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
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
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
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
At Blue Jeans Network, our mission is to make video communications as easy and pervasive as audio communications, enabling more effective collaboration at work, at home, and on the road. Our cloud-based conferencing service makes this possible by enabling customers to connect with each other seamlessly anytime, anywhere, and from practically any device. The Blue Jeans Network extends high quality video communications beyond the traditional boundaries of specialized conference rooms and into the mainstream, allowing individuals and employees throughout an enterprise to interact more effectively with each other, and with their customers, partners, suppliers, family, and friends.
Learn more at bluejeans.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
Clear Peak is a vendor-neutral Business Intelligence consultancy, specializing in Business Intelligence and data-driven solutions. Clear Peak uses unparalleled expertise to accelerate your projects, gain actionable insights and develop business rules based on trends uncovered by predictive data models proprietary to your business.
Clear Peak’s on-shore and on-site veteran consultants are equipped with over ten to fifteen years of large implementation experience, providing performance that delivers results in a matter of months, leading to a significant return on investment.
Learn more at clear-peak.com
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
Digital Realty, Inc. focuses on delivering customer driven data center solutions by providing secure, reliable and cost effective facilities that meet each customer's unique data center needs. Digital Realty's customers include domestic and international companies across multiple industry verticals ranging from information technology and Internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services. Digital Realty's 102 properties, excluding three properties held as investments in unconsolidated joint ventures, comprise approximately 19.1 million square feet as of February 27, 2012, including 2.4 million square feet of space held for redevelopment. Digital Realty's portfolio is located in 31 markets throughout Europe, North America, Singapore and Australia.
Learn more at www.digitalrealty.com
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
Huddle Group is a technology design and innovation studio with global reach.
Founded in 2004 originally in Argentina, Huddle Group prides itself on a people driven culture based on integrity, performance and learning.
We solve complex technology problems by tapping into our near shore development resources, enterprise product implementation capabilities and consulting services.
Our services include:
Custom Development (Nearshore, Blended, Staff Augmentation, Support),
Consulting Services (Architecture, Proof of Concepts, R&D),
Cloud Development (Windows Azure, AWS),
Information Worker / Collaboration (SharePoint and others),
ERP (Dynamics CRM, Dynamics Axapta and others),
Data Analytics / Business Intelligence,
Social Network Applications (Facebook, Twitter, Yammer), and
Mobility Solutions (iOS — iPad/iPhone, Windows 8, Android).
Our clients are leading, worldwide, and recognized companies that primarily span technology, media and entertainment, and financial sectors.
We love technology and are constantly reviewing the latest technical advances so that we may better support our clients and keep them future ready.
Learn more at www.huddle.com.ar
Infor is the third largest provider of enterprise applications and services, helping 70,000 customers in 194 countries improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, using ground-breaking technology that delivers a rich user experience, and flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both.
Learn more at www.infor.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
MarkLogic leads the advancement of Big Data with the first operational database technology for mission-critical Big Data Applications. Customers trust MarkLogic to drive revenue and growth through Big Data Applications enabled by MarkLogic products, services, and partners. MarkLogic is a fast growing enterprise software company and ushers in a new era of Big Data by powering more than 500 of the world’s most critical Big Data Applications in the public sector and Global 1000. Organizations around the world get to better decisions faster with MarkLogic.
MarkLogic is headquartered in Silicon Valley with field offices in Austin, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, New York, and Washington D.C.
Learn more at www.marklogic.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
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 eight business divisions offer the greatest potential to serve our customers. They are: Windows & Windows Live Division , Server and Tools, Online Services Division , Microsoft Business Solutions, Microsoft Office, Skype, Windows Phone and the Interactive Entertainment Business. 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
Nutanix brings forth an exciting new SAN-less virtualized datacenter platform, converging two tiers of infrastructure down to one. Through the use of innovative server-attached PCIe Flash and high capacity SATA drives, Nutanix' innovative distributed storage and compute cluster localizes the data-path for higher performance and reduced complexity. Inspired by SAN-less distributed systems employed by Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter, Nutanix is first to market with an enterprise-friendly, easy to deploy storage and compute cluster that dynamically grows to meet business demands.
Learn more at www.nutanix.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
ServiceNow is the enterprise IT cloud company. We focus on transforming enterprise IT by automating and standardizing business processes and consolidating IT across the global enterprise. Organizations deploy our service to create a single system of record for enterprise IT, lower operational costs and enhance efficiency. Additionally, our customers use our extensible platform to build custom applications for automating activities unique to their business requirements.
Learn more at www.servicenow.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
The Windsor Group provides our clients with the absolute highest return on engagement of any sourcing advisor in the marketplace today. We collaborate with IT executives to evaluate and implement solutions to transform their IT service delivery model. WG invests resources to assess and profile our client’s unique business and technical requirements. Our Managing Directors will work with you, your management team and industry leading service providers to help design optimal, highly customized solutions. Our focus is on developing a strong financial baseline and leveraging existing technology investments so you can make transformative decisions with confidence. WG identifies opportunities that drive results within your budget cycles, increasing your agility to respond to business demands.
Learn more at www.windzr.com
Wipro Technologies, the global IT business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is a leading Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing company, that delivers solutions to enable its clients do business better. Wipro Technologies delivers winning business outcomes through its deep industry experience and a 360 degree view of "Business through Technology" — helping clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, a practitioner’s approach to delivering innovation and an organization wide commitment to sustainability, Wipro Technologies has 131,000 employees and clients across 54 countries.
Learn more at www.wipro.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
Zensar Technologies is among the top 13 software services providers from India. Zensar's industry expertise spans across Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Banking Financial Services and Insurance. Zensar has more than 7000 associates with sales and operations presence across USA, UK, Europe, Middle East, South Africa, Singapore, China, Australia and Japan. The Company delivers comprehensive services in mission-critical applications, enterprise applications, e-business, BPM and Knowledge Services. The Company has developed tools and methodologies, including the proprietary Solution Blue Print (SBP), which enables its clients with innovative business solutions and a rapid 'go-to-market' capability. The Company supports Fortune 500 clients with software business solutions that help them compete in the digital economy.
Learn more at www.zensar.com/
ZS Associates is a global leader in sales and marketing, providing strategy, operations and technology solutions. ZS is the data scientist for sales and marketing, combining deep domain and industry understanding, data expertise and analytical capabilities to solve the growth challenges of today’s leading businesses. ZS has a global presence in 20 offices and more than 2,000 people, and has provided analytics solutions for sales and marketing for over 30 years.
Learn more at www.zsassociates.com

