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Tempered Networks is pioneering Identity-Defined Networking (IDN) and driving a new identity-based networking paradigm. Now, all networks, applications, and IoT devices can be cloaked, secured, micro-segmented, and mobile. IDN provides a simpler, faster and more flexible secure networking fabric to protect and network all connected things like never before.



Vonage is a leading provider of cloud communications services for business. Vonage transforms the way people work and businesses operate through a portfolio of cloud-based communications solutions that enable internal collaboration among employees, while also keeping companies closely connected with their customers, across any mode of communication, on any device.

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Citrix enables the secure and reliable delivery of applications and data over public, private or hybrid clouds or networks, to virtually any type of device. With annual revenue in 2015 of $3.28 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than 400,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn more at www.citrix.com.



Pluribus Networks provides fabric networking and analytics solutions that transform existing data center network infrastructures from being rigid, costly and complex, into a foundation for modern digital-centric businesses. Our Virtualization-Centric Fabric provides unprecedented insight, agility and security to create the industry’s only combined SDN and Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) offering for customers seeking to simplify operations, reduce OPEX and introduce applications online more rapidly.

 

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Cloudistics delivers superconverged cloud infrastructure to medium and large enterprises with its software-defined application cloud platform, natively converging network, storage, compute, virtualization, and management into a single solution to drive unprecedented simplicity in the datacenter. Customers can start with a base infrastructure and scale to multi-site and multi-geo infrastructures with predictable economics and performance. With proprietary secure virtual networking, elastic storage, and SaaS management, Cloudistics is the blueprint for application-optimized hybrid cloud infrastructures.


 

Dell EMC enables organizations to modernize, automate and transform their data center using industry-leading converged infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies. This provides a trusted foundation for businesses to transform IT, through the creation of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business through the creation of cloud-native applications and big data solutions. Dell EMC services its customers – including 98 percent of the Fortune 500 – with the industry’s broadest, most innovative infrastructure portfolio from edge to core to cloud


 

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform delivers the agility, pay-as-you-grow economics and operational simplicity of the public cloud, without sacrificing the predictability, security and control of on-premises infrastructure. Nutanix solutions leverage web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution that delivers any application at any scale.


 

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.

 

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ExtraHop is the global leader in real-time wire data analytics. The ExtraHop platform analyzes all L2-L7 communications, including full bidirectional transactional payloads. This provides the correlated, cross-tier visibility essential for today's complex and dynamic IT environments. The ExtraHop platform scales up to 40Gbps and deploys without agents in 15 minutes.

                   


Flexera is reimagining the way software is bought, sold, managed and secured. We view the software industry as a supply chain, and make the business of buying and selling software more transparent, secure, and effective. Visit us at www.flexera.com.


 

VeriStor harnesses deep expertise in today’s most advanced data center, security, networking, hybrid cloud, and big data technologies. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with our customers to make technology truly work for them. IT’s just who we are. Learn more at veristor.com.

                                                       

Zerto provides Resilience for Evolving IT™ by delivering automated, seamless Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for vSphere, Hyper-V, Azure and AWS. Zerto Virtual Replication delivers critical application availability in the event of a disaster while creating recovery points (RPO) of seconds and recovery times (RTO) of minutes with continuous replication.

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Darktrace is the world’s leading machine learning company for cyber security. Created by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, the Enterprise Immune System uses AI algorithms to automatically detect and take action against cyber-threats within all types of networks, including physical, cloud and virtualized networks, as well as IoT and industrial control systems. Darktrace requires no prior set-up, identifying advanced threats in real time. Headquartered in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK, Darktrace has 24 offices worldwide.

     

            

Extreme Networks delivers software-driven networking solutions that help IT departments everywhere deliver the ultimate business outcome: stronger connections with customers, partners and employees. Wired to wireless, desktop to datacenter, we 'go to the extreme' for our 20,000-plus customers in more than 80 countries, delivering 100% insourced support to organizations large and small.


                                                     
            


Haivision provides media management and video streaming solutions that help the world’s leading organizations communicate, collaborate and educate. Haivision is recognized as one of the most influential companies in video by Streaming Media and one of the fastest growing companies by Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500.
 


        
            

Kaseya is the leading provider of complete IT management solutions. Offered as an industry-leading cloud solution or on-premise software, Kaseya allows organizations to efficiently manage and secure IT in order to drive IT service and business success. Kaseya solutions currently manage over 10 million endpoints worldwide. Visit: http://www.kaseya.com/



                
            



Accelerate software innovation & quality while reducing waste & risk with Nexus Software Supply Chain solutions integrated in your continuous toolchain. www.sonatype.com



        
            

ThousandEyes is a Network Intelligence platform that delivers visibility into every network your organization relies on. Quickly and precisely pinpoint the root cause of problems—and then share your insights with your vendors and customers. Respond to issues before they impact customers, services and revenue - and ensure your business runs smoothly.

       


Veeam® recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Enterprise™, a business that must operate 24/7/365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged data and complete visibility.