GAME CHANGER

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

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.

CONTRIBUTOR

Code42, the leader in cloud-based endpoint data security and recovery protects more than 39,000 organizations worldwide. Code42 enables IT and security teams to centrally manage and protect critical data for some of the of most recognized brands in business and education. From monitoring endpoint data movement and use, to meeting data privacy regulations, to simply and rapidly recovering from data incidents no matter the cause, Code42 is central to any organization’s data security strategy. Code42 is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN and backed by Accel Partners, JMI Equity, NEA and Split Rock Partners. 

DataCore is the leading provider of Software-Defined Storage and Adaptive Parallel I/O Software – harnessing today’s powerful and cost-efficient server platforms to overcome the IT industry’s biggest problem, the I/O bottleneck, in order to deliver unsurpassed performance, hyper-consolidation efficiencies and cost savings. Our comprehensive and flexible storage virtualization and hyper-converged virtual SAN solutions free users from the pain of labor-intensive storage management and provide true independence from solutions that cannot offer a hardware agnostic architecture. DataCore's SDS and Parallel I/O powered platforms revolutionize data infrastructure and serve as the cornerstone of the next-generation, software-defined data center – delivering greater value, industry-best performance, availability and simplicity.

EDITOR'S PANEL

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. 

NETWORKING

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.

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/