“Underwriter, Platinum and Gold Sponsorship Opportunities available for IT Roadmap 2010.”
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Mike McGoldrick, Regional Sales Director
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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.
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ArcSight - www.arcsight.com
ArcSight (NASDAQ:ARST) is a leading global provider of compliance and security management solutions that protect enterprises and government agencies. ArcSight helps customers comply with corporate and regulatory policy, safeguard their assets and processes, and control risk. The ArcSight platform collects and correlates user activity and event data across the enterprise so that businesses can rapidly identify, prioritize, and respond to compliance violations, policy breaches, cybersecurity attacks, and insider threats.
ArcSight - www.arcsight.com ArcSight (NASDAQ:ARST) is a leading global provider of compliance and security management solutions that protect enterprises and government agencies. ArcSight helps customers comply with corporate and regulatory policy, safeguard their assets and processes, and control risk. The ArcSight platform collects and correlates user activity and event data across the enterprise so that businesses can rapidly identify, prioritize, and respond to compliance violations, policy breaches, cybersecurity attacks, and insider threats.
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.
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China Telecom Americas provides multinational telecommunication services from the Americas to China, Asia and Europe. The company services enterprises and global carriers with data and voice services, including IPLC, MPLS, Managed Services and Ethernet. With headquarters in Herndon, Virginia, and offices in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Jose, and Toronto, Canada, China Telecom Americas provides a locally-based, one-stop-shop, turn-key solution for everything from China domestic and international data circuits to IDC services, network management, equipment management and system integration.
China Telecom Americas provides multinational telecommunication services from the Americas to China, Asia and Europe. The company services enterprises and global carriers with data and voice services, including IPLC, MPLS, Managed Services and Ethernet. With headquarters in Herndon, Virginia, and offices in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Jose, and Toronto, Canada, China Telecom Americas provides a locally-based, one-stop-shop, turn-key solution for everything from China domestic and international data circuits to IDC services, network management, equipment management and system integration.
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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Entrust - www.entrust.com
Entrust provides identity-based security solutions that empower enterprises, consumers, citizens and Web sites in more than 4,000 organizations spanning 60 countries. Entrust's identity-based approach offers the right balance between affordability, expertise and service. With more than 125 patents granted and pending, these world-class solutions include strong authentication, fraud detection, digital certificates, SSL and PKI. For information, call 888-690-2424 or e-mail entrust@entrust.com.
Entrust - www.entrust.com Entrust provides identity-based security solutions that empower enterprises, consumers, citizens and Web sites in more than 4,000 organizations spanning 60 countries. Entrust's identity-based approach offers the right balance between affordability, expertise and service. With more than 125 patents granted and pending, these world-class solutions include strong authentication, fraud detection, digital certificates, SSL and PKI. For information, call 888-690-2424 or e-mail entrust@entrust.com.
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ESET -www.eset.com
In a world where cybercrime means big business, antivirus industry leader ESET develops the solutions that keep enterprise users and networks safer. Consistently ranked fastest and most effective, ESET terminates Internet threats with a smarter algorithm, a featherweight footprint and 90 million users strengthening the ThreatSense® Database. Install confidence.
ESET -www.eset.com In a world where cybercrime means big business, antivirus industry leader ESET develops the solutions that keep enterprise users and networks safer. Consistently ranked fastest and most effective, ESET terminates Internet threats with a smarter algorithm, a featherweight footprint and 90 million users strengthening the ThreatSense® Database. Install confidence.
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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Extreme Networks - http://www.extremenetworks.com
Extreme Networks provides converged Ethernet network infrastructure that support data, voice and video for enterprises and service providers. The company's network solutions feature high performance, high availability and scalable switching solutions that enable organizations to address real-world communications challenges and opportunities. Operating in more than 50 countries, Extreme Networks provides wired and wireless secure LANs, data center infrastructure and Service Provider Ethernet transport solutions that are complemented by global, 24x7 service and support.
Extreme Networks - http://www.extremenetworks.com Extreme Networks provides converged Ethernet network infrastructure that support data, voice and video for enterprises and service providers. The company's network solutions feature high performance, high availability and scalable switching solutions that enable organizations to address real-world communications challenges and opportunities. Operating in more than 50 countries, Extreme Networks provides wired and wireless secure LANs, data center infrastructure and Service Provider Ethernet transport solutions that are complemented by global, 24x7 service and support.
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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.
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.
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.
Global Knowledge is the worldwide leader in IT and Business Training. We enable our customers to achieve superior business and personal performance through rapid skills development in areas such as Cisco, Microsoft, project management, professional skills, and business processes. Our real-world training is delivered via training centers, private facilities, and the Internet, enabling our customers to choose when, where, and how they want to receive their training programs and services.
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Today, smart products rely on Web-enabled software. Although they make our lives more convenient, they also have the potential to introduce security and compliance risks. To protect against the threat of an attack, IBM Rational® offers AppScan, a suite of Web application security solutions designed to provide the most comprehensive approach to assessing vulnerabilities in networked and Web applications.
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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Iron Mountain Digital - www.ironmountain.com
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.
Iron Mountain Digital - www.ironmountain.com 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.
Dell KACE™ - www.kace.com Dell KACE™ is the leading systems management appliance company. The award winning KBOX™ family of appliances delivers easy-to-use, comprehensive systems management capabilities. Dell KACE customers usually install in one day at the lowest total cost compared to software alternatives.
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Lancope®, Inc. - www.lancope.com 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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Logitech - www.logitech.com
Logitech is a world leader in personal peripherals, driving innovation in PC navigation, Internet communications, digital music, home-entertainment control, gaming and wireless devices. Founded in 1981, Logitech International is a Swiss public company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (LOGN) and on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (LOGI).
Meraki - www.meraki.com
Meraki 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.
McAfee - www.mcafee.com
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.
Logitech - www.logitech.com Logitech is a world leader in personal peripherals, driving innovation in PC navigation, Internet communications, digital music, home-entertainment control, gaming and wireless devices. Founded in 1981, Logitech International is a Swiss public company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (LOGN) and on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (LOGI).
Meraki - www.meraki.com Meraki 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.
McAfee - www.mcafee.com 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.
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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Qualys, Inc. - www.qualys.com Qualys is the leading provider of on demand IT security risk and compliance management solutions – delivered as a service. Qualys’ Software-as-a-Service solutions are deployed in a matter of hours anywhere in the world, providing customers an immediate and continuous view of their security and compliance postures. The QualysGuard® service is used today by more than 4,000 organizations in 85 countries, including 42 of the Fortune Global 100 and performs more than 500 million IP audits per year. Qualys has the largest vulnerability management deployment in the world at a Fortune Global 50 company.
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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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Silver Peak Systems - www.silver-peak.com 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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SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. - www.SoftLayer.com SoftLayer provides best in class, on-demand IT services from facilities in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates and automates all IT elements to innovate solutions including cloud, dedicated, and virtual computing environments, all managed through a single interface. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management.
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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.
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Sprint - www.sprint.com
Sprint offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the U.S.; offering industry-leading mobile data services, Converged Solutions on IP, 4G and 3G networks, M2M (machine-to-machine) capabilities, leading prepaid brands, instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone.
Trusted Computing Group - www.trustedcomputinggroup.org
The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is a not-for-profit organization formed to develop, define and promote open, vendor-neutral, industry standards for trusted computing building blocks and software interfaces across multiple platforms. Trusted Computing technology makes computers safer, less prone to viruses and malware, and thus more reliable. It allows computers systems to offer improved security and efficiency. Trusted Computing is the industry's answer to growing security problems in the enterprise and is based in a hardware root of trust.
WildPackets - www.wildpackets.com
WildPackets develops hardware and software solutions that drive network performance, enabling organizations of all sizes to analyze, troubleshoot, optimize, and secure their wired and wireless networks. WildPackets products are sold in over 60 countries and deployed in all industrial sectors. Customers include Boeing, Chrysler, Fidelity, Motorola, Nationwide, and over 80 percent of the Fortune 1000. WildPackets is a Cisco Technical Development Partner (CTDP).
Sprint offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the U.S.; offering industry-leading mobile data services, Converged Solutions on IP, 4G and 3G networks, M2M (machine-to-machine) capabilities, leading prepaid brands, instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone.
Trusted Computing Group - www.trustedcomputinggroup.org The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is a not-for-profit organization formed to develop, define and promote open, vendor-neutral, industry standards for trusted computing building blocks and software interfaces across multiple platforms. Trusted Computing technology makes computers safer, less prone to viruses and malware, and thus more reliable. It allows computers systems to offer improved security and efficiency. Trusted Computing is the industry's answer to growing security problems in the enterprise and is based in a hardware root of trust.
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WatchGuard - www.watchguard.com
WatchGuard builds affordable, all-in-one security solutions to provide defense-in-depth for corporate content, networks and the businesses they power. Award-winning extensible threat management (XTM) network security solutions combine firewall, VPN and security services to protect networks from spam, viruses, malware and intrusions. New appliances include content security across e-mail and web combined with DLP. WatchGuard solutions offer right-sized security up to enterprises with 10,000+ employees. Since 1996, 600,000+ signature red security appliances have been deployed worldwide.
WatchGuard - www.watchguard.com WatchGuard builds affordable, all-in-one security solutions to provide defense-in-depth for corporate content, networks and the businesses they power. Award-winning extensible threat management (XTM) network security solutions combine firewall, VPN and security services to protect networks from spam, viruses, malware and intrusions. New appliances include content security across e-mail and web combined with DLP. WatchGuard solutions offer right-sized security up to enterprises with 10,000+ employees. Since 1996, 600,000+ signature red security appliances have been deployed worldwide.
WildPackets - www.wildpackets.com WildPackets develops hardware and software solutions that drive network performance, enabling organizations of all sizes to analyze, troubleshoot, optimize, and secure their wired and wireless networks. WildPackets products are sold in over 60 countries and deployed in all industrial sectors. Customers include Boeing, Chrysler, Fidelity, Motorola, Nationwide, and over 80 percent of the Fortune 1000. WildPackets is a Cisco Technical Development Partner (CTDP).
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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