Platinum Sponsors:
HP
HP (NYSE: HPQ) creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure - including servers, storage and networking to solve customer problems.
Gold Sponsors:
DataCore Software
DataCore Software develops storage virtualization software for high availability, fast performance and maximum utilization from storage in virtual and physical IT environments. DataCore SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor is a comprehensive, hardware-independent solution that fundamentally changes the economics of provisioning, replicating and protecting storage in large enterprises and small to midsize businesses. For additional information, visit the DataCore website at www.datacore.com.
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
NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach
and broad portfolio of products and services. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and speed product development, so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue
faster than ever before.
Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at netapp.com.
Quantum
Quantum is a proven global expert in data protection and big data management, providing specialized storage solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. From small businesses to major enterprises, more than 50,000 customers trust Quantum to help maximize the value of their data by protecting and preserving it over its entire lifecycle. With Quantum, customers can Be Certain™ they're able to adapt in a changing world -- keeping more data longer, bridging from today to tomorrow, and reducing costs. See how at www.quantum.com/BeCertain.
Silver Plus Sponsors:
Aptare
Headquartered in Campbell, California, APTARE is a provider of enterprise storage reporting, monitoring and alerting software products that increase the efficiency of enterprise storage environments and reduce costs. Over 700 enterprise customers around the world rely on APTARE solutions for storage management and data protection management. The software is sold direct and through a global community of OEMs, resellers, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers.
Bridgeworks
Bridgeworks has thirty years' experience of providing innovative storage connectivity solutions to OEMs, integrators and end users, with more than 25,000 installations to date. From their UK development facility, Bridgeworks works globally with organisations, enabling them to adopt the latest connectivity standards (Fibre Channel, SCSI, SAS and iSCSI), making their existing storage systems compatible without disruption and with minimal additional investment.
Bridgeworks is now using its wealth of experience to solve the long-standing issues around transmitting data over long distances, across both private and public TCP/IP networks with little or no impact on performance using Bridgeworks™ unique SANSlide product family.
Dot Hill Systems
Leveraging its proprietary Assured family of storage solutions, Dot Hill solves many of today's most challenging storage problems — helping IT to improve performance, increase availability, simplify operations, and reduce costs. Dot Hill's solutions combine breakthrough software with the industry's most flexible and extensive hardware platform and automated management to deliver best-in-class solutions. Headquartered in Longmont, Colo., Dot Hill has offices and/or representatives in China, Germany, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. For more information, visit us at www.dothill.com.
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.
HGST
HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, NYSE: WDC) is the preferred provider of leading OEMs in both HDD and SSD storage solutions for enterprise. It has an unmatched reputation for reliability and offers a broad portfolio of innovative, high quality hard disk and solid state drives that store, manage and protect the world's data. Our drives are relied on by enterprises, Internet companies, consumers and creative professionals to store and manage their data efficiently and securely.
LSI
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LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) designs semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in datacentres, mobile networks and client computing. Our technology is the intelligence critical to enhanced application performance, and is applied in solutions created in collaboration with our partners. With Nytro Application Acceleration Architecture, LSI delivers smarter, faster application acceleration solutions by combining SSDs with intelligent software that analyses data hot spots to determine which data is best processed in flash and which is best stored in HDDs, enabling customers to select the right amount of flash for the price and performance they need. It's fast, smart, and easy.
Nexenta
Nexenta Systems is the world's leading provider of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. Its main product NexentaStor™ delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage management. NexentaStor is file-and block-based software that provides to the enterprise storage market new answers to the growing problem of Silent Data Corruption, I/O performance, flexibility and management of virtual storage appliances.
Rosenberger OSI
Rosenberger OSI represent cabling competence. We are recognised right across Europe for providing innovative cabling-solutions in the fields of data centres, industry and broadcasting. Our components and systems set standards regarding quality, functionality and availability. They can be found everywhere where large amounts of data need to be transmitted quickly and securely. The success of your projects is guaranteed by our experienced project teams, who are familiar with all the details and potential challenges arising from the application.
As an independent medium sized company we can combine the efficiency and innovation power of a large company with the speed and flexibility of a smaller one.
Scality
Scality is a VC backed, Silicon Valley-based company delivering Scality RING Organic Storage, the ultimate solution for the storage of unstructured data at petabyte scale with zero downtime and no data migration.
The organic design creates a scale-out system with distributed intelligence, which has no single point of failure and is resilient and self-healing.
Customers achieve high availability, ease of operations and total control of their data at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage. Built with patented technology, Scality RING easily scales to exabytes using x86 commodity server hardware with direct attached storage.
Typically used for private clouds (especially backup, video and file sharing, media archive, healthcare, genomics and geophysics), for public clouds (StaaS), for SaaS applications (webmail) and for Web 2.0 services, Scality RING is the first object-based storage technology to deliver the performance required for primary application storage.
SMART Storage Systems
SMART Storage Systems is a technology leader in the design, development, and deployment of current and next-generation enterprise solid-state storage products. Combining leading-edge, enterprise-class design and proven world-class support, SMART Storage Systems leverages its deep expertise in flash and enterprise storage technology. SMART Storage Systems delivers high-quality, high-reliability solutions to a broad customer base, including tier one storage and server OEMs. In support of these designs, SMART Storage Systems provides award-winning innovations in solid-state storage technology, such as NAND high-endurance Guardian technology, to customers in the enterprise storage, enterprise server, data center, defense, and industrial markets. SMART Storage Systems is part of the SMART Holdings family of global companies.
Spectra Logic
At Spectra Logic we define, design and deliver innovative data protection through tape and disk-based backup, recovery and archive storage solutions. By igniting innovation we challenge expectations of the data protection market with intelligent, integrated, and simple to use backup and archive technologies. Spectra's T-Finity and T950 enterprise tape libraries achieved the highest rankings industry-wide and were named the market's “Best in Class” products in the DCIG 2012 Big Data Tape Library Buyer's Guide. Throughout our 30-plus year history we have delivered high-density, feature rich storage with unmatched service and support to customers worldwide. For more information, visit www.SpectraLogic.com.
sTec
sTec provides enterprise-class, solid-state storage solutions to meet the most intensive performance, reliability and endurance requirements of today™s demanding data centers. The first company to develop solid-state drives (SSDs) for large-scale enterprise environments, sTec offers the widest range of flash-based storage solutions, available through direct, reseller and OEM distribution channels. These solutions optimize business performance by increasing storage utilization, reducing infrastructure costs and speeding access to business-critical applications.
sTec™s technology expertise and longevity in the market are driven by core technologies and unrivalled intellectual property assets, which include over 100 patent applications that are issued or pending. Some of the world™s largest and most demanding data centers rely on sTec solid-state storage solutions. Publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol STEC, the company is head quartered in Santa Ana, California, and has sales and support locations worldwide. www.stec-inc.com.
Synology
As a manufacturer of premium NAS systems for enterprises and home users, Synology offers reliable and affordable storage solutions with rich functionality.
The Synology NAS serves as your private Cloud and allows a centralized data access at anytime from anywhere. The Cloud Station syncs automatically between different devices and keeps your data up-to-date even without internet connection. Your data is only stored on your NAS & devices and highly secured by encryption. Data security problems, cost explosion and storage limitations are now things of the past.
The combination of intuitive, versatile software and powerful, reliable hardware makes Synology storage systems to more than just a NAS.
Veeam Software
Veeam Software develops innovative solutions for VMware backup, Hyper-V backup, and virtualization management. Veeam Backup & Replication™ is the #1 VM Backup solution. Veeam ONE™ is a single solution for real-time monitoring, resource optimization and management reporting for VMware and Hyper-V. The Veeam Management Pack™ (MP) and Smart Plug-in™ (SPI) extend enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center and HP Operations Manager. Veeam also provides free virtualization tools. Learn more by visiting www.veeam.com/.
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.
Websense
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Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN) is a global leader in protecting organizations from the latest cyberattacks and data theft. Websense TRITON™ comprehensive security solutions unify web security, email security, mobile security and data loss prevention (DLP) at the lowest total cost of ownership. Tens of thousands of enterprises rely on Websense TRITON security intelligence to stop advanced persistent threats, targeted attacks and evolving malware. Websense prevents data breaches, intellectual property theft and enforces security compliance and best practices. A global network of channel partners distributes scalable, unified appliance- and cloud-based Websense TRITON solutions.
Silver Sponsors:
NovaStor
NovaStor (www.novastor.com) is a leading international provider of software solutions for data protection and availability. NovaStor provides software, SaaS solutions and services for local and online backup, restore and retention of business-critical data. Clients include home, mobile, and SMB users, service providers as well as international corporations. NovaStor's cost-effective solutions are platform- and hardware-independent and ensure that optimal technological and economical use is gained from the customer's existing and future IT environment. NovaStor is headquartered in Switzerland (Zug), has offices in Germany (Hamburg) and the USA (CA, Agoura Hills), and is represented in numerous other countries through partnerships.
PoINT Software & Systems GmbH
PoINT Software & Systems GmbH 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. Close collaboration with leading hardware manufacturers enables an early support of innovative storage technologies. Besides these complete solutions PoINT also offers its know-how as Toolkits, which can be easily integrated in other applications by the programming interface. Furthermore PoINT projects entire storage solutions and provides consultancy with his long-term and versatile experience.
PoINT products are distributed by 50 partners in more than 25 countries world-wide and have been installed successfully in more than 2 million installations. PoINT customers range from end users expecting a compact and secure solution to large corporations, which comply with our solutions their complex demands by providing the necessary reliability and perfection.
Rausch Netzwerktechnik GmbH
Since 1998, Rausch Netzwerktechnik is a trusted IT service provider for hosting- and datacenter-clients. With products and services Rausch offers high quality and reliability. Beyond that, Rausch counts on the development of power-saving and efficient server and storage systems through high packing density and by using efficient components.
SpliceGroup
Splice Group has been providing mission-critical fibre management solutions to blue-chip clients in the telecoms, cable TV and data sector industries for over 20 years. Recognised as one of the leading providers of fibre optic cabling solutions, Splice ensures organisations are able to intelligently manage and transfer the information that is key to operational success and growth of their businesses.
With over 20 years experience as one of the leading innovators in Fibre technology, Splice Group, with it's offices in Europe, North America and Asia, provide a complete design to Installation service.
Exhibitor:
Pan Dacom Direkt
Conference Partners:
BITKOM
BITKOM is the voice of the information technology, telecommunications, and new media industry in Germany. BITKOM represents more than 1,350 companies, with 1,000 direct members, including practically all global players as well as 700 key midsize companies.
BITKOM offers a wide-reaching, powerful network that brings together the best minds and top companies from the digital world. BITKOM organizes a permanent exchange between experts in the field and industry leaders, offering its membership forums to promote cooperation and platforms for contacting crucial clients.
Creating a good environment for doing business is BITKOM's highest priority. Education and the training of tomorrow's specialists, data protection and security, green IT, e-government and e-health, midsize business, copyright law, regional economic policy, as well as a new legal framework for telecommunications and the media, are the core of BITKOM's political agenda. With digital convergence in mind, BITKOM seeks to promote the collaboration of all companies working in the realm of information technology and telecommunications.
CloudCamp Frankfurt
CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions.
At CloudCamp, you are encouraged you to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.
Data Centre Alliance (DCA)
The Data Centre Alliance is a not-for-profit professional Association comprising Industry leaders and experts from across the Data Centre Industry. The DCA represents the data centre industry to the business world, the media, academia, governments and the general public. Membership is open to all operators of data centres and server rooms, however large or small, and organisations that supply the industry with products and services. Members benefit from a wide range of services that assist them in promoting the adoption of best practice design, operational standards and improvements in delivering data centre services. In addition, the DCA is committed to capturing the best expertise and experience from across the industry and feeding it into academia and higher educational programmes to ensure the future health, growth and sustainability of the industry.
Datacenter Star Audit
The Quality Standard for your Data Center
The Datacenter Star Audit is THE quality seal of approval for any company that operates a dedicated server room with minimal demands on climate control, power supply, and connectivity. It has been auditing all shapes and sizes of data centers since 2005 and continues to spread its auditing stamp throughout Europe.
The audit was set up to help create transparency in the procurement of secure hosting and focuses on testing data center security and the availability and redundancies of a facility's infrastructure, ultimately resulting in a 1-5 DC star performance grade being awarded.
eco.de
eco, the Association of the Internet Industry, was founded in 1995 and is the largest internet industry association in Europe today with around 600 members. They are constantly shaping the Internet to make it a safer, more useful and open tool for us all in our everyday lives. They do this by creating innovative solutions to better develop markets and their environments, promote technologies, facilitate communication between enterprises in the industry, and by lobbying at political platforms worldwide.
EuroCloud Deutschland
EuroCloud Deutschland_eco promotes acceptance and meets the demands for cloud services in the German market in areas such as improving trust in cloud services and the legal framework conditions. EuroCloud Deutschland_eco has an open dialog with the European partners of the EuroCloud network to find global solutions and to lay the groundwork for international business relations to blossom between Germany and other countries.
The governing body, EuroCloud Europe, represents the interests of the European cloud computing industry in European politics and plays a supporting role in building technological partnerships and business relations at the international level.
Evaluator Group
Evaluator Group, an IT analyst firm, is dedicated to helping IT professionals and vendors create and implement strategies that drive the most value from storage and digital information. It is our experience that much of the information available to users in the market is biased, incomplete or difficult to decipher. Our services deliver in-depth, unbiased analysis on storage architectures, products and management strategies that IT professionals can trust.
GUIDE SHARE EUROPE
GUIDE SHARE EUROPE (GSE) is a non-profit, volunteer-led association with over 1,000 member organizations and Europe foremost IBM User Group. GSE is organized in 10 regions. No other group covers such a wide spectrum of management and technical issues and information as GUIDE SHARE EUROPE. A GSE membership is held by a company or organization, and all employees may participate in and benefit from GSE activities and services. Therefore, a GSE membership represents excellent value for money.
SANBoard
SANBoard, founded in 2002, is a joint venture acting independently from any vendors. The community consists of end users who run and own storage-networking environments and serves as an interface and advisory board for any main topics towards manufacturers and vendors and standard setting bodies.
Sponsorship opportunities:
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