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2016 Sponsors

 

 

INNOVATOR




Comcast Business offers Internet, Ethernet, Voice and TV for businesses. Built for business, services are delivered over a diverse, private network – the nation’s leading alternative to the phone company. With Internet speeds up to seven times faster than DSL and Ethernet that provides carrier-grade data and Internet services, at speeds up to 10 GBPS, businesses will find the solution they need. Business Voice offers a variety of options like voice lines, PRI trunks and Business VoiceEdgeTM – our virtual PBX solution. And Business TV will keep customers entertained. Customers also value the 24x7 dedicated business support everywhere: phone, web and online.


  

Citrix enables the secure and reliable delivery of applications and data over public, private or hybrid clouds or networks, to virtually any type of device. With annual revenue in 2015 of $3.28 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than 400,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn more at www.citrix.com.

 

  

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.

 

CONTRIBUTOR


Bizagi is a global leader in digital process automation software. Bizagi helps ignite the digital transformation programs of more than 500 enterprise customers across 50 countries around the world, assisted by an international network of partners and a global community of over 500,000 process pioneers.


The world's biggest enterprises rely on CenturyLink.  From hybrid-ready cloud to global network connectivity and managed services, our comprehensive portfolio of Hybrid IT solutions is purpose-built to accelerate business performance and facilitate agility throughout your organization. 


Clearpath Solutions Group helps clients store, protect, and manage their organization’s most valuable asset – information – while increasing their efficiency and decreasing their costs. We are a datacenter and cloud computing integrator, but it is our approach that sets us apart. Rather than serving solely as a reseller, we partner with our clients to create and deliver integrated, results-driven solutions that make sense. Clearpath capitalizes on our knowledge of manufacturer and industry best practices while increasing IT efficiency and agility. All the while, we focus intently on efficient use of capital.





            

Cloudistics delivers superconverged cloud infrastructure to medium and large enterprises with its software-defined application cloud platform, natively converging network, storage, compute, virtualization, and management into a single solution to drive unprecedented simplicity in the datacenter. Customers can start with a base infrastructure and scale to multi-site and multi-geo infrastructures with predictable economics and performance. With proprietary secure virtual networking, elastic storage, and SaaS management, Cloudistics is the blueprint for application-optimized hybrid cloud infrastructures.

              
   
                         

Silver Peak helps enterprises and service providers flexibly and securely connect users to applications via the most cost-effective source of connectivity available. Silver Peak customers can quickly adopt an enterprise-grade WAN that leverages broadband Internet connectivity (also known as SD-WAN), while dramatically improving application performance and lowering costs.

 

EDITORS PANEL

8x8, is the trusted provider of secure and reliable cloud-based unified communications and virtual contact center solutions to organizations around the globe. 8x8's cloud solutions replace traditional on-premises PBX hardware and software-based systems with a flexible and scalable Software as a Service (SaaS) alternative.



            

Infoblox delivers Actionable Network Intelligence to enterprises, government agencies, and service providers around the world. As the industry leader in DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI), Infoblox provides control and security from the core—empowering thousands of organizations to increase efficiency and visibility, reduce risk, and improve customer experience.



            

Nimble Storage offers a predictive flash platform that gives users the fastest, most reliable access to data. By combining predictive analytics with flash storage, IT teams radically simplify their operations. Over 9,000 customers across 50 countries rely on Nimble to power their businesses, both on-premise and in the cloud.



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. 

NETWORKING

            


Since 1987, ESET® has been developing award-winning security software that now helps over 100 million customers to Enjoy Safer Technology. Its broad security product portfolio covers all popular platforms and provides businesses and consumers around the world with the perfect balance of performance and protection.

                         
                   

Extreme Networks delivers software-driven networking solutions that help IT departments everywhere deliver the ultimate business outcome: stronger connections with customers, partners and employees. Wired to wireless, desktop to datacenter, we 'go to the extreme' for our 20,000-plus customers in more than 80 countries, delivering 100% insourced support to organizations large and small.



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.


      



IBM MaaS360 is the trusted enterprise mobility management solution to thousands of customers worldwide -- from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses. We make working in a mobile world simple and safe by delivering comprehensive mobile security and management for applications, documents, email, and devices. To learn more go to www.ibm.com/maas360


      


UVA’s M.S. in the Management of Information Technology is a recognized leader in the development of strategically-oriented, top-tier IT business professionals. Offered in Northern Virginia or Charlottesville, M.S. in MIT is a one-year, executive format, Master’s degree program that positions graduates to deliver hard-hitting business value through innovative IT management.






Veeam® recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Enterprise™, a business that must operate 24/7/365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged data and complete visibility.