Sponsors
To learn more about sponsorship opportunities and if your organization has been nominated to participate, please contact our conference facilitators.
Please note:
Nominated partners who elect not to sponsor may not otherwise attend the conference. Qualified partner organizations may, however, submit a request for an invitation for their CIO to attend as a conference attendee.
Partner of the Year
IBM is the world's leading information technology company, with 80 years of experience helping businesses innovate and deliver increased value. IBM helps clients solve their most pressing issues by combining forward thinking, business insight, research and industry experience with the latest technologies. Discover how IBM works with CIOs to build smarter enterprises by offering a full portfolio of instrumented, interconnected and intelligent solutions.
Learn more at www.ibm.com/CIO
For over 35 years, Intel Corporation has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971. Today, Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking and communications products. These products are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems.
Learn more at www.intel.com
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development.
A part of the Tata Group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 160,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants in 42 countries. The Company generated consolidated revenues of over US $6.3 billion for fiscal year ended 31 March 2010 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India.
Learn more at www.tcs.com
National Presenting Sponsors
Apptio is the leading independent provider of on-demand Technology Business Management (TBM) solutions for managing the business of IT. Apptio enables IT leaders to manage the cost, quality and value of IT Services by providing deep visibility into the total cost of IT services, communicating the value of IT to the business through an interactive "Bill of IT," and strategically aligning the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes. Apptio's TBM solutions play a critical role in helping companies understand and drive chargeback, virtualization, cloud and other key technology initiatives. Global enterprise customers such as Bank of America, Boeing, Cisco, Clorox, Coca-Cola, Facebook, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, St. Luke's Health System, and Swiss Re rely on Apptio to manage more than $72 billion in annual IT spending.
For more information, visit the Apptio website or the Apptio blog: www.apptio.com.
Learn more at www.apptio.com
Presenting Sponsors
Sprint's Business Markets Group is composed of sales, support, marketing and operations personnel solely dedicated to enterprise, small and medium-sized businesses and public sector customers. Sprint BMG delivers wireless, wireline and converged solutions for companies, drawing on its 3G wireless network, 4G capabilities, push-to-talk network, first-tier Global IP network and a comprehensive solutions portfolio of devices and applications, including solutions for:
• Workforce Mobility
• Mobile Computing
• Workplace Convergence
• Machine-to-Machine (M2M)
Learn more at www.sprint.com/business
National Sponsors
BlackBerry Enterprise Solution by Research In Motion
The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution(TM) provides a complete wireless connectivity platform for keeping mobile professionals connected to people and information. It provides users with wireless access to a full suite of productivity enhancing tools, including email, applications, Internet and intranet, phone, SMS and organizer features.
Learn more at www.blackberry.com
Founded in 1973, Compuware Corporation provides software, experts and best practices to ensure applications work well and deliver business value. Compuware solutions optimize application performance across the Enterprise and the Internet for leading organizations around the world, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies, and 12 of the 20 most-visited web sites. We enable our customers to increase revenue, protect brand value and boost customer satisfaction by optimizing performance across the entire application delivery chain.
Learn more at www.compuware.com
Google's Enterprise products bring Google technology and innovation to organizations. Google Apps offers simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools for any size business — all hosted by Google to streamline setup, minimize maintenance, and reduce IT costs.
Learn more at www.google.com/a
PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders. More than 130,000 people in 148 countries work collaboratively using connected thinking to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice.
Learn more at www.pwc.com
With innovative technology solutions and services, Symantec helps individuals and enterprises protect and manage their digital assets. Symantec provides a wide range of solutions including enterprise and consumer security, data management, application and infrastructure management, security management, storage and service management, and response and managed security services.
Symantec is the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals and enterprises assure the security, availability, and integrity of their information. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries.
Learn more at www.symantec.com
Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ), is a global leader in communications and IT solutions. We combine professional expertise with one of the world's most connected IP networks to deliver award-winning communications, IT, information security and network solutions. We securely connect today's extended enterprises of widespread and mobile customers, partners, suppliers and employees - enabling them to increase productivity and efficiency and help preserve the environment. Many of the world's largest businesses and governments - including 96 percent of the Fortune 1000 and thousands of government agencies and educational institutions - rely on our professional and managed services and network technologies to accelerate their business.
Learn more at www.verizonbusiness.com
VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven virtualization solutions that reduce IT complexity. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere™ – VMware enables organizations to transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments. VMware solutions enable more efficient, agile IT service delivery without compromising control. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, VMware has more than 170,000 customers and 25,000 partners worldwide.
Learn more at www.vmware.com
Local Sponsors
Advocate Networks, an Inc. 5000 management consulting firm, is focused on strategy and planning for global communications, mobility, data centers, contact centers, and telecom managed services. From developing future-state network roadmaps to optimizing current communications systems, Advocate Networks creates solutions that accelerate business decisions through a financial, operational and technical perspective leveraging best practices and market intelligence. Founded in 2001, Advocate Networks has transformed client's technology and communications challenges into a strategic advantage for over 400 enterprise companies and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. For additional information, visit www.advocatenetworks.com.
Learn more at www.advocatenetworks.com
Aerohive helps simplify networking by reducing the cost and complexity of distributed enterprise deployments with cloud-enabled networking solutions. These solutions, based on our unique distributed intelligence architecture, include enterprise-class Wi-Fi access points and revolutionary, easy-to-deploy routers.
Learn more at www.aerohive.com
Blue Coat Systems is a leading provider of web security and WAN Optimization solutions that secure and optimize the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. Distributed enterprises view the network and business-enabling applications as critical to their success. Unfortunately, they are struggling to keep pace in a rapidly changing business environment which can compromise their competitiveness. Blue Coat offers unmatched visibility into the performance and security of business applications and web traffic, which provides the comprehensive application and user control required to contain costs, enhance business productivity and respond a rapidly changing business environment. With this intelligence, the enterprise is able to tightly align network investments with business objectives, speed decision making and secure business applications for a long-term competitive advantage. Blue Coat also enables service providers to save bandwidth and improve end-user web experiences with carrier-grade caching solutions that support managed security and WAN Optimization services.
Blue Coat has an aggressive strategy and solution roadmap to advance the integration of web security, WAN Optimization and cloud services at the heart of the Application Delivery Network. Blue Coat is trusted by more than 15,000 customers worldwide, including 88% of the Fortune® Global 500.
Learn more at www.bluecoat.com
CentriNet is the Southeast's virtualization technology experts, focused on desktop, application, and server virtualization. With the highest level of certifications in all the major virtualization technologies, including Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware, our engineers and consultants are the best in the business. We deliver customized IT solutions that make your business more agile, flexible, and cost effective.
As a leading provider of virtualization and the enabling technologies of network connectivity, centralized computing, operational environments, and support services, CentriNet prides itself on integrating a wide range of technologies into customized solutions that solve specific business challenges.
Learn more at www.centrinetcorp.com
Learn more at www.csc.com
Fujitsu is a leading provider of ICT-based business solutions for the global marketplace with consolidated revenues of US$50 billion for the fiscal year 2009. Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers.
Fujitsu Interstage Business Process Manager is the leading solution for the next generation of Business Process Management (BPM), Agile BPM. In addition to the capabilities of traditional BPM, it addresses today's new requirements of BPM for continuous process optimization, collaborative process workflows, and extending processes among diverse constituent audiences.
Learn more at www.fujitsu.com
About Jive - The New Way to Business
Social Business is the new way to engage employees, customers and the social web. Jive's Social Business software combines the power of community software, collaboration software, social networking software and social media monitoring offerings into an integrated platform. Just as social technologies have changed our personal lives, Social Business is changing how enterprises create competitive advantage. Jive is a leading Social Business company that brings social innovations from the consumer world into enterprises securely and at scale. Jive is funded by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Learn more at www.jivesoftware.com
At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them. We run our business in much the same way, and believe our five business divisions offer the greatest potential to serve our customers. They are: Windows & Windows Live Division , Server and Tools, Online Services Division , Microsoft Business Division and the Entertainment and Devices Division. We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve our customers.
Learn more at www.microsoft.com
Okta is the market leading on-demand identity and access management service that enables enterprises to accelerate the secure adoption of their web based applications, both in the cloud and behind the firewall. Okta delivers a complete solution addressing the needs of IT, end users, and business leaders; no customization required.
With a catalog of pre-integrated applications and deep integration with Active Directory, Okta provides IT centralized user provisioning, access management, and reporting. Every end user gets a personalized, single sign-on home page for all of their applications, and business leaders get the insight they need to maximize ROI and track compliance.
Learn more at www.okta.com
Rimini Street delivers proven exceptional value in third-party support for enterprise software. The innovative, ultra-responsive support program allows Oracle and SAP licensees to save 50 percent in annual support fees, avoid expensive forced upgrades, and receive premium services that are not part of standard vendor support —including support for customizations at no extra cost.
Hundreds of global companies, including 48 of Fortune 500 and 12 of Global 100, and public sector organizations depend on Rimini Street as their trusted, expert, independent provider of enterprise software support, so they can apply more of their IT budgets to strategic business initiatives.
Learn more at www.riministreet.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). The company's portfolio of SaaS applications, including its award-winning CRM application, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that customers manage and share business information over the Internet. The company's Force.com PaaS enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy across the enterprise.
Learn more at www.salesforce.com
Vidyo’s groundbreaking video conferencing and collaboration solution allows a company or organization to offer its employees, partners and customers the ability to participate in exceptional telepresence-quality, face-to-face meetings whether they are on the road, at home, at the office, in a hotel room, or at a WiFi-enabled coffee shop!
Access a Vidyo conference via the Internet, LTE, 3G and 4G networks and get the level of quality that has only before been achieved with expensive high-maintenance dedicated networks and specialized equipment. Vidyo leverages off-the-shelf commodity hardware across rooms systems, PC and Mac-based desktops and laptops, and soon smart phones and tablets.
Vidyo simply requires an Internet connection, a webcam and a headset or speaker phone. With VidyoConferencing, telepresence-quality, multi-party videoconferencing (up to 50 participants on one conference) can be accessed by anyone, anywhere for pennies vs. dollars per minute.
Learn more at www.vidyo.com
Bring the power of social networking inside your company with Yammer — a private and secure social network for your business. With Yammer, you can share ideas, collaborate on projects, ask questions, find expertise, recognize coworkers, and solicit feedback from everyone in your company. Updates from your coworkers, projects, teams, and even other enterprise applications are pushed to you in real time across your devices so you always know what's going on. Yammer also lets you create separate networks to talk to external groups like customers, partners or vendors, so you can collaborate with important business contacts in a private, secure community. More than three million users from companies around the world — including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500 — are leveraging Yammer's enterprise social networking solution to run their businesses. Companies such as Deloitte, Ford Motor Company, Nationwide, 7-Eleven, Orbitz Worldwide, Rakuten, and Telefonica O2 have adopted Yammer. Connect with all of the people and information you need to do your job in one place. Work better. Together.
Learn more at www.yammer.com/