Virtualization Track
Virtualization has created a fundamental shift in how we think about the data center environment, and is now a foundational element. Server virtualization has been implemented in almost every organization, driven by consolidation and the real dollar savings it brings. Building on that success, organizations are now progressing to new levels in areas such as desktop/application virtualization and building private clouds. Whether you're just getting started, advancing to the next level or need a comprehensive update on the latest products and releases, Interop's Virtualization track can help. Get up to speed on virtualization top to bottom - from server consolidation to virtual desktop and application delivery to building on your virtual infrastructure to deliver a private cloud.
Virtualization Conference Sessions
| Wednesday, October 3 | |
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10:30 AM – 12:45 PM Location: Room 1E15 Server and desktop virtualization bring a slew of new acronyms, technologies, concepts and trends, and private clouds have muddied the waters even further. Need a high-level overview of what different…More ▶ Speaker - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS  Barb Goldworm is founder, president, and chief analyst of FOCUS, a research, analyst, and consulting firm focused on transformational technologies in virtualization, cloud computing, systems and storage. In addition to serving as Virtualization Track Chair for Interop, she also leads the Enterprise Cloud Summit Private Cloud and Desktop Transformation Workshops, as well as the Private Cloud Track and Workshop for CloudConnect. Barb has spent 30 years in various senior management, engineering, marketing, sales, and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and multiple successful startups.
A keynote speaker at hundreds of virtualization, cloud, datacenter and storage events, she has also been one of the top three rated speakers at Data Center Decisions and Storage Networking World. She also chaired the original Interop Storage Networking Track, and the Blade Systems Insight and Server Blade Summit events.
Barb started with virtualization on mainframes in the 1970s, delivered the industry’s first PC Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) Solution in the late 1980s, was a SAN thought leader in the 1990s, a blades and virtualization thought leader and book author in the 2000s, and now focuses on cloud, datacenter and desktop transformation. | |
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Location: Room 1E15 Many IT organizations are committed to advancing their virtual infrastructure and moving to private and hybrid clouds, but are unclear how to implement the steps to get there. This session will discus…More ▶ Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS Barb Goldworm is founder, president, and chief analyst of FOCUS, a research, analyst, and consulting firm focused on transformational technologies in virtualization, cloud computing, systems and storage. In addition to serving as Virtualization Track Chair for Interop, she also leads the Enterprise Cloud Summit Private Cloud and Desktop Transformation Workshops, as well as the Private Cloud Track and Workshop for CloudConnect. Barb has spent 30 years in various senior management, engineering, marketing, sales, and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and multiple successful startups.
A keynote speaker at hundreds of virtualization, cloud, datacenter and storage events, she has also been one of the top three rated speakers at Data Center Decisions and Storage Networking World. She also chaired the original Interop Storage Networking Track, and the Blade Systems Insight and Server Blade Summit events.
Barb started with virtualization on mainframes in the 1970s, delivered the industry’s first PC Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) Solution in the late 1980s, was a SAN thought leader in the 1990s, a blades and virtualization thought leader and book author in the 2000s, and now focuses on cloud, datacenter and desktop transformation. Panelist - Pat O'Day, CTO, Bluelock  As Bluelock’s Chief Technology Officer, Pat is responsible for commercializing and making the company’s “Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS) cloud computing model a business reality. With more than 15 years of experience as an information technology professional, he defines Bluelock’s services, spearheads its strategic vendor alliances and oversees the solution strategy. Panelist - Joe Andrews, Director of Cloud Product Marketing, VMware  Joe Andrews joined VMware in January 2007 and is responsible for product marketing for the Service Provider segment at VMware, bringing more than 19 years of experience in technology marketing, sales and IT business operations. Previously at VMware, he served as a manager focused on developing and bringing to market SMB solutions, packaging and pricing, customer research, partner enablement and outbound demand generation programs.
Prior to joining the company, Andrews worked at Intuit, where he served in small business product management, channel marketing and IT business operational roles. He has also held various field marketing and sales roles at iMarket Inc., a software division of Dun and Bradstreet. Andrews holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Brandeis University. | |
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Location: Room 1E15 Desktop virtualization offers great benefits if done well, but there are many potential pitfalls. This session will cover the highs and lows of multiple virtual desktop project implementations from th…More ▶ Speaker - Don Krueger, Principal Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies  Don Krueger is a fifteen- year veteran of consulting and has more than twenty years of experience in IT. Since becoming a consultant, Don has written a variety architectural designs for companies ranging in size from small shops to dozens of fortune 100 enterprises. Throughout his career, Don has focused on server-based technologies and is an expert in technologies from Microsoft, Citrix, HP, Dell, Cisco, and VMware. For the last seven years, Don’s primary focus has been in server virtualization, and in the last two years he has narrowed his focus to VDI. Since then, Don has been involved as a principal consultant with a wide variety of projects and has successfully developed VDI strategies for some of the largest companies in the world.
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| Thursday, October 4 | |
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Location: Room 1E16 The last few years has seen a significant adoption of server and storage virtualization. The network, however, has remained static. The good news is that we are now seeing the first steps towards virt…More ▶ Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates  Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Panelist - Dante Malagrino, CEO and Co-founder, Embrane  Born and raised in Italy, Dante is the co-founder and CEO of Embrane, where he leads and inspires the team to turn the company’s vision into execution, drives the values and the culture that define the company, and sometimes stocks the break-room. His professional life before that is pretty simple: a little over 10 years at Cisco. He was part of one of the most successful teams at Cisco, building the Catalyst 6500 family of switches. He later became part of the founding team of Andiamo, a spin-off that Cisco created to enter and disrupt the storage networking market. More recently, he led the worldwide marketing campaign for Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 strategy. While at Cisco he wore several hats: engineer, product manager, marketing manager and sales manager. He even spent three years in Europe, evangelizing Cisco’s Data Center story to the market. When he is not thinking about how to power the agile network, Dante enjoys traveling, scuba diving, and cooking homemade pizza from scratch. Panelist - Steve Riley, Technical Director, CTO Office, Riverbed  Steve Riley is Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Riverbed Technology. He specializes in enterprise cloud computing architecture and information security. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, concentrating on performance and security, both on-premise and in cloud. He is co-author of Protect Your Windows Network, contributed a chapter to Auditing Cloud Computing, has published numerous articles, and conducted technical reviews of several data networking and telecommunications books. Before Steve joined Riverbed, he was the cloud security strategist at Amazon Web Services and a security consultant and advisor at Microsoft. Steve is a global moderator of Kubuntu Forums, a support community for Ubuntu’s KDE-based distribution. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. Contact him at steve.riley@riverbed.com; check out his occasional writings at http://blog.riverbed.com Panelist - Faraz Aladin, Director, Enterprise Backbone Technical Marketing, Cisco  Faraz Aladin is Director of Enterprise Backbone Marketing.. He has more than 20 years of industry experience with the last 15 at Cisco. He has worked in multiple business units at Cisco that deal with switching as an integral part of the overall solution offering. He is a CCIE and holds an engineering degree in digital electronics from Bombay University. Panelist - Pepe Garcia, Group Product Manager, VMware  Pepe (Joseph) Garcia is currently a Group Product Manager at VMware. He has more than 20 years of experience in the networking industry. Pepe has held various positions in hardware and software development, network architecture and deployment, and product line management at various companies in Silicon Valley. His experience includes companies like NASA, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks and more recently Nicira. He hold an electrical engineering degree from Stanford University. | |
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM Location: Room 1E15 Implementing server and/or desktop virtualization (e.g. VDI) has serious implications for the storage infrastructure. The requirements for storage are greatly affected and storage solutions need to be…More ▶ Speaker - Russ Fellows, Sr. Partner, Evaluator Group, Inc.  Russ has over 20 years of high technology experience including management, product design, systems engineering, competitive analysis and portfolio management within both vendor and IT end user environments.
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2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Location: Room 1E15 The definition of the “desktop” is changing. The workforce is increasingly mobile, and there is a plethora of choices – tablets, smartphones, thin/zero clients, client hypervisors, v…More ▶ Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS Barb Goldworm is founder, president, and chief analyst of FOCUS, a research, analyst, and consulting firm focused on transformational technologies in virtualization, cloud computing, systems and storage. In addition to serving as Virtualization Track Chair for Interop, she also leads the Enterprise Cloud Summit Private Cloud and Desktop Transformation Workshops, as well as the Private Cloud Track and Workshop for CloudConnect. Barb has spent 30 years in various senior management, engineering, marketing, sales, and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and multiple successful startups.
A keynote speaker at hundreds of virtualization, cloud, datacenter and storage events, she has also been one of the top three rated speakers at Data Center Decisions and Storage Networking World. She also chaired the original Interop Storage Networking Track, and the Blade Systems Insight and Server Blade Summit events.
Barb started with virtualization on mainframes in the 1970s, delivered the industry’s first PC Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) Solution in the late 1980s, was a SAN thought leader in the 1990s, a blades and virtualization thought leader and book author in the 2000s, and now focuses on cloud, datacenter and desktop transformation. Panelist - Roberto De La Mora, Sr. Director, Cisco  Roberto De La Mora marketing responsibilities include the solutions related to Voice and Video Communications, VoIP Infrastructure, IP Endpoints, Cloud Collaboration and Desktop Virtualization. Panelist - Scott Davis, Chief Technology Officer, End User Computingchweb.com, VMware  Scott Davis is Chief Technology Officer for VMware’s End User Computing Business Unit and staff member in VMware’s Corporate Office of the CTO. He is involved in driving product and technology strategy spanning the breadth of VMware’s product lines, from Desktop to Data Center and Cloud initiatives. A recognized expert in virtualization, clustering, operating systems, file systems and storage, Scott has held senior engineering and business management roles with both startup ventures and established industry firms. Scott holds 14 US patents for clustering, storage and virtualization technologies and his products have won awards at Comdex, Demo and LinuxWorld. Panelist - John Fanelli, VP, Product Marketing, Enterprise Desktops and Applications, Citrix | |
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Location: Room 1E15 Managing your VDI project before it begins may seem daunting, but it’s integral to the project’s success. This session will explore what organizations implementing VDI or looking to expand…More ▶ Speaker - Tyler Rohrer, Founder, Liquidware Labs  Tyler Rohrer, founder of Liquidware Labs, was a partner at FOEDUS, a very successful consulting organization that was acquired by VMware in 2008. Tyler's professional services experience and knowledge within VDI deployments is legendary. As an evangelist on the topic, he is a regular contributor to industry forums, and speaks nationally on topics such as application and desktop virtualization, and Cloud Computing. As an Economist, Technologist, Futurist, and Theoretical Physicist - his perspectives and counsel on advanced desktop architectures are sought after by the largest corporations in the world. | |
| Friday, October 5 | |
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Location: Room 1E15 Virtualization has clear benefits for enterprises along with widespread adoption. But what about small to medium businesses? Do those benefits apply? Should SMBs do it themselves or should they look t…More ▶ Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS Barb Goldworm is founder, president, and chief analyst of FOCUS, a research, analyst, and consulting firm focused on transformational technologies in virtualization, cloud computing, systems and storage. In addition to serving as Virtualization Track Chair for Interop, she also leads the Enterprise Cloud Summit Private Cloud and Desktop Transformation Workshops, as well as the Private Cloud Track and Workshop for CloudConnect. Barb has spent 30 years in various senior management, engineering, marketing, sales, and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and multiple successful startups.
A keynote speaker at hundreds of virtualization, cloud, datacenter and storage events, she has also been one of the top three rated speakers at Data Center Decisions and Storage Networking World. She also chaired the original Interop Storage Networking Track, and the Blade Systems Insight and Server Blade Summit events.
Barb started with virtualization on mainframes in the 1970s, delivered the industry’s first PC Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) Solution in the late 1980s, was a SAN thought leader in the 1990s, a blades and virtualization thought leader and book author in the 2000s, and now focuses on cloud, datacenter and desktop transformation. Speaker - Mike Adams, Group Product Marketing Manager, vSphere, VMware  Michael Adams joined VMware in 2007 and is a group product marketing manager working on the VMware vSphere platform. In his role, Michael helps drive efforts around product launches and helps evangelize the platform to both internal and external audiences. Prior to VMware, Michael lead the marketing efforts for the NetBackup product line at both Symantec and VERITAS Software. Prior to joining the vendor community, Michael was an open systems storage analyst for the Giga Information Group (now part of Forrester Research). Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Michigan. Panelist - Gene Schmidt, Principal Product Marketing Manager, SMB Solutions, Citrix  Gene Schmidt is a Principal Product Marketing Manager for SMB Solutions, focused on channel sales enablement for Citrix VDI-in-a-Box. Schmidt is an accomplished marketing professional with 20+ years of experience helping software, services and SaaS channel sales teams to be successful in selling to Small and Mid-sized Businesses (SMB), as well as enterprises. Schmidt has worked mainly in the SaaS and mobility markets for the last 10 years, as a co-founder of eConvergent (SaaS Call Centers) and as the Director of Marketing for Intellisync and Nokia (mobile device management and mobile messaging platforms). Schmidt continues to progress his passion for creating compelling sales materials and tools that exceed the channels’ expectations. | |
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM Location: Room 1E15 Moving beyond server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud is a top priority for most organizations, but not an easy road. Getting there successfully means addressing a v…More ▶ Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS Barb Goldworm is founder, president, and chief analyst of FOCUS, a research, analyst, and consulting firm focused on transformational technologies in virtualization, cloud computing, systems and storage. In addition to serving as Virtualization Track Chair for Interop, she also leads the Enterprise Cloud Summit Private Cloud and Desktop Transformation Workshops, as well as the Private Cloud Track and Workshop for CloudConnect. Barb has spent 30 years in various senior management, engineering, marketing, sales, and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and multiple successful startups.
A keynote speaker at hundreds of virtualization, cloud, datacenter and storage events, she has also been one of the top three rated speakers at Data Center Decisions and Storage Networking World. She also chaired the original Interop Storage Networking Track, and the Blade Systems Insight and Server Blade Summit events.
Barb started with virtualization on mainframes in the 1970s, delivered the industry’s first PC Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) Solution in the late 1980s, was a SAN thought leader in the 1990s, a blades and virtualization thought leader and book author in the 2000s, and now focuses on cloud, datacenter and desktop transformation. Panelist - Chad Jones, VP, Strategy and Product Management, DynamicOps  Chad Jones is an expert in virtualization, infrastructure and cloud technologies with over 17 years’ experience driving strategic product initiatives for the G2000 Enterprise. Prior to DynamicOps, he served as Vice President, Product Management for Neocleus, an innovator of type-1 client hypervisors, which was acquired by Intel. Before Neocleus, Chad was one of the creators of SoftGrid from application virtualization pioneer Softricity, which was acquired by Microsoft. As part of Microsoft, Mr. Jones oversaw the App-V product as part of the MDOP group which has sold over 37 million licenses to date. In a bit of historical irony, Chad was Chief Architect for an Application Service Provider named FutureLink where he designed global cloud services before cloud was known as cloud. Panelist - Scott Hammond, VP, Strategy and Business Development, Intelligent Automation Solutions Business Unit, Cloud & Systems Management Technology Group, Cisco 
Scott Hammond comes to Cisco Systems from the acquisition of newScale in 2011, where he held the position of President and CEO. newScale was the leading provider of self-service, service catalog, and lifecycle management software for enterprise IT and private / hybrid cloud computing. Prior to newScale, Hammond was the founder, President and CEO of Digital Market, Inc. (DMI), the leading provider of Web-based sourcing and procurement solutions for direct materials. In 1999, DMI merged with Agile Software. Hammond then became a corporate officer and VP of e-Services and e-Procurement at Agile Software. Panelist - Dave Roberts, SVP, Strategy and Evangelism, ServiceMesh, Inc.  Mr. Roberts has two decades of experience in networking, computer engineering and strategic product development. Prior to his current strategy and evangelism role at ServiceMesh, Mr. Roberts was Vice President of Strategy and Marketing at Vyatta, a leader in the software-defined networking market. Prior to Vyatta, Mr. Roberts was the co-founder, CTO, and Vice-President of Strategy at Inkra Networks, focused on virtualized, software-defined networking for data centers.
Prior to Inkra, Mr. Roberts was Vice-President of Product Management for Nortel Networks, responsible for product strategy and definition related to the company's line of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switches and campus ATM switches. Additionally, he forged key strategic alliances and OEM relationships. Mr. Roberts has also held management positions at Bay Networks, Rapid City Communications, Cabletron Systems, ZeitNet, and AMD, where he spearheaded Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, and WiFi product lines and strategic marketing initiatives. He began his career with engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard. Experienced in numerous networking and software technologies, Mr. Roberts holds twelve patents, and is the author of three books. Mr. Roberts holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Panelist - Lou Shipley, CEO, VMTurbo  Former GM Cloud Products at Citrix, former CEO Reflectent Software, former VP Sales & Marketing at Avid Technology and WebLine Communications (Cisco) | |
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Location: Room 1E15 Virtualization has a significant impact on security and requires fundamental changes to security practices. Virtual environment security is required not only by compliance but by security policies. Wh…More ▶ Speaker - Edward Haletky, CEO/President, The Virtualization Practice, LLC  Edward L. Haletky is the author of VMware vSphere(TM) and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment as well as VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers, 2nd Edition. Edward owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, network consulting and development and The Virtualization Practice where he is also an Analyst. Edward is the Moderator and Host of the Virtualization Security Podcast as well as a guru and moderator for the VMware Communities Forums, providing answers to security and configuration questions. Edward is working on new books on Virtualization. | |
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 | |
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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 ▶ | |
Virtualization Exhibitors
See all the latest IT solutions at Interop's comprehensive expo, with 150+ technology companies including leading Virtualization vendors.
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 6fusion6fusion 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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| 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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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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| 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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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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ESET North America ESET is a global leader in antivirus and Internet security software. Powered by ESET NOD32® technology, which has won an unmatched 73 VB100 awards for malware detection, ESET business solutions offer proactive, fast, and effective server-to-endpoint protection for Windows, Mac and Linux environments. Install ESET. Install confidence. Address Website 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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| 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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Net Optics, Inc. Net Optics, the leading provider of Intelligent Access and Monitoring Architecture solutions, delivers real-time IT visibility, monitoring and control for businesses to achieve peak performance in network analytics and security. 7,000 organizations—including 85 percent of the Fortune 100—trust Net Optics' comprehensive smart access hardware and software solutions Address Website 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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| OCZ Technology OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (OCZ) is a global leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of high-performance solid-state storage solutions offering the widest range of solid-state drives (SSDs), form factors and interfaces to address HDD replacement, SAN acceleration, server and storage virtualization, cloud computing, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) opportunities. 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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Rackspace Hosting Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is the open cloud company, delivering open technologies and powering more than 190,000 customers worldwide. Rackspace provides its renowned Fanatical Support® across a broad portfolio of IT products, including Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting and Dedicated Hosting. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com. Address Website Sponsor Level
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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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| 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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Vyatta Vyatta delivers software-based networking and security solutions that improve agility, reduce cost and enable scale for datacenters. Vyatta software provides a complete enterprise-class routing and security suite capable of uniquely addressing the next-generation infrastructure requirements of flexibility, on-demand delivery and platform independence. 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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