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Insiders refer to Utah 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 entrepreneurial drive, technology and life science firms have found fertile soil along the base of the Wasatch Mountains. Utah companies are on the leading edge of innovation in an ultra-competitive industry--from the early days of personal computers to the advent of the cloud, and from the seeds of genealogical research to the mapping of genomes, local pioneers continue to create buzz around Utah's thriving technology industry. Here's a look at Utah's top 25 tech companies as voted by UTC members.

Altiris

Altiris specializes in service-oriented management software that allows organizations to manage IT assets. The Lindon-headquartered company also provides software for web services, security and systems management products. Altiris was founded in 1998 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.

The site's community is a large and growing source of user-generated content uniquely focused on family history. This growing pool of user-generated content adds color and context to the family histories assembled from the digitized historical documents found on.Ancestry.com.

ARUP Laboratories

ARUP Laboratories is a national clinic and anatomic pathology reference laboratory based in the University of Utah Research Park. The laboratory 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, fluid and tissue samples a day.

Faculty from the Us School of Medicine and the Department of Pathology serve as medical directors, consultants, researchers and educators at ARUP Clients include university teaching hospitals and children's hospitals, regional hospital networks, major commercial laboratories and clinics, group-purchasing organizations, military and government facilities, and the University of Utah Health Care system.

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The laboratory also focuses on education, including senior-year training and internships for undergraduate medical technologists, genetic-counselor training, and residency and fellowship programs in pathology and related disciplines.

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Ballard Medical Products

Ballard Medical Products is a manufacturer and marketer of specialized medical products, and was acquired by Kimberly-Clark Corporation in September 2009.

Ballard Medical designs, produces and distributes disposable medical items for respiratory, gastroenterology and cardiology. Its main product line is Trach Care, which is used to maintain respiration while allowing suction of excess fluid.

Evans & Sutherland

Founded in 1968, Evans & Sutherland was a groundbreaker in computer...