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GAME CHANGER




Oracle’s Dyn is a pioneer in DNS and a leader in cloud-based infrastructure to connect users with digital content and experiences across a global internet. Dyn's solution is powered by a global network that drives 40 billion traffic optimization decisions daily for more than 3,500 enterprise customers, including preeminent digital brands such as Netflix, Twitter, LinkedIn and CNBC. Adding Dyn's best-in-class DNS and email services extend the Oracle cloud computing platform and provides enterprise customers with a one-stop shop for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).


Pluribus Networks provides data center interconnect and analytics solutions that transforms your existing, inflexible network infrastructure into a strategic foundation for modern digital-centric businesses. Leveraging existing IT networks, our easily deployable fabric architecture virtualizes the network to make it more resilient and intelligent while improving visibility and automating its operation.

INNOVATOR


Citrix aims to power a world where people, organizations and things are securely connected and accessible to make the extraordinary possible. We help customers reimagine the future of work by providing the most comprehensive secure digital workspace that unifies the apps, data and services people need to be productive, and simplifies IT’s ability to adopt and manage complex cloud environments. Citrix solutions are in use by more than 400,000 organizations including 99 percent of the Fortune 100 and 98 percent of the Fortune 500.

  

         
            

With K2’s application platform, organizations can use visual designers to rapidly build and deploy low-code business process applications that are agile, scalable and reusable, resulting in modern processes that quickly connect people, data, decisions and systems. K2 has 1,500+ customers in 84+ countries, 30-percent of which are Fortune 100 companies.

 

            
 

Sophos makes IT security simple. Focused on innovation in next-generation protection, Sophos solutions are simple to deploy, maintain and manage, enabling organizations to protect and defend their networks, their information and their people. Sophos – Security made Simple.

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Gluware is the leader in brownfield enterprise network automation. Gluware Control automates network lifecycle management on existing networks, allowing companies to roll-out a robust suite of advanced network and security features while reducing manual deployment and support costs. Gluware currently powers mission-critical networks of blue-chip enterprises and managed service providers.

Cloud is critical to business innovation and growth, but its use can put data, an enterprise’s most valuable asset, at risk. Skyhigh protects data across all cloud services with the speed, scale and user-centricity the cloud demands. With Skyhigh Security Cloud, enterprises can accelerate their business by leveraging technology and services to confidently identify, control and protect data and user activities across any cloud, on any device.

  

  

            
            

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform delivers the agility, pay-as-you-grow economics and operational simplicity of the public cloud, without sacrificing the predictability, security and control of on-premises infrastructure. Nutanix solutions leverage web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution that delivers any application at any scale.

            

            
            

Viavi is an application and network management industry leader, providing products that optimize performance and speed problem resolution. Helping to ensure delivery of critical applications for businesses worldwide, Viavi offers an integrated line of precision-engineered software and hardware systems for effective network monitoring and analysis.

PANEL OF INDUSTRY EXPERTS



Logitech is transforming video conferencing by offering an easy and affordable way to collaborate, with crystal-clear audio and razor-sharp video. Logitech products deliver exceptional performance, business certifications, and award-winning design.


Zerto is committed to keeping enterprise and cloud IT running 24/7 by providing innovative, simple, reliable and scalable business continuity software solutions. Through the Zerto Cloud Continuity Platform, organizations can seamlessly move and protect virtualized workloads between public, private and hybrid clouds. Zerto Virtual Replication has become the standard for protection, recovery and migration of applications.

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Darktrace is the world’s leading AI company for cyber security. Created by mathematicians, the Enterprise Immune System uses machine learning and AI algorithms to detect and respond to cyber-threats across diverse digital environments, including cloud and virtualized networks, IoT and industrial control systems. The technology is self-learning and requires no set-up, identifying threats in real time, including zero-days, insiders and stealthy, silent attackers. Darktrace is headquartered in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK, and has 32 offices worldwide.
 

            

Global Knowledge, the world’s leading IT and business skills training provider, offers relevant and timely content delivered by expert instructors across multiple delivery formats to accelerate student success. Our learning services focus on big data, cloud computing, cybersecurity, networking, communications skills, business analysis, project management, process improvement and leadership development.

            

Unitrends increases uptime, productivity, and confidence in a world in which IT professionals must do more with less. Our all-in-one backup appliances simplify data protection, application spin-up, and SLA policy automation. Seamless integration with the cloud delivers long-term retention and fast disaster recovery.