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
For nearly a century, IBM has helped business 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, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled, infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is 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 a global footprint and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India.
Learn more at www.tcs.com
National 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
Compuware APM is the industry’s leading solution for optimizing the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience, Compuware APM provides the market’s only unified APM coverage across the entire application delivery chain, from the edge of the internet through the cloud to the datacenter. Compuware APM customers deliver proactive problem resolution for greater customer satisfaction; they accelerate time to market for new application functionality; and they reduce application management costs through smarter analytics and advanced APM automation.
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
Avanade provides business technology solutions and managed services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft® technologies to help customers realize results. Our people have helped thousands of organizations in all industries improve business agility, employee productivity, and customer loyalty. Avanade combines the collective business, technical and industry expertise of its worldwide network of experts with the rigor of an industrialized delivery model to provide high quality solutions using proven and emerging technologies with flexible deployment models—on premises, cloud-based or outsourced. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation and has approximately 15,000 professionals in more than 20 countries.
Learn more at www.avanade.com
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
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
BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include networked IT services; local, national and international telecommunications services; higher-value broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale.
Learn more at www.btglobalservices.com
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Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services. Cognizant’s single-minded passion is to dedicate our global technology and innovation know-how, our industry expertise and worldwide resources to working together with clients to make their businesses stronger. With over 50 global delivery centers, we combine a unique global delivery model infused with a distinct culture of customer satisfaction. A member of the NASDAQ-100 Index and S&P 500 Index, Cognizant is a Forbes Global 2000 company and a member of the Fortune 1000 and is ranked among the top information technology companies in BusinessWeek’s Hot Growth and Top 50 Performers listings.
Learn more at www.cognizant.com
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CyrusOne is a leader in high availability, high density data center services, providing colocation and implementation services for many Fortune 500 companies in the healthcare, energy and financial industries. We help businesses optimize returns on technology investments while ensuring application availability, data security and superior IT performance.
Learn more at www.cyrusone.com
Over the past 26 years, Dell has played a central role in transforming computing worldwide. Today, Dell is transforming itself from the company that redefined value and expanded access to computing products into one that is revolutionizing the way technology works for people and organizations. It is doing so by listening to customers and using that insight to create innovative solutions that make technology simpler and deliver reliable, long-term value. Dell is increasing its reach to customers by offering products and services directly, through authorized resellers and in thousands of retail outlets worldwide.
Learn more at www.dell.com
Deloitte Consulting LLP combines deep technology experience with practical business strategy to help clients get more from their SAP investments. We bring an unmatched range of capabilities to bear on mobility challenges, drawing on the experiences of our professionals in consulting, financial advisory services, tax and risk management worldwide. For organizations that understand the importance of implementing mobility strategies that work in lock step with their overarching business strategies, we can help. Ask us how we can help you move beyond basic implementation and improvement to achieve your most important business goals with mobility. Visit us at deloitte.com/sap or email us at SAP@Deloitte.com.
Learn more at www.deloitte.com/sap
Digital Realty Trust, Inc is the world's largest wholesale datacenter provider. The Company is focused on providing Turn-Key Datacenter® and Powered Base Building® datacenter solutions for domestic and international tenants across a variety of industry verticals ranging from information technology and Internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services. Digital Realty Trust's 84 properties, excluding one property held as an investment in an unconsolidated joint venture, contain applications and operations critical to the day-to-day operations of technology industry tenants and corporate enterprise datacenter tenants. Comprising approximately 14.9 million rentable square feet including 1.8 million square feet of space held for redevelopment, Digital Realty Trust's portfolio is located in 27 markets throughout North America and Europe.
Learn more at www.digitalrealtytrust.com
ExtraHop Networks is a leading provider of network and application performance management (APM) solutions. The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system is the industry’s first completely passive network appliance that provides application-level visibility with no agents, configuration, or overhead. The ExtraHop system gives organizations, including Expedia, Kohl’s, Nintendo, GSA, Adobe, and Motorola, a complete picture of the performance of their business-critical applications in real time. Jesse Rothstein and Raja Mukerji, engineering veterans from F5 Networks, founded the privately held company in early 2007. ExtraHop Networks is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and funded by Madrona Venture Group and other private investors.
Learn more at www.extrahop.com
Founded in 1971, Forsythe serves as an information technology infrastructure integrator, helping organizations across all industries, including Fortune 1000 companies, solve business problems through technology. Acting as a trusted, independent advisor, Forsythe provides technology and business consulting services, technology leasing services, and value-added reseller services for all the leading technology product manufacturers. Headquartered in Skokie, Illinois, Forsythe employs over 800 people in more than 40 offices throughout the United States and Western Canada and is 100-percent employee-owned. In 2006, Forsythe achieved its 36th consecutive year of profitability with revenues of over $604 million.
Learn more at www.forsythe.com
Established in 1976, HCL is a $6 billion organization with over 85,000 professionals across 31 countries servicing 480 Global customers including 20% Fortune 100 companies offering End-To-End IT Services including ADM and Infrastructure Services, BPO and R&D.
HCL’s Infrastructure Services which is the fastest growing service line of HCL, manages over 3 Mn devices; resolving over 10 Mn helpdesk calls while being responsible for the infrastructure needs of over 1.7 Mn business users. HCL Infrastructure Services offering key service offerings include Data Center and Mainframe Services, End User Computing Services, Security & Network Services and Cross Functional Services both across traditional delivery models and the Cloud.
Learn more at www.hcltech.com
HP (NYSE: HPQ) creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure at the convergence of the cloud and connectivity, creating seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world.
Learn more at www.hp.com
iGATE Patni provides full-spectrum consulting, technology, business process and product engineering outsourcing services through our unique Business Outcomes-based model. Armed with over three decades of IT Services experience and our distinctive philosophy of ‘Accountable for Clients’ Business’ powered by the iTOPS (Integrated Technology and Operations) platform, our multi-location global organization consistently delivers effective solutions to over 350 Fortune 1000 client across verticals like: banking & financial services; insurance & healthcare; life sciences; manufacturing, retail, distribution & logistics; media, entertainment leisure & travel; communication, energy & utilities; public sector; and ISVs.
iGATE Patni capitalizes on the strength of combined synergies and core capabilities including: deep domain and delivery expertise; focus on micro-verticals; suites of IP-led solutions, methodologies and frameworks; technology alliances and service partnerships; secure & scalable delivery infrastructure across geographies; and mature quality management based on ISO, SEI-CMMi, Six Sigma, ITIL and COPC standards; to be an effective and reliable transformation partner to our varied client base.
Learn more at www.igate.com
Knowledge Infusion is a world class HR consulting organization, focused on driving change in the industry. We provide traditional and on-demand advisory and consulting services focused on HR, talent acquisition, talent management, talent intelligence, and enterprise collaboration, helping clients transform people, process, and technology to drive business results. With over 300 clients worldwide, Knowledge Infusion has been recognized as one of the fastest growing private companies in the nation with the INC 500/5000 award, and is part of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal Fast Fifty.
Learn more at www.knowledgeinfusion.com
L&T Infotech is a part of L&T, a USD 11.7 billion company, having presence in engineering, manufacturing and financial services. It is ranked as 9th largest software & services exporter from India by NASSCOM. We offer end-to-end technology solutions and services in Insurance, Banking & Financial Services, Energy & petrochemicals, Manufacturing and Product engineering services (Telecom).
New thrust areas include cloud computing, enterprise mobility, infrastructure management, testing, BIDW, and Unitrax - wealth management platform.
Our unique brand differentiation is ‘Business-to-IT Connect’ which enables us to convert the business knowledge inherited from our parent company, into a winning edge for clients.
Learn more at www.lntinfotech.com
Motorola Solutions is a leading provider of mission-critical communication products
and services for enterprise and government customers. We help our customers be their best in the
moments that matter by connecting them to seamless communication networks, applications and
services, by providing them with real-time information, and by arming them with intuitive, nearly
indestructible handheld devices
Learn more at www.motorolasolutions.com
With more than 100,000 customers, salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company that is leading the shift to the social enterprise. Social enterprises leverage social, mobile and open cloud technologies to put customers at the heart of their business. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multitenant architecture, the company's platform and application services allow customers to:
• Create employee social networks with Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce Rypple and Salesforce Force.com.
• Develop customer social networks with the Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce Data.com, Salesforce Service Cloud, and Salesforce Site.com.
• Connect with customers on public social networks with Salesforce Heroku and Salesforce Radian6.
• Empower small business to become social enterprises with Salesforce Desk.com and Salesforce Do.com.
• Extend a company's social enterprise with apps from the leading enterprise app marketplace, AppExchange.
• Run apps on Database.com, the first social enterprise database.
Learn more at www.salesforce.com
Savvis helps customers around the world with hosted IT solutions and cloud infrastructure. In fact, more than 2,500 unique customers, including more than 30 percent of Fortune 100 companies, use Savvis to reduce capital expense, improve service levels and harness the latest advances in cloud computing.
We offer flexible, holistic solutions that fit changing needs. We are 100 percent focused on IT infrastructure. And we have a highly credentialed team with the expertise and global footprint to help customers reach their business goals.
Learn more at www.savvis.com
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
Stream Data Centers develops and operates data center facilities for corporate users, including fully-commissioned Private Data Centers and powered-shell Ready-to-Fit Data Centers. Stream Data Centers has a twelve-year track record of providing space for enterprise data center users including Apple, AT&T, The Home Depot, Nokia and others. During that time, Stream has acquired and developed more than 1.3 million square feet of data center space in Texas, California and Colorado, representing more than 120 megawatts of power.
The company’s most recent development is a purpose built, structurally enhanced 72,500-square-foot Private Data Center in Richardson, Texas, scheduled for completion in spring 2012. Stream Data Centers is also currently active in the Houston, San Antonio and Denver markets.
Learn more at www.streamdatacenters.com
Teradata is the world's largest company focused on integrated data warehousing, big data analytics, and business applications. Our powerful solutions portfolio and database are the foundation on which we’ve built our leadership position in business intelligence and are designed to address any business or technology need for companies of all sizes. Only Teradata gives you the ability to integrate your organization’s data, optimize your business processes, and accelerate new insights like never before. The power unleashed from your data brings confidence to your organization and inspires leaders to think boldly and act decisively for the best decisions possible.
Learn more at www.teradata.com
Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq: WIN) is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to more than 450,000 customers nationwide. The company combines next-generation services and industry-leading technology to deliver smart solutions with personalized service. Windstream has more than $6 billion in annual revenues and is listed on the S&P 500 index.
Learn more at www.windstreambusiness.com
Registration Sponsor
World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT) is a leading Systems Integrator providing technology products, services, and supply chain solutions to customers around the globe. WWT understands today’s advanced technologies, including Unified Communications, Security, Data Center, Wireless Mobility and eCommerce. When properly planned, procured, and deployed, these business solutions reduce costs, increase profitability and ultimately improve a company’s ability to effectively serve their customers.
By engaging WWT to manage their planning, procurement and deployment processes, our customers benefit from our certified technology professionals, nationwide logistics facilities and a suite of eCommerce applications designed to greatly simplify the supply chain.
Founded in 1990, WWT has grown from a small startup to a world-class organization exceeding $3 billion in revenue and over 1,600 highly trained employees. WWT continues to achieve consistent financial growth and provide our partners with uncommon strength and stability.
Learn more at www.wwt.com