10 hot emerging vendors for January 2011

Company: Damaka

Tech Sector: Networking

Key Product: Amadeo

The Lowdown: Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Richardson, Texas, Damaka's focus is next-gen unified communications and collaboration capabilities for mobile devices. It uses managed, peer-to-peer, Session Initiated Protocol (SIP)-based software and a technology called Sweeping that allows for the seamless transfer of collaboration sessions across laptops, tablets and smartphones.

Tech Sector: Software (Social Media Monitoring)

Key Product: Radian6

Engagement Console The Lowdown: Radian6 provides a platform that allows companies to monitor their brands in social media. Founded in 2006, Radian6 credo is: Listen, measure and engage.

Tech Sector: Software

Key Product: Zendesk

The Lowdown: San Francisco-based Zendesk, founded in 2007, develops web-based help desk and customer support applications the company said goes beyond the traditional "trouble ticket" approach to communicating with customers. Zendesk's software, now used by more than 5,000 companies, helps businesses communicate with customers using multiple channels.

Tech Sector: Hardware

Key Product: 3D Chips

The Lowdown: Founded in 2009, NuPGA is bent on developing innovative technology for faster, cheaper, and lower-power integrated circuits. The San Jose, Calif.-based-company specialises in architecture and implementation of monolithic 3D integrated circuits.

Tech Sector: Data Centre Automation

Key Product: Thin Capture

The Lowdown Kubisys, Pompton Lakes, N.J., was incorporated in 2006 as a developer of technology to help automate and simplify data centre mission-critical operations. Kubisys' primary product is its Thin Capture, a 2U appliance which can clone an accurate replica of a Windows or Linux server in only 15 minutes.

Tech Sector: Cloud Computing

Key Product: OS33 Cloud Platform

The Lowdown: OS33 came out swinging when the company emerged from stealth mode in November 2010 with a cloud computing platform lets service providers offer hosted cloud computing to their clients. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based startup is aimed at MSPs and its OS33 platform has four components to help MSPs attack the cloud game: Cloud Connecter lets MSPs tap into unlimited cloud resources via OS33's Datacentre Alliance.

Tech Sector: Security

Key Product: Due Security Two-Factor Authentication

The Lowdown: The company's name says it all: Duo Security does two-factor authentication. Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Duo, however, does it a bit differently. Duo offers authentication as a service to thwart account and data breaches and theft.

The company's multi-factor authentication service uses a mobile device as a second factor to make integrations simple and flexible.

Tech Sector: Mobility

Key Product: Rseven For Salesforce

The Lowdown: Rseven Mobile remembers what you can't. It's a mobile phone backup service that archives all data recorded by a phone into a website.

With support for a host of different types of devices, Rseven Mobile, Dublin, Calif., prides itself on mobile syncing.

Company: Wanova

Tech Sector: Virtualisation

Key Product: Wanova Mirage

The Lowdown: Wanova looks to ease desktop management, support and continuity with its hybrid desktop virtualisation software, Wanova Mirage, which centralises the contents of each desktop in the data centre for management and data protection purposes, then distributes execution to the endpoint while also optimising the transfer of data.

Founded in 2008, Wanova says it built Mirage to handle all desktop virtualisation environments, with special consideration paid for mobile PCs.

Tech Sector: Mobility/Power

Key Product: nPower Peg

The Lowdown: Tremont Electric launched the nPower Peg at CES 2011 in Las Vegas last week, a device the Cleveland-based company calls the world's first passive kinetic energy charge for handheld electronic devices. While a bit consumer-focused at the time, a device like the nPower Peg could give a big boost to business users, especially those with a small arsenal of mobile devices. Tremont Electric, founded in 2007, said the cylindrical device captures energy that's generated while a person walks, runs or bikes and stores it for later use.