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Monkeybean Solutions

MonkeyBean has two flagship products which address the way data is stored, displayed, and retrieved on an enterprise's Web site.

Co-founder and CEO Martin Ostrovsky said where most search bars like Google Toolbar or Apple OS X's Spotlight fail is in archiving the data spread across your computer network. MonkeyBean's EyeSpy product will allow users to search through your entire corporate Web site and find files such as PDF, Word, Excel, RTF and even rich media such as MP3 and video files.

"We initially developed EyeSpy as part of the reservation systems we were building our clients in the travel industry, but soon realized that its functionality could be extended to the enterprise as well," said Ostrovsky. And with more large scale enterprises turning to Internet advertising, Ostrovsky said, Web content publishers will need to find better ways to integrate advertisements with their corporate content. For Web sites that have video content, the company developed Oculo, which will automatically insert contextually related ads into video content, before or after it is watched.

"Advertisers have their own dashboard where they upload videos, choose which tags or keywords they want their video ads to be associated with, no different than Google's AdWords and AdSense," said Ostrovsky. But he added, "while Google video ads are played along side your content, Oculo automatically combines your content and the advertisers into one package."

Enomaly

The Enomalism Elastic Computing Platform is an open source virtual infrastructure tool that lets users create their own cloud computing capacity to manage virtual machines. Created by Toronto-based Enomaly Inc., the platform is very similar to Amazon's EC2.

"If you have the sudden need for more capacity beyond the context of your data centre, you can easily tie into places like Amazon or other places securely," said Reuven Cohen, founder and chief technologist at Enomaly. "We bridge the gap between your own data centre and those external resources."

Cohen said Enomaly's customers range from hosting firms and telecoms to some of the largest tech industry players like Intel. "The IBMs of the world talk big, but they don't do this sort of stuff," he said. "That's one of the reasons others organizations are coming to our little Enomaly with 20 people as opposed to a larger vendor," he said.

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