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 over a century, IBM has helped 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 interconnected technologies. Discover how today's clients are using smarter software, systems and services from IBM to help create a collaborative enterprise that leverages real time analytics, cloud computing and secure sustainable next generation data centers. In addition to reducing costs, improving service delivery and enabling business innovation, clients' businesses undergo the transformation needed to thrive on a Smarter Planet. Let's build a smarter planet.
Learn more at www.ibm.com/CIO
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
Presenting Sponsors
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect, and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted, and cost-efficient way.
Learn more at www.EMC.com
PwC helps organizations and individuals create the value they’re looking for. We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with more than 180,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. Tell us what matters to you and find out more by visiting us at www.pwc.com.
PwC refers to the PwC network and/or one or more of its member firms, each of which is a separate legal entity. Please see www.pwc.com/structure for further details.
Learn more at www.pwc.com
National Sponsors
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
Can you update Symantec's company description with the following: Symantec protects the world's information, and is a global leader in security, backup and availability solutions. Our innovative products and services protect people and information in any environment — from the smallest mobile device, to the enterprise data center, to cloud-based systems. Our world-renowned expertise in protecting data, identities and interactions gives our customers confidence in a connected world. More information is available at www.symantec.com or by connecting with Symantec at:go.symantec.com/socialmedia.
Learn more at www.symantec.com
VMware (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven solutions that accelerate IT by reducing complexity and enabling more flexible, agile service delivery. VMware enables enterprises to adopt a cloud model that addresses their unique business challenges. VMware’s approach accelerates the transition to cloud computing while preserving existing investments and improving security and control. With more than 500,000 customers and 55,000 partners, VMware solutions help organizations of all sizes lower costs, increase business agility and ensure freedom of choice.
Learn more at www.vmware.com
Local Sponsors
Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Since 1984, Cisco has led in the innovation of IP-based networking technologies, including routing, switching, security, TelePresence systems, unified communications, video, and wireless. The company's responsible business practices help ensure accountability, business sustainability, and environmentally conscious operations and products.
Learn more at www.cisco.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
Comcast Business Class offers a complete range of data, voice and video services for companies of all sizes. For mid-sized and larger organizations, Comcast offers highly reliable and scalable portfolios of Ethernet Services configurable from 1Mbps to 10Gbps and certified by the Metro Ethernet Forum. Combined with our voice solutions including Business Voice Edge — a cloud based voice and unified communications system, PRI and voice trunks, Comcast offers a cost effective and truly diverse portfolio of services delivered over America’s leading enhanced fiber network. Enterprise customers are also supported by highly trained and experienced specialists. For more information or to request a consultation, please visit business.comcast.com/enterprise.
Learn more at business.comcast.com/enterprise
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. Dell provides people, processes and technology to help create, improve or support an efficient IT organization. With over 100,000 global team members Dell is committed to provide expertise, infrastructure, support, applications and business processes to help organizations operate their IT more efficiently, proactively and securely.
Learn more at www.dell.com
In the United States, Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries have 45,000 professionals with a single focus: serving our clients and helping them solve their toughest problems. We work in four key business areas — audit, financial advisory, tax and consulting — but our real strength comes from combining the talents of those groups to address clients’ needs. Fortune and BusinessWeek consistently rank our organization among the best places to work, which is good news for our talent and our clients alike. When the best people tackle the most compelling challenges, everyone wins.
Learn more at www.deloitte.com
Emerging Markets Communications, Inc. (EMC) is a global satellite and terrestrial communications company specializing in delivering mission-critical, network services for the global energy industry, mobile network operators, carriers, governments, NGOs and worldwide enterprises with locations in the most remote and/or challenging areas of the world. As a proven industry leader, EMC enables customers the agility, scalability and efficiency designed to facilitate growth for their global operations. The company operates in 140 countries, with 26 global field support centers and wholly-owned infrastructure of teleports and terrestrial pops in US, Europe and Africa. EMC is financially backed by ABRY Partners; a firm specialized in funding the communications industry with $36 billion of completed transactions.
Learn more at www.emc-corp.net
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects businesses with partners and customers around the world through a global platform of high performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems and the broadest choice of networks. Platform Equinix is your DNA: Distributing Networks and Applications. We connect more than 4,000 enterprises, cloud, digital content and financial companies including more than 680 network service providers to help them grow their businesses, improve application performance, protect their vital digital assets and leverage the best technologies to solve business problems. Equinix operates in 38 strategic markets across North America, South America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. We continually invest in expanding our platform to power customer growth.
Learn more at www.equinix.com
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on ‘transformational outsourcing’, underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including Software-led IT solutions, Infrastructure management, Engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of ‘Employees First, Customers Second’ which empowers our 84,319 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 4.2 billion as on 30 June 2012 (on FY'12 basis).
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
INFODAT is a software consulting company with expertise in providing solutions in the Oil & Gas and Healthcare verticals. Our solutions encompass custom application development, Data Acquisition, Business Intelligence, Security Compliance and Risk Management. We work with RedSeal Networks, as a Reseller and Implementation Partner.
RedSeal Networks is the leading provider of risk management solutions that enable businesses and government agencies to visualize their security posture, continuously audit and monitor IT compliance and eliminate cyber threats. Using patented network visualization and predictive threat modeling, the RedSeal Platform helps enterprises better prioritize vulnerability remediation efforts, dramatically cut compliance costs and optimize their security architectures.
Learn more at www.redsealnetworks.com
Infosys Limited (NASDAQ: INFY) was started in 1981 by seven people with US$ 250. Today, we are a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing with revenues of about US$ 7 billion (FY12). Many of the world’s most successful organizations rely on Infosys to deliver measurable business value. Infosys provides business consulting, technology, engineering and outsourcing services to help clients in over 30 countries build tomorrow’s enterprise.
Our award-winning Infosys Labs and its breakthrough intellectual property can be leveraged as a co-creation engine to accelerate innovation across the enterprise. Infosys pioneered the Global Delivery Model (GDM), based on the principle of taking work to the location where the best talent is available, where it makes the best economic sense, with the least amount of acceptable risk. Continued leadership around GDM enables Infosys to drive extraordinary efficiencies and free up clients’ resources for strategic transformation or innovation initiatives.
Infosys has a global footprint with 65 offices and 74 development centers in US, India, China, Australia, Japan, Middle East, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Canada and many other countries. Infosys and its subsidiaries have 149,994 employees as on March 31, 2012.
Infosys takes pride in building strategic long-term client relationships. 97.8% of our revenues come from existing customers (FY 12). Infosys gives back to the community through the Infosys Foundation that funds learning and education.
Infosys is part of the NASDAQ-100 Index and The Global Dow.
Learn more at www.infosys.com
Performance excellence and client partnership. These two unwavering principles define iSphere as an IT services firm. Texas-based and results focused, iSphere supports mission-critical business goals through IT consulting and provides bright, diligent team members through IT staffing.
Through the rich experience of our senior IT consulting team, we help clients plan, build and manage mission critical technology systems, applications and environments.
Founded in 2000, iSphere is a long-time partner to numerous businesses across the energy, trading, healthcare, education and government sectors. The clients we began with years ago are still clients today because they know iSphere will deliver every time.
Learn more at www.isphere.net
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
KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm, is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International. Our purpose is to turn knowledge into value for the benefit of our clients, our people, and the capital markets. KPMG delivers a globally consistent set of multidisciplinary services based on deep industry knowledge, which enables our professionals to develop a rich understanding of clients' businesses and bring the insight, skills, and resources required to address their issues and opportunities.
KPMG International’s member firms have 137,000 professionals, including more than 7,600 partners, in 144 countries.
Learn more at www.us.kpmg.com
L&T Infotech is a part of L&T, a USD 13.5 billion company, having presence in engineering, manufacturing and financial services. It is ranked as 8th 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
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
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
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today.
Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of solutions for server-to-storage virtualization, business applications, data protection, and more. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before.
Learn more at www.netapp.com
NetIQ is a global, enterprise software company with a relentless focus on customer success. Customers and partners choose NetIQ to regain control over the persistent challenges of change, complexity and risk. Our portfolio includes scalable, automated solutions for Identity, Security, Access, Governance, Systems and Application, Service, and Workload Management that help organizations securely deliver, manage and measure computing services across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. Our in-depth understanding of how highly distributed enterprises deliver IT services drives us to develop intelligent IT solutions that deliver reliable and cost-effective results.
Learn more at www.netiq.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
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
TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) is a provider of infrastructure software for companies to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing environments. Whether it’s optimizing claims, processing trades, cross-selling products based on real-time customer behavior, or averting a crisis before it happens, TIBCO provides companies the two-second advantage™ — the ability to capture the right information at the right time and act on it preemptively for a competitive advantage. More than 4,000 customers worldwide rely on TIBCO to manage information, decisions, processes and applications in real time.
Learn more at www.tibco.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

