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, 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 ModelTM, 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
Presenting Sponsors
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
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/
National Sponsors
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
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. It delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to browse and shop the Web securely. With its unmatched security expertise and commitment to innovation, McAfee empowers home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to comply with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities and continuously monitor and improve their security.
Learn more at www.mcafee.com
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/
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
AirWatch is a mobile security, device management and application management solution designed to deploy, secure, monitor, manage and support all mobile devices across an enterprise. AirWatch’s highly scalable, web-based solution provides a single, integrated view of an entire fleet of Apple iOS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows devices. With AirWatch, IT can automate the management and tracking of all mobile assets; reduce the cost and effort of device deployments; improve the technical support experience for device users; enable and enforce IT security and compliance policies that secure both the device and its data; and increase IT efficiencies and response times.
Learn more at www.Air-Watch.com
Apptio is the leading provider of on-demand IT Cost Transparency solutions. Apptio helps IT departments more effectively run the business of IT by providing visibility into the total cost of IT services in order to reduce cost, increase ROI on IT investments, enable fair and accurate cost allocation processes, and better communicate the value of IT to business counterparts. As the most advanced technology in IT Cost Transparency, Apptio enables customers to overcome the complexity of IT Financial Management with automated data collection, best practice cost modeling templates to get customers up and running in less than 30 days, powerful data analytics, and standardized reports aligned with common work flows. Apptio is working with leading companies such as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, BNP Paribas, Cisco, JP Morgan Chase, EMD Chemicals, and Starbucks to improve the efficiency and performance of IT.
Learn more at www.apptio.com
Business runs on IT. IT runs on BMC Software.
Business thrives when IT runs smarter, faster, and stronger. That's why the most demanding IT organizations in the world rely on BMC Software across both distributed and mainframe environments. Recognized as the leader in Business Service Management, BMC offers a comprehensive approach and unified platform that helps IT organizations cut cost, reduce risk, and drive business profit. For the four fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2009, BMC revenue was approximately $1.87 billion.
Learn more at www.bmc.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
CommVault is a rapidly growing, publicly-held software company that is dedicated 100 percent to comprehensive data and information management solutions. CommVault develops and distributes proven software and services for high performance data protection, information discovery and availability, and simplified management of data on complex storage networks. CommVault helps businesses, the public sector and service providers to protect, manage and access information with Backup, Archive, Replication, Search and Resource Management capabilities. Our single platform approach transforms the way companies manage and discover information, and is proven to reduce total cost-of-ownership, enhance IT agility, increase data recoverability, and mitigate risk.
Learn more at www.commvault.com
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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
GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration and collaboration among trading partners. Organizations worldwide, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the on-demand services on GXS Trading Grid® to extend supply chain networks, optimize product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. GXS Managed Services, GXS's B2B outsourcing solution, empowers customers with the expertise, technical infrastructure and program support to conduct B2B e-commerce with trading partners globally.
Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. GXS can be found on the Web at www.gxs.com, http://blogs.gxs.com/ and http://twitter.com/gxs.
Learn more at www.gxs.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
Informatica Corporation delivers data integration software and services to solve a problem facing most large organizations: the fragmentation of data across disparate systems. Informatica helps organizations gain greater business value from their information assets by integrating their enterprise data. Informatica's open, platform-neutral software reduces costs, speeds time to results, and scales to handle data integration projects of any size or complexity. With a proven track record of success that extends back to 1993, Informatica helps companies and government organizations of all sizes realize the full business potential of their enterprise data. That's why Informatica is known as the data integration company.
Learn more at www.informatica.com
Information Builders, Inc. – the standard for enterprise business intelligence (BI) – provides a unique blend of BI and enterprise integration solutions to help customers build the real-time enterprise. WebFOCUS, our flagship product, enables customers to deliver high value applications that drive better decision by everyone inside an organization and beyond. WebFOCUS allows companies to economically deploy BI on a large scale, while reducing total cost of ownership and eliminating redundant BI tools.
Information builders subsidiary, iWay Software –: the worldwide leader in adapter technology – enables companies to accelerate business integration by providing a foundation for business agility with a low cost of entry.
Learn more at www.informationbuilders.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
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
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
Headquartered in Camarillo, CA with East Coast operations in Boston, MA and offices nationwide, Providea Conferencing offers a full suite of Telepresence and high-definition video conferencing solutions along with comprehensive system and network design consultation and world-class 24/7 Real-Time support.
Founded in 1999 by veterans from the video conferencing and network carrier markets, the Providea team boasts years of experience in conferencing technologies, professional services, audiovisual design/build, multi-point bridging, network configuration and the best practices for successful deployment and utilization of these solutions.
We can custom-design our offerings according to each organizations application requirements and budget.
Learn more at www.provideaconferencing.com
QlikTech is a leader in Business Discovery — user-driven Business Intelligence (BI). QlikTech's powerful, accessible Business Discovery solution bridges the gap between traditional BI solutions and standalone office productivity applications. Its QlikView Business Discovery platform enables intuitive user-driven analysis that can be implemented in days or weeks. The in-memory associative search technology it pioneered allows users to explore information freely, rather than being confined to a predefined path of questions. QlikView Business Discovery works with existing BI applications and adds new capabilities: insight for everyone, zero-wait analysis, mobility, an app—like model, remixability and reassembly, and a social and collaborative experience.
Learn more at www.qlikview.com/us
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.net
Teradata is the world's largest company solely focused on data warehousing and integrated marketing management through database software, enterprise data warehousing, data warehouse appliances, and analytics. Teradata provides the best database for analytics with the architectural flexibility to address any technology and business need for companies of all sizes. Supported by active technology for unmatched performance and scalability, Teradata’s experienced professionals and analytic solutions empower leaders and innovators to create visibility, cutting through the complexities of business to make smarter, faster decisions. Simply put, Teradata solutions give companies the agility to outperform and outmaneuver for the competitive edge
Learn more at www.teradata.com
From the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, VMware IT Business Management (ITBM) solutions enable CIOs to have unprecedented visibility
into their cloud costs to make fact-based decisions. Our suite gives you financial discipline, SLA management capability and vendor governance for your entire
service portfolio.
Cloud is bringing in unprecedented innovation and change. This kind of change requires that IT leaders have visibility into their investments, manage expectations of their services and create governance frameworks for vendors. These processes need to work hand in hand to provide IT leaders a single pane of glass from which they can make fact based decisions. VMware ITBM suite is designed to simplify cloud management with the lens of business. Further by providing a common language for IT and the Business to measure and communicate, it creates transparency and trust in all IT Innovation.