There may be a chill in the air as fall sets in, but things remain hot in the IT industry on the startup front.



In this month's crop of emerging vendors, we take a look at startups offering leading-edge big data management and analysis technologies, visual development tools, content management applications, and software for migrating applications to the cloud.



In many cases these startups aren't just competing against established vendors on their own turf -- they're changing the rules of the game.

