CIO Perspectives Houston 2015
 
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  CSC is a global leader in next-generation IT services and solutions. The company’s mission is to enable superior returns on our clients’ technology investments through best-in-class industry solutions, domain expertise and global scale. For more information, visit us at www.csc.com.
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  Delphix is the market leader in Data as a Service, which helps over 20% of the Fortune 100 accelerate application projects and migrations by 50%. Delphix provides DaaS as on-premises or cloud software that automatically and securely delivers the right data to the right team at the right time. 



  MOBI provides software and services to help companies manage mobility. MOBI’s cloud-based software centralizes the management of mobile devices by integrating with wireless carriers, MDMs, corporate IT systems, and more. MOBI’s services help organizations plan for, save on, deploy, support, and decommission all mobile devices. As a result, MOBI’s customers achieve enhanced control, greater visibility, reduced costs, and increased efficiencies when managing mobile devices.


  Platfora, is the leading big data discovery platform that enables business users and data scientists to visually interact with petabyte-scale data in seconds. With Platfora big data analytics, businesses gain deeper insights into large datasets for customer analytics, security analytics, and IoT solutions.



  Pluribus Networks delivers software-defined networking as an open application platform for today’s data centers. The company’s flagship product, Netvisor®, is the industry’s first distributed network hypervisor operating system, converging compute, network, storage and virtualization with an open, programmable approach. Our customers realize tangible and immediate business benefits while protecting their existing network investments. For more information, visitwww.pluribusnetworks.com or go to www.twitter.com/pluribusnet.



  Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source solutions, leveraging a community-powered approach to provide reliable and high-performing cloud, virtualization, storage, Linux and middleware technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training and consulting services. Red Hat is an S&P Company located in more than 85 offices spanning the globe, empowering our customers' businesses.




  ServiceNow is changing the way people work. With a service-orientation toward the activities, tasks and processes that make up day-to-day work life, we help the modern enterprise operate faster and be more scalable than ever before. Customers use our service model to define, structure and automate the flow of work, removing dependencies on email and spreadsheets to transform the delivery and management of services for the enterprise. ServiceNow provides service management for every department in the enterprise including IT, human resources, facilities, field service and more. We deliver a ‘lights-out, light-speed’ experience through our enterprise cloud – built to manage everything as a service.


  T-Systems is the leader in SAP services worldwide, providing Global 2000 companies with application and IT infrastructure management services utilizing our own Cloud and dynamic services platform. Leading companies in the energy and utilities, automotive, healthcare, media, telecommunications, finance, retail and manufacturing industries look to T-Systems for unparalleled technology service and solution offerings. 

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  CloudVelox, formerly known as CloudVelocity, is the first company to deliver an automated cloud migration and disaster recovery platform specifically developed for the unique operating demands of existing, multi-tier apps. Led by a deeply experienced team of system software and networking executives, CloudVelox gives data center teams the ability to easily protect, scale and mobilize their distributed apps and services into and between clouds, eliminating many of the major barriers to the enterprise adoption of cloud. 
  Enaxis Consulting is a specialized consulting firm operating as the trusted advisor to the enterprise IT executive. Our consultants are focused in the business of IT and help minimize the time and cost associated with transformative changes. We offer the quality of a global firm without billing for global-size overhead. We have the ability to successfully leverage client resources by ensuring that every consultant has significant broad experience as well as expertise in specific areas. This approach provides high value to our discerning clients who recognize and appreciate the value we bring to the table. As a result, we take pride in the fact that referrals contribute significantly to our client base of Fortune 500 companies.
  NETSCOUT’s Fluke Networks Enterprise Solutions provides network performance monitoring and diagnostics solutions, which help ensure an optimal end-user experience. Fluke Networks helps solve the toughest issues in WLAN security, SaaS, mobility, unified communications and datacenters. NETSCOUT is a leader in service assurance and cybersecurity solutions for service providers and enterprise networks. 
  Nimble is the technology leader in flash-based storage solutions. Nimble offers an adaptive flash platform that empowers IT to predict, manage and deliver the storage required to optimize applications and workloads across the enterprise. Visit us to learn how Nimble is enabling customers to realize greater business agility and responsiveness.
  Silver Peak software accelerates data between data centers, branch offices and the cloud. The company’s software-defined acceleration solves network quality, capacity and distance challenges to provide fast and reliable access to data anywhere in the world. Leveraging its leadership in data center class WAN optimization, Silver Peak is a key enabler for strategic IT projects like virtualization, big data and disaster recovery.
  Tegile Systems is a leading provider of intelligent flash arrays. Our mission is to accelerate the transformation of IT by changing the performance and economics of enterprise storage. Our flash arrays, with patented IntelliFlash architecture, deliver high I/O and low latency for databases, server virtualization and VDI. 

  Whitlock is a video collaboration company that provides strategy, management, technologies and support to the world’s largest and most innovative businesses. We believe face-to-face collaboration creates stronger relationships and makes way for both business and personal success. What we give to a customer is the ability to connect, work together and share ideas with each other and the world, with a reliable video experience every time. Whitlock serves customers across the U.S. and worldwide through the Global Presence Alliance.
  Worksoft® is a leading global provider of automation software for business process validation and discovery. Enterprises worldwide use Worksoft’s top ranked automation solutions to innovate faster, lower technology risk, reduce costs, improve quality, and deeply understand their end-to-end business processes across web, cloud, big data, mobile, and dozens of enterprise applications.

  xMatters enables any business process or application to trigger two-way communications (text, voice, email, SMS, etc.) throughout the extended enterprise. The company’s cloud-based solution allows for enterprise-grade scaling and delivery during time-sensitive events. More than 1,000 leading global firms use xMatters to ensure business operations run smoothly and effectively during incidents such as IT failures, product recalls, natural disasters, dynamic staffing, service outages, medical emergencies and supply-chain disruption. 

Research Partner
  IDC is the most experienced and most trusted IT advisory firm in the market. Our global team of 1,100 analysts assist businesses around the world in moving to the 3rd Platform of computing. Our IT advisory services not only advise on the technologies of the 3rd Platform (cloud, mobile, social and analytics), but also on how to effectively lead technology initiatives. To learn more visit www.idc.com/itexecutive.