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Avaya is a global leader in business communications systems. The company provides unified communications, contact centers, data solutions and related services directly and through its channel partners to leading businesses and organizations around the world. Enterprises of all sizes depend on Avaya for state-of-the-art communications that improve efficiency, collaboration, customer service and competitiveness. www.avaya.com
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Juniper Networks offers a high-performance network infrastructure that helps service providers, enterprises, and public sector organizations create value and accelerate business success within the new, changing global marketplace. Our products and technology run the world’s largest and most demanding global networks. From devices to data centers, from consumers to the cloud, Juniper Networks delivers innovative software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. The company serves more than 30,000 customers and partners worldwide, and generated more than $3 billion in revenue over the last year. www.juniper.net | ||||
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Motorola Mobility, Inc. (NYSE:MMI) fuses innovative technology with human insights to create experiences that simplify, connect and enrich people's lives. Our portfolio includes converged mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets; wireless accessories; end-to-end video and data delivery; and management solutions, including set-tops and data-access devices. For more information, visit motorola.com/mobility. | ||||
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Dimension Data is an ICT services and solutions provider that uses its technology expertise, global service delivery capability, and entrepreneurial spirit to accelerate the business ambitions of its clients. Our Services expertise spans across six areas of core competency: Network Integration, Security Solutions, Converged Communications, Data Center Solutions, Customer Interactive Solutions and Microsoft Solutions. We have unique skills in consulting, integration and managed services to create customized client solutions. Seventy-nine percent of the Global Fortune 100 and 63 percent of the Global Fortune 500 are Dimension Data clients. Dimension Data is a member of the NTT Group. www.dimensiondata.com | ||||
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 | Flexera Software is the leading provider of strategic solutions for Application Usage Management; solutions delivering continuous compliance optimized usage and maximized value to application producers and their customers. Flexera Software is trusted by more than 80,000 customers that depend on our comprehensive solutions- from installation and licensing, entitlement and compliance management to application readiness and enterprise license optimization - to strategically manage application usage and achieve breakthrough results realized only through the systems-level approach we provide. Flexera Software is a privately-held company and an investment of private equity firm Thoma Bravo, LLC. For more information, please go to: www.flexerasoftware.com. | ||||
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Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is the world’s leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry. Based in San Antonio, Texas, the company delivers enterprise-level hosting services to businesses of all sizes and kinds. Rackspace integrates the industry's best technologies for each customer's specific need and delivers it as a service via the company's commitment to Fanatical Support®. Rackspace hosts more than 108,000 customers in nine data centers across the globe through their portfolio of hosted IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. Currently, 40% of FORTUNE® 100 companies trust Rackspace for their hosting needs. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com. | ||||
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 | Google’s Enterprise products bring Google technology and innovation to organizations. Google Apps offers simple, powerful communication and collaborations tools for any size business – all hosted by Google to streamline setup, minimize maintenance, and reduce IT costs. Learn more at www.google.com. | ||||
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IDC Insights lines of business assist businesses and IT leaders, as well as the suppliers who serve them, in making more effective technology decisions by providing accurate, timely, and insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Our global research and analysis is focused on mitigating technology risks, maximizing the effectiveness of IT investments, identifying new opportunities, and bringing forth technology solutions that are aligned with the organization's business objectives. Focusing on energy, financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing and retail industries, our research covers over 200 technology markets including cloud computing, business analysis, outsourcing, enterprise mobility, sustainability, IT governance, data center, social media and many more. www.idc.com | ||||
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Appian is the Business Process Management (BPM) expert. Appian leads the market in BPM innovation, delivering comprehensive, flexible and easy-to-use solutions tailored to the unique needs of individual organizations. Businesses and governments worldwide use Appian to simplify process improvement with the real-time visibility, control and analytics needed to improve business performance. Appian allows users across the organization to effectively collaborate and be part of the process of achieving corporate goals. Appian empowers more than 2.5 million users globally and has a strong customer base in the government, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and telecommunications industries. Appian is headquartered in the Washington D.C. region, with professional services and partners around the globe. www.appian.com
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Appnomic Systems develops advanced Application Infrastructure Performance Management and Data Center Operations Automation software as a service that enable enterprise IT professionals to massively change the game for business application performance. We deliver IT Early Warnings™ about impending service degradation or outages so IT operation professionals gain more time to prevent problems.
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AppSense is the leading provider of user virtualization technology to enterprise organizations. User virtualization is a way of managing user-specific information independent of the desktop, and applying this information into any desktop (local install, virtualized, published, streamed etc) on-demand. This enables IT to standardize the desktop build, automate desktop and application delivery, and migrate users to new desktops – all while ensuring the user experience is seamless, personal, predictable and easily manageable. www.appsense.com | ||||
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Apress Business books cover a wide variety of topics ranging from IT, management, finance, regulation, trends, investing, current events, legal issues, metrics, technical analysis, and project management. In Apress’s latest book CIOs at Work, noted author Ed Yourdon interviews many of the world's most influential chief information officers. For more information visit www.apress.com/ciosatwork. |
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 | China Telecom Americas is an international telecom provider of Data, IP and Voice Wholesale services for multinational enterprises operating mission critical operations and applications in China/Asia Pacific. China Telecom Americas, headquartered in the United States, provides everything from China domestic and international data circuits to IDC services, network management and systems integration and are licensed to sell domestic China telecommunication services in the Americas. www.ctamericas.com | ||||
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Crowe Horwath LLP (www.crowehorwath.com) is one of the largest public accounting and consulting firms in the United States. Under its core purpose of “Building Value with Values®,” Crowe assists public and private company clients in reaching their goals through audit, tax, advisory, risk and performance services. With 26 offices and 2,400 personnel, Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Horwath International, one of the largest networks in the world, consisting of more than 140 independent accounting and management consulting firms with offices in more than 400 cities around the world. |
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FrontRange is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT Service Management, IT Asset Management, and Customer Service Management solutions. These solutions enable IT and Services Transformation by providing Enterprise-class capabilities that deliver fast time to benefit, high ease of use, and rapid return on investment. With an award winning tradition and recognized as a leader by industry analysts, FrontRange’s products and solutions are used by over 13,000 customers in more than 80 verticals and 45 countries globally. For more information, call 800.776.7889 or visit www.frontrange.com. |
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Good Technology provides solutions that enable enterprises, government agencies, and their employees to securely and easily move between business and personal productivity on today’s most popular mobile devices, including iOS and Android. Good for Enterprise delivers secure email, collaboration, device and application management across a wide range of devices, whether company- or employee-owned. Only Good offers a secure container approach to preventing data loss, along with military grade encryption, both over the air and on device. Good also offers device manufacturers Good for You, a secure, white-label solution for creating custom messaging and social-media environments. Discover more at good.com. | ||||
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GT Nexus offers a cloud-based platform that the world's biggest companies use to drive efficiency and agility across the global supply chain. More than 15,000 organizations from all areas of the value chain are on GT Nexus today. Customers include Xerox, Liz Claiborne, Nestlé, DHL, Sears, Caterpillar, Kraft Foods and The Home Depot. www.gtnexus.com | ||||
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Interactive Business Systems, Inc., is a technology solutions and staffing company known for achieving business objectives through technology excellence. Our custom solutions include internet business applications, business process applications, application modernization, SharePoint solutions, mobile development and strategic staffing solutions. We offer flexible delivery options—onsite, offsite, offshore—to optimize each engagement. IBS has thirty years’ experience in providing IT services and solutions and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. www.ibs.com. |
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The ISACA-Chicago Chapter is dedicated to serving the educational and career needs of over 1,500 IT, audit, compliance and security professionals in the greater Chicagoland area. ISACA-Chicago provides training and networking events such as conferences, seminars, and certification exam review courses focusing on a variety of topics including IT governance, information security, auditing, and regulatory compliance. To learn more about the ISACA-Chicago Chapter, please visit: http://www.isaca-chicago.org/ or email info@isaca-chicago.org. | ||||
 | The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)® Chicago Chapter offers a stimulating combination of discussion forums, networking opportunities, training, and other events that are designed to enhance the understanding of information security and career development for our members. Monthly meetings, special events, the ISSA Journal, and subsidies for security training are highlights of Chapter membership. https://issa-chicago.org/ | ||||
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