“Underwriter, Platinum and Gold Sponsorship Opportunities available for IT Roadmap 2010.”
Please contact your Network World sales executive:
Mike McGoldrick, Regional Sales Director - Eastern Region
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Jennifer Sand, Regional Sales Director - Western Region
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Sponsor Company Descriptions
A10 Networks was founded in 2004 with a mission to provide innovative networking and security solutions. A10 Networks makes high-performance products that help organizations of all sizes accelerate, optimize and secure their applications. A10 Networks is a venture-funded, privately held, Silicon Valley-based technology company, with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands, Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan.
Aerohive cooperative control wireless LAN architecture: All the management, mobility and security, without the cost, capacity, performance and availability issues of a wireless controller deployment.
Alcatel-Lucent, the world's leading communication solutions provider, offers enterprises an in-depth portfolio of industry leading, award-winning solutions to help manage all aspects of IT network operations-effectively, efficiently with unparalleled ROI.
Profitable and rapidly growing, BlueCat Networks is a leading provider of enterprise-class IP Address Management (IPAM) platforms and secure DNS / DHCP network administration appliances. Today, thousands of BlueCat’s award-winning Proteus™ IPAM platforms and Adonis™ family of DNS/DHCP appliances have been successfully deployed to meet the rising IP management demands of small-medium enterprises, government, military, financial services, retail and manufacturing organizations worldwide.
EMC backup and recovery solutions are driving a fundamental shift in the way businesses protect and manage their information. With industry-leading deduplication storage systems and software, EMC has brought to market the next generation of data protection solutions. Cost-efficient disk and network-based architectures are enabling organizations of all sizes to transform the way they protect and manage their information.
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Enterasys is the network infrastructure and security division of Siemens Enterprise Communications, a premier provider of end-to-end enterprise communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security solutions that use open, standards-based architectures to unify communications and business applications for a seamless collaboration experience.
ExtraHop Networks, a technology startup gaining momentum in the Application Delivery Assurance market, delivers innovative solutions to ensure that business-critical transactions do not fail. Combining the capabilities of Network Performance Managers with the superior application-level visibility of User Experience Monitors, the ExtraHop system provides the following benefits:
* End-to-end agentless visibility across networks, applications, databases, and storage arrays
* Simultaneous real-time analysis of all transactions
* Trend-based alerting and proactive early warning for potential problems
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Fiberlink - www.maas360.com/fiberlink/en-US/
Fiberlink is the creator and developer of cloud-based Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) solutions. The company’s MaaS360® mobility infrastructure and subscription services have revolutionized how business users share and secure information over the Internet. Fiberlink's MaaS360 platform ensures reliable, secure and compliant mobile working for employees, while delivering unprecedented Mobility Intelligence™ to senior management and IT operations. The company is a recognized leader in helping both Global 2000 companies and smaller businesses cost-effectively support expanding mobile workforces and use mobile devices to remain competitive in today's economy.
Force10 Networks - www.force10networks.com
Force10 Networks is the global technology leader that data center, service provider and enterprise customers rely on when the network is their business. The company’s high-performance solutions are designed to deliver new economics by virtualizing and automating Ethernet networks. Our award-winning Ethernet switching and routing products deliver unmatched port density and resiliency to help our customers deploy a high-availability, agile and standards-based GbE and 10 GbE network fabric, while reducing power and cooling costs. Force10’s products combine the features of high performance hardware architectures that are purpose-built for non-blocking, line-rate throughput, with our modular Force10 Operating System (FTOS) software.
Fiberlink - www.maas360.com/fiberlink/en-US/Fiberlink is the creator and developer of cloud-based Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) solutions. The company’s MaaS360® mobility infrastructure and subscription services have revolutionized how business users share and secure information over the Internet. Fiberlink's MaaS360 platform ensures reliable, secure and compliant mobile working for employees, while delivering unprecedented Mobility Intelligence™ to senior management and IT operations. The company is a recognized leader in helping both Global 2000 companies and smaller businesses cost-effectively support expanding mobile workforces and use mobile devices to remain competitive in today's economy.
Force10 Networks is the global technology leader that data center, service provider and enterprise customers rely on when the network is their business. The company’s high-performance solutions are designed to deliver new economics by virtualizing and automating Ethernet networks. Our award-winning Ethernet switching and routing products deliver unmatched port density and resiliency to help our customers deploy a high-availability, agile and standards-based GbE and 10 GbE network fabric, while reducing power and cooling costs. Force10’s products combine the features of high performance hardware architectures that are purpose-built for non-blocking, line-rate throughput, with our modular Force10 Operating System (FTOS) software.
Fortinet is a leading provider of network security appliances and the leader of the unified threat management (UTM) market worldwide. Fortinet's award-winning portfolio of security gateways, subscription services, and complementary products delivers the highest level of network, content, and application security for enterprises of all sizes, managed service providers, and telecommunications carriers, while reducin total cost of ownership and providing a flexible, scalable path for expansion.
IBM Rational is a premier provider of solutions for software, systems and products. The Rational Systems and Software Delivery Platform features an extensible portfolio to help companies manage the complexity of development across the entire lifecycle of software, systems or products. IBM Rational solutions enable organizations to align product, system, and software development lifecycles with business objectives to improve innovation, quality and predictability, while reducing time-to-market and overall cost.
Infoblox solutions increase network availability and reduce network expense by automating core network services, including DNS/DNSSEC, DHCP and IP address management. Infoblox customers include 33%+ of the Fortun 500 and more than 3200 organizations worldwide.
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IPR International - www.iprintl.com
IPR International is a recognized industry leader in Managed Data Center and Data Protection Services. IPR provides ZoneIT Private Cloud Services enabling clients to quickly attain private cloud capabilities including security and control without the ownership or administration burden of infrastructure. IPR supports production and disaster recovery operations through its two interoperable hardened data centers for midsize and global enterprises, located in Reading, PA and Wilmington, DE.
Iron Mountain Digital is the world's leading provider of information management services for email, file and SharePoint archiving, eDiscovery, data protection and recovery, and intellectual property management. The technology arm of Iron Mountain Inc. delivers a comprehensive suite of on-premise and hosted solutions to thousands of companies around the world, directly and through a worldwide network of channel partners.
IPR International - www.iprintl.comIPR International is a recognized industry leader in Managed Data Center and Data Protection Services. IPR provides ZoneIT Private Cloud Services enabling clients to quickly attain private cloud capabilities including security and control without the ownership or administration burden of infrastructure. IPR supports production and disaster recovery operations through its two interoperable hardened data centers for midsize and global enterprises, located in Reading, PA and Wilmington, DE.
Iron Mountain Digital is the world's leading provider of information management services for email, file and SharePoint archiving, eDiscovery, data protection and recovery, and intellectual property management. The technology arm of Iron Mountain Inc. delivers a comprehensive suite of on-premise and hosted solutions to thousands of companies around the world, directly and through a worldwide network of channel partners.
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Juniper Networks high-performance network infrastructure helps businesses create a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. Enterprise network users, including remote employees, contractors, business partners, customers and suppliers require reliable access to business applications regardless of location. Juniper Networks’ best-in-class application acceleration platforms provide fast and consistent application response to ensure uncompromised access to important applications and services, enabling high-performance businesses to use their applications to create a competitive advantage.
Juniper Networks high-performance network infrastructure helps businesses create a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. Enterprise network users, including remote employees, contractors, business partners, customers and suppliers require reliable access to business applications regardless of location. Juniper Networks’ best-in-class application acceleration platforms provide fast and consistent application response to ensure uncompromised access to important applications and services, enabling high-performance businesses to use their applications to create a competitive advantage.
KACE™ is the leading systems management appliance company. The award winning KBOX™ family of appliances delivers easy-to-use, comprehensive systems management capabilities. KACE customers usually install in one day at the lowest total cost compared to software alternatives.
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Lancope®, Inc. is the leader in NetFlow Analysis and the provider of the StealthWatch® System for flow-based network performance and security monitoring. Delivering unified visibility across physical and virtual networks, StealthWatch eliminates network blind spots and reduces total network and security management costs. Both OPSEC and Common Criteria-certified, StealthWatch monitors the networks of Global 2000 organizations, academic institutions and government entities worldwide.
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Meraki - www.meraki.comMeraki offers enterprise-class wireless networks at a fraction of the cost and complexity of traditional networking vendors. This is made possible by its unique cloud-based technology. The company’s customers range from small and medium-sized businesses to global hotel chains to world-class educational institutions. Meraki wireless networks serve millions of users on over 10,000 networks in more than 130 countries. Meraki is located in San Francisco, California, and is funded in part by Sequoia Capital and Google. For information on becoming a Meraki certified reseller, go to www.meraki.com/partners.
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As part of the world’s largest security-dedicated vendor in the world, McAfee SaaS is a leading developer of cloud-based security solutions, providing real-time protection to more than 575,000 businesses. McAfee SaaS offers the industry’s most comprehensive, cloud-based security portfolio, including email and web protection, message continuity and archiving solutions. McAfee’s true multi-tenant, massively scalable SaaS architecture delivers enterprise-grade performance and reliability without enterprise-level complexity and cost. Additionally, McAfee SaaS solutions provide unrivaled protection, leveraging McAfee’s Global Threat Intelligence Network of 350 researchers and threat centers in 30 different countries.
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Netreo makes managing virtual and cloud environments easy with the OmniCenter line of appliance-based network management products. OmniCenter is designed to install quickly without agents, clients, or probes. Once it's in, we manage it - no more revision updates, patches, backups, or routine maintenance. You are left free to refocus on your customers. OmniCenter's web interface provides dashboard views, so you don't drown in meaningless data, and single-click access to actionable content.
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Network Instruments® is the industry-leading developer of distributed and affordable network management, analysis and troubleshooting solutions. The award-winning Observer® family of products provides integrated monitoring and management for the entire network, while GigaStor™ allows IT staff to move backward in time to identify and troubleshoot network, application, and security issues quickly and easily.
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Palo Alto Networks™ is the network security company. Its next-generation firewalls enable unprecedented visibility and granular policy control of applications and content – by user, not just IP address – at up to 10Gbps with no performance degradation. Based on patent-pending App-ID™ technology, Palo Alto Networks firewalls accurately identify and control applications – regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or SSL encryption – and scan content to stop threats and prevent data leakage. Enterprises can for the first time embrace Web 2.0 and maintain complete visibility and control, while significantly reducing total cost of ownership through device consolidation.
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Riverbed Technology is the IT infrastructure performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility – all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive.
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ScienceLogic - www.sciencelogic.comScienceLogic EM7 provides cloud-ready IT operations management for your entire infrastructure – in data centers and public, private or hybrid clouds. EM7 delivers comprehensive systems, network and application management, combining a secure, pre-integrated set of applications with automation tools, reporting, and a centralized data repository – optimized to work together for proactive, efficient IT operations management. Awards: AlwaysOn East Top 100 Companies (Cloud & Infrastructure), Inc500, Best of Interop/Network Management, Gartner Cool Vendor in IT Operations.
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Silver Peak improves backup, replication and recovery between data centers and facilitates branch office server and storage centralization by improving application performance across the WAN. The company’s award winning NX appliances deliver exceptional performance improvements with unprecedented security and scalability across all enterprise applications, including data replication, backup, SQL, file, email, web and real-time applications such as VoIP.
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SonicWALL, Inc. - www.sonicwall.com
SonicWALL is a recognized leader in comprehensive information security solutions. SonicWALL solutions integrate dynamically intelligent services, software and hardware that engineer the risk, cost and complexity out of running a high performance business network. For nearly 20 years SonicWALL solutions and service providers have given millions of business users the competitive edge of deep protection with uncompromised performance. SonicWALL solutions are successfully deployed across small, medium and distributed enterprise environments around the world, including government, healthcare and retail point-of-sale installations.
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SonicWALL is a recognized leader in comprehensive information security solutions. SonicWALL solutions integrate dynamically intelligent services, software and hardware that engineer the risk, cost and complexity out of running a high performance business network. For nearly 20 years SonicWALL solutions and service providers have given millions of business users the competitive edge of deep protection with uncompromised performance. SonicWALL solutions are successfully deployed across small, medium and distributed enterprise environments around the world, including government, healthcare and retail point-of-sale installations.
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Sophos is a world leader in IT security and data protection. We offer organizations complete protection and control – defending against known and unknown malware, spyware, intrusions, unwanted applications, spam, policy abuse and data leakage, and providing comprehensive network access control (NAC). Our reliably engineered, easy-to-operate products protect over 100 million users in more than 150 countries. Our vision, commitment to research and development, and rigorous attention to quality have enabled us to maintain strong year-on-year growth and the highest levels of customer satisfaction in the industry.
Xirrus - www.xirrus.com
Xirrus, the only Wi-Fi "Power-Play", manufacturers the Wi-Fi Array that displaces both overlay Wi-Fi offerings and switched Ethernet to the desktop. The Wi-Fi Array provides more than enough bandwidth, security, and control to replace switched Ethernet as a user’s primary network connection. The Xirrus Wi-Fi Array delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, throughput, and user density in the industry, resulting in 75% fewer devices, cabling, switch ports, power, space, and installation time compared with any other Wi-Fi offering.
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