Neocleus, the leader in client-side virtualization, today announced that it was named to the first annual listing of the “InformationWeek Startup 50.” InformationWeek’s Startup 50 is a list of the top 50 business technology startups selected by InformationWeek readers and editors. Companies were selected in a three-step process that involved nomination, online voting, and editorial vetting.

The technologies and the companies behind them were evaluated on the following criteria:

• Innovation and their ability to inject new ways of doing things into business processes
• Value, which is reflected in lower costs, increased sales, higher productivity, or improved customer loyalty
• Enterprise-readiness, meaning that a product or service scales and can be deployed and managed as necessary by IT pros

“It was difficult to limit ourselves to 50 startups because there’s a lot of exciting companies out there,” said Andrew Conry-Murray, Business Editor, InformationWeek. “That said, we believe the InformationWeek Startup 50 have innovative solutions to critical business problems and are worthy of enterprise consideration.”

InformationWeek editors and readers identified young companies that are ready to address the critical challenges facing the enterprise. Whether it is securing networks, cutting costs or streamlining IT operations and business processes, the InformationWeek Startup 50 provides IT professionals and executives insight on new and innovative solutions from the named companies.

Neocleus, launched in May 2008, develops client-side virtualization solutions that lower total cost of operations and improve security, manageability and efficiency for a diverse set of user scenarios created by an increasingly complex client computing environment. Neocleus’ ground breaking technology, a Type 1 hypervisor, allows multiple instances of an operating system to be isolated and fully secured on a single machine. Each instance of the operating system is centrally managed and deployed. The implications for addressing distinct use cases within a dispersed organization are revolutionary.

“It’s an honor to be named among the prestigious organizations in the InformationWeek Startup 50 as this clearly validates our commitment to providing unique and industry-changing technology solutions,” said Ariel Gorfung, CEO, Neocleus. “Since its inception, Neocleus has developed ground breaking virtualization technology and innovative solutions to deliver the next generation of client computing to meet client needs for more a flexible, secure and cost effective computing infrastructure. We look forward to continuing to execute against this vision through 2009 and beyond.”