CIO 100 Symposium and Awards Ceremony
 

UNDERWRITING PARTNER

At BMC Software, we believe that IT innovation drives business transformation. It's why we've spent over 30 years helping companies achieve one goal: mastering IT complexity. And it's why we built MyIT, a simple, self-service app that revolutionizes the end user IT experience. From mainframe to mobile, the back room to the board room, BMC delivers the automation, integration, and sophistication that enable the business and IT to perform like never before.


CORPORATE SPONSORS

Box provides a secure way to share content and improve collaboration on any device. Desktop, tablet or mobile. From huge corporations to mom and pop stores, Box believes technology should never limit anything you do. Businesses of any size can be more productive, inventive and powerful on Box. The company is well funded by top VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and U.S. Venture Partners. Box is proud to be on Forbes’ list of America’s Most Promising Companies, is used in 225,000 businesses - including 99% of the Fortune 500 – and is the go-to product of 25 million people.    

CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare. A Fortune 500 company, CDW was founded in 1984 and employs approximately 6,900 coworkers. For the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2013, the company generated net sales of approximately $10.7 billion. For more information, visit www.CDW.com.
Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. As an innovator in the communications and information technology industry, Cisco and our valued partners sell Cisco hardware, software, and services to businesses of all sizes, governments, service providers, and consumers. 
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leader in mobile workspaces, providing virtualization, mobility management, networking and cloud services to enable new ways to work better. Citrix solutions power business mobility through secure, personal workspaces that provide people with instant access to apps, desktops, data and communications on any device, over any network and cloud. This year Citrix is celebrating 25 years of innovation, making IT simpler and people more productive. With annual revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than 330,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn more at www.citrix.com
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. Dell provides people, processes and technology to help create, improve or support an efficient IT organization. With over 100,000 global team members Dell is committed to provide expertise, infrastructure, support, applications and business processes to help organizations operate their IT more efficiently, proactively and securely. 
Delphix delivers agility to enterprise application and modernization projects, addressing the largest source of inefficiency and inflexibility in the datacenter—provisioning, managing, and refreshing data for business-critical applications. With Delphix in place, QA engineers spend more time testing and less time waiting for new data, increasing utilization of expensive test infrastructure. Analysts and managers make better decisions with fresh data in data marts and warehouses. Leading global organizations use Delphix to dramatically reduce the time, cost, and risk of application rollouts, reporting, retirements, and migrations.  

Dimension Data is a specialist IT services and solutions provider that uses its technology expertise, global service delivery capability, and entrepreneurial spirit to accelerate the business ambitions of its enterprise clients. Its expertise spans Network Integration, Cloud Services, Security Solutions, Converged Communications, Data Center Solutions, Customer Interactive Solutions and Microsoft Solutions.

OpenMarket, a subsidiary of Amdocs, helps enterprises use mobile to transform their business. OpenMarket provides mobile engagement solutions for organizations to optimize their operations and enhance relationships with their customers and employees. Major enterprises choose OpenMarket for our domain expertise, service flexibility, demonstrated performance and reliability, global scale, and corporate maturity. We provide smart, interactive connectivity to more than 200 countries, enabling businesses to engage with nearly every mobile user around the world. Our clients trust us to power their mobile business. For more information, visit www.openmarket.com.

Red Hat is the one of the world’s leading providers of information technology solutions. Our community-powered approach provides reliable, flexible and enterprise-ready cloud, virtualization, storage, Linux, and middleware technologies. Our development model mirrors the highly interconnected world we live in and takes advantage of the ability to share ideas and information worldwide, in seconds. It allows our customers to enjoy the highest levels of technology innovation while remaining aligned with real-world business requirements. We also offer award-winning support, training, and consulting services. Red Hat is an S&P company with more than 80 offices spanning the globe, empowering its customers’ businesses.

ServiceNow is the enterprise IT cloud company. We transform IT by automating and managing IT service relationships across the global enterprise. Organizations deploy our service to create a single system of record for IT and automate manual tasks, standardize processes, and consolidate legacy systems. Using our extensible platform, our customers create custom applications and evolve the IT service model to service domains inside and outside the enterprise. ServiceNow transforms IT from the department of no to the department of now.
Sungard Availability Services has more than 30 years of experience providing flexible availability services that help ensure organizations keep applications always on, always available. The company leverages its proven expertise to provide managed IT services, information availability consulting services, business continuity management software and disaster recovery to clients in North America and Europe. Sungard Availability Services helps customers improve the resiliency of their mission critical systems by designing, implementing and managing cost-effective solutions using people, process and technology to address enterprise IT availability needs.  To learn more, visit www.sungardas.com or call 1-866-714-7209.


EVENT PARTNER

The CIO Executive Council, now in its 10th year, is not only a global peer advisory community offering leadership services to the office of the CIO, but a tireless public advocate for your great profession. Through numerous programs tackling the inherent challenges you are all faced with, the Council has made a tremendous impact to practitioners, aspiring leaders and their organizations. Most recently the CIO Executive Council’s widely recognized Journey to the Future-State CIO and digital C-Suite work has raised the eye brows of CEOs in an effort to better position you and align you with expectations. 
RESEARCH PARTNER
IDC is the most experienced and most trusted IT advisory firm in the market. Our global team of 1,100 analysts assist businesses  around the world in moving  to the 3rd Platform of computing. Our IT advisory services not only advise on the technologies of the 3rd Platform (cloud, mobile, social and analytics), but also on how to effectively lead technology initiatives. To learn more visit www.idc.com/itexecutive.