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2017 Sponsors
 

GAME CHANGER            

            
   



AT&T Inc. is a global leader in communications and a recognized leader in Business-related voice and data services, including global IP services, hosting, applications, and managed services. Businesses all over the world, deploy AT&T services to improve productivity, manage overall costs, and position themselves to take advantage of future technology enhancements.





IBM is a globally integrated technology and consulting company headquartered in Armonk, New York. IBM Cloud is designed for the enterprise and has the technology and experience to help you harness the power of cloud to transform your business and IT.  IBM Cloud capabilities can be used together to design, deploy and deliver your entire mobile application portfolio with a single, full-featured development program. IBM’s enterprise class cloud computing capabilities provide choice with consistency, devOps productivity and powerful, accessible analytics to help you reduce costs, improve service delivery, enable business innovation and empower collaboration. 

     

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. 



INNOVATOR



Kaspersky Lab is the world’s largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions. Throughout its 15-year history Kaspersky Lab has remained an innovator in IT security and provides effective digital security solutions for consumers, SMBs and Enterprises. Kaspersky Lab has over 2,500 employees, including more than 800 research and development specialists. For further information about the company: www.kaspersky.com

Oracle offers a comprehensive and fully integrated stack of cloud applications and platform services. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

   
  Pluribus Networks provides Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) solutions for the data center.

   
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.

CONTRIBUTOR





            

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.

 


Cumulus Networks is leading the transformation of bringing web-scale networking to enterprise cloud. Its network switch, Cumulus Linux, is the only solution that allows you to affordably build and efficiently operate your network like the world’s largest data center operators, unlocking vertical network stacks.

 


At Mojo Networks, we’re shaking up the Enterprise WiFi industry. We know that customers are ready for a modern WiFi network that doesn’t rely on outdated controllers and proprietary hardware. Our cloud-managed WiFi solution is based on a radical vision for creating networks that reach new heights in performance, security, scalability, and ease-of-use.

 


RingCentral is the leading provider of cloud-based business communications and collaboration solutions. Easier to manage, more flexible and cost-efficient than legacy, on-premise systems, RingCentral’s cloud solutions meet the needs of distributed and mobile workforces.

                      


Whitlock is a video collaboration company that provides strategy, management, technologies and support to the world's largest and most innovative businesses. We believe face-to-face collaboration creates stronger relationships and makes way for both business and personal success. What we give to a customer is the ability to connect, work together and share ideas with each other and the world, with a reliable video experience every time. Whitlock serves customers across the U.S. and worldwide through the Global Presence Alliance.




EDITOR'S PANEL

                   

One of the world’s fastest-growing DDI vendors, EfficientIP helps organizations drive business through agile, secure and reliable network infrastructures. The SOLIDserver™ suite of hardware and virtual appliances serves customers across the globe, delivering DNS security solutions, VLAN and IP address management, as well as extensive DNS and DHCP management.

                   

Flexera Software helps enterprises increase the usage and value they derive from the software they purchase. Our next-generation software licensing, compliance and installation solutions help future-proof your business against technology changes, optimize your software investments and prevent unexpected costs and risks by enabling continuous license compliance, and ensuring software is readily available when and where needed.

          

Viptela is the largest deployed software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) company. Viptela SD-WAN technology cuts WAN operating costs by 50%, increases bandwidth 10x, and, significantly improves network security and uptime. Viptela is deployed at 30 Fortune-500 companies including healthcare, retail, banking and energy companies; and Verizon and Singtel deliver managed-services based on Viptela’s Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) technology. 

                                                       

Zerto is committed to keeping enterprise and cloud IT running 24/7 by providing innovative, simple, reliable and scalable business continuity software solutions. Through the Zerto Cloud Continuity Platform, organizations can seamlessly move and protect virtualized workloads between public, private and hybrid clouds. Zerto Virtual Replication has become the standard for protection, recovery and migration of applications. www.zerto.com

NETWORKING


Comcast Business offers Internet, Ethernet, Voice and TV for businesses. Built for business, services are delivered over a diverse, private network – the nation’s leading alternative to the phone company. With Internet speeds up to seven times faster than DSL and Ethernet that provides carrier-grade data and Internet services, at speeds up to 10 GBPS, businesses will find the solution they need. Business Voice offers a variety of options like voice lines, PRI trunks and Business VoiceEdgeTM – our virtual PBX solution. And Business TV will keep customers entertained. Customers also value the 24x7 dedicated business support everywhere: phone, web and online.

            

DivIHN is a holistic Business Technology Consulting organization with multiple domains of specialization, and services delivered with Excellence and Grace. We create value for customers through our M&A IT Integration, IT Rationalization, Enterprise Architecture, as well as IBM software and services, namely IBM Bluemix, SmartCloud Connections, IoT, Kenexa and Watson Analytics.  

            

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.

                         
                   
                     

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.






Ixia provides testing, visibility and security solutions, strengthening applications across physical and virtual networks for enterprises and governments, service providers, and network equipment manufacturers.

Customers worldwide trust Ixia to verify their designs, optimize their performance, and ensure protection of their networks to make their applications stronger.

 




With nearly 20 years of experience and more than 70,000 Digital Marketing and IT placements across various industries, Mondo always has a finger on the pulse of the latest trends, talent updates, and what businesses need to know to stay competitive. We match businesses across the country with the tech professionals they need and provide invaluable resources and services to help them meet all of their short-term and long-term technology and digital marketing goals.


 

OmniCenter provides single-pane-of-glass dashboard views into the entire IT enterprise. Infrastructure, telephony, applications, email, virtualization and cloud services – all on one beautifully crafted screen, along with powerful incident management functions and automated reporting. It’s appliance-based (hardware, virtual or cloud-based) with no clients, agents, or probes – so implementation is a breeze. We use a simple, consumption-based subscription model in which all modules, functionality, and support are embedded into one low fee. No surprises. No terms. No hassles.


 

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.

                                    



At Paessler, our goal is to simplify the daily work of IT professionals. To do this, we offer them a monitoring solution that empowers them to manage their networks in a smart way and to ensure that their business-critical IT infrastructure is running smoothly with 100% uptime. 150,000 IT Pros worldwide, have used PRTG Network Monitor to make their networks faster, more responsive, and more reliable.





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.