CIO Perspectives Boston 2015
 
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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.
 
Delphix software enables Data as a Service, within a firm’s on-premise, private, or public cloud infrastructure. With a unique focus on applications and databases, and features that exist nowhere else, the Delphix solution brings enterprise data into the modern age, cutting application project schedules in half. 
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  Apptio is the leading provider of cloud-based Technology Business Management (TBM) software that helps CIOs manage the business of IT. Apptio’s suite of applications uses business analytics to provide facts and insights about technology cost, value, and quality so IT leaders can make faster, data-driven decisions. The purpose-built applications help companies align technology spend to business outcomes and automate IT processes like cost transparency, benchmarking, showback/chargeback, operational efficiency, and planning. Powering Apptio’s applications is a next generation, in-memory cost analytics platform. Hundreds of customers, including more than a third of the Fortune 100, choose Apptio as their business system of record for IT. For more information, visit the Apptio website or the Apptio blog at www.apptio.com.
  Birst is the global leader in Cloud BI and Analytics. The company helps organizations make thousands of decisions better, every day, for every person. Birst’s 2-tier data architecture and comprehensive BI platform sits on top of your data, to unify, refine and embed data consistently into every individual decision.

  Dropbox simplifies the work and personal lives of millions of people by letting them bring their documents, photos, and videos anywhere and share them easily. The service has more than 300 million users and is used in over 4 million businesses, with 1 billion files saved per day. Dropbox for Business allows employees to securely share and collaborate, and is used by companies like BCBG, National Geographic, Hearst, and News Corp. To learn more about our product and start a free trial, please visit https://www.dropbox.com/business

  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.
  Rimini Street is the leading independent support provider of enterprise software. Our innovative, award-winning program enables Oracle and SAP licensees to save 50 percent in annual support fees, avoid expensive “forced” upgrades, and receive ultra-responsive service including support for customizations at no extra charge.
  Tangoe is a leading global provider of Connection Lifecycle Management (CLM) software and services to global enterprises and service providers. Tangoe’s Matrix, is an on-demand suite of software and services designed to turn on, track, manage, secure, and support various connections in an enterprise's connection lifecycle, including mobile, fixed, M2M, cloud, enterprise social, and IT.
  Veracode is a leader in securing web, mobile and third-party applications for the world’s largest global enterprises.  By enabling organizations to rapidly identify and remediate application-layer threats before cyberattackers can exploit them, Veracode helps enterprises speed their innovations to market – without compromising security.  

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  AeroFS provides private-cloud file syncing and collaboration for businesses. The AeroFS Private Cloud is a light weight virtual appliance that can be installed on-premise behind the corporate firewall. By using AeroFS, the IT department is able to maintain control over their data, audit file/folder access and sharing, and prevent accidental data leakage.

  Caserta Concepts is a New York-based award-winning technology innovation consulting and implementation firm specializing in big data analytics, data governance, data warehousing and business intelligence. Founded in 2001 by industry thought leader and best selling author, Joe Caserta, Joe and his team of consultants collaborate with CIOs and IT organizations across a variety of sectors including banking and financial services, healthcare, ad-tech, education and ecommerce to build technical data solutions and provide analytics services to maximize data value.  

  CFN Services provides high-performance network and application delivery solutions for real-time, mission-critical applications. Leveraging FiberSource®, CFN’s global network optimization platform, the company deploys and manages low-latency networks, private cloud solutions and next-generation enterprise networks to cost-effectively improve application performance in distributed IT environments. CFN’s global cloud platform connects more than 70 leading data centers across North and South America, Europe and Asia. 

  Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is the largest pure-play security vendor globally, provides industry-leading solutions, and protects customers from cyberattacks with an unmatched catch rate of malware and other types of attacks. Check Point offers a complete security architecture defending enterprises’ networks to mobile devices, in addition to the most comprehensive and intuitive security management. Check Point protects over 100,000 organizations of all sizes. At Check Point, we secure the future.

  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. 
  CommVault is a leading data management software company passionately committed to giving companies a better way to organize, protect, and access business information. Our unique Solving Forward® philosophy and one-of-a-kind Simpana® software deliver complete data management solutions with infinite scalability and unprecedented control over data and costs.  

  Nutanix delivers invisible infrastructure for next-generation enterprise computing, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The company’s software-driven Xtreme Computing Platform natively converges compute, virtualization and storage into a single solution to drive simplicity in the datacenter. Using Nutanix, customers benefit from predictable performance, linear scalability and cloud-like infrastructure consumption. 
  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.
  Sungard Availability Services (“Sungard AS”) is a leading provider of critical production and recovery services to global enterprise companies. Sungard AS partners with customers across the globe to understand their business needs and provide production and recovery services tailored to help them achieve their desired business outcomes.  
  Tealium is the leader in real-time unified marketing solutions, helping brands seamlessly integrate their siloed applications and data, and drive more profitable interactions across all digital touch points. Tealium’s open platform for tag management and data enrichment enables marketers to bring order to chaos and build better customer experiences.

  For over 25 years WEI has collaborated with our partners to deliver innovative IT products and services to organizations seeking better business performance.  The comprehensive WEI approach delivers value during the entire IT engagement process…from design through implementation.  Our steadfast focus has always been on the challenges our clients face, and our commitment to help our clients succeed in their personal and professional goals.
  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.
  Virtual Instruments delivers the industry’s leading analytics platform for Infrastructure Performance Management. VirtualWisdom® empowers customers to deliver on the complex requirements of their application infrastructure. The platform provides insights into the performance and availability of the end-to-end system  – across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

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.