As the Web moguls see it, the Internet has evolved from a method of transmitting information to its own computing platform, as novel as the personal computer was in the late 1970s, or client-server networks were in the '80s.

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Still, he said he would first recommend that a client advertise on more established networks such as Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, before considering a newer option like Tumblr.

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Such networks provide the user little control when it comes to preventing third parties from accessing their mobile devices, client data, and even law firm networks.

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Cisco offers security products like firewall, intrusion prevention, remote access and virtual private networks (VPNs), unified client, web, and email security.

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Juniper Networks (nasdaq: JNPR - news - people ) counts Internet2 as both a client and a partner.

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ViaSat ( VSAT - news - people ), which makes and services satellite equipment and data networks, hiring never stopped during the recession, in part because the firm has a big, steady client, the U.S. military, which is using ViaSat equipment in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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