Platinum Sponsors:
DataCore Software
DataCore is the industry's premier provider of storage virtualization software. Its SANsymphonyTM-V storage hypervisor software solves the big problem stalling virtualization initiatives by eliminating the storage-related barriers that make virtualization too difficult and too expensive.
Gold Sponsors:
Emulex
Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is the leader in converged networking solutions for the data center. Our Connectivity Continuum™ architecture provides intelligent networking services that transition today's infrastructure into tomorrow's unified network ecosystem. Emulex provides a single framework that intelligently connects every server, network and storage device within the data center. Through integrated partner solutions, Emulex provides its customers with industry leading business value, operational flexibility and strategic advantage. Emulex's portfolio of controller chips, adapters, blades and connectivity solutions are proven, tested and trusted by the world's largest and most demanding IT environments and are offered by the industry's leading enterprise OEMs. www.emulex.com
Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems provides best-in-class information technologies, services and solutions that deliver compelling customer ROI, unmatched return on assets (ROA) and demonstrable business impact. With a vision that IT must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable, Hitachi Data Systems offers solutions that improve IT costs and agility. With more than 4,900 employees worldwide, Hitachi Data Systems does business in more than 100 countries and regions. Hitachi Data Systems products, services and solutions are trusted by the world's leading enterprises, including more than 70 percent of the Fortune 100 and more than 80 percent of the Fortune Global 100. Hitachi Data Systems believes that data drives our world and information is the new currency.
Kaspersky Lab
Quantum
Silver Plus Sponsors:
Avere Systems
Avere Systems brings to the market NAS optimization products specifically to scale performance and capacity separately and take advantage of new storage media using dynamic tiering. Avere's appliances allow organizations to achieve unlimited application performance scaling and free applications from the confines of the data center by eliminating latency and cutting storage costs by more than 50%.
F5 Networks
F5 Networks ist weltweit führend im Application Delivery Networking (ADN) und konzentriert sich darauf, die sichere, zuverlässige und schnelle Applikations-Bereitstellung zu gewährleisten.Mit den Lösungen von F5 Networks können Unternehmen mehr Nutzen aus Ihren Netzwerken und Applikationen ziehen sowie ihre Storage-Umgebungen intelligent virtualisieren.
FAST LTA
FAST LTA (Long Term Archiving) develops and sells technologies and solutions for storing digital data over a long amount of time. The patent pending hardware and software technologies for the first time allow for price-effective and comfortable long-term storage, thus enabling completely new markets. Silent Cubes is the first storage system to be expressly and categorically developed for the secure, long-term safeguarding of digital data.
Silent Cubes is the first storage system to be expressly and categorically developed for the secure, long-term safeguarding of digital data.
Exceptionally secure against data loss, hardware malfunction and misconfiguration, particularly low energy and operating costs, ultra-scalable into the petabyte realm, full FAST LTA on-site service including hardware replacement with no data loss.
Methode
Methode – Data Solutions Group (DSG) is comprised of three brands: Connectivity Technologies, Inc., dataMate and Automated Intelligent Solutions. Methode DSG companies are recognized leaders in technology development, design innovation and product reliability. We design, manufacture and market products for commercial end-users with data and communications applications in wide-area and local-area networks, and intelligent asset management. Whether automating a data centre, outfitting a data centre's connectivity or putting the latest high-speed copper transceivers into mission critical switch gear, the Data Solutions Group provides advanced and versatile solutions. We are a global supplier proficient at developing custom engineered and application specific products and solutions, with design and vertically integrated manufacturing facilities in the USA, Europe and Asia.
QLogic Corporation
QLogic is a global leader and technology innovator in high performance networking solutions that are optimized for today's demanding data centers. The company's leadership in technology integration and maturity of software stack, make it the top choice to address I/O requirements for virtualized, converged and cloud environments. In addition, QLogic products are powering solutions from leading technology providers including Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NetApp and Oracle. For more information, visit www.qlogic.com
Riverbed
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD) is the IT performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility - all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive.
Rosenberger OSI
Scality
SolarWinds
Veeam
Veeam Software, an Elite VMware Technology Alliance Partner, develops innovative software to manage VMware vSphere. At the event we'll be demonstrating Veeam Backup & Replication v6™, featuring vPower™, the technology behind advanced features such as Instant VM Recovery, Universal Application-Item Recovery, and SureBackup Recovery Verification. Find out why more than 20,000 customers rely on Veeam Backup & Replication to protect their mission-critical VMs.
Viking Technology
Viking leads the storage market in hybrid storage technologies with solutions such as SATADIMM (an SSD in DIMM form factor) and ArxCis (a Non-Volatile DIMM, merging DRAM and Flash). With a breadth of solutions that bridge both DRAM and SSD, Viking has the ability to deliver any storage solution from high-performance computing down to embedded kiosk. Viking has over two decades of focused development and delivering high technology solutions that optimize the value and performance of our customers' applications in the Enterprise, Network Infrastructure, Embedded, and Defense & Aerospace markets.
Virtual Instruments
Virtual Instruments helps IT organizations maximize the performance, utilization, and availability of Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs) and virtualized IT infrastructure.
We help eliminate the risk of deploying I/O-intensive business-critical applications in complex physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. Virtual Instruments offers a unique combination of advanced monitoring hardware, software and services to ensure our customers realize the full economic benefit of server and storage virtualization. We invite you to enter one of the above sites and learn how we can optimize your IT operations.
Xsigo
Xsigo Systems provides innovative hardware and software that enables IT organizations to build an open, scalable data center fabric delivering throughput up to 80Gbps. Xsigo solutions employ an open architecture to virtualize and control the connectivity between any server, storage, and networking resource in the data center. These patented solutions significantly reduce infrastructure costs, and minimize management complexity. Xsigo products are deployed in hundreds of enterprise, government, and service provider organizations worldwide, and are supported by global sales and service resources. Xsigo based in San Jose, California.
Silver Sponsors:
NovaStor
PoINT Software
PoINT Software & Systems GmbH, situated in Siegen, is specialized in the development of software products and systems solutions for storage and management of data using all available mass storage technologies like hard disks, magnetic tapes and optical media.
QNAP Systems, Inc.
QNAP Systems, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is dedicated to bringing world class NAS storage, professional NVR video surveillance, and network video players to consumer, small/medium business, and entry level enterprise market segments. QNAP leverages not only hardware design but also a growing core competency in software engineering that is precisely focused on bringing to market products that offer high performance coupled with outstanding reliability, scalability, and ease of installation and use. QNAP is a multi-national company with headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, and subsidiary offices in China and the United States.
qSkills
qSkills GmbH & Co. KG is an independent training provider specialized in carrying out high-value trainings in the IT and IT management sectors. qSkills focusses on Virtualization, Storage, Operating Systems, Data Bases and Tools. The qSkills portfolio also covers security and risk management systems and their international norms, standards and methods. The company's headquarter and main training centre is in Nuremberg. In addition qSkills provides trainings in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna and Zurich. Further information on www.qskills.de
SmartOptics
Texas Memory Systems
Since 1978, Texas Memory Systems Inc. has designed and built solid state storage systems that accelerate demanding applications. Its award-winning RamSan product line, known as the Worlds Fastest Storage, has continually delivered fast, reliable, and cost-effective solutions to a broad range of enterprise and government clients around the world. All Texas Memory Systems products are designed and manufactured to the highest standards of excellence in Houston, TX.
Sponsorship opportunities:
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