10 IT management companies still worth watching

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Highlights from past year: Splunk added 94 customers, including Barnes & Noble, Chevron, MapQuest and Vodafone. The company has also seen its software downloaded more then 100,000 times and signed five more OEM partners, bringing its total to 30. Splunk partnered with SourceForge.net, Digg, NaSPA, LOPSA and USENIX/ SAGE to launch the second annual SysAdmin of the Year Context, “Is Your SysAdmin a Rock Star?”

Symphoniq

Why it made the list: Former NetIQ executives, wanting to speed problem resolution with Web-based applications founded Symphoniq. The company received venture backing for its TrueView software that monitors application performance from browser to backend to automatically detect, diagnose and pinpoint problems.

Highlights from past year: F5 Networks and Citrix NetScaler -- two market-leading application-acceleration vendors -- selected Symphoniq technology to be integrated into the respective product suites. Also, the company extended real-user monitoring capability to include AJAX clients.

Uplogix

Why it made the list: Uplogix's Envoy and EMS network-management applications enable IT managers to reach devices even when the network is down. Such capabilities go a long way toward cutting costs when supporting remote offices by reducing the need to locate staff at every office.

Highlights from past year: Uplogix brought on former NetBotz CEO and Apogee Networks COO Tom Goldman to be its chief executive, and former CEO Barry Cox is taking on the CTO role. The company opened an office in London to expand its reach into Europe and is expected to release upgrades to its products this fall.