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 3PAR
3PAR® is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly-virtualized, tightly-clustered, and dynamically-tiered storage arrays built for utility computing. Organizations use utility computing to build cost-effective virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. 3PAR Utility Storage gives customers an alternative to traditional arrays by delivering resilient infrastructure with increased agility at a lower total cost to meet their rapidly changing business needs. As a pioneer of thin provisioning?a green technology developed to address storage underutilization and inefficiencies?3PAR offers products designed to minimize power consumption and promote environmental responsibility. With 3PAR, customers have reduced the costs of allocated storage capacity, administration, and SAN infrastructure while increasing adaptability and resiliency. 3PAR Utility Storage is built to meet the demands of open systems consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management, and performance-intensive applications.
 APC
In February 2007, APC and MGE UPS Systems combined to form a $3.5 billion (€2.4 billion) Critical Power and Cooling Services business unit of Schneider Electric. The Critical Power and Cooling Services division offers the industry's most comprehensive product and solution range for critical IT and process applications in industrial, enterprise, small and medium business and home environments. The company's solutions include APC's InfraStruXure® data center architecture, the industry's most comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution. The company's products also include APC and MGE-brand uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), along with APC-brand precision cooling units, racks, and design and management software. Backed by the industry's broadest service organization and an industry leading R&D investment, the company's 12,000 employees help customers confront today's unprecedented power, cooling and management challenges. Schneider Electric, with 112,000 employees and operations in 190 countries, had 2007 annual sales of $25 billion (€17.3 billion). For more information about APC, visit www.apc.com All trademarks are the property of their owners.
 AppStream
The patented, proven AppStream Management Suite offers virtual delivery, virtual execution and rule-based management for applications, serving end-user systems on the LAN, WAN and Internet from a central management console. AppStream's pull-based, on-demand software distribution platform combines the benefits of server-based computing (self-service access and centralized management & control) and distributed PC computing (disconnected application use and distributed processing), providing a "best of both worlds" solution. Software deployment via streaming is perfect for remote delivery across the Internet or low-bandwidth extranets because it streams only the application functions that an end user actually needs, when those functions are needed, rather than delivering the entire application in advance. AppStream is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA with offices in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. For more information, visit www.appstream.com.
 Astaro Corporation
Astaro Corporation (www.astaro.com) is a leading provider of Unified Threat Management security solutions. Its flagship product, the award-winning Astaro Security Gateway, simplifies Email, Web & Network Security and protects over 30,000 networks in 60 countries.
Using the proven quality of a hardened Linux platform, the Astaro portfolio integrates leading open source and commercial security products, powerful management and reporting facilities, and is rounded off with a front end that has unparalleled ease of use.
Astaro's product offering is available as a software ISO, hardware appliance or virtual appliance and provides the flexibility to meet any deployment scenario. Astaro combines complete protection, best of breed applications, and enterprise level performance into a single, award-winning security appliance that offers the best total cost of ownership.
Highly regarded as the premier supplier of Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions in the world, over 100,000 IT administrators entrust their network with security appliances from Astaro. For more information about Astaro Corporation, visit www.astaro.com.
 Ceedo Technologies
Ceedo Technologies has developed patent-pending virtualization technology that takes a suite of standard off-the-shelf Windows® applications, and virtualizes them in real-time, creating a portable virtual desktop, which launches on any Windows? host PC with no need to pre-install any software, drivers or agents. Ceedo?s portable virtual desktop runs on top of and leverages the exiting Windows® OS on the host PC, thus eliminating the licensing costs, footprint and performance penalty of a full virtualized OS, and works fully in user mode, enabling operation on locked-down PCs.
Ceedo?s technology enables the most cost-effective solutions for many enterprise scenarios such as remote access, disaster recovery, and creating a managed enterprise ?island? on employee-owned and subcontractor-owned PCs. Ceedo provides the Enterprise IT with tools to fully customize the user interface, remotely deploy new applications, and update existing applications.
For more information see www.ceedo.com
 Certeon
Certeon's S-Series Application Acceleration Appliances provide the industry's
only solution with Application Intelligent Networking to deliver application acceleration, security and scalability from the desktop to the data center. Certeon's patent-pending S-Series appliances accelerate all WAN traffic and are optimized for distributed content delivery and collaboration applications such as: enterprise content management, work flow and process management, Web portals and search. S-Series appliances are the only solution to securely accelerate encrypted traffic (SSL) with the same performance improvements as unencrypted traffic. The appliances minimize network traffic to significantly improve application response times, while maintaining end-to-end security. The result is the highest productivity possible for all remote branch office employees. For more information visit http://www.certeon.com
 Composite Software
Composite Software, Inc. provides a virtual approach to data integration. Hundreds of enterprises including five of the top six U.S. investment banks as well several Government agencies, such as the Office of Secretary of Defense and Intelligence, and software vendors including Cognos, Informatica and BMC, rely on the Composite Information Server? to virtualize, abstract and federate data from multiple, disparate sources and deliver this real-time information to their applications. Composite Software?s technology fulfills real-time information requirements, enabling enterprises to respond faster to business requests, reduce their data integration costs, and keep pace with ever-changing business needs. Founded in 2002, Composite Software is a privately held, venture-funded corporation based in Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit http://www.compositesw.com
Farata
Systems
Farata Systems is a leading IT consulting
and product development company providing enterprise-wide IT solutions specializing in
the area of rich Internet applications. The company has been created by the merger of
two consulting companies: Computer Technology,Inc., and Smart Data Processing, Inc.
Farata Systems focuses on delivering custom solutions using sustainable technologies
for financial and retail applications. Our team of highly-regarded industry experts
will assess requirements of your business, will suggest the most effective solutions
in your current technological space, with the emphasis on blending new technologies
into existing IT fabric of your business. We hire experts who have established long
term successful track records of developing enterprise applications, not just talking
about them.
For more information about Farata Systems, visit http://www.faratasystems.com/
 Fujitsu
Ranked by Gartner as a leader in the
Application Infrastructure Software market, Fujitsu helps companies build SOA-enabled
BPM applications that can be shared across the enterprise to lower operating costs,
accelerate business processes, and react quickly to changing market requirements.
Fujitsu's industry-leading BPM Suite, Interstage Business Process Manager, brings
business and IT professionals together to design, simulate, automate, analyze, and
optimize business processes. Together with CentraSite, Fujitsu's standards-based SOA
registry and repository, we help companies take a process-driven approach to SOA. This
top-down approach allows for collaboration on translating real business models into
optimized, executable business processes while letting an organization reuse their
existing Visio process maps, IT infrastructure and other SOA assets to reduce
operational costs and maximize business efficiencies.
With operations across the globe, annual revenues in excess of $40 billion, and
156,000 employees in 100 countries, Fujitsu is the third largest IT company in the
world and continues to deliver customer-focused business solutions. For more
information about Fujitsu Interstage, visit www.fujitsu.com/interstage
 Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is a highly successful software company specializing in virtualization and security.
Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY® is the first operating system or virtualization technology to be accepted for EAL 6+ Common Criteria IT Security evaluation; the level required to protect assets from hostile and well-funded attacks.
Green Hills’ INTEGRITY PC technology, using the unique Padded CellTM virtualization architecture, enables IT organizations and equipment manufacturers the ability to deploy completely secure systems while supporting environments such as Windows and Linux.
Green Hills’ products are used in desktop, server, and mobile computer systems. See http://www.ghs.com/products/rtos/integritypc.html for more information.
 Grid Dynamics
Grid Dynamics is a fast growing consulting company headquartered in Silicon Valley. We advise and engineer systems and solutions of "extreme" performance, scale and reliability. Our clients — leading financial, technology, Internet, communication and entertainment companies such as eBay or Bank of America — rely on Grid Dynamics to architect, design, prototype, build, or tune their business-critical grid systems. We work with the latest technologies, platforms and tools, right on — or beyond — the bleeding edge of mainstream computing. Our staff consists of elite scientists and engineers, experts in performance computing.
Grid Dynamics offers a full range of consulting and engineering services that cover the entire project lifecycle, with on-site, off-site, and hybrid service fulfillment and deliver results even in the most challenging assignments with the best "IQ/dollar value" in the industry. Our customers gain real and measurable business improvements when adopting our "extreme" applications and network systems solutions. Visit us at http://www.griddynamics.com/ or contact us at info@griddynamics.com
 InstallFree
InstallFree, a privately-held company with headquarters in Stamford, CT, is a
leading provider of application and desktop virtualization solutions. We enable
corporate IT departments to centrally deploy software applications and complete
desktops to employees at any location enabling corporations to lower their Total Cost
of Ownership, improve the manageability of applications and desktops, and improve the
end-user's productivity.
The company has leveraged its patent-pending virtualization technology to provide
comprehensive solutions that focus on IT operational efficiency and end-users'
experience. Our products allow IT departments to virtualize any application and/or
complete desktop and deliver it for local processing on any XP or Vista based PC as
well as 64bit and server-based solutions such as Citrix Presentation Server, Windows
Terminal Server and Windows-based virtual machines. The implementation does not
require any software to be installed on the host PC enabling full functionality and
complete user autonomy in all environments including locked-down computers. For more
information about InstallFree, visit http://installfree.com/
 Intel
Welcome to a
new era of responsiveness. Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops
technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and
live. At this year’s Virtualization Expo event, learn how Intel’s latest
virtualization technology advancements are designed to increase performance while
simplifying IT management, reduce the number of physical servers and balance compute
workloads on virtual machines. Maximize the flexibility of your assets and get more
from every system. All without costly datacenter expansion. To learn more, please
attend Intel’s general session to see why great computing starts with Intel inside.
For more information, please visit: http://www.intel.com/go/intelsolutionservices
 Managed Methods
Managed Methods develops and sells versatile and cost-effective solutions products for monitoring Web services and managing service-oriented architectures. Our focus is providing practical tools that enable visibility and management of Web services operations in the production environment. As an organization, we offer the following value: - IT Operations Monitoring Experience
- Focus on Product Flexibility and Value.
- Customization
- Customer-driven
- Flexible Licensing
No matter where you are in the adoption of Web services and implementation of service-oriented architectures, we can help you achieve your goals and grow with you.
 MQSoftware
MQSoftware delivers business transaction assurance, business service monitoring, middleware management applications, and enterprise application integration products to help customers align IT operations and investments with their business applications. Working with BEA , BMC Software, HP, IBM, Oracle, and TIBCO Software, MQSoftware solutions provide a complete range of real-time transaction assurance and application services performance and availability management backed by comprehensive reporting and supported with powerful tools built for multiplatform infrastructures enabling precision control of customer service and cost-control.
MQSoftware’s recognized expertise in implementing and managing SOA solutions adds value through real-time monitoring of business applications including the supporting infrastructure. Customers in vertical industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and government are better enabled to focus IT priorities on maintaining revenue-generating services using existing technologies to deliver high levels of customer service, reducing operating cost, and optimizing business processes.
 Nastel
Nastel is a recognized market leader in providing solutions for application
performance monitoring and management. Nastel's solutions empower IT teams to
consistently assure high performance and availability of business applications.
Nastel's AutoPilot Suite of software rapidly identifies, resolves and prevents costly
performance bottlenecks and failures by providing visibility into performance of
critical business processes relying on SOA and middleware infrastructure. Through
Nastel's AutoPilot suite and a vast array of plug-ins (ranging from Java applications,
WebSphere MQ and WMB, TIBCO EMS, ESB and J2EE platforms, such as WebSphere Application
Server, WebLogic, JBoss, Oracle 10g, etc.), IT and Application Support teams can
control and see performance bottlenecks in parts of the SOA and EAI infrastructure
that they can't ordinarily see. Our clients include some of the world's largest
banks, financial institutions, retail chains and insurance providers. Nastel, founded
in 1994, is headquartered in New York, has offices in the U.S. and Europe and a
growing network of resellers and partners around the world. For more information about
Nastel, visit www.nastel.com
 Oasis
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, international consortium that
drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. The
consortium produces more Web services standards than any other organization along with
standards for security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector
and for application-specific markets. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 5,000
participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100
countries.
 PlateSpin
PlateSpin provides a unified suite of solutions
to help enterprises adopt, manage and extend their use of server virtualization in the
data center. PlateSpin's patent-pending workload profiling and portability technology
liberates software from hardware and streams server workloads (data, applications and
operating systems) over the network between physical and virtual infrastructures. The
freedom to drag and drop workloads onto the physical or virtual hosts where they will
run most efficiently ensures the best fit between server resource supply and
application workload demands. Global 2000 companies use PlateSpin solutions to lower
costs, boost operational efficiencies and solve today's most pressing data center
challenges including server consolidation, hardware migration and disaster recovery.
For more information about PlateSpin, visit www.platespin.com/
 Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's most trusted open source provider. Ranked first for
value in enterprise software for four consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine
Vendor Value study. We offer enterprise customers a long-term plan for building
infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining the leading
open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with
applications, management, and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions,
including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. We also offer support, training, and
consulting services worldwide to help enterprises take full advantage of the value of
open source technology. For more information, please visit www.redhat.com/
 Reflex Security
Reflex Security, the first to market with the Reflex Virtual Security Appliance (VSA) in 2006, is the industry leader in virtual security. Reflex VSA creates a virtualized security appliance and virtual security infrastructure inside a physical host machine. Reflex employs high-performance deep packet inspection to combine firewall, intrusion prevention (IPS), anomaly detection, network access control (NAC) and anti–spyware capabilities for securing virtual and physical networks. Reflex?s VSA runs on multiple virtualization platforms, and provides the industry?s tightest integration with VMware virtualization technology. Reflex Security is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. For more information, please visit www.reflexsecurity.com
 Skytap
Skytap is the leading provider of cloud-based virtualization solutions available as secure, on-demand services over the Web. Skytap solutions enable IT and development teams to rapidly develop, test, deploy and manage applications in a virtual environment, dramatically increasing their ability to respond to business needs and shorten time to market, while reducing overhead and cost. Skytap users have access to virtually unlimited computing capacity which can augment on-site infrastructure for short-term needs or eliminate the need for it entirely. Skytap?s virtual infrastructure and software platform provides services such as virtual infrastructure provisioning, monitoring & management, security, remote access and collaboration, storage management, and reporting.
Skytap Virtual Lab is an automated virtual lab management solution available as a service. Skytap?s Virtual Lab offers organizations the ability to provision virtual labs in minutes, automate the set-up and tear-down of complex, multi-tiered environments, and better collaborate across globally distributed teams using shared virtual infrastructure.
 Software AG
Software AG is
the world's largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. Our
4,000 global customers achieve measurable business results by modernizing and
automating their IT systems and rapidly building new systems and processes to meet
growing business demands.
Our industry-leading product portfolio includes best-in-class solutions for managing
data, enabling service oriented architecture, and improving business processes. By
combining proven technology with industry expertise and best practices, our customers
improve and differentiate their businesses - faster.
Software AG - Get There Faster For more information about Software
AG, visit www.softwareag.com/
 Splunk
Splunk is a Silicon Valley company inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. The company's freely downloadable software indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics. If a machine can generate it - Splunk can eat it. It's easy to download, install and use, and is very powerful. More than 450 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 125,000 users achieve higher availability, investigate security incidents in record time, and meet compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Download your own free copy at www.splunk.com. For more information about Splunk, visit http://www.splunk.com/
 Stoneware
Headquartered in Indianapolis, Stoneware is a privately held corporation providing innovative software that delivers "Universal Web Access" to all of an organization's web, Windows, and hosted applications through a ‘Virtualized Web Desktop’ interface. Based on Web 2.0 technology, Stoneware’s webOS is a unique offering in the virtualization market, focusing on the rapid growth of web applications and the shift from client/server to cloud computing. The company services various sectors including education, manufacturing, medical, and legal industries. For more information about Stoneware and Stoneware products, visit www.stonewarewebos.com or call 888-473-9485.
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 Web Age Solutions
Web Age
Solutions is a leading provider of technology mentoring and education to the Fortune
500. Our "Preferred Vendor" status with these global leaders is a result of our highly
progressive approach to knowledge transfer and relentless pursuit of customer
satisfaction. While many of our competitors are just now getting their feet wet with
SOA, we have been delivering SOA training and mentoring since 2003. Moving well
beyond theoretical discussions of SOA, we have a deep library of practical SOA
curriculum backed by hands-on experience.
Web Age understands that unique business processes are integrated into every IT
strategy. We have the expertise to deliver knowledge transfer programs that are
tailored to your organization's approach to SOA. Your business is unique. Your
adoption of SOA is unique. Your SOA education program should be too. For more
information about Web Age Solutions, visit www.webagesolutions.com
 Xsigo
Xsigo Systems is the technology leader in data center I/O virtualization, a
solution that dramatically reduces IT expense by changing the way that servers are
connected to networks and storage. The Xsigo I/O Director delivers the following
benefits and more:
- 70% fewer cables, cards, switch ports
- 50% less capital cost
- 100x greater agility
- Centralized, remote control of I/O resources
For more information, please visit www.xsigo.com.
 WSO2
WSO2 is an open source middleware company founded by pioneers in Web services and of members of the Apache Software Foundation Web services community. We deliver a new, entirely open source middleware stack that is optimized for Web services and SOA and built on Apache Axis2. WSO2?s first products are the WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS) and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), which are built on the WSO2 Web Services Framework. The company maintains operations in the United States, United Kingdom and Sri Lanka. For more information about WSO2, visit http://wso2.com/
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 Active Endpoints
Active
Endpoints is the leading provider of SOA orchestration solutions that enable
organizations to build and deploy composite, process-driven information systems based
on WS-BPEL, the SOA orchestration standard. From open source to mission-critical
deployments, Active Endpoints allows users quickly adapt to evolving customer demands
by reducing the cost of integration, leveraging infrastructure investments, and
enabling the sharing of business processes with customers, partners, and suppliers.
More ISVs, financial services, government, telecommunications, high technology, and
retail organizations use Active Endpoints solutions than any other BPEL technology.
Headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, Active Endpoints is privately held. For more
information about Active Endpoints, visit www.active-endpoints.com
 BEA Systems,
Inc.
BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:
BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. BEA® Enterprise 360° is the industry's most advanced approach
for building a Liquid Enterprise™. This comprehensive offering combines our
product technologies, people, best practices, and broad network of partners to deliver maximum business value to our
customers. BEA Enterprise 360° gives our customers the ability to harness the
convergence of:
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Business Process Management (BPM)
• Enterprise Social Computing
Customers rely on market-leading BEA AquaLogic®, WebLogic®, and Tuxedo® product families to reduce IT complexity and leverage
existing resources, while improving cost structures and growing new revenue streams
with new services. For more information about BEA Systems, Inc., visit http://www.bea.com/
 Laszlo Systems
Laszlo Systems is the original developer
of the open source platform OpenLaszlo, and provider of Rich Internet Applications and
services that advance the Web experience. OpenLaszlo is an XML-native foundation for
building next-generation Web applications that increase customer retention, conversion
and brand loyalty. Laszlo provides comprehensive support services, education, and
commercial application modules so that any company can easily make the move to Rich
Internet Applications. For more information about Laszlo Systems, visit www.laszlosystems.com
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