CIO Perspectives Boston 2016
 
Thank you to our Boston Sponsors
UNDERWRITER
Dyn is a cloud-based Internet Performance company. Dyn helps companies monitor, control, and optimize online infrastructure for an exceptional end-user experience. Through a world-class network and unrivaled, objective intelligence into Internet conditions, Dyn ensures traffic gets delivered faster, safer, and more reliably than ever.  
NETSCOUT is a market leader in real-time service assurance and cybersecurity for today’s most demanding service provider, enterprise and government networks. NETSCOUT’s solutions continuously monitors the service delivery environment to identify performance issues and provides insight into network-based security threats, to quickly resolve issues that impact business disruptions and user experience.


EXECUTIVE CONNECTION
ClearSky Data’s global storage network simplifies the entire data lifecycle and delivers enterprise storage as a fully managed service. IT is now liberated from the treadmill of managing primary, backup and disaster recovery storage infrastructure, and empowered to access all data as if it were local, with on-demand scaling and agility. ClearSky delivers data where it’s needed, enterprise-ready and fully optimized to eliminate the cost and data center footprint of traditional storage solutions.
Delphix is the market leader in Data as a Service, which helps over 20% of the Fortune 100 accelerate application projects and migrations by 50%. Delphix provides DaaS as on-premises or cloud software that automatically and securely delivers the right data to the right team at the right time. 
Dropbox’s mission is to simplify the way people work together. With more than 500 million users around the world, we’re building the world’s simplest, most powerful collaboration platform. For more information, please visit https://www.dropbox.com/business
Hewlett Packard Enterprise helps companies accelerate, defines transformation and defies business as usual. Time to value defines success in today’s global markets. Stop by our booth and learn how to transform to a hybrid infrastructure, protect the digital enterprise, empower the data driven organization and enable workplace productivity.
TREAT YOUR SOFTWARE LIKE A PRODUCT
Seilevel provides services to help non-software Fortune 1000 companies treat their software projects like products. Seilevel helps companies to achieve business and IT alignment by increasing agility, managing software project portfolios, and eliminating gold plating within projects so that project teams can maximize revenue and time to market.
Slack is a messaging platform for teams that brings all communication together, creating a single unified archive accessible through powerful search. It integrates with dozens of popular services such as Twitter, Dropbox, Trello, Asana, Google Docs, JIRA, MailChimp, Stripe, Zendesk, and others to help consolidate and make sense of the ever-growing flows of data that confront modern teams. Based in San Francisco, with offices in Dublin, Melbourne, New York and Vancouver.

At WEI, we're passionate about solving our customers' technology problems and helping them drive their desired business outcomes. We believe in challenging the status quo and thinking differently.
A lot of companies can take today's technology and create a solution for you. We do more. We go further.


PARTNER SPONSORS
Apps Associates is a global IT and business services organization.  Our mission is to partner with customers and enable business improvement by streamlining business processes with advanced technology.  We innovate by constantly launching new services and solutions and we differentiate through our relentless attention to delivery excellence and customer care.  
BOARD International, provider of Business Intelligence and Performance Management software, enables companies worldwide to improve the effectiveness of their management decision making processes by unifying BI and CPM. Controlling operational and financial processes, BOARD’s programming-free toolkit enables enterprises to deploy analytics applications in a fraction of the time and cost.
CFN Services provides global IT platforms that simplify integration and accelerate performance of on-premise and cloud-based applications for an increasingly mobile world.  The company's award winning low-latency software defined networks and hybrid cloud solutions cost-effectively prepare its clients for the evolution of next-generation IT.  
ColoSpace operates four data centers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and is the largest privately owned data center and managed services operator in the region. Services include data center colocation, backup and storage, disaster recovery, managed security, Desktop-as-a-Service and enterprise cloud solutions. ColoSpace's solutions allow customers to improve operational performance, reduce costs, and rapidly scale their IT capabilities. ColoSpace provides 24x7 support in over 18 technical specialties.
Decision Lens (@DecisionLens) is cloud-based software that enables a comprehensive business process for strategically identifying, prioritizing, analyzing, and measuring which investments, projects, and resources will deliver the highest returns. Through advanced analytics and flexible, custom visualizations and scenarios, organizations can make selections and immediately see the trade-offs to move forward with confidence.
Masergy owns and operates the largest independent cloud networking platform, delivering fully-managed global networks, advanced managed security and cloud unified communication solutions to enterprises.
Since 2001, Masergy has delivered innovative technologies and unmatched customer service. We go beyond transforming IT, we are the benchmark for what enterprises expect from their service provider.
Mendix helps enterprises achieve their digital goals. Our digital innovation platform empowers customers to bring new products to market, digitize customer engagement, and automate unique business processes. Facilitating an iterative, collaborative approach, the platform brings business and IT together to build and deploy innovative applications at the speed of ideas.
Silver Peak helps enterprises and service providers flexibly and securely connect users to applications via the most cost-effective source of connectivity available. Silver Peak customers can quickly adopt an enterprise-grade WAN that leverages broadband Internet connectivity (also known as SD-WAN), while dramatically improving application performance and lowering costs.
Worksoft® is a leading global provider of automation software for business process validation (ABPV) and business process discovery (ABPD). Large-scale enterprises worldwide use Worksoft’s top ranked automation solutions to innovate faster, lower technology risk, reduce costs, improve execution quality, and deeply understand their real end-to-end business processes. Blue-chip companies across all industry sectors choose Worksoft to validate web, cloud, big data, mobile, and dozens of enterprise applications, including SAP®.


RESEARCH PARTNER

International Data Corporation (IDC) is the most experienced and trusted IT advisory firm in the market. Our global team of 1,100 analysts assist businesses around the world in digitally transforming their organizations. Our IT advisory services not only advise on the technologies underpinning digital transformation (e.g. cloud, analytics, IoT, mobility, 3D printing), but also on effectively leading Digital Transformation initiatives across both IT and the line of business. For over 50 years, IDC has provided strategic insights to help clients achieve their key business objectives. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world’s leading technology media, research, and events company.