Several Israeli cyber security companies are offering solutions that are based on identifying threats in global IP traffic and providing early protection against them. This includes Narus, a developer of traffic monitoring solutions that detect and mitigate malicious traffic in real-time. The company was acquired by Boeing for $70 million in 2010. (…)

Server based applications that optimize the application-to-database workload. Other companies aiming to boost performance of databases include SQream Technologies; and Zettapoint, which was acquired by EMC in 2011.
The emerging category of database virtualization is strongly related to cloud
computing.