The All-Star vendors, the connection of each to this package of stories and their technology focuses are:

Advanced Software Engineering, Sallie Mae, chart generation

Antenna Software, DirecTV, mobility-enabled CRM

BladeLogic, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, data center automation

Cisco, Sinclair Community College, network access control

Clearwell Systems, Constellation Energy, e-discovery

CommVault, Cleveland Indians, data protection

Coral8, Sallie Mae, complex event processing

DataCore Software, Baerlocher, storage-area network

Digium, City of Madera, Calif., open source IP PBX

Enterasys Networks, Sinclair Community College, automated security management

Fluke Networks, SunTrust, application-performance monitoring

GuardianEdge Technologies, California Department of Health Services, full-disk encryption

HarborLink Network, Sinclair Community College, wireless-access services

HP, Constellation Energy, e-discovery

HP, University of California, San Francisco; Immune Tolerance Network and Epilepsy Phenome Genome Project, server infrastructure

Microsoft, Sinclair Community College, secure remote access

netForensics, Career Education Corp., security information management

Network Appliance, ING Investment Management Group, storage

Network Appliance, University of California, San Francisco; Immune Tolerance Network and Epilepsy Phenome Genome Project, storage-area network

Nevis Networks, Upper Canada District School Board, network access control

Opnet Technologies, SunTrust, application-performance management

Opsware, SunTrust, network automation

Overland Storage, Cleveland Indians, data protection

ProofPoint, California Department of Health Services, e-mail encryption

Research in Motion, DirecTV ,PDA for mobility-enabled CRM

RippleTech, Career Education Corp., automated security-log management

Riverbed Technology, Golder Associates, WAN optimization

Siebel, DirecTV, CRM on demand

Siemens, Evangelical Christian Credit Union, IP telephony

Solarwinds, SunTrust, network monitoring

Symantec, ING Investment Management Group, e-discovery

TeaLeaf Technology, Sallie Mae, application-performance management

TeleNav, Swedish Medical Center Home Care Division, GPS tracking and reporting

Unisys, Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center Enterprise; server, data backup