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nsiders refer to as “Silicon Slopes” for good reason: the Beehive State has generated some of the top names in technology. With local universities supplying world-class talent and the business community supplying an I entrepreneurial drive, technology and life science fi rms have found fertile soil along the base of the Wasatch Mountains. Utah companies are on the ARUP Laboratories leading edge of innovation in an ultra-competitive industry—from the early ARUP Laboratories is a national clinic days of personal computers to the advent of the cloud, and from the seeds of and anatomic pathology reference genealogical research to the mapping of genomes, local pioneers continue to laboratory based in the University of create buzz around Utah’s thriving technology industry. Here’s a look at Utah’s Utah Research Park. The laboratory top 25 tech companies as voted by UTC members. offers thousands of tests, ranging from basic to complex services, for clients and patients across the country. ARUP processes between 30,000 and 35,000 blood, fl uid and tissue samples a day. Altiris The site’s community is a large Faculty from the U’s School Altiris specializes in service-oriented and growing source of user-generated of Medicine and the Department management software that allows content uniquely focused on family of Pathology serve as medical organizations to manage IT assets. The history. This growing pool of user- directors, consultants, researchers Lindon-headquartered company also generated content adds color and and educators at ARUP. Clients provides software for web services, context to the family histories include university teaching hospitals security and systems management assembled from the digitized historical and children’s hospitals, regional products. Altiris was founded in 1998 documents found on Ancestry.com. hospital networks, major commercial and was acquired by Symantec in 2007. It has more than 20,000 customers managing more than 3 million servers and 60 million desktops and laptops.

Ancestry.com Ancestry.com is the world’s largest online resource for family history, with nearly 1.7 million paying subscribers. Since starting as a publishing company in 1983, the company has helped pioneer the market for online family history research. At the core of the company is a digitized, indexed, online collection of billions of historical records. That collection, combined with online search technologies and tools, enables subscribers to research family history, build family trees and make meaningful discoveries about the lives of their ancestors. Ancestry.com

18 | 25th Anniversary www.utahbusiness.com laboratories and clinics, group- graphics. Started by University of 100 hotels in the United States and purchasing organizations, military Utah professors David Evans and Ivan by 13 of the top 100 law fi rms. The and government facilities, and the Sutherland, the company’s graphics company targets a global market Health Care system. work quickly moved into computer with operations in the UK and India. The laboratory also focuses simulations, especially for training. Expansions are tentatively planned in on education, including senior- Throughout the 1970s, the Australia and China. year training and internships for company was largely focused on undergraduate medical technologists, simulations, and Evans & Sutherland Fusion-io genetic-counselor training, and systems were particularly popular in Fusion-io has pioneered a new storage residency and fellowship programs in commercial airline fl ight simulators. memory platform based on fl ash pathology and related disciplines. The company later began developing technology that signifi cantly improves the processing capabilities within a data center. The company uses integrated hardware and software solutions to improve performance and reliability, while reducing energy consumption and cost of ownership. Cottonwood Heights based Fusion-io is also known for having Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist.

Evans & Sutherland’s Digistar 4 Huntsman Cancer Institute

Ballard Medical Products digital projectors for planetariums Huntsman Cancer Institute Ballard Medical Products is a and other entertainment uses. Since Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) serves manufacturer and marketer of the early 2000s, the company sold its cancer patients throughout the West and specialized medical products, and simulation division and refocused on provides academic and clinical training was acquired by Kimberly-Clark digital projection. Evans & Sutherland for future physicians and researchers. It is Corporation in September 2009. acquired rival Spitz Inc. in 2006 and is part of the University of Utah Health Care Ballard Medical designs, produces now a world leader in digital theater system and is a National Cancer Institute- and distributes disposable medical and planetarium systems. Designated Cancer Center, which means items for respiratory, gastroenterology it meets the highest national standards and cardiology. Its main product line is FatPipe Networks for cancer care and research and receives Trach Care, which is used to maintain Founded in 1989, FatPipe Networks support for its scientifi c endeavors. respiration while allowing suction of invented and holds several patents for HCI is also a member of the National excess fl uid. wide area network (WAN) technology. Comprehensive Cancer Network The company’s line of products is (NCCN), a not-for-profi t alliance of the Evans & Sutherland made to optimize, secure and deliver world’s leading cancer centers. Founded in 1968, Evans & Sutherland reliable WANs. FatPipe technology On the research side, HCI scientists was a groundbreaker in computer has been adopted by 16 of the top work toward safer and more effective

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cancer treatments by focusing Utah, in 1983. Its Zip drive was a sensation Megahertz Corporation on understanding cancer from its in the ‘90s, offering unheard-of storage Founded in 1985, Megahertz beginning. Researchers also look to capacity in a small, portable design. Corporation pioneered and then gene function to work toward cancer Now, the company is a wholly owned dominated the market for internal fi ghting on the genetic level. subsidiary of EMC Corporation, which is modems in laptop computers and fax HCI offers free information based in San Diego. Iomega offers a range machines, focusing on brand names about cancer, risk factors, screening, of network attached storage devices, like Apple and Mitsubishi. The company prevention and treatments to anyone. including external hard drives, USB fl ash went public in 1993, saw its revenues The collaboration between doctors drives, optical drives and its current peak in 1994 at $121 million, and then and other healthcare professionals at removable storage technology, the REV was acquired by US Robotics in 1995. HCI leads to high-quality care. Backup Drive.

IM Flash Technologies IM Flash Technologies is a joint venture between Corporation and , launched in 2006, to produce NAND fl ash memory—the heart of mobile and removable storage devices. IM Flash moved into Micron’s mostly abandoned

IM Flash LANDesk

Lehi plant, a 2.3-million-square-foot facility LANDesk Software Merit Medical that was built in the ‘90s but never fully LANDesk Software provides software One of Utah’s pioneering medical utilized. With an approximate $4 billion for managing IT services, systems device companies, Merit Medical was investment in the plant, IM Flash now lifecycles and endpoint security, in launched in 1987; its fi rst product was employs 1,500, mostly technicians and addition to solutions for the cloud. The a specialized control syringe for use scientists. In its fi ve short years, IM Flash company was founded in 1985 and during an angiogram. The syringe was has become the world’s leader in NAND acquired by Intel in 1991. It functioned made of a shatter-proof polycarbonate fl ash memory and continues to push the as a division of Intel until 2002, when it that addressed the increasing risk of boundaries of fl ash memory—decreasing utilized venture capital to spinout and blood-borne pathogens. Merit Medical, the size of the chips while simultaneously operate on its own. In 2006, LANDesk an innovator in the realm of injection doubling their memory capacity. was purchased by Avocent, which and insert molding, has since grown was in turn purchased by Emerson in into a global powerhouse with 1,700 Iomega 2009. The merger was not successful, employees worldwide and more Iomega is a pioneer in data storage and private equity fi rm Thoma Bravo than 2,000 products. Many of Merit devices, starting with its fi rst product, an purchased LANDesk Software in 2010. Medical’s devices are used in cardiology innovative crash-proof magnetic storage and radiology procedures, including drive released in 1982. The company was infl ation devices and catheters. founded in Ariz., but relocated to Roy,

20 | 25th Anniversary www.utahbusiness.com Mozy and moved its headquarters to that founding, the company has grown its Mozy helped put Utah at the forefront of state. This time period marked another mission from selling surplus inventory cloud-computing services. Created in 2005 change in direction for , which to offering a wide range of products. by Berkeley Data Systems in American began focusing on open source Linux. Fork, Mozy offers automatic data backups The company transitioned its product Phonex that are encrypted and stored in a secure, from NetWare to the open source SUSE Since its founding more than 20 years remote location. Two short years after it Linux Enterprise Server. Most recently, ago, Phonex has designed, manufactured was founded, Mozy was acquired by EMC Novell was acquired by the Attachmate and marketed technologies that Corporation for $76 million. Now based Group in the spring of 2011, and its wirelessly transmit telephone, data, in Seattle with an offi ce in Pleasant Grove, headquarters returned to Provo. audio and video information. The Mozy provides its remote backup services Midvale-based company has a unique to 3 million consumers and 70,000 Omniture set of technologies that has received businesses worldwide. Omniture’s story begins at Brigham numerous awards for design innovation Young University, where co-founders in technology. Myriad Genetics and classmates Josh James and John In fact, the company was the fi rst In 1994, researchers at Myriad Genetics, Pestana saw an opportunity to launch to introduce voice and data technology along with academic colleagues and a company that provided tools for over power lines to U.S. markets and the National Institutes of Health, fi rst businesses to run their websites. The international markets including South sequenced a gene associated with the two launched JP Interactive, which was America, Europe and Australia. risk for breast cancer—the BRAC1 gene. later consolidated with their second A year later the team sequenced BRAC2, venture, MyComputer.com. Within a Skullcandy another gene associated with breast few weeks, the company had more Founded by Rick Alden in 2003, cancer. The company patented the genes than 5,000 customers. The company Skullcandy builds innovative audio and soon developed a test to assess a morphed into Omniture, which focused and mobile technology products. woman’s risk of developing breast or on web analytics through its fl agship Headquartered in Park City, Skullcandy ovarian cancer. Myriad continues its product SiteCatalyst. The Orem-based has reached success by living its “work groundbreaking genetic research and company, which quickly became one of hard, play hard” brand. The company, now offers testing products for assessing the nation’s fastest-growing companies, which specializes in headphones but the risk of developing colorectal, uterine, went public in 2006. Omniture was offers other products such as apparel, heritable melanoma and pancreatic acquired by Adobe Systems in 2009 for cancers. The company also provides $1.8 billion and now operates as the personalized medicine through Omniture Business Unit within Adobe. identifying the best drug therapies and As James led Omniture to great dosages for cancer patients. success, he had a secondary goal to help grow Utah into a tech hub. James’ Novell work to dub the state as “Silicon Slopes” Novell helped set the stage for the helped put Utah’s tech industry in the emergence of a tech industry in Utah. national spotlight. Founded in 1979 to manufacture a “micro computer,” the company soon O.co (also known as Overstock.com) changed course to focus on computer Patrick Byrne launched O.co in networking. Novell proved to be 1999 after recognizing a niche in the vital in the development of local area marketplace for an retailer networks, and NetWare, its original specializing in excess inventory. core product, propelled the company Launched just as the dot-com boom to market dominance through the was beginning, Byrne was turned down ‘80s. In the following decade, Novell by 35 venture capitalists who were attempted to diversify its offerings, investing in other dot-coms at the time. with varying degrees of success. But by Byrne, who believed that the company the end of the ‘90s, the company had had merit, launched the company lost signifi cant ground to . with no outside funding and has since In 2001, Novell acquired Cambridge built a billion-dollar business that has Skullcandy’s Aviator Headphones Technology Partners, based in Mass., become a household name. Since its

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stays ahead of the competition by staying in tune with its customer base. The company launched its IPO earlier this year.

Sorenson Communications Sorenson Communications provides products and services to deaf and hard- of-hearing individuals. The company’s communications devices include the Sorenson VP-200 videophone, Sorenson Video Relay Service (SVRS) and Sorenson IP Relay (SIPRelay). Its videophones are equipped with auto-updating technologies and video communication features. The SVRS empowers deaf and hard-of- hearing callers to conduct video relay conversations through a sign language interpreter. And SIPRelay allows users to place text-based calls from a mobile device or PC. Sorenson Communications’ nTouch Video Phone

Sorenson Genomics TenFold WordPerfect Sorenson Genomics is a nationally Founded in 1993 by Jeffrey Walker, Founded by Alan Ashton, WordPerfect and internationally accredited DNA TenFold developed a fast and user- was a leading word-processing laboratory that has developed test friendly platform for customers to software company in the 1980s. systems and processes that can be develop new enterprise software Though later eclipsed by Word, the implemented on a wide range of DNA applications. The company’s fl agship Orem-based company helped position studies, including DNA testing services product, EnterpriseTenFold, allowed Utah as a major player in the nation’s and high-throughput DNA purifi cation, businesses to build and deploy new technology industry. WordPerfect was genotyping and sequencing services applications at speeds of up to 237 acquired by Novell in 1994 and later by for pharmaceutical, government, times faster than traditional methods Corel in 1996. biotech, academic and other industry and at costs 94 percent lower. The partners. The company’s innovative company, which went public in 1999, Identigine product provides direct-to- was acquired by privately held Versata consumer DNA parentage testing and in 2007. relationship testing, including an over- the-counter paternity test that is found in more than 15,000 retail stores.

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