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3Com Corp.
www.3com.com

3Com Corporation helps customers worldwide achieve business success by delivering high-quality, low-cost networking infrastructure solutions that enable the convergence of applications and emerging technologies into the network. Through its TippingPoint division, 3Com is a leading provider of network-based intrusion prevention systems that deliver in-depth application protection, infrastructure protection, and performance protection.

A10 Networks
www.a10networks.com

A10 Networks delivers high-performance and scalable solutions for Web Application Delivery. A10’s flagship AX Series are new generation server load balancers, confirmed to deliver twice the performance at half the price of incumbent solutions. The AX Series includes comprehensive Layer 4-7 features, SSL acceleration, hardware compression and RAM Cache, at a cost-effective price without additional licensing fees. AX Series benefits include faster Web response times, increased data center efficiency and an enhanced end user experience.

Aerohive Networks
www.aerohive.com

Aerohive cooperative control wireless LAN architecture: All the management, mobility and security, without the cost, capacity, performance and availability issues of a wireless controller deployment.

Airwave Wireless
www.airwave.com

AirWave provides the most powerful, affordable, and flexible wireless network management available to more than enterprises, organizations, universities, schools and governments worldwide. The easy-to-use AirWave Wireless Management Suite lets you centrally monitor, troubleshoot and resolve Wi-Fi user issues wherever they occur. With AirWave, you can control any size WLAN infrastructure, remotely manage configurations, firmware and security policies, extend the useful life of your hardware, and provide unmatched historical data to assist planning and compliance reporting.

Airwave Wireless
www.akamai.com

Akamai® provides market-leading managed services for powering business applications, rich media, and dynamic transactions online. Akamai Application Performance Solutions is a line of managed services that improve delivery of business applications. A combination of dynamic routing, transport and application optimization techniques eliminate application delivery bottlenecks “in-the-cloud” while complimenting data center optimization initiatives. An S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 company, Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, interact, and collaborate.

Alcatel — Lucent
www.alcatel-lucent.com

Alcatel-Lucent, the world's leading communication solutions provider, offers enterprises an in-depth portfolio of industry leading, award-winning solutions to help manage all aspects of IT network operations-effectively, efficiently with unparalleled ROI.

Alcatel — Lucent
www.alertlogic.com

Alert Logic's on-demand solutions provide the easiest way to secure networks and comply with policies and regulations by enabling our customers to detect threats, eliminate vulnerabilities, and manage log data. Our on-demand platform utilizes software-as-a-service to deliver the benefits of rapid deployment, zero maintenance, and no upfront capital costs. As a result, Alert Logic customers benefit from easy and affordable security and compliance.

Alcatel — Lucent
www.ApparentNetworks.com

Leading IT service providers and enterprises use Apparent Networks’ solutions to ensure superior performance of voice, video and data applications deployed over complex IP networks. Our AppCritical product, with patented TruPath technology, provides complete, end-to-end network path performance information, including visibility into segments owned and managed by carriers, service providers and other third parties. AppCritical gives IT teams the actionable information they need to improve the quality of their services while also reducing costs.

ATEN Technology
www.aten.com

ATEN is a leading innovator and worldwide provider of high quality KVM, remote connectivity, video solutions, and data communication products for data center management at the SMB and enterprise-level environments. With nearly three decades of industry expertise, profitable growth, and a portfolio of nearly 350 patents worldwide, ATEN offers network administrators the most comprehensive solutions for managing their growing IT environments.

Websites: www.aten-usa.com & www.nj.aten.com

Avocent
www.avocent.com

Avocent® is a leading global provider of IT operations management solutions from the desktop to the data center.

For desktops, Avocent delivers cost-effective systems, security and process management solutions to automate and simplify remote management through its LANDesk product line. For data centers, Avocent provides a single interface for fast, efficient and secure management of IT infrastructure through a unique combination of software, hardware and embedded technologies.

BlueCat Networks
www.bluecatnetworks.com

Profitable and rapidly growing, BlueCat Networks is a leading provider of enterprise-class IP Address Management (IPAM) platforms and secure DNS / DHCP network administration appliances. Today, thousands of BlueCat’s award-winning Proteus™ IPAM platforms and Adonis™ family of DNS/DHCP appliances have been successfully deployed to meet the rising IP management demands of small-medium enterprises, government, military, financial services, retail and manufacturing organizations worldwide.

Blue Coat System

Blue Coat Application Delivery Network solutions provide intelligent control through a combination of visibility, acceleration and security technologies that optimize application and network performance for any user, anywhere, across a distributed organization. Blue Coat’s application performance management, WAN optimization and Secure Web Gateway solutions enable IT to provide greater business efficiency, effectiveness and competitiveness. Over 15,000 of the most demanding organizations, including 81% of the Fortune Global 500®, trust Blue Coat with their mission-critical applications. Find out more at www.bluecoat.com.

Brocade
www.brocade.com

From enterprise data centers to the service provider core, Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) develops extraordinary networking solutions that connect the world’s most important information. Delivered directly and through global partners, these solutions help today’s data-intensive organizations operate more efficiently and maximize the business value of their data.

CA, Inc.
www.ca.com

CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world’s leading independent, enterprise management software companies, unifies and simplifies complex information technology (IT) management across the enterprise for greater business results. With our Enterprise IT Management vision, solutions and expertise, we help customers effectively govern, manage and secure IT. Today, we serve the majority of the Fortune® 1000 companies, as well as government organizations, educational institutions and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide.

China Telecom Americas
www.ctamericas.com

China Telecom Americas provides multinational telecommunication services from the Americas to China, Asia and Europe. The company services enterprises and global carriers with data and voice services, including IPLC, MPLS, Managed Services and Ethernet. With headquarters in Herndon, Virginia, and offices in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Jose, and Toronto, Canada, China Telecom Americas provides a locally-based, one-stop-shop, turn-key solution for everything from China domestic and international data circuits to IDC services, network management, equipment management and system integration.

Cisco
www.cisco.com

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible -providing easy access to information anywhere, any time. The innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company’s core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as Data Center, Mobility, Security, Telepresence, Unified Communications and Video.

Citrix Systems, Inc.
www.citrix.com

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 99% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 7,680 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion.

Continental Resources
www.continentalresources.com/

Founded on 45 years of financial stability and back-to-back high tech know-how, Continental Resources, Inc. offers you the knowledge, support and fast delivery that keeps your business operating at peak efficiency. Whether you're an I.T. Professional in business, government or academia, you can rely on CRI for enterprise-class solutions ranging from enterprise consolidation to directory services; from business compliance to information lifecycle management; from security to IP telephony; from Unix and Linux to Windows. CRI has partnered with NetApp to provide customers the most effective storage solution for virtualization, data-back up and recovery.

Data Domain
www.datadomain.com/

Data Domain® is the leading provider of deduplication storage systems. Over 2500 companies worldwide have purchased Data Domain systems to reduce storage costs and simplify data management. Data Domain delivers the performance, reliability and scalability to address the data protection and nearline storage needs of enterprises of all sizes.

Dell
www.messageone.com/

RECLAIM YOUR IT RESOURCES WITH DELL. Simplifying IT allows you to devote your resources on what counts the most – your business success. This is where Dell Modular Services comes in. Designed to help eliminate the risks of managing IT, these hosted, SaaS-enabled solutions realize a better IT model. Over 5,000 customers and millions of users depend on Dell Modular Services.

Dorado Software
www.doradosoftware.com

Dorado Software, Inc. is the market leader in complete lifecycle management for heterogeneous and multi--technology environments -- networks, systems, services and applications. Dorado gives IT teams the power to view, deploy, configure and monitor their IT resources via a single solution, offering an economical and efficient alternative to the multiple disparate systems traditionally used to manage networks and datacenter.

Dorado's Redcell products offer end-to-end IT management including: Change and Configuration Management, Auto Discovery, Inventory & Reporting, Configuration File Backup & Restoration, Fault Management, QoS & Security Policy Management, Performance Monitoring, Service Configuration, Firewall Management and OS Management.

Eaton
www.eaton.com/powerquality

Eaton’s electrical business is a global leader in power distribution, power quality, control and industrial automation products and services. Eaton’s global electrical product lines, including Cutler-Hammer®, Moeller®, Powerware®, Holec®, MEM®, Santak®, and MGE Office Protection Systems™ provide customer-driven PowerChain Management® solutions to serve power system needs of the data center, industrial, institutional, government, utility, commercial, and other markets worldwide. Diversified power management company with 2008 sales of $15.4 billion. 75,000 employees, in over 150 countries.

EMC
www.emc.com

EMC resource management solutions play a crucial role in network, server and data center operations by automating the discovery, understanding, mapping, and analysis of the complex relationships that exist among business processes, IT services, and the information infrastructure. Our infrastructure management solutions allow organizations to increase IT service availability and performance, automate change and configuration management, gain unprecedented visibility into how end-to-end infrastructure health affects the business, and centralize management of IT services.

Essex Technology Group, Inc.
www.essextec.com

Essex Technology Group, Inc. (essextec) is focused on helping business leaders and technology decision makers in the northeast improve their business performance with technology. We are an infrastructure consulting firm providing a variety of services. Our Core Competencies include:

• Virtualization and VMware
• Business Continuity
• Managed Services
• Server and Storage Design and Consolidation
• IT Consulting
• Software Solutions
• Leasing and Financing
• Innovation Center Training and Seminars

Extreme Networks, Inc.
www.extremenetworks.com

Extreme Networks designs, builds, and installs Ethernet infrastructure solutions that help solve the toughest business communications challenges. Our commitment to open networking sets us apart from the alternatives by delivering meaningful insight and unprecedented control to applications and services. We believe openness is the best foundation for growth, freedom, flexibility and choice. We focus on enterprises and service providers who demand high performance, converged networks that support voice, video and data over a wired and wireless infrastructure.

Extricom
www.extricom.com

Extricom designs and manufactures high-performance Wireless LAN enterprise solutions for converged data, voice (VoWLAN), and video. The Extricom Interference-Free™ architecture enables dramatically easier WLAN deployment and lower total cost of ownership, with maximum performance of capacity, coverage, seamless mobility and security. The result is a large-scale WLAN infrastructure delivering truly enterprise-wide triple play services, with the dependability and performance of a wired network.

F5 Networks, Inc.
www.f5.com

F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. F5 provides solutions that make applications secure, fast, and available for everyone. By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload applications and optimize the data storage layer, F5 extends the power of intelligent networking to all levels of application delivery.

FastScale®
www.FastScale.com

FastScale® technology delivers a new generation of software virtualization and provisioning solutions for enterprise-class data centers and enables IT organizations to build, manage and deploy complex and dynamic server software environments with unparalleled simplicity, flexibility and security while achieving dramatic lifecycle cost savings and server utilization improvement. Software environments average 95% smaller than traditional images, are built on-demand and deployed to bare-metal or virtual servers in only seconds to minutes.

Fortinet
www.fortinet.com

Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management, or UTM, security systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, spyware prevention and antispam -- designed to help customers protect against network and content level threats.

FORTRUST
1-720-264-2000 or www.fortrustdatacenter.com

FORTRUST is a world-class high-availability data center services provider, progressively designed and precisely managed to preserve business continuity for its customers. FORTRUST’s offerings include adaptable colocation space for any-size enterprise supported by optimal power infrastructure, connectivity and physical security as well as a comprehensive suite of managed services to safeguard mission-critical business services. Established in 2000, FORTRUST is privately held and based in Denver.

Foundry Networks
www.foundrynet.com

Foundry Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security and Web traffic management solutions, including Layer 2/3 LAN switches, Layer 3 Backbone switches, Layer 4-7 application switches, wireless LAN and access points, metro and core routers. Foundry’s customers include the world's premier ISPs, metro service providers, and enterprises, including e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, health and wellness, government, financial and manufacturing companies. For more information about the company and its products, call 1.888.TURBOLAN or visit www.foundrynet.com.

Gillaspy Associates - NetworkTestTools.com
www.NetworkTestTools.com

Gillaspy Associates, NetworkTestTools.com, is a leading provider of Test, Connectivity and Monitoring solutions for IT Professionals. Attention to detail and our strong technical knowledge allow us to provide you with the best possible solution for your application. Since 1997, we have built a solid reputation for developing strong relationships with our customers by providing them with quality solutions and support. We believe that integrity and good communication at all levels is vital to our success.

Global Crossing
www.globalcrossing.com

Global Crossing provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects approximately 390 cities in more than 30 countries worldwide, and delivers services to approximately 690 cities in more than 60 countries and 6 continents around the globe. The company offers a full range of data, voice and security products to approximately 40 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs.

Global Knowledge
www.globalknowledge.com

Global Knowledge is the worldwide leader in IT and Business Training. We enable our customers to achieve superior business and personal performance through rapid skills development in areas such as Cisco, Microsoft, project management, professional skills, and business processes. Our real-world training is delivered via training centers, private facilities, and the Internet, enabling our customers to choose when, where, and how they want to receive their training programs and services.

Hughes

HUGHES® has been providing turnkey managed services to Fortune 500 companies to small business for more than two decades. Well-known industry leaders in retail, restaurant, entertainment, and petroleum rely on HughesNet® for their networks requirement. By combining the best of landline and wireless broadband technologies, state-of-the-art management systems, and a dedicated program management team, Hughes is the one name you can trust for your business network needs. Visit www.hughesnet.com or call (866) 240-3875.

Infoblox
www.infoblox.com

Infoblox delivers the only platform designed to provide utility-grade core network services – domain name resolution (DNS), IP address assignment (DHCP), authentication (RADIUS) and others – that are essential for all networks and applications. Infoblox solutions provide a simple and reliable appliance approach to delivering these services nonstop.

Itrinegy
www.itrinegy.com

iTrinegy, the Networked Application Performance Lifecycle Specialists™, provide systems for Network Emulation, Application Performance Monitoring and Real-time Reporting, Performance Troubleshooting, Network Profiling and Simulation.

The iTrinegy Network Emulator and iTrinegy AppQoS systems are designed for use in all stages of the applications lifecycle – development, testing, deployment and production – enabling you to see easily and quickly how your applications will perform across all your networks before deployment, and help you improve their performance afterwards.

Juniper Networks, Inc.
www.juniper.net

Juniper Networks high-performance network infrastructure helps businesses create a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. Enterprise network users, including remote employees, contractors, business partners, customers and suppliers require reliable access to business applications regardless of location. Juniper Networks’ best-in-class application acceleration platforms provide fast and consistent application response to ensure uncompromised access to important applications and services, enabling high-performance businesses to use their applications to create a competitive advantage.

Kace™
www.kace.com

KACE™ is the leading systems management appliance company. The award winning KBOX™ family of appliances delivers easy-to-use, comprehensive systems management capabilities. KACE customers usually install in one day at the lowest total cost compared to software alternatives.

Lancope
www.lancope.com

Lancope’s StealthWatch is the most widely used network behavior analysis (NBA) solution that unifies NetFlow/sFlow-based anomaly detection and network performance monitoring. StealthWatch streamlines security and network operations into one process, reduces time and resources, and eliminates cost and complexity associated with non-integrated point products. Also, Lancope’s recently introduced NEL Gateway appliance is the first and only solution to support NetFlow Event Logging from Cisco ASR 1000 Routers. For more information, call 888-419-1462 or visit www.lancope.com.

Mazu Networks
www.mazunetworks.com

Mazu Networks’ solutions enable IT organizations to manage, secure, and optimize availability and performance of business services. Mazu Profiler uses Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) to provide a new way of looking at the infrastructure by analyzing network traffic to provide valuable information about the interactions of and dependencies between users, applications, and systems.

Microworks Computer Center
www.itlmicroworks.com

Micro Works is a trusted IT hardware, software, and solutions provider. We have serviced small/medium corporations, enterprise organizations, government, healthcare and educational clients for over 25 years! We carry all major product brands and provide elite service, world-class technical support, excellent pricing, and the innovative technology needed to keep your infrastructure running optimally. Micro Works can work with any budget to provide the solutions and expertise needed for business efficiency and to exceed operational goals.

Mimosa Systems, Inc.

Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation content archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint is the industry’s most comprehensive unstructured information management software solution for email, files, and instant messages, enabling archiving, eDiscovery, storage management and recovery in a unified solution. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions. Mimosa is a privately held company whose investors include Clearstone Venture Partners, August Capital, JAFCO Ventures, Mayfield Fund and Focus Ventures. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia and India. For more information, see www.MimosaSystems.com.

Motorola
www.motorola.com

Motorola (NYSE: MOT), a leader in the wireless industry for over 75 years, offers one of the most market-proven and customer tested wireless portfolios on the market. Motorola’s Wireless Enterprise is a completely wireless network ecosystem, comprised of wireless LAN switches, access points, wireless broadband bridges, planning and management software, and enterprise-class mobile devices, that provides secure, reliable access and enables true mobility inside and outside the boundaries of traditional enterprise.

Mu Dynamics
www.mudynamics.com

Mu Dynamics proactively eliminates the high cost of service, application and network downtime. Mu’s solution automates a repeatable process that identifies hard-to-detect sources of downtime within IP services, applications, and networks. The award-winning Mu solution is deployed at 100+ locations, primarily at leading network operators, government agencies and their product vendors. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Mu is backed by leading venture capital firms that include Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and Focus Ventures.

MX Logic
www.mxlogic.com

As one of the world’s leading experts in email security, MX Logic provides award-winning managed email and Web security services, as well as email archiving and message continuity, to over 31,000 customers globally. Enterprise-grade performance - without enterprise complexity and cost.

NetApp in partnership with Sigma Solutions
www.sigmasolinc.com

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster! NetApp and Sigma Solutions has partnered together to provide customers with the most effective storage solution for virtualization, data-back up and recovery! Learn how Sigma perfected the "Three Step Methodology" to deliver the best solutions for their customers: 1) Advise our customers on their technology needs and opportunities 2) Implement a solution into an existing environment and 3) Maintain the solution on an ongoing basis with helpdesk, 24x7 managed services and service contracts.

Netcordia, Inc.
www.netcordia.com

Netcordia is a leading provider of network automation software to the world’s most complex and mission-critical networks. Its award-winning NetMRI network change and configuration management (NCCM) solution continuously audits multi-vendor infrastructures, identifies anomalies early, and speeds resolution. Netcordia helps more than 250 leading healthcare, financial services, academic, service and government organizations stretch IT budgets, improve overall performance, meet corporate policy, and comply with stringent federal regulations. Founded in 2000, Netcordia is headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland.

Net Optics
www.netoptics.com

Net Optics is the global leader in innovative passive in-line devices for network security, traffic analysis, and IT monitoring. Our products are deployed in enterprises, service providers, and government organizations worldwide. Our monitoring access expertise improves network visibility by enabling customers to easily optimize the use of their tools across all network types. For more information, visit www.netoptics.com.

NetQos
www.netqos.com

NetQos software and services help service providers, government agencies, and large enterprises – including half of the Fortune 100 – improve the delivery of applications over wide area networks by enabling them to monitor application service levels, troubleshoot problems quickly, and plan for change. NetQoS software is capable of optimizing the most complex network infrastructures. From validating the impact of WAN optimization, to monitoring a network before and after an MPLS migration, to ensuring consistent service levels for VoIP implementation, NetQoS solutions empower organizations to take a performance first approach to managing thier network for application performance.

Netreo
www.netreo.net

Netreo IT management products are appliance-based, agentless, and clientless. Thanks to this standalone architecture, implementations are a breeze. Once it's in, we manage it - no more revision updates, patches, backups, or routine maintenance. You are left free to refocus on your customers. The design approach utilizes a straight-forward dashboard view into the enterprise, with easy, single-click drill-down access to deep content; resulting in rapid navigation to interesting and actionable content.

Network Hardware
www.networkhardware.com

Network Hardware Resale (NHR) is the leading provider of pre-owned equipment from Cisco, Juniper, Extreme and Foundry as well as an authorized reseller of new 10-Gigabit solutions from Force10 Networks. Our affordable approach to high-performance networks includes NetSure, a 24x7, next-business-day network maintenance program. NHR serves more than 10,000 customers including leading communication service providers and small and large enterprises from its offices in the U.S., Europe and Singapore.

Network Instruments, LLC
www.networkinstruments.com

Network Instruments® is the industry-leading developer of distributed and affordable network management, analysis and troubleshooting solutions. The award-winning Observer® family of products provides integrated monitoring and management for the entire network, while GigaStor™ allows IT staff to move backward in time to identify and troubleshoot network, application, and security issues quickly and easily.

NetScout Systems, Inc.
www.netscout.com

NetScout Systems has set the pace of innovation for unified services delivery management for over twenty years. Our world-renowned solutions provide trusted, unified visibility into the modern IP network to predict, identify and resolve the most complex networked application issues. IT operators at the world’s largest enterprises, government agencies, and service providers use NetScout’s nGenius and Sniffer solutions for problem avoidance, accelerated problem resolution, capacity planning, and policy validation.

Nimsoft, Inc
www.nimsoft.com

Nimsoft provides next generation performance and availability monitoring solutions for the complete physical and virtualized IT infrastructure. The Nimsoft solutions redefine the standards for ease of use and speed of deployment - providing outstanding return on investment and unparalleled customer satisfaction. Over 640 customers in 30 countries rely on Nimsoft solutions to monitor their IT based business applications and services. These customers include mid-market and global organizations, and hundreds of leading managed service providers.

NTT America
www.nttamerica.com

NTT America is North America’s natural gateway to the Asia-Pacific region, with strong capabilities in the U.S. market. Headquartered in New York City operating major network nodes and data centers located in key locations across the United States, NTT America is the largest offshore affiliate of NTT Communications Corporation, the global data and IP services arm of a Fortune Global 500 telecom leader: Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT). NTT America provides managed integration of enterprise hosting, Arcstar private network, and IP networking services for enterprise customers and service providers worldwide.

OpenService
www.openservice.com

Find peace again! InfoCenterT enterprise event management (EEM) from OpenService acquires, aggregates, analyzes, and alerts so your staff can prevent disruptions and fix problems fast.

Packet Design, Inc.
www.packetdesign.com

Packet Design’s Route Explorer and VPN Explorer are the industry’s leading route analytics solutions, deployed in the world’s largest OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, and MPLS VPN networks.

Traffic Explorer provides network-wide, integrated routing and traffic monitoring, analysis, capacity planning and network modeling on the as-running network with full historical replay. VPN Traffic Explorer adds Layer 3 MPLS VPN awareness and per-VPN traffic analysis.

Paetec
www.paetec.com

PAETEC is personalizing communications solutions for business customers across the United States. We offer a comprehensive suite of data, voice, and IP services, as well as enterprise communications management software, network security solutions, CPE, and managed services.

Palo Alto Networks
www.paloaltonetworks.com

Palo Alto Networks offers a family innovative, next generation firewalls that provide enterprise IT organizations with visibility and policy control of all applications, users, and content on the network, while delivering throughput of up to 10Gbps. In addition, these firewalls also deliver significant, measurable savings in capital and operational costs.

Polycom, Inc.
www.polycom.com

Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM) is the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice solutions and a visionary in communications that empower people to connect and collaborate everywhere. Find out how you can collaborate anytime, anyplace with any device in a virtual experience that’s as natural as being there.

porttracker Inc.
www.polycom.com

porttracker replaces time consuming and unreliable manual procedures by simply tracking and reporting on what devices are currently connected to your network.

porttracker quickly collates and displays information to provide a comprehensive insight into what is connected to your network, enabling network managers to make informed business decisions to reduce operational overheads and port wastage while enhancing network security.

Qualys, Inc
www.qualys.com

Qualys, Inc. is the leading provider of on demand security risk and compliance management solutions. Qualys is the only security company that delivers these solutions through a single software-as-a-service platform. QualysGuard® allows organizations to strengthen the security of their networks and conduct automated security audits to ensure compliance with policies and regulations.

Qwest
www.quest.com

Qwest® offers a unique and powerful combination of voice and data solutions for businesses and government agencies - locally and throughout the country. That’s why Qwest is the choice of 95% of Fortune 500 companies. Customers coast to coast are turning to Qwest’s industry leading fiber optic network and superior customer service experience. Qwest offers a wide array of broadband communications services – from hosted applications and professional services to broadband access, capacity and network management. Copyright © 2008 Qwest

Rackspace Hosting
www.rackspace.com

As the world’s leader in hosting, Rackspace® Hosting is changing the way businesses worldwide buy IT. Rackspace delivers computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry’s best technologies into a flexible, reliable and more affordable service offering. A trusted partner to companies of all sizes, Rackspace enables IT departments to be more effective. Distinguished by its award-winning Fanatical Support®, Rackspace's portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting and cloud hosting. For more information, please visit our exhibit.

Radware
www.rackspace.com/solutions/business/mediumtolarge.php

Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR), the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assures the full availability, maximum performance, and complete security of business-critical applications for more than 5,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolute™, Radware’s comprehensive and award-winning suite of intelligent front end, access, and security products, companies in every industry can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks “business-smart”.

Riverbed Technology, Inc.
www.riverbed.com

Riverbed Technology is the IT infrastructure performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility – all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive.

Shavlik Technologies
www.shavlik.com

Shavlik Technologies delivers enterprise IT organizations robust software solutions that rapidly accelerate and continuously improve security and compliance readiness by simplifying IT operations, and identifying and reliably closing system security gaps.

Shunra Virtual Enterprise
www.shunra.com

Shunra is the market leader in WAN emulation solutions for application performance testing throughout the entire development lifecycle. Predict application performance in any production environment-before deployment.

Siber Systems - RoboForm
www.siber.com

Founded in 1995, Siber Systems creates and markets software products to consumers and businesses around the world. Our software is highly acclaimed and has received numerous awards including PC Magazine Editor’s Choice, CNET’s Best Software of the Year, and PC World’s 25 Products We Can’t Live Without. Our flagship password management solution, RoboForm Enterprise, offers a full-featured and more flexible alternative to single sign-on (SSO), reducing employee passwords to one secure, master password and providing true, automated logins. Easy to implement and customize, RoboForm Enterprise decreases IT costs and increases employee productivity, while improving password security. As part of the company’s strong commitment to customer satisfaction, RoboForm Enterprise comes with a risk-free trial. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, Siber Systems is privately held.

Silver Peak Systems, Inc.
www.silver-peak.com

Silver Peak improves backup, replication and recovery between data centers and facilitates branch office server and storage centralization by improving application performance across the WAN. The company’s award winning NX appliances deliver exceptional performance improvements with unprecedented security and scalability across all enterprise applications, including data replication, backup, SQL, file, email, web and real-time applications such as VoIP.

SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
www.SoftLayer.com

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer delivers world-class, on-demand virtual data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates all facets of IT to innovate industry-leading solutions that are fully automated. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT environment. SoftLayer’s leading proprietary management capabilities include the industry’s first Network-Within-a-Network topology for true out-of-band access and the company’s leading Customer Portal and Open API, providing full remote access of all product and service management options.

SonicWALL, Inc.
www.sonicwall.com

SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of businesses of all sizes by engineering the cost and complexity out of running a secure network. SonicWALL's award-winning solutions include network security, secure remote access, content security, backup and recovery, and policy and management technology.

Sophos
www.sophos.com

Sophos enables enterprises worldwide to secure and control their IT infrastructure. Our network access control, endpoint, web and email solutions simplify security to provide integrated defenses against malware, spyware, intrusions, unwanted applications, spam, policy abuse, data leakage and compliance drift. With over 20 years of experience, we protect over 100 million users in nearly 150 countries with our reliably engineered security solutions and services. Sophos is headquartered in Boston, MA and Oxford, UK.

Stonesoft
www.stonesoft.com

Stonesoft delivers proven, innovative solutions that simplify network security management for even the most complex network environments. The award-winning StoneGate Platform unifies firewall, VPN, IPS and SSL VPN solutions blending integrated threat management, end-to-end high availability and network optimization into a centrally controlled system. As a result, Stonesoft provides an unparalleled level of proactive security, always-on connectivity and compliance at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) on the market today.

Surgient
www.surgient.com

Surgient is a visionary and market leader of self-service virtualization automation and lab management. The Surgient Virtual Automation Platform™ is a powerful, flexible and mature solution that enables enterprise IT organizations to deliver Policy-Driven Self-Service™ computing resources to users, optimizing IT’s ability to support critical business initiatives. With policy-driven automation and a robust guaranteed reservation system, users have on-demand access to their resources, and IT is freed up from manual administrative tasks to work on mission-critical projects.

Sybase
www.sybase.com

Sybase is the industry leader in delivering mission-critical enterprise software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. The company holds market leadership positions in mobile device management, wireless email, mobile middleware platforms and database and synchronization technologies. Sybase enables the Unwired Enterprise for thousands of customers by providing a comprehensive platform and set of solutions to mobilize data and business processes. With our open, high-performance solutions, enterprises can extend their information securely and make it useful for people anywhere using virtually any device.

Symplified
www.symplified.com

Symplified’s vision is to secure the Cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications by providing On-Demand Identity. The company has developed SinglePoint™ -- a massively scalable Internet utility that delivers access management, authentication, SSO, federation, auditing, compliance and administration capabilities for the cloud. SinglePoint’s ‘connect once and integrate an ecosystem’ unifies multiple cloud apps like Salesforce.com, Google, ADP, WebEx, Taleo, Xactly and many others. Symplified provides pay-as-you-go pricing, accelerated launch times and expertise on demand cutting security costs by 80%. Symplified’s founding management team also created Securant, which pioneered the market for Web access management software and was acquired for $140M by RSA Security.

SYS Technologies - Dobbler Vue SYS
www.dopplerVUE.com

See what you’ve been missing in your network. At IT Roadmap San Francisco, SYS Technologies will showcase dopplerVUE, powerful network management for smaller networks, made easy. For larger enterprises, SYS offers NeuralStar, the advanced network management platform designed for complex, converged networks. Visit www.dopplerVUE.com - www.neuralstar.net for additional information.

Symplified
www.tditx.com

For 15 years TDI has pioneered, patented, developed and deployed a family of technologies based on the “outside-in” infrastructure management paradigm for failure-intolerant, high security customers. The ‘Outside In‘ or ‘out-of-band’ infrastructure management paradigm is not dependent on the infrastructure it is managing. TDI delivers logging, management, security, network monitoring and remediation solutions for VIRTUAL and physical infrastructures.

Time Warner Cable Business Class
www.twcbc.com/ntx

Time Warner Cable Business Class, the business arm of Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), offers a full suite of business communications tools from small- and medium-sized businesses to enterprise-sized companies. Its data, voice, video and security solutions are enhanced by award-winning 24/7 customer service and local support teams. The wholly owned and fully upgraded network also delivers fiber optics based dedicated Internet access and Metro Ethernet services, for multiple office locations, with speeds up to 10 Gbps. Since its origin in 1998, it serves more than 280,000 business customers in Time Warner Cable’s 23 divisions.

Trend Micro
www.us.trendmicro.com

Trend Micro provides leading Internet content security solutions for businesses and consumers. We protect against malware, spam, data leaks, and the newest Web threats designed to steal digital information. Our unique solutions stop these threats where they first emerge - in the Internet - before they can attack corporate networks and PCs. Founded in 1988, Trend Micro operates globally and protects hundreds of millions of users in the office, at home and on the go.

TippingPoint Technologies, Inc.
www.tippingpoint.com

TippingPoint provides comprehensive network security solutions that address the security and regulatory compliance needs of complex network environments for enterprises, government agencies, service providers and academic institutions. With the TippingPoint IPS-Secured Network, which includes the TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and Network Access Control (NAC) solution, network infrastructure, applications, and critical data are protected from malicious cyberattacks. TippingPoint’s security intelligence is powered by DVLabs, TippingPoint’s premier team of expert internal researchers for vulnerability analysis and discovery.

TrippLite
www.triplite.com

Established in 1922, Tripp Lite is renowned for enhanced service, innovative products and a strong commitment to its channel partners. As an early innovator in the power protection industry, Tripp Lite introduced the first UPS system designed for personal computers and the world's most trusted premium surge suppressor, the Isobar®. Tripp Lite manufactures more than 1000 power protection and connectivity products, including UPS systems, surge suppressors, PDUs, Rack Systems, Cables, Notebook Accessories and KVM switches.

Uplogix
www.uplogix.com

Uplogix provides the first fully-integrated remote management solution. Our co-located management appliances automate routine administration, maintenance and recovery tasks – securely and regardless of network availability. In comparison, traditional network and systems management requires multiple tools, relies on the network, and remains labor intensive. Uplogix puts the power of your most trusted IT administrator everywhere, all the time.

Uplogix is privately held and headquartered in Austin, Texas with European offices in London. For more information, please visit www.uplogix.com.

VASCO
www.vasco.com

VASCO designs, develops and supports Strong User Authentication products for secure remote & network access, e-business and e-commerce. The authentication company has built a strong reputation in the banking business and is now also focusing on enterprise security. Therefore VASCO has developed a Pack Strategy, allowing small and medium size enterprises (SME) to secure their remote users in an easy, affordable way.

Varonis
www.varonis.com

Varonis provides actionable data governance software solutions. Our installations span leading firms in financial services, health care, energy, manufacturing and technology. Varonis solutions enable total visibility and control over your unstructured data, ensuring that only the right users have access to the right data at all times.

VAST Data Systems
www.vastdatasystems.com

VAST Data Systems, Inc is an Information Systems Technology solutions provider. Our consultants have the technical knowledge and industry experience needed to bring to bear technologically elegant and cost effective solutions to our client’s data storage and business continuity challenges. Practices include the design, installation and optimization of Primary Data Storage, Backup and Recovery, Disaster Recovery, Server and Storage Virtualization and e-mail archival and discovery.

Verizon Business and Cisco

Verizon Business
www.verizonbusiness.com

Verizon Business, a leading global provider of advanced communications and information technology solutions, and Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking, enable large business and government customers around the globe to unleash the power of IP communications. Combining Verizon Business’ world-class global IP network with Cisco’s advanced IP technology platforms, the companies deliver integrated communication solutions to transform how extended enterprises securely connect, communicate and collaborate.

Cisco
www.cisco.com

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible -providing easy access to information anywhere, any time. The innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company’s core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as Data Center, Mobility, Security, TelePresence, Unified Communications and Video.

Verizon Business
www.verizonbusiness.com

Verizon Business, a leading global provider of advanced communications and information technology solutions, and Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking, enable large business and government customers around the globe to unleash the power of IP communications. Combining Verizon Business’ world-class global IP network with Cisco’s advanced IP technology platforms, the companies deliver integrated communication solutions to transform how extended enterprises securely connect, communicate and collaborate.

Virtela Communications
www.virtela.com

Virtela Communications provides award-winning managed network and security solutions to many of the world’s largest and fastest-growing multinational companies. Serving customers across six continents, Virtela’s network reach spans more than 190 countries. Virtela’s unique Global Service FabricSM provides the foundation for delivering an extensive managed services suite, including Enterprise WAN Services, Remote Access Services, Remote Monitoring and Management Services, and Managed Security Services.

Wave Systems
www.wave.com

Wave Systems provides management software for hardware-based security, helping organizations implement strong authentication, data protection and network access control. Wave’s EMBASSY® client and server software manages both the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip found on business-class PCs and Seagate Technology’s line of full disk encryption (FDE) hard drives.

Webroot
www.webroot.com

Webroot provides industry leading security software and services to consumers, enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses worldwide. The Boulder, Colorado based company’s newest offering, Webroot E-Mail Security SaaS, provides better manageability, better value and better protection than any other e-mail security solution. With no hardware or software to deploy, a lower total cost of ownership and guaranteed protection against spam, viruses and service downtime, Webroot E-Mail Security SaaS is the best option for e-mail security. Backed by a global company with a history of providing innovative security products, Webroot security software-as-a-service solutions provide a powerful alternative to traditional on-premise based hardware and software security solutions.

WildPackets
http://www.wildpackets.com

WildPackets develops network and application analysis solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to analyze, troubleshoot, optimize, and secure their wired and wireless networks. The OmniPeek product family offers both portable and distributed solutions for troubleshooting and optimizing enterprise networks and applications. OmniPeek is the only network analyzer offering both Network and Multi-Media troubleshooting and analysis in real-time. It provides Ethernet, Wireless a/b/g/n, 10GbE, Gigabit, WAN, VoIP, and Video over IP traffic capture and diagnostics.

XIRRUS - High Performance Wi-Fi
www.xirrus.com

Xirrus manufactures the Wi-Fi Array which integrates up to 16 access points into a single device with an onboard multi-gigabit switch, Wi-Fi controller, firewall, dedicated Wi-Fi threat sensor, and an embedded spectrum analyzer. The Xirrus Wi-Fi Array delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, throughput, and user density than anything else - resulting in 75% fewer devices, cabling, switch ports, power, space, and installation time compared with any other offering.

Zeus Technology
www.zeus.com

Zeus Technology develops application traffic management software and appliances, dramatically improving network and web-enabled applications making them faster, more reliable, more secure and easy to manage.

As the only pure software traffic management solution, the Zeus products are flexible whatever your deployment environment; a purpose-built Zeus appliance, standard servers, blades, or virtualized environments.

Zeus holds strategic partnerships with world-class companies such as AMD, Egenera, HP, IBM, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Qualcomm and VMware.

Zenith Infotech
www.zenithinfotech.com

Zenith Infotech provides easily manageable IT infrastructure and business-continuity solutions to managed services providers (MSPs) internationally. Four key services, SAAZ managed services platform, Virtual NOC, Virtual Support Desk and Business & Disaster Recovery Solutions, enable MSPs to efficiently, proactively and profitably monitor, manage, scale and restore their end-user clients’ IT systems. Zenith is the only managed services infrastructure provider with more than 600 network engineers and senior-level support staff tending to its partners needs.

Zenoss, Inc.
www.zenoss.com

Zenoss, Inc., a commercial open source software company, provides network, server, and application monitoring solutions to companies worldwide. Zenoss solutions monitor the entire IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, virtualizations, and applications, and provide configuration and availability management, performance monitoring, event/log management, and automatic remediation. Zenoss offers implementation, planning and architecture, deployment, customization, integration, instrumentation, training, and support services. It serves health, manufacturing, government, technology, and media industries, as well as service providers and educational institutions.

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