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.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
Brocade® provides the industry’s leading platforms, solutions, and services for intelligently connecting, managing, and optimizing IT resources in shared storage environments. The company has pioneered the Storage Area Network (SAN) market with its comprehensive family of SAN infrastructure solutions. Brocade leads the industry with innovative File Area Network (FAN) solutions that provide the foundation for efficient file management. Brocade helps organizations of all sizes increase efficiency, reduce costs, and maximize the value of their data assets.
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.
CA, Inc.
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
Eaton, a $13.0 billion diversified industrial manufacturer and global leader in electrical control, power distribution, power management and uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs), is proud to offer the Powerware® and MGE Office Protection Systems™ brands for UPS solutions. Backed by more than 40 years of industry experience, Eaton is recognized as a technology leader in UPS systems, holding one of the largest patent portfolios in the industry and protecting applications ranging from a single desktop computer to a large enterprise. www.powerware.com - www.mgeops.com
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.
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.
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.
Network Instruments products are designed utilizing Distributed Network Analysis (NI-DNA™) architecture, meaning all solutions use one code set to function together flawlessly.
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.radware.com
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 is the global leader in wide-area data services (WDS), allowing organizations to connect their data centers, remote offices, and remote workers with LAN-like speed. Riverbed delivers the highest performance levels across the broadest range of applications over WANs, accelerating applications by up to 100x, and reducing WAN traffic by up to 95%. With this order-of magnitude improvement in performance, Riverbed makes distributed collaboration, IT consolidation, and network-based backup a reality for companies of every size.
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
www.SoftLayer.com
SoftLayer provides global, on-demand datacenter and hosting services from facilities across the U.S. We leverage best-in-class connectivity and technology to innovate industry-leading, fully automated solutions that empower enterprises with complete access, control, security, and scalability. With this insightful strategy and our peerless technical execution, we have created the truly virtual datacenter—and made traditional hosting and managed/unmanaged services obsolete.
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.
Symplified
www.symplified.com
Symplified is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company securing and optimizing Internet business by simplifying online identities and complex relationships. Symplified is enabling the adoption of cloud computing through identity integration, Web single sign on, dynamic access control, authentication, compliance and website personalization for the internal and external resources of mid-market companies.
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.
Information-Packed Sessions
- Cutting-edge expertise from technology specialists. See-around-corners vision from national analysts. Fresh-from-the-enterprise case histories direct from end users. When you choose your tracks you board an express train headed straight to fully-focused solutions that anticipate problems, work for your enterprise, and speed results to your bottom line.
Application Delivery
- Analyst
- Jim Metzler, President, Ashton Metzler & Associates
- It’s the constant compliant: “Why are the apps so slow?” Immediately followed by the eternal demand: “We need faster, more efficient-and now!” Finally there’s a solution…even for networks plagued with energy-draining, security-leaking, everything’s-virtualized-but-nothing’s-integrated legacy tech.
- The secret is not any single piece of IT, but a four-part framework built for speed with efficiency-a framework this session will help you build from 1-Planning to 2-Optimization to 3-Management to 4-Control. You’ll learn how to identify and eliminate conflicts at every stage, paving the way to integrate and accelerate apps across your network for maximum power and productivity.
- Technologies
- • Application acceleration
• Network optimization
• Application performance management
• Virtualized desktops
• Virtualized WAN Optimization Controllers
• Virtualized Application Delivery Controllers
• Managed application optimization services
• Baselining
• Application profiling
- New for ’09
- • New benchmarks: Metrics to meet, expectations to manage
• New truths How optimized apps perform on virtual networks
• New issues: Using managed service providers wisely
- Takeaways
- • Factors that matter in application delivery
• Architecture that anticipates complexities
• Techniques that can be used to improve application performance
• Criteria to choose the appropriate network and application optimization solutions
• The challenges and opportunities presented by virtualization
• The role of managed service providers
• A process for profiling application performance
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Building a Resilient, Dynamic Data Center
- Analyst
- Johna Till Johnson, President & Senior Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
- The data center is now the exciting epicenter of IT innovation- where cutting-edge technologies like virtualization, service-oriented architectures (SOA) blade computing, dynamic infrastructure, and service delivery management first emerge and initially deployed.
- Building, managing and operating a scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective data center is now mission-critical for IT departments across all industries.
- Planning for growth, Managing power and cooling. Ramping to handle ever-increasing demands of servers, storage and bandwidth. Improving business services. Provisioning faster. Lowering the cost of necessary resources. These are just some of the strategic issues this session addresses.
- Technologies
- • Data Center trends and metrics for success
• Facilities: build, managed, co-located, hosted, and cloud
• Dynamic infrastructure
• Intelligent, modular powers systems
• Consolidation
• Disaster recovery
• Tier I to Tier IV Availability (build or retrofit)
• Storage and storage management
• Energy consumption, measurement and management
• Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Data Center Efficiency (DCE)
• Power and Cooling Scalability and Capacity
- New for ’09
- • Strategies for outsourcing
• Disaster recovery
• Dynamic infrastructure
• Power and cooling technologies - comparison and analysis
• Latest success metrics
• Uses of contractors and professional service firms
- Takeaways
- • Decision tree for building our outsourcing a new data center
• How to design a high-availability facilities
• How to ensure disaster-recovery and business continuity across all systems and networks
• Elements of dynamic data center infrastructure
• How to keep up with storage demands
• Factors and benefits of raising the floor
• Chooisng credible contractors and professional services firms for data center design and engineering
• How to design power and cooling to scale for future demand
• How to measure power use and conserve resources
• When to consider liquid cooling
• Survey of power system choices
• Plans for growth in the data center
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Green IT: Best Practices for Making Your Initiative a Success
- Analyst
- Johna Till Johnson, President & Senior Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
- Green IT is more than a buzzword. It’s about rolling out critical technologies and policies that enable organizations to reduce costs while reducing their carbon footprints-all while increasing agility. After all, a truly green organization is a lean and efficient one.
- This track tackles the hardest tasks first: Gaining executive buy-in. Selecting appropriate technologies. Then deploying and implementing smart policies and best practices including capturing the hard nosed metrics that prove efforts are successful.
- Attendees will see which areas are “low-hanging fruit.” Which policies can yield measurable results. Which technologies cut energy costs, increase reliability, and provide agility. You’ll come away with a tested, proven, real-world blueprint for building tomorrow’s green IT organization-today.
- Technologies
- • Power management in the data center and office environments
• Utility computing
• Thin clients
• Virtualization as a green enabler
• Alternative energy options (wind, solar, thermal)
• Virtual solutions including collaboration and unified communications
• Modular power and HVAC
• Greening of facilities design
- New for ’09
- • Business smart, ready-now Green IT strategies
• Security issues and answers in the open world of Green IT
• Green IT and user touch points
• Comprehensive build-as-you-grow Green IT blueprint
• Current Green IT solutions from buy-in to build out
- Takeaways
- • Understanding of the ‘maturity levels’ of various green strategies
• Priority checklist of issues to start with
• Practical, hands-on blueprint for your green initiative
• How to build a business case for a green initiative - from saving money to saving natural resources
• How to secure executive buy-in for your green initiative
• No-cost and low-cost tips-and-tricks for green IT benefits through diminished and managed demand for resources
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Network Management, Automation & Control
- Analyst
- Jim Metzler, President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
- This session is a drill down on two keys to success: Infrastructure management and application performance management.
- Good infrastructure management now includes automation of routine tasks such as configuration management. Fault identification and resolution. This session will give you the latest best practices in ways you can implement immediately.
- In contrast, application performance management is a relatively new activity. In many enterprises it’s integrated with overall management processes. While in a growing number of enterprises its importance has created separate discipline. What’s the best way? Using case histories, we’ll explore emerging best practices. And help you decide the right network management, automation and control for your enterprise as you meet the unique challenges of application performance.
- Technologies
- • Application performance management
• Visibility, policy and control
• Network and systems management
• Network analytics
• IT infrastructure library
• Network availability and performance management
• Automated configuration management
• Managing virtualized servers
• SOA based applications
- New for ’09
- • Expanding role of application performance management
• Problem-detection for problem avoidance: Automating and resolving issues before they impact end users
• A new framework for management of virtualized servers
- Takeaways
- • Virtualization transparency-including visibility into the inter-virtual machine (VM) traffic as well as into VM sprawl.
• Metrics for SOA-based applications-including crucial WAN impacts on application performance as well as standard n-tier applications.
• Automated fault identification and resolution implementations-including solutions that trace, configure and monitor performance of network entities and services
• Decision criteria for application performance management-including strategies that add needed functionality quickly, support open API, increase ease of use, decrease costs, support a MIB’s variables and decentralized architecture
• A framework for managing virtualized servers-including deployment of virtual probes and use of data from sources such as NetFlow
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SaaS, Cloud Computing & Managed Services
- Analyst
- Jeff Kaplan, Founder and Managing Director of THINKstrategies
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) … Managed Services … Cloud Computing: Today’s uncertain economy, increased pressure on profits, and rapidly-evolving enabling technologies have made these the hottest topics in IT.
- If it’s your responsibility to implement the idea, this is a must-attend session. You’ll get the latest on what’s really enterprise ready now. You’ll see how to identify and adopt the best solutions as they emerge. You’ll learn secrets that optimize onsite IT assets through outside on-demand services. And you’ll discover how private clouds can overcome the risks of public clouds to create the kind of security, speed and optimization management expects in world-class network that deliver results as well as efficiencies.
- Technologies
- • SaaS
• Cloud/Utility Computing
• On-Demand Enterprise Applications
• Managed Services
• Managed Security Services
• Managed Storage Services
• Managed Desktop/Server/Network Services
- New for ’09
- • How to identify and capitalize on services-and achieve measurable IT/business objectives-that last year were only promised but now can be delivered
• Latest vendor-driven solutions and opportunities-which last year were only trends, tests and betas.
• Emerging ‘on-demand’ best practices based on case histories and mainstream experiences-as last’s year initial installations become tomorrow’s successful implementations.
- Takeaways
- • Key advantages/disadvantages of SaaS, managed services and cloud computing
• Risk/rewards of public versus private cloud
• Business benefits and potential risks of ‘on-demand’ services
• How services compare to legacy Application Service Providers (ASP)
• How managed services differ from IT outsourcing
• Key criteria for selecting the right services and vendors
• How to leverage off-site services to augment in-house resources
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Security & Compliance
- Analyst
- Andreas Antonopoulos, Senior Vice President & Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
- Today, IT security is caught in the cross-current of powerful internal and external pressures. Internally, business units are pushing IT to be more agile, flexible, and cost effective. Driving IT to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), virtualization, cloud computing and outsourcing. Externally, the threat landscape is continually morphing. Threats are moving up the protocol stack. And compliance demands are becoming more numerous and onerous simultaneously.
- The key issue for the security officer? How to manage risk in a perimeter-less organization. How to secure a network and that is agile, dynamic, flexible and ROI-focused. This session focuses on strategies to successfully manage the internal/external dynamic - to achieve both security and agility - in a world of SOA, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Outsourcing and Unified Communications & Collaboration.
- Technologies
- • SOA Security
• Virtualization Security
• Cloud Computing and Security
• Unified Communications and Collaboration Security
• IDS/IPS, Firewalls and VPN (Physical and Virtual)
• Identity Management
• Compliance Management
• E-Discovery, Archive and Data Leak Prevention (DLP)
- New for ’09
- • Focus on SOA, virtualization and UCC security threats and risk management
• Latest and specific recommendations on achieving agile compliance
• Marriage of information stewardship and security including DLP, e-discovery and archiving
- Takeaways
- • Changes in security in last 12 months.
• Rethink of security and risk management for 21st century threats
• Risk-driven approaches to agile security and compliance
• Security solutions tailored for SOA, virtualization, cloud computing and UCC
• Strategies for core centric and perimeter-less security
• Security architecture that embraces new agility paradigms
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UC, VoIP and Collaboration
- Analyst
- Robin Gareiss, Chief Research Officer, Nemertes Research
- The convergence of traditional enterprise applications with real-time collaboration, Web 2.0 and IP telephony is one of the most important IT trends among enterprises. Successful implementation of collaborative apps such as Web conferencing, video conferencing, IP telephony, shared workspaces, instant messaging, presence, and social computing are crucial to productivity and profits..
- Since these apps are most easily implemented on top of converged voice/data/video networks and infrastructure, networks must be intelligent enough to route traffic in a predictable, reliable fashion. Attend this track and gain the right architecture, adopt the right monitoring/management tools, and implement the right services (either hosted, managed, or in-house), that will truly result in savings across capital, and operations.
- Technologies
- • IP telephony
• Video/Web/Audio conferencing
• Instant Messaging
• Unified Messaging
• Presence
• Social computing
• All-in-one branch devices
• IP telephony/UC monitoring
• Unified communications dashboards
- New for ’09
- • Trends in adoption of collaborative applications and converged services
• Per-user costs of the IP telephony, collaboration, and WAN services supporting converged networks
• Focus on the business case for collaboration and convergence
• Role that managed services plays in augmenting and replacing internal IT staff
• Case histories and best practice of negotiation strategies for service provider
- Takeaways
- • Cost parameters for IP telephony and UC
• Adoption and growth trends among collaborative applications
• How to build an accurate business case for collaboration and convergence
• How best in class users manage collaborative applications and converged networks
• When, and how far, to mobile-enable collaborative apps
• Role of third-party services - the ideal versus the reality
• Key organizational strategies to adopt now
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Virtualization
- Analyst
- Andreas Antonopolous, Senior Vice President & Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
- With server virtualization already present in nearly all data centers, the question is no longer when to virtualize, but how to virtualize.
- Drawing on first-hand results gained from some of IT’s most effective practitioners, this session will show how front-line users achieved immediate and long term benefits of server virtualization: Immediate cost reductions due to hardware consolidation and lowered operating expenses.
- To fully support virtualized servers and desktops, institutions will then inevitably be pulled into virtualizing other resource pools in their data centers including storage, networks, and applications. The session will show you how these all fit together to form the new virtualized data center.
- Technologies
- • Server virtualization
• Desktop virtualization
• Application virtualization
• Storage virtualization
• Network virtualization and flattening
• Security virtualization
• Management and provisioning tools for virtualized resource pools
- New for ’09
- • Latest and most complete data on server virtualization
• Latest and most complete data on desktop virtualization
• Combining technologies for maximum agility
• Current data on failover and DR
• Alternative strategies to hypervisor/VM server virtualization
• Best practices in management and monitoring
- Takeaways
- • How to virtualizing workloads- when a virtual server is not the right answer
• Building the business case for server virtualization- when hardware consolidation is not enough
• How and when to virtualize without consolidation
• How to improve disaster recovery using virtualization
• How to introduce and expand virtual desktops in your organization
• Management and monitoring issues in virtualized infrastructures
• Security and compliance considerations for virtualized infrastructures
• Security architecture that embraces new agility paradigms
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WAN, Wireless & Mobility Strategies
- Analyst
- Robin Gareiss, Chief Research Officer, Nemertes Research
- Enterprises are faced with a dizzying array of choices for site-to-site and Internet connectivity. Services such as MPLS, Ethernet, and fixed-wireless technologies offer opportunities to reduce costs and improve service delivery - if the enterprise is able to optimize contracts and services from a widely divergent mix of available providers.
- At the same time, successful enterprises must developing consistent approaches for the architecture, equipment, and services at the branch office so each location isn’t an isolated island in a distributed enterprise.
- This session examines trends in WAN services and branch-product evolution and provides attendees with the keys to evaluating, selecting, and contracting for the optimal mix of products and services within their organization.
- Technologies
- • MPLS
• Ethernet/VPLS
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• WAN optimization
• All-in-one branch-office devices
• Hosted, managed services for the branch
• WiMAX and 3G/4G Wireless Services
• Wireless LAN systems (802.11a/b/g/n)
• Wide Area File Systems (WAFS)
• IP Multicast • IPv6
- New for ’09
- • Managed application performance offerings
• IPv6
• Latest WLAN technology
• Cost/benefit of all-on-one devices, remote management, optimization
• Discussion of increase in hosted and managed services
• Survey of emerging MPLS services for branch offices such as MPLS over DSL/Cable
• Role of fixed wireless services [WiMAX] in developing a WAN architecture
- Takeaways
- • How to optimize MPLS services for maximum application performance
• How to evaluate Ethernet services for metro and WAN environments
• How to craft effective branch-office standards for equipment and services
• Must-have collaborative applications for branch locations
• How to leverage WLANs for reduce savings and improved productivity
• Strategies for maximizing resiliency and supporting web services
• How to integrate wireless services into WAN plans
• Solutions for international and geographical WAN service deployments
• Gameplan for emerging technologies such as WAFS and IPv6
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