respondents noted that they are going to virtualize at least a half of the servers used by them by the end of 2011. One more merit of VMware, according to the analyst of the edition Charlie Babcock, consists in promotion of creation of private "clouds" based on middleware software of the company. "Being a supplier of the hypervisors and virtual machines used to creation, use, monitoring and management of "clouds", the company is also known as vendor of the most "advanced" management systems for data centers", - he noted.

Salesforce.com

One more participant of the camp most of the innovation and strategic vendors, Salesforce.com, developed one of the most successful industrial IT delivery patterns of software as service (SaaS) for the CRM-applications that made Force.com the leading platform for creation of the most different services according to the SaaS model. Having developed this model, now Salesforce moves ahead in the new fields of delivery of applications for business, in particular, recently having started the platform of the Chatter app applications like that that uses Facebook.

Google

So far Research In Motion and other vendors (as well as Linux community) are going to give the adequate answer to iPhone, the Google Android platform promoted from a zero share in the market of operating rooms a system for smartphones in the USA in 2007 up to 17% according to the last quarter of this year, and, according to ComScore, at the moment it is conceded in popularity only by BlackBerry (39%) and iPhone (24%). According to the analyst Fritz Nelson, Google can win with ease the first place in the market of software for smartphones as positions Android as well as Microsoft the Windows OS: rejecting existence of any other alternative systems. Nevertheless, Google Apps did not win universal recognition of business yet, however, many companies use them as the lever of pressure upon Microsoft for obtaining more advantageous conditions of contracts.

Amazon.com

The concept of providing storage systems on demand formed the basis of Amazon Web Services which are a synonym of public "cloud" and providing infrastructure as service today (infrastructure as a service, IaaS). Nevertheless, so far Amazon.com was not succeeded to receive an essential profit share from Amazon Web Services: last financial year the company earned from them $653 million from $24.5 million net sales.

Netezza

Netezza startup became the pioneer in delivery of the comprehensive applications integrating storage, processing of data, databases and analytics in one functional system ten years ago. Today the company totals hundreds of industrial clients, including Nationwide, Neiman Marcus and NYSE Euronext. IBM announced the plans for purchase of Netezza for $1.7 billion recently that will deliver it in a serious competitive position in relation to Oracle, Teradata and HP.

Vontu

Vontu created the leading solution for data loss prevention and in 2007 Symantec was absorbed, transaction amount was $350 million. This acquisition became result of close partnership of Symantec with Vontu and served as an important component of the concept of Symantec Security 2.0 which transfers focus of security technologies from simple protection of systems and devices to protection of the information.

Vidyo

The value of the offer of Vidyo is rather simple: the company offers excellent quality a multipoint video conferencing for mass market, supporting any platforms: The PC, Mac and the room systems of high resolution over standard IP lines. At the same time at much lower price in comparison with high-end teleprezens systems from Cisco and other companies of this sort. The company actually implemented what other vendors promised to create for several years.

Rimini Street

The Rimini Street company renders services of SAP, technical for the corporate software, and Oracle. In promotional materials of the company it is said that clients of Rimini Street can save nearly 50% of means of the amounts which are requested by original producers of software. At the same time, the appeal to the third vendor automatically means that the user ceases to receive "native" updates for the used software. Nevertheless, Rimini Street offers clients consulting services in the prices below official, thereby creating a lot of noise in the market of services of support of the corporate software.

Splunk

According to the expert Mike Fratto, the main merit of Splunk company consists in creation of "cool" registration which made search simple and fast. After that all other vendors of solutions on management of accounts followed their example in creation of own search systems.

AMD

Unlike many other vendors of this listing, AMD $5.4 billion according to the results of last year are the large and influential player with an annual turnover. But the few companies of the AMD level could stir up so strongly the sector as this vendor, having offered in 2003 Opteron, new category of 32/63-bit processors. This "shot" towards Intel generated real wars of chips between two companies that did the server market only good.

Riverbed Technology

The company managed to enter the market of network equipment, key for Cisco, with shatteringly innovation offer – optimization appliances of WAN which significantly optimized support critical for business applications. Since then Riverbed Technology concedes nobody leadership in this market.

The Open Source Community

Open Source community also in total is a serious IT innovator: its one and all participants, from developers of operating systems on Linux to open DBMS, content management systems and applications, keep the software market in a tone, putting pressure upon pricing and not allowing to relax the largest software players.