IT Roadmap Conference and Expo Boston 2010
 
Sponsors & Expo
 
“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
mmcgoldrick@nww.com | 508.766.5459
 
Jennifer Sand, Regional Sales Director - Western Region
jsand@nww.com | 415.267.4513
 
 
Platinum Sponsors
   
A10
Netcordia
   
Netcordia
 
Netcordia
   
 
 
Ruckus Wireless
Ruckus Wireless
   
   
Ruckus Wireless
Ruckus Wireless
   
   
 
Sophos
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
Gold Sponsors 
Aerohive
 
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Aerohive
Aerohive
   
Alcatel-Lucent
 

Aerohive
 
   
 
 
   
   
 

 

 
 

 
 

 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 

 

 

 

   
Network Instrument
 


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Network Instrument
 
 
   
 
SonicWALL, Inc.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trusted Computing Group
 
 

 
 
 
   
 
 
Trusted Computing Group
 
 
 
   
       
 
Wildpackets
 
 
 

 

Sponsor Company Descriptions
A103Com Corp. - www.3com.com
3Com Corporation helps customers worldwide achieve business success by delivering high-quality, low-cost networking infrastructure solutions that enable the convergence of applications and emerging technologies into the network. Through its TippingPoint division, 3Com is a leading provider of network-based intrusion prevention systems that deliver in-depth application protection, infrastructure protection, and performance protection.

A10A10 Networks - www.a10networks.com
A10 Networks delivers high-performance and scalable solutions for Web Application Delivery. A10’s flagship AX Series are new generation server load balancers, confirmed to deliver twice the performance at half the price of incumbent solutions. The AX Series includes comprehensive Layer 4-7 features, SSL acceleration, hardware compression and RAM Cache, at a cost-effective price without additional licensing fees. AX Series benefits include faster Web response times, increased data center efficiency and an enhanced end user experience.
 
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A10Access Northeast - www.axsne.net
Access Northeast is a Colocation , Hosting & Managed Services Provider based in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Our Premier SAS 70 Type II Certified 20,000SF facility features high-density, raised floor data center space, a 200  seat capacity disaster recovery center and an enterprise-class private cloud & managed services platform.  Offering wide-area networking, professional services, data storage & backup solutions and server monitoring & management, Access Northeast customizes solutions to fit your business’ mission critical application requirements.
 
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A10AdvizeX Technologies - www.advizex.com
AdvizeX Technologies is a leading information technology provider of infrastructure and enterprise application solutions. AdvizeX combines the technical expertise of our consultants with the technologies from our strategic business partners to solve information technology issues impacting our clients' businesses.

AerohiveAerohive Networks - www.aerohive.com
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 - LucentAlcatel Lucent - www.alcatel-lucent.com
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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Alcatel -  LucentArcSight - 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.
 

Big Bang LLC - www.bigbangllc.com
Big Bang LLC is the creator of the Universal Imaging Utility (UIU) the worlds only true hardware-independent PC imaging software.  Used in conjunction with cloning applications such as Symantec Ghost, Altiris, Acronis, etc., the UIU allows you to create ONE Windows Image that can be deployed to any PC (laptop or desktop) in your entire environment.

 


China Unicom Americas - www.unicomamericas.com
China Unicom Americas is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Unicom Group. Headquartered in Los Angeles, China Unicom Americas provides a variety of international data networking, voice, IP and value added solutions to China, the wider Asia Pacific region and to the Americas and Europe.  China Unicom's vast global network covers more than 100 countries with direct connections and partnership agreements in place with more than 85 international carriers.
 
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Certeon - www.certeon.com
Certeon is the leader in virtualized WAN optimization. Certeon’s aCelera software is the first WAN optimization and application acceleration virtual appliance to deliver acceleration, scalability and manageability. It reduces application response time over the WAN and lowers network bandwidth requirements up to 95 percent without proprietary hardware appliances. The aCelera family of software-based solutions includes aCelera virtual appliance and aCelera Client for optimized desktop-to-data-center performance and aCelera Sync for efficient business continuity over the WAN.
 

ColoSpace - www.ColoSpace.com
ColoSpace is a leading provider of Application Hosting, Colocation, and Disaster recovery services in New England. Headquartered in Rockland, Massachusetts, ColoSpace operates a network of 6 Internet Data Centers (IDCs) throughout the region. From these IDCs ColoSpace deploys high availability services to firms located throughout the world. ColoSpace's customers include some of the largest firms in the Financial Services, Healthcare, and High Technology industries.Founded in 2001, ColoSpace is led by a team of industry veterans and has followed a path of exceptional growth and continuous profitability.

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.
 
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Entuity - www.entuity.com
Entuity is a leading provider of network management and service delivery solutions.   Entuity’s Eye-of-the-Storm (EYE) software allows IT organizations to achieve peak efficiency and performance from IT services while optimizing their existing IT infrastructure for Green IT initiatives and reduced CapEX/OpEX.  EYE delivers greater insight, control, and predictability of IT services turning network data into valuable business operational information.  EYE customers include:  Royal-Bank-of-Scotland, Perot Systems, University of Minnesota, Directv,  BMC Software, Columbia Sportswear.
 

ESET develops software solutions that deliver instant, comprehensive protection against evolving computer security threats.  ESET pioneered and continues to lead the industry in proactive threat detection. ESET NOD32 Antivirus is the heart of the virus and spyware detection in ESET Smart Security.  ESET Smart Security is an integrated antivirus, antispyware, antispam and personal firewall solution that combines accuracy, speed and a small system footprint.
 

ExtraHop - www.extrahop.com
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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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 - www.fortinet.com
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 - www.globalknowledge.com
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.
 

Infoblox - www.infoblox.com
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.
 

Internap - www.internap.com
Internap is an industry leader in helping businesses maximize the performance of their Internet-based applications. From e-commerce to online trading; from streaming video to online gaming; from social networking to cloud computing – Internap delivers The Ultimate Online Experience®.  With an extensive platform of data centers, Internet optimization services, managed hosting solutions and content delivery networks (CDN), Internap frees its customers to focus on their business, improve service levels, and lower the cost of IT operations.
 

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).
 

Microworks Computer Center - www.itlmicroworks.com
Micro Works is a trusted IT hardware, software, and solutions provider. We have serviced small/medium corporations, enterprise organizations, government, healthcare and educational clients for over 25 years! We carry all major product brands and provide elite service, world-class technical support, excellent pricing, and the innovative technology needed to keep your infrastructure running optimally. Micro Works can work with any budget to provide the solutions and expertise needed for business efficiency and to exceed operational goals.
 

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. 
 
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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.
 
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Netreo - www.netreo.com
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.
 
 

Network Instruments - www.networkinstruments.com
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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Network Systems Sales - www.networksystemssales.com
Network Systems Sales, a value-added reseller, delivers exceptional business solutions from leading vendors in network connectivity and information technology security.  Innovative product technologies include software tools for data discovery, collection and review; a software tool for regulatory compliance via level 3 auditing; software for management, control and encryption of data at rest and data in motion; a data access solution to maximize investment in network tools, solve tool deployment issues and share data sources; and emulation for testing  WAN applications.
 
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PAETEC - www.paetec.com
PAETEC personalizes communications for business-class customers across the United States.  We offer a comprehensive suite of data, voice, and IP services, as well as enterprise communications management software, network security solutions, CPE, and managed services.
 
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Palo Alto Networks™ - www.paloaltonetworks.com
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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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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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.
 


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.
 

Sophos - www.sophos.com
Sophos enables enterprises worldwide to secure and control their IT infrastructure. Our network access control, endpoint, web and email solutions simplify security to provide integrated defenses against malware, spyware, intrusions, unwanted applications, spam, policy abuse, data leakage and compliance drift. With over 20 years of experience, we protect over 100 million users in nearly 150 countries with our reliably engineered security solutions and services. Sophos is headquartered in Boston, MA and Oxford, UK.
 

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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Trusted Computing GroupSunGard - www.sungard.com
SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to more than 10,000 customers in North America and Europe. SunGard assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors to prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime. We help organizations ensure their people and customers have uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do business.

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Trusted Computing GroupTelecityGroup - www.TelecityGroup.com
TelecityGroup is Europe’s industry leading provider of premium network independent data centres offering a range of flexible, scalable data centre and managed services. TelecityGroup specialises in the design, build, and management of highly connected and secure environments in which customers can house their technical, web and internet infrastructure. Each of its data centres acts a connectivity and content hub facilitating the storage, sharing and distribution of data, content and media. Headquartered in London, TelecityGroup operates 23 network independent data centres across seven European countries. The data centres are located in prime positions for commerce and connectivity, including Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Manchester, Milan, Paris and Stockholm.

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Trusted Computing GroupTowerstream - www.towerstream.com
Towerstream is a leading fixed 4G service provider in the U.S., delivering high-speed Internet access to businesses. Founded in 2000, the Company has established networks in ten markets including New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Miami, Seattle, Dallas-Fort Worth, and the greater Providence area where the company is based. The company has won numerous awards for its high-speed wireless services and was the first carrier selected to join the WiMAX Forum.


Trusted Computing GroupTrusted 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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Trusted Computing GroupVeroxity - www.veroxity.com
Veroxity is a leading Telecommunications company that delivers agile, customized data and Internet connectivity solutions. With a robust fiber optic network and a diverse dual-POP architecture, Veroxity has the expertise and flexibility to design your networking solutions, as well as the established infrastructure to protect them. Veroxity provides one point of contact for all of their data network solutions to many prominent corporations in the Greater Boston area.
 

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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