When Hewlett-Packard Co. announced the $2.7 billion purchase of 3Com Corp., it let the world know that H-P intends to compete fully with Cisco Systems Inc. in the corporate data center. With its strength in Ethernet, 3Com gives HP a major piece of the pie, but it still needs a few more slices if it wants to be a one-stop-shop for data centers. One such slice it might go after next is application acceleration, said Catharine Trebnick, a senior research analyst with Avian Securities.

Based on industry analysis of datacenter management products for medium to large enterprise, Frost & Sullivan recognizes AccelOps, Inc. with the 2009 Network Performance Monitoring and Datacenter Management Product Innovation Award. This recognition is a testament to the company’s pioneering efforts, innovation and resulting value proposition for datacenter infrastructure monitoring and service-oriented management.

Southern California Venture Network (SCVN) announces the recipients of the 2009 Orange County Emerging Growth Awards, recognizing companies headquartered in Orange County that have reached between $1- $20 million in yearly revenues, have experienced significant growth over the last 12 months and that have made a positive impact on the local economy.

As the San Diego Port Authority's IT team learned, you don't have to be a Fortune 500 company to afford data center management tools based on CMDB technology now. Here's a look at their early experience with a SaaS-based product that's part of a growing group of options.

Virtualization, cloud computing, and service oriented architectures (SOA) are all driving change in the vital data center management and business intelligence markets. These products, which connect mission critical systems to each other, are moving to the Web as software sublimates, turning assets that were once physical into services delivered over the Web.

Solarflare Communications, the leader in standards-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) silicon, today announced it has been selected as an AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner for 2009. The AlwaysOn Global 250 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets.

...Matrix Sensors Inc. is a new tenant at the NanoSystems Institute. The company is developing nano membranes that are so sensitive to resonance they can detect molecules of bacteria as well as proteins and DNA and thus diagnose early stages of illness. Matrix Sensors is working on licensed research of three professors, James K. Gimzewski of U.C.L.A., and Calvin F. Quate and Butros T. Khuri-Yakub of Stanford University. U.C.L.A. and Stanford have invested in the company, along with Miramar Venture Partners of San Diego, which has put in $1 million. That is a sign, said Michael Cable, chief executive of Matrix, that investors, even in the recession, are supporting nanotechnology....

OptionEase, the leader in on-demand software as a service (SaaS) applications for fair market value accounting and compliance, won Red Herring's Top 100 Tech Company North America Award for 2009 and closed $2.5 Million Series A Financing on the same day.

James Gimzewski, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and a member of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, was today elected a 2009 fellow of Britain's prestigious Royal Society in recognition of his scientific excellence.

UCLA has opened its new technology incubation space within the California NanoSystems Institute to Matrix Sensors Inc., a startup company in the process of developing multichannel gas and biological sensor systems based on technology developed jointly by UCLA and Stanford University researchers.