IT Management Track
New products and technologies are not only radically changing the current enterprise ecosystem but constantly evolving with developers and CEOs striving to create new iterations of the next faster, better, stronger piece of technology on the market. This track will help you to understand how to better lead your IT organization even when the ground is shifting under your feet.
IT Management Conference Sessions
| Wednesday, October 3 | |
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10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Location: Room 1E08 As with the emergence of any new technology, Cloud has brought more than its fair share of issues. First there is the human impact of cultural shifts, talent management, and organizational change. Sec…More ▶ Moderator - Mike Spanbauer, Analyst, Current Analysis  Mike is Service Director for the Current Analysis Business Technology and Software service. Mike and his analyst team monitor and evaluate activities in the markets for Application Platforms, Collaboration Platforms, Data Center Technology, Enterprise Mobility Technology, Enterprise Networking, Enterprise Security, and Unified Communications and Contact Centers. Additionally, Mike reports on major technological, strategic and tactical developments of companies that provide networking solutions deployed on premise to support enterprise business operations. Panelist - Chris Costello, VP of Cloud Services, AT&T 
Chris and her team brought AT&T’s Synaptic Cloud Services to market including Synaptic Hosting, Synaptic Storage as a Service, Synaptic Compute as a Service & AT&T Platform as a Service. Her professional experience ranges from industry expertise in Cloud Compute, Storage and Platform as a Service, Managed Hosting and Application Management, Portals, E-Servicing and Knowledge Management. She has held several positions in product, offer, sales, marketing and operations. In 2010, Chris achieved “Top 10 Woman in Wireline” and received a “Leaders Quadrant” rating by Gartner Group in 2011. Panelist - Chris Pick, Chief Marketing Officer, Apptio; President and Secretary for the TBM Council  Chris is the Chief Marketing Officer at Apptio and holds responsibility for all corporate marketing initiatives including demand generation, online operations, inside sales, communications, and analyst relations. He is an accomplished sales and marketing executive with 17 years of experience in building global marketing organizations, creating new market categories, and executing differentiated go-to-market strategies. Prior to Apptio, Chris was an operating partner in Austin Ventures' CEO-in-residence program where he focused on identifying new growth strategies and defining disruptive business models. Chris joined Austin Ventures from NetIQ where he was Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Products. At NetIQ, he led the acquisition team in overhauling the company's corporate strategy and product portfolio, which drove substantial margin improvement and created innovative revenue streams that captured new markets. Panelist - Keao Caindec, CMO, Cloud Solutions Business Unit, Dimension Data  Mr. Caindec is responsible for marketing at Dimension Data's Cloud Business Unit. With more than $5.8 billion in annual revenues, Dimension Data provides global ICT and systems integration solutions. Prior to Dimension Data, Mr. Caindec was SVP and CMO of OpSource, a leading cloud and managed hosting provider acquired by Dimension Data. Prior to OpSource, Mr.Caindec was CMO of Reliance Globalcom, a global communications provider with more than $1.6 billion in annual revenues. Mr. Caindec has held executive and senior management positions in marketing and business development at British Telecom, MCI, Internap, Yipes (acquired by Reliance Communications), CyberCash and ATMnet. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. Caindec has also been quoted in publications such as ZDnet, NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld, Light Reading, GigaOm, Telephony, Capacity Magazine, Wall Street & Technology and The Whir. Mr. Caindec has a BS in Economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Panorama Capital and advisor to numerous technology and communications companies. Panelist - Jared Wray, Founder and CTO, Tier 3  Jared Wray is the architect of the Tier 3 Enterprise Cloud Platform. Wray founded Tier 3 in 2006 to address the emerging need for enterprise on-demand services. Wray oversees the company’s development, support and operations teams and is responsible for the company’s intellectual property strategy and new product development. Leveraging the tenets of virtualization, automation, abstraction, Wray designed the enterprise cloud architecture with unique intellectual property at every layer of the stack. The result today is an agile, self-optimizing, enterprise grade cloud platform for customers’ mission-critical, production applications. Wray relies on his extensive experience directly managing and scaling large Web infrastructures and consulting for a number of financial, consulting, and technology companies such as companies such as Corbis Corporation, Ascentium, and Microsoft. A serial entrepreneur, Wray previously founded Dual, an interactive development firm with clients such as Microsoft and Nintendo. | |
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM Location: Room 1E07 Faced with rapidly changing technologies and continuing pressures to deliver IT services in tune with business demands, IT leaders need to find the right people with the right skillset for open positi…More ▶ Speaker - Jenny Rains, Senior Research Analyst, HDI  Jenny Rains, HDI's senior research analyst, is responsible for survey development and data analysis for deliverables like the HDI Practices & Salary Reports and the HDI Research Corner. She has more than thirteen years of experience in research, statistics, survey design, and data analysis and has worked with HDI and the IT support community for ten years. | |
| Thursday, October 4 | |
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Location: Room 1E15 The financial goals underlying an organization's business strategy are a fundamental component of successful partnerships within an organization. The most successful technical managers engage with…More ▶ Speaker - Rick Joslin, Executive Director, Certification and Training, HDI  Rick Joslin is the executive director of certification and training for HDI. Before joining HDI, Rick was a VP at ServiceWare Technologies, where he led the development of RightAnswers.com. He started his career at Westinghouse Electric, where he managed software development, quality assurance, training, and the help desk. | |
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM Location: Room 1E07 The advent of cloud computing, social media analysis, mobility and applications on demand is changing the role of the CIO in businesses of all sizes. The CIO has an unprecedented opportunity to levera…More ▶ Speaker - Arthur Tisi, CIO, Fairway Market  Arthur Tisi is a musician, songwriter, technologist and entrepreneur who has successfully started, run and sold two tech companies. He has direct experience as a CEO, CIO and CTO. He is an advisor to several technology, retail and entertainment companies and is the CIO for Fairway Market in New York. Prior to his current work, Arthur was the Chief Information Officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mr. Tisi Has also written and performed with a number of music artists as a singer, guitarist, pianist and drummer. His collaborations have included song-writing and performing with many respected and renown musicians including members of Foreigner, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, Kiss, Peter Frampton, Enrique Iglesias, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Boz Skaggs, Phoebe Snow, Michael McDonald, Warren Haynes, Patti Austin, Rainbow, and others. | |
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Location: Room 1E09 Information risk management and security is an ever changing and evolving concept and challenge. The threats that are posed to organizations and the risks they create are constantly changing and becom…More ▶ Moderator - John Pironti, President, IP Architects, LLC  John P. Pironti is the President of IP Architects, LLC. He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security and risk management strategy and programs, enterprise resiliency capabilities, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services, insurance, energy, government, hospitality, aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, media and entertainment, and information technology on a global scale. Mr. Pironti has a number of industry certifications including Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified in Risk and Information System Control (CRISC), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional and (ISSAP) and Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP). Mr. Pironti frequently provides briefings and acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders of numerous organizations on information security and risk management and compliance topics and is also a member of a number of technical advisory boards for technology and services firms. He is also a published author and writer, highly quoted and often interviewed by global media, and an award winning frequent speaker on electronic business and information security and risk management topics at domestic and international industry conferences. Panelist - Cameron Camp, Security Researcher, ESET North America  Cameron Camp has been building critical technology infrastructures for more than 20 years, beginning as an assembly language programmer in 1987 and eventually becoming an evangelist for Linux and Open Source technologies with an emphasis on the security sector. Camp is an accredited speaker and frequently contributes instructional technology articles and blog entries. Panelist - Jay Leek, Chief Information Security Officer, CISO Blackstone  Jay Leek, CISM, CISSP, CISA is currently the Chief Information Security Officer for Blackstone. Prior to joining Blackstone, Jay established, built and headed up global information risk and security programs for Equifax and Nokia. Over the past 19 years, Jay has also worked as a product manager for information security vendors as well as a consultant to numerous telecommunications companies, government agencies and financial institutions assisting them with business development, strategic planning and architectural design required to meet their information risk and security objectives. He is also a frequent speaker on information security related topics at domestic and international conferences. | |
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Location: Room 1E07 Social business systems have been around long enough for most enterprises to have, at minimum, experimented with them, while employees have likely developed a base of understanding about the potential…More ▶ Speaker - Johna Till Johnson, Analyst, Nemertes Research  Johna Till Johnson is President and Senior Founding Partner of Nemertes Research, where she sets research direction and works with strategic clients. She has decades of experience in technology design, deployment, and operations. Under her leadership, Nemertes has emerged as a leading trusted advisor to Fortune-50 and other world-class organizations.
Her recent work includes:
A widely regarded expert, Johna regularly speaks at numerous trade shows, conferences, and seminars, including Navigator360, IDG’s IT Roadmap, and Interop. She also writes an incisive column in Network World.
Johna draws upon diverse experience prior to founding Nemertes in 2002. She served as chief technology officer (CTO) at Greenwich Technology Partners, an infrastructure consulting and engineering firm; headed the Global Networking Strategies Service business unit of META Group; and oversaw the lab-testing program at Data Communications magazine. She also has designed and developed security, speech-synthesis, and free-space laser products at companies including Mosler Security Systems and Digitus Corp.
Johna holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering/computer science (BSEE/CS) from The Johns Hopkins University, has conducted graduate work in nuclear and particle physics at the University of Rochester, speaks three languages, and has published a science fiction novel. In her spare time, Johna is an avid urban kayaker. | |
Vendor Sessions
| Wednesday, October 3 | |
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11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 Large enterprises are using the AWS Cloud to run their existing applications, launch new applications, and as extension of their data center. In this session Paul Duffy, Sr. Manager, Solutions Archite…More ▶ | |
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 Over the past five years, the mobility management landscape has changed almost as much as the devices themselves. No longer are there one-size-fits-all mobility programs–rather, a wireless progr…More ▶ Speaker - Bzur Haun, President & CEO, Visage Mobile  As president and CEO of Visage Mobile, Bzur brings more than 15 years of executive experience in sales, managed services, and Internet business with companies such as Asurion Managed Wireless, Accenture, Cambridge Technology Partners and DigitalThink. With nearly a decade of experience specifically in the enterprise mobility space, Bzur has worked with a large number of Fortune 500 companies and government agencies as they have navigated through large scale deployments of mobile assets and services. Bzur also owns an incredible number of bowties. | |
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM  Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017
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12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 Many SAP customers have already started on their journey to the cloud, and there are still others who are considering the use of cloud technology as an option to run their SAP NetWeaver and SAP Busine…More ▶ Speaker - Tony Pino, VP, Strategic Alliances (Global)  Tony Pino is Vice President of Strategic Alliances (Global) for Virtustream. Tony’s primary responsibility is to establish, develop, and maintain strong professional sales relationships with current and future Channel Partners. He also provides support for other channel efforts such as recruitment and training, strategic campaigns, and coordinates co-selling activities. Tony has a proven record of success providing high tech products, services and solutions to Commercial and Government clients in a global environment. He possesses a very strong focus on satisfying customers while obtaining paramount results. His core strength is in building teams, organizations, partnerships, and customer relationships. Speaker - Jeff Anders, Director Solution Management, SAP  Jeff re-joined SAP in May 2010 as Director of Solution Management in the Virtualization and Cloud product group. Currently Jeff is a member of the team responsible for establishing and driving the direction for new products to help SAP customers more effectively and efficiently run their SAP systems in virtual and cloud environments. This includes gathering customer requirements based on business and technical needs, then communicating these in a prioritized manner to the development organization. | |
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 The way in which a firm engages its customers and partners is changing. New delivery channels are emerging, creating pressure on IT to deliver applications faster and in more ways than before. This …More ▶ Speaker - Matt Waldbusser, Product Manager, Cloud Centric Platforms, Global Technology Services, IBM  Matt Waldbusser has spent 14 years in the IT industry with a focus on product management, sales and consulting. Matt has been designing and selling cloud solutions for over 3 years and is a product manager in the IBM WebSphere organization focusing on developing and running Cloud Centric applications. Residing in Austin, Matt has Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. | |
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 OpenStack provides a fully open-source implementation of a cloud fabric controller, including identity, object storage, and compute capabilities. With large-scale deployments at Rackspace, HP, Dell, a…More ▶ Speaker - Glen Campbell, Developer Advocate, Rackspace | |
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 Big Data is complex, moves fast and doesn’t fit typical database architectures. With the advent of Big Data, monitoring for network performance, security and compliance isn’t getting easi…More ▶ Speaker - Chip Webb, VP of Technology, Ixia Network Visibility Solutions Speaker - Larry Hart, VP of Strategy, Ixia Network Visibility Solutions | |
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 Relying on video communication as a tool for business-to-business communication has historically been extremely challenging, especially if you need more security and quality of service than the Intern…More ▶ Moderator - Eric Krapf, Editor, NoJitter.com 
Eric Krapf is the Program Co-Chair of the Enterprise Connect events, helping to set program content and direction for the leading conference events in the enterprise IP-telephony/convergence/Unified Communications marketplace. Panelist - Christopher Kemmerer, Director, Unified Communications and Mobility Solutions, Verizon; OVCC Marketing Chair  Chris Kemmerer is responsible for leading a team which focuses on Verizon’s strategy and product management of Unified Communications and Collaboration Solutions for Verizon’s enterprise, small/medium business, and government customers. Panelist - Andrew McFadzen, Head of Global Marketing – Network Solutions, Orange Business Services; OVCC President  Andrew McFadzen is Head of Global Marketing - Network Solutions at Orange Business Services, the France Telecom-Orange branch dedicated to B2B services. In this role, he is responsible for the international IP product portfolio, network coverage as well as competitive and inter-carrier services for Telepresence. Panelist - Clive Sawkins, CEO, BCS Global Networks; OVCC Secretary & Treasurer  Clive brings a wealth of experience to BCS Global as CEO and has been implemental in helping the company grow its revenue as well as transition from direct sales to a channel sales business model. Clive's mission is to bring visual communications to every boardroom and desktop through BCS Global and to make visual collaboration an easy-to-use business productivity tool within the enterprise. | |
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3:00 PM – 3:45 PM Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 As Enterprises become more distributed, it becomes critical that the branch networks be ready for ubiquitous connectivity catering to new trends like BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). Services like bandwi…More ▶ Speaker - Steve Collen, Vice President of Product Marketing, IP Product Line, Huawei Enterprise  Steve is responsible for the Global Go to Market of the Huawei Enterprise IP Product Line. This multi billion portfolio includes branch and high end routing, campus and data center switching, wireless LAN, network management, and optical and microwave transmission products. Steve is committed to helping Huawei achieve its enterprise goal of $15b by 2015! Speaker - Ajay Gupta, Huawei | |
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 With quickly-deployed public cloud services only a credit card swipe away -- and your internal IT viewed as difficult and out of touch -- the specter of “Shadow IT” is very real for most …More ▶ Speaker - Jared Wray, Founder and CTO, Tier 3 Jared Wray is the architect of the Tier 3 Enterprise Cloud Platform. Wray founded Tier 3 in 2006 to address the emerging need for enterprise on-demand services. Wray oversees the company’s development, support and operations teams and is responsible for the company’s intellectual property strategy and new product development. Leveraging the tenets of virtualization, automation, abstraction, Wray designed the enterprise cloud architecture with unique intellectual property at every layer of the stack. The result today is an agile, self-optimizing, enterprise grade cloud platform for customers’ mission-critical, production applications. Wray relies on his extensive experience directly managing and scaling large Web infrastructures and consulting for a number of financial, consulting, and technology companies such as companies such as Corbis Corporation, Ascentium, and Microsoft. A serial entrepreneur, Wray previously founded Dual, an interactive development firm with clients such as Microsoft and Nintendo. | |
| Thursday, October 4 | |
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 Remember the movie "Tron"? In it, the main character's actions are limited to what the computer which he is trapped inside allowed. Until recently, this was also true about networking in…More ▶ Speaker - Toby Owen, Product Leader, Hybrid Cloud Solutions, Rackspace  Toby Owen is a Senior Manager for Hybrid Cloud Solutions at Rackspace Hosting. Toby has been working in the IT industry for over 14 years. He has held technical and manager roles in operations and support, as well as technical consulting for small and large businesses. Prior to joining Rackspace he led the Web Services team for Wells Fargo, with responsibility for internet banking infrastructure and support. He holds a bachelors of science in Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, and an MBA from the University of Texas. Currently, Toby is responsible for RackConnect and the Hybrid Hosting product portfolio. It’s an exciting area, where Rackspace is merging their Dedicated and Cloud based hosting products to create new scalable infrastructure solutions for customers. He’s excited to help drive innovative solutions to help customers get the most from their applications and hosting partnerships with Rackspace. Speaker - Jamey Meredith, Product Manager, Rackspace  James "Jamey" Meredith is a product manager for the Rackspace Open Cloud, responsible for the company's Cloud Networks offering. Meredith has over 20 years of experience in the networking industry, with the last one and a half at Rackspace. Prior to joining Rackspace, Meredith served a variety of networking-related roles, including a 13-year stint with BMC Software, where he last served as a product manager for network and e-commerce management products. | |
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017
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12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 Cloud computing is one of the most strategic initiatives that enterprises will adopt over the next several years. Only an open hybrid cloud can help you unlock the full benefits of cloud economics and…More ▶ Speaker - Erich Morisse, BU Manager, Cloud and Virtualization, Red Hat  Erich Morisse is the Business Unit Manager for Red Hat Cloud and Virtualization in North America. He first earned his RHCE in 2003 while working as a Red Hat Solutions Architect for Wall Street accounts on the cutting edge of Open Source technology adoption. He has gone on to run the Solutions Architect teams for Financial Services, Systems Management, and the Eastern US territory. He's currently responsible for the Cloud and Virtualization business units in North America. He holds an MBA from Columbia University, and a BA in Computer Science from Drew University. | |
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1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 Reducing the cost of technology consistently stands in the top 3 things business owners want to accomplish. What are the benefits and drawbacks to cost reducing strategies, and is a new technology rea…More ▶ | |
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 Big data. Social. Mobile. These worldwide trends are sparking new cloud-based applications and driving innovation around the next generation of open, web-based services development. This tectonic shi…More ▶ | |
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 Expanding your operations overseas can seem like a daunting task. Nevertheless, ignoring the opportunities represented by the sheer volume of the IT market in Europe can be a mistake. This session w…More ▶ | |
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 Today's networks are application indifferent and it is impossible to identify applications and user behaviors to meet diverse service levels. These rigid physical networks are architected for one …More ▶ | |
Cloud and Virtualization Zone
| Wednesday, October 3 | |
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11:25 AM – 11:45 AM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 In 2012 IT organizations are five times more likely to cite user experience as a network priority over throughput. This trend is a direct result of the expanding distribution of network assets across …More ▶ CVZT Speaker - Brendan Reid, Vice President, Product Marketing, Exinda | |
12:00 PM – 12:20 PM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 In this talk Mike Veilleux challenges the conventional wisdom that engagement rates across industries are the best indicators for sending. Instead, Veilleux believes that each company has a unique b…More ▶ CVZT Speaker - Mike Veilleux, Engineering, Dyn Inc.  As the Director of Email, Mike Veilleux is responsible for the stability, scalability, growth, and development of Dyn’s email delivery platform.
He earned a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the University of New | |
12:35 PM – 12:55 PM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 CVZT Speaker - Shoair Shaikh, Storage Specialist, Storageflex Inc. Shoair Shaikh is head of Storageflex’s design and development team with great insight into projects designed to develop the next generation of storage solutions to meet customer’s evolving storage issues while maintaining affordability. Shoair is jointly responsible for guiding Storageflex to capture new revenue streams for the company with new products, government contracts and by entering new strategic overseas markets to deliver Archive, Acceleration, Backup, Compliance, Consolidation, Disaster Recovery and Encryption Technologies.” | |
1:10 PM – 1:30 PM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 To move your desktop operations to virtual desktops in the cloud, you need to consider key technical specifications as well as application and end-user requirements. Attend this session for a discussi…More ▶ CVZT Speaker - Tom McCormack, Sales Director, Managed Hosting and Cloud Services, mindSHIFT Technologies | |
1:45 PM – 2:05 PM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 Perhaps the biggest benefit of the cloud is that it takes away the IT burden from small and mid-sized businesses. AppRiver's VP Tom Buoniello will discuss why customer service and choice are the k…More ▶ CVZT Speaker - Tom Buoniello, Senior Vice President of Product Management, AppRiver  Tom Buoniello serves as AppRiver's Senior Vice President of Product Management, a position that puts him on the leading edge of the company's efforts to bring new products to market and to find new customers for its current suite of security services. He brings to the position more than two decades of experience in information technology with a strong focus on security. | |
2:20 PM – 2:40 PM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 CVZT Speaker - Wayne Walls, Developer Advocate, Rackspace Hosting  Wayne Walls is an OpenStack Developer Advocate and Scrabble junkie working for the Rackspace Cloud. He works with cloud developers to lower the barriers of entry to OpenStack, evangelizes the OpenStack API and helps developers maximize their return on investment on cloud targeting applications. Having spent time in support, sales and product engineering roles at Rackspace, Wayne is always up for solving the business and technical challenges of customers and continues to work closely with product groups to build world class technologies that Rackspace customers have come to know and love. You can find Wayne talking cloud on his personal blog (www.dubsquared.com), at Geekdom or on Twitter (waynewalls). When not talking cloud, Wayne spends much of his time golfing, playing Words With Friends and reading. | |
2:55 PM – 3:15 PM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 Cloud computing adoption has created new challenges for enterprises, and Huawei’s elastic, easy-to-use, and open cloud fabric provides businesses a jumpstart to the cloud era with investment pro…More ▶ | |
3:30 PM – 3:50 PM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 CVZT Speaker - Teyo Tyree, VP of Business Development, Puppet Labs  Formerly the Director of IT for 20/20 Research and a professional system administrator, over the past 12 years Teyo has been using and promoting the use of open source tools to enable scaling and efficiency in IT operations. Teyo joined Puppet Labs in July of 2008 and has been traveling the world providing Puppet Labs’ customers and partners with training, integration and consulting. | |
4:40 PM – 5:00 PM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 CVZT Speaker - Paul Vinciguerra, President, Vinci Consulting Corp | |
| Thursday, October 4 | |
10:50 AM – 11:10 AM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 Planning to move to the Cloud? Before you do, it’s imperative that you truly know the Cloud provider you intend to trust with all your business’ vital data and applications. This session w…More ▶ | |
11:25 AM – 11:45 AM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001
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12:00 PM – 12:20 PM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 Want to save your business money? Of course you do. What if we could show you a way to use the Cloud in and around your office, get your workforce mobile, make communication faster and easier, AND red…More ▶ CVZT Speaker - Jason Silverglate, CEO, FortressITX  Jason Silverglate is CEO of Fortress ITX. A self-starter, he is known throughout the industry for his technical savvy. Following the successful entrepreneurial model established by his father before him, he launched his first business venture at age 16. Silverglate is a visionary pioneer of managed IT and Cloud computing who has thrived on burgeoning knowledge, creating more than 50 jobs and managing thousands of servers along the way. | |
12:35 PM – 12:55 PM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001
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1:45 PM – 2:05 PM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 Information Security remains the number-one concern of CIO’s when they consider moving workloads to the cloud. This session will focus on solving the problem customers face with securing their …More ▶ CVZT Speaker - David Reoch, Sr. Director, Cloud Solutions, Gigamon David Reoch is a multi-tenant Data Center Design veteran specializing in the architecture of global, highly-available fault-tolerant data center infrastructures. Previous to his role as Sr. Director of Cloud Services at Gigamon, David served as Sr. Enterprise Technologist of Cloud, Hyperscale and Virtualization at Dell and principal architect of HP's Enterprise Cloud Services. He has been an information security practitioner for 20 years and became a CISSP in 2004. | |
2:55 PM – 3:15 PM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 4 out of 5 SAP customers say cloud computing is important to their company’s business strategy. Some companies look to the cloud to reduce IT costs. Others wield cloud computing to improve com…More ▶ CVZT Speaker - Greg Chase, Senior Director, Cloud Technology Marketing, SAP  Greg Chase is Senior Director of Cloud Technology Marketing at SAP. Greg is an expert on IT cloud strategy and a frequent blogger on topics such as software tools and development related to cloud, software as a service (SaaS), hybrid cloud-on premise IT architectures, platform as a service (PaaS), and business process management methodology (BPM). Greg joined SAP in 2006 and has nearly 20 years experience in the software industry holding roles including product marketing, sales, product management, and engineering. During his 6 year tenure at SAP, Greg has been part of both the Cloud and the business process management (BPM) teams. He is passionate about showing how cloud technologies can help IT optimize and transform a company’s business practices. Prior to joining SAP, Greg has at Oracle, Borland, POET Software, and at various startup companies. Greg holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of California at Davis, and is co-author of the SAP Press book “Applying Real World BPM in an SAP Environment”. Greg’s spare time hobbies include: wine making, training his two bearded collies: Eva & Oban, and competing in computer hacking contests involving SAP products and LEGO robots. Greg’s blog: http://bit.ly/GregChaseSAPBlog Follow Greg on Twitter at @GregChase | |
3:30 PM – 3:50 PM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 Big data. Social. Mobile. These worldwide trends are sparking new cloud-based applications and driving innovation around the next generation of open, web-based services development. This tectonic shi…More ▶ | |
IT Management Exhibitors
See all the latest IT solutions at Interop's comprehensive expo, with 150+ technology companies including leading IT Management vendors.
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 6Connect 6connect is the global leader in cloud automation platforms as a service (PaaS) with native IPv6 support. 6connect allows service providers and enterprises to achieve dramatic time and cost efficiencies across the discovery, planning, provisioning, and management of IP networks, DDI, peering, and asset management requirements. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| 6fusion 6fusion provides utility-metered cloud infrastructure management solutions that enable global workload distribution across public, private and hybrid clouds in pay-per-use billable utilities. The unique metering algorithm, Workload Allocation Cube (WAC), creates a commercial standard to quantify supply and demand for compute resources. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Adobe Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For almost 30 years, the company's award-winning software and technologies have redefined business, entertainment and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| AdRem Software, Inc. In AdRem Software we believe that software is for people, not for computers. We build software we would like to use ourselves. This makes our network management software trusted by thousands of engineers worldwide. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| APCON, Inc. APCON develops innovative, scalable hardware and software solutions to enhance network monitoring, support IT traffic analysis, and streamline IT network management and security. We are the industry leader for state-of-the-art IT data aggregation, filtering, load balancing, time stamping and network switching products. www.apcon.com Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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AppDirect AppDirect is the leading cloud service marketplace company dedicated to revolutionizing the way businesses discover, buy, and manage cloud-based software and services. Based in San Francisco, AppDirect's award-winning platform connects businesses, brands, and developers through a global network of partner marketplaces. AppDirect’s current partners include Deustche Telekom, Rackspace, and more. Address Website Social Networks Sponsor Level
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Carrier Cloud Forum Gold |
Artec IT Solutions ARTEC IT Solutions is a leading IT specialist for digital information management, global eDiscovery, data security, business intelligence, and archiving. ARTEC focuses on secure and legally compliant long-term storage and search solutions that help organizations manage information, such as e-mail messages, printed documents, files, voice and telephone data. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Austin Hughes Solutions Inc. Austin Hughes is a design and manufacturing group that offers various solutions for the data center.Our portfolio includes InfraSolution Smartcard access control for data center IT cabinets, InfraPower intelligent remote management power solutions, InfraGuard environmental sensors, InfraCool fan control, CyberView KVM switches/ LCD console drawers & UltraView professional LCD screens. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Bleum Founded in 2001, Bleum is a China-based IT outsourcer to U.S. and European MNCs in e-Commerce, financial services, retail & supply chain, hospitality, and life sciences. Bleum drives improved system performance for clients by developing, managing, testing and maintaining applications that are core to their businesses. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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CA Technologies CA Technologies provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. www.ca.com Address Website Sponsor Level
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Carrier Cloud Forum Platinum |
| Candela Network CANDELA NETWORK is your new source for new, used, refurbished networking hardware including Cisco routers, switches and accessories. We have one of the largest inventory of used Cisco routers, switches and accessories in the market for purchase with immediate delivery. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Cervalis Cervalis is a premier provider of IT infrastructure solutions including business continuity / rapid recovery, managed hosting, cloud computing, managed security, managed storage, networking & telecommunications and colocation. The company’s skilled professionals, world-class facilities and outstanding customer support provide our clients with a secure IT environment that ensures business resilience. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Cetrom Cetrom is a Cloud Computing pioneer and leader. Its comprehensive, high-availability, enterprise-class solutions for associations are backed by 24x7x365 customer support, certified senior engineers and best-in-class technology infrastructure. Founded in 2001, Cetrom is headquartered in Vienna, Va., with offices and SAS 70–compliant data centers across the U.S. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Cisco 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. Learn more at www.cisco.com. Address Website Sponsor Level
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Cloudpath Networks Cloudpath Networks enables Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) network environments to adopt WPA2-Enterprise wireless in a scalable and sustainable manner. Proven worldwide, XpressConnect simplifies WPA2-Enterprise and 802.1X through automated, self-service provisioning across a wide array of user-owned and IT-owned device types. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| CompTIA CompTIA® is the voice of the world's information technology (IT) industry. As a non-profit trade association advancing the global interests of IT professionals and companies, we focus our programs on four main areas: education, certification, advocacy and philanthropy. Association members are at the forefront of innovation. Learn more at www.comptia.org Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Cormant Cormant has been solving DCIM challenges for global customers since 2003. Cormant’s mobile DCIM solution ensures real-time, accurate IT infrastructure management of precisely the information required by providing a vendor-neutral, highly configurable, uniquely mobile and trusted solution for monitoring and management of all IT infrastructure. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| CXtec For more than three decades, CXtec has helped customers reduce the cost of their networking and technology infrastructures with equal2new® certified pre-owned networking and voice hardware and CABLExpress® connectivity solutions. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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DeSeMa DeSeMa Device and Service Management The only self-evolving IT solutions capable of anticipating and adapting to your needs in real time. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Exinda Exinda enables organizations to assure the user experience for their strategic business applications through policy-based WAN optimization that intelligently applies acceleration and containment based on the priorities of the business. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| FileCatalyst FileCatalyst is the leading provider of file transfer solutions that accelerate, manage, and optimize large file transfers across global networks. Founded in 2000, the company has more than a thousand satisfied clients including Sega of America, Sony, Dell, and BET. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| FishNet Security FishNet Security is the leading provider of information security and network infrastructure hardware/software solutions that combine technology, services, support and training. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| FortressITX Smart NY businesses empowered with hosted voice, email, connectivity and IT integration solutions all have one thing in common: FortressITX. Welcome to IT peace of mind. Welcome to our Fortress. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Gigamon Gigamon provides an intelligent Traffic Visibility Fabric for enterprises, data centers and service providers around the globe. Our technology empowers infrastructure architects, managers and operators with pervasive visibility and control of traffic across both physical and virtual environments without affecting the performance or stability of the production network. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Guardian Data Destruction Guardian Data Destruction - SHRED YOUR HARD DRIVE AT INTEROP, bring a few hard drives to our booth and watch our portable hard drives shred you drive right in front of you. GDD provides On Site Hard Drive Shredding and Erasure, Site Decommissioning, Packing and Logistics service nationally. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Hewlett Packard As a world-leading information technology company, HP applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. Our focus is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work through technology products and services, from the individual consumer to the largest enterprise. Address Website Sponsor Level
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Huawei Enterprise Leveraging strong R&D capabilities and comprehensive technical expertise, Huawei Enterprise provides a wide-ranging and highly efficient ICT solutions and services portfolio. Together with our partners, Huawei Enterprise offers cost-effective, innovative solutions for vertical industries and enterprise customers around the world. For more information, visit http://enterprise.huawei.com/us Address Website Products/Services Offered
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IBM Rethink IT. Reinvent Business with IBM SmartCloud. IBM’s cloud computing solutions enable a lower total cost of ownership, help clients move beyond virtualization to build operational dexterity, reinvent customer relationships, and uncover new profit opportunities. IBM’s unique workload-aware clouds and built-in patterns of expertise enable business transformation. www.ibm.com/smartcloud Address Website Sponsor Level
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| Logicube Logicube designs and manufactures hard drisk drive duplication solutions for IT professionals and digital forensic data capture products for government, law enforcement, military and security organizations. Logicube solutions deliver best-of-breed quality, performance, reliability and innovative design to meet all of your disk cloning needs. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| MAC Source Communications MAC Source Communications, Inc., a subsidiary of the Meridian Group International, is a provider of business collaboration solutions. MAC Source’s core business is the design, installation and on-going support of converged communications products and services. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| ManageEngine ManageEngine is the leading provider of cost-effective enterprise IT management software trusted by more than 55,000 organizations in over 150 countries. The ManageEngine suite offers enterprise IT management solutions including Network Management, HelpDesk ITIL, Bandwidth Monitoring, Application Management, Desktop Management, Security Management, Password Management, and Active Directory Management. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| mindSHIFT Technologies mindSHIFT is one of the largest IT outsourcing and cloud services providers, serving small and mid-size businesses for more than 10 years. At mindSHIFT, we’re about keeping you up and running, resolving problems quickly, providing personal attention and providing you with reliable IT support when you need it. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| NCP engineering, Inc. Headquartered in the Bay Area, NCP Engineering has delivered an award winning remote access vpn management and a hybrid IPSec / SSL VPN for organizations with complex remote user needs, who want to increase staff productivity, reduce network administration and adapt policy changes on-the-fly. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| NetIQ NetIQ is a global, enterprise software company, with a focus on the three persistent challenges in your environment: Change, complexity and risk—and how we can help you control them. Our software solutions help you securely measure, monitor, and manage your physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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NetScout Systems, Inc. NetScout, the market leader in Unified Service Delivery Management, enabling comprehensive end-to-end network and application assurance. NetScout delivers breakthrough packet-flow technology that provides trusted and comprehensive real-time performance intelligence enabling assurance of network, applications and users; equips IT staff to predict, preempt and resolve network and service delivery problems. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| NetSupport Inc. Visit NetSupport at booth 637 to see live presentations of its range of desktop management solutions including our powerful PC Remote Control solution, the easy implemented Asset Management Suite, our flexible web-based Helpdesk application featuring Incident, Problem and Change Management functionality, and our mass notification and desktop alerting tool. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Network Hardware Resale Network Hardware Resale is the world's leading provider of pre-owned and new networking equipment. NHR is an independent reseller of pre-owned Cisco, Brocade/Foundry, and Juniper networking equipment and a Premier member of Dell's PartnerDirect program. Network Hardware Resale offers cost-effective network management, asset management, alternative maintenance and technical support services. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Opengear Opengear designs and manufactures next-generation console server and power management solutions for secure remote access and control of routers, switches, firewalls, servers and environmental monitoring devices. Opengear's open source platform gives network managers and system integrators the most flexible, extensible, console management solution on the market today. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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OPNET Technologies, Inc. OPNET Technologies is extending the state of the art in application and network performance management. OPNET’s unique High Definition approach leverages fine-grained data and patented analytics to deliver end-to-end visibility and rapid troubleshooting. OPNET solutions have been operationally proven in thousands of customer environments worldwide. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| ProfitBricks ProfitBricks is a global cloud computing (IaaS) infrastructure service provider and offers the world’s first true virtual data centers enabling flexible user defined instances with live vertical scaling capability, class leading storage allotments, all with simple and transparent minute based billing. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Puppet Labs Puppet Enterprise IT automation software helps system administrators manage infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to patch management and compliance. Using Puppet Enterprise, SAs can easily automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage change, scaling from 10s of servers to 1000s. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Quest Software, Inc. Quest Software simplifies and reduces the cost of managing IT for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Our innovative solutions make solving the toughest IT management problems easier. Visit us at www.quest.com Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Riverbed Technology Riverbed delivers performance for the globally connected enterprise. With Riverbed, enterprises can successfully and intelligently implement strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery without fear of compromising performance. Riverbed gives enterprises the platform they need to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT. Address Website Social Networks Sponsor Level
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| Rose Electronics Rose offers local and remote server management products; Digital KVM IP, KVM switches, KVM extenders, KVM Rack Drawers and Video Splitters. Rose products are known for quality, scalability, ease of use and innovative technology. We ensure that our customers receive the best products and service to fulfill their technology needs. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Sabey Data Center Properties SDC specializes in highly efficient, custom-built solutions including data center- ready powered shell, turnkey and build to suit datacenters. With over two million square footage of mission critical space, SDC is one of the top privately owned data center developers and operators in the world. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Splunk Inc. Splunk® Inc. provides the engine for machine data™. Splunk software collects, indexes and harnesses the machine-generated big data generated by the websites, applications, servers and mobile devices that power business. Over 4,000 customers use Splunk Enterprise and gain operational intelligence to improve uptime, reduce cost and mitigate cyber-security risk. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Synology Synology America Corp., in Bellevue, Washington is the American branch of Synology Inc.. Synology is a network attached storage company, with all R&D focused on delivering NAS devices with forward-thinking features at an affordable price. Synology has delivered award-winning NAS devices to small business and home users since 2000. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Tripwire Tripwire is a leading global provider of IT security and compliance automation solutions. Tripwire VIA™, the comprehensive suite of industry-leading file integrity, policy compliance and log and event management solutions, is the way organizations proactively achieve continuous compliance, mitigate risk, and ensure operational control through Visibility, Intelligence and Automation. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Vinci Consulting/ VXNet Learn how the game changes when intelligent routing happens in the cloud, long before your data reaches your provider or your organization. Build a Resilient multi-homed Internet Edge without BGP. Deploy IPv6, even if your providers aren’t ready. Simplify Datacenter Mobility for Disaster Recovery or Cloud Bursting Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| VirtuaCon VirtuaCon specializes in custom .Net web and 4 shelf applications. Sysmosis ensures Windows device configuration and health are maintained. Synapps collects data from major databases and exposes it via configurable web services Supportal enables web based support for your customers Call Wall collects and displays statistical data for call centers Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Visage Visage brings the power of data to solving the pressing and strategic challenges companies face in enterprise mobility management. Our core product, MobilityCentral™, is software that aggregates and organizes data about mobility spend, and the devices and users behind them. www.visagemobile.com Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Visual Click Software, Inc. Visual Click Software provides network management tools that streamline and simplify management of your enterprise-wide Windows network security. Receive interactive and automated reporting of Active Directory, File System and Logon events. Delegate administrative duties with our Zero Privilege Helpdesk. Our tools include customizable provisioning to keep accounts current and correct. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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WildPackets WildPackets develops hardware and software solutions that drive network performance, enabling organizations of all sizes to analyze, troubleshoot, optimize, and secure their wired and wireless networks. WildPackets products are sold in over 60 countries and deployed in all industrial sectors. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| ZConverter ZConverter is a global leader of migration and system image backup software solution. Our computing center management software is ideal for virtualization, cloud computing, and virtual server migration. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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