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
Presenting Sponsors
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 215,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$21.6 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2010. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
Learn more at www.accenture.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
National Sponsors
Micro Focus International plc (Micro Focus®; LSE: MCRO.L) is the leading provider of enterprise application management and modernization solutions. Micro Focus provides solutions that enable organizations to:
- Significantly reduce the costs of operating and managing mission-critical enterprise applications
- Increase the productivity of development teams
- Enable a greater focus on innovation and development of new solutions and features
- Improve business agility and significantly improve the time-to-market of new solutions and products
Micro Focus has more than 30 years of expertise, more than 18,000 customers, more than two million licensed users, more than 30 million end users and 91 of the Fortune Global 100 companies. Micro Focus has over 1100 employees worldwide with principal offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany and Japan.
Learn more at microfocus.com/
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
Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for managing global businesses, combining a lower cost of ownership with an innovative approach to business applications. Founded by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, Workday delivers unified Human Capital Management, Payroll, and Financial Management solutions designed for today’s organizations and the way people work. Delivered in the cloud leveraging a modern technology platform, Workday offers a fresh alternative to legacy ERP. More than 280 customers, spanning medium-sized organizations to Fortune 50 businesses, have selected Workday.
Learn more at www.workday.com
Local 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
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
CenturyLink Business is a choice of Fortune 500 companies, enterprises of all sizes, government agencies and educational organizations nationwide offering a comprehensive portfolio of data and voice networking communications solutions. CenturyLink is the third largest telecommunications company in the United States, and has one of the largest fiber footprints in the U.S. Visit CenturyLink.com/business to see why businesses, government agencies and educational organizations coast to coast rely on CenturyLink Business solutions.
Learn more at www.centurylink.com/business
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Good Technology provides solutions that enable enterprises, government agencies, and their employees to securely and easily move between business and personal productivity on today’s most popular mobile devices, including iOS and Android. Good for Enterprise delivers secure email, collaboration, device and application management across a wide range of devices, whether company- or employee-owned. Only Good offers a secure container approach to preventing data loss, along with military grade encryption, both over the air and on device. Good also offers device manufacturers Good for You, a secure, white-label solution for creating custom messaging and social-media environments. Discover more at good.com.
Learn more at www.good.com
HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work.
No other company offers as complete a technology product portfolio as HP. We provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world's most powerful supercomputer installations. This comprehensive portfolio helps us match the right products, services and solutions to our customers' specific needs.
Learn more at www.hp.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
SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to 10,000 customers in North America and Europe. With five million square feet of data center and operations space, SunGard assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors to prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime. Through direct sales and channel partners, we help organizations ensure their people and customers have uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do business.
Learn more at www.availability.sungard.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