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VMworld 2010 Sponsors & Exhibitors

The Solutions Exchange features more than 200 companies showcasing the latest virtualization and cloud infrastructure products, services and solutions. You'll be able to talk with experts from the leading companies in the virtualization industry and get hands on experience with the newest tools and technologies. It's the perfect place to network, learn and explore.

The hours for the Solutions Exchange are:
Monday, August 30th4:00pm - 7:00pm
   Welcome Reception4:00pm - 7:00pm
Tuesday, August 31st11:00am - 6:00pm
Wednesday, September 1st10:00am - 6:00pm
Thursday, September 2nd10:00am-2:00pm

VMworld 2010 Sponsors & Exhibitors

Cisco

Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking, providing the broadest line of solutions for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses, or around the world. Cisco is an innovator in the communications and information technology industry. This tradition of leadership continues as Cisco offers a complete portfolio of virtualization solutions for the data center. Cisco integrates these technologies into architectures that consolidate and virtualize critical resources within and between data centers. Cisco solutions help ensure that information critical to running businesses and promoting results is transported securely, efficiently, and flexibly across a set of optimized data center resources.

Dell

Over the past 25 years and more, Dell has played a central role in transforming computing worldwide. Today, Dell is transforming itself from the company that redefined value and expanded access to computing products into one that is revolutionizing the way technology works for people and organizations. It is doing so by listening to customers and using that insight to create innovative solutions that make technology simpler and deliver reliable, long-term value. Dell is increasing its reach to customers by offering products and services directly, through authorized resellers and in thousands of retail outlets worldwide. For more information visit www.dell.com.

EMC Corporation

EMC Corporation is the world's leading provider of information infrastructure technologies, services, and solutions. Our mission? To lead customers on the journey to the private cloud—a dramatically more efficient, flexible way to manage, deliver, and consume IT services for reduced costs and increased agility. EMC: #1 in storage for virtualization. Perfect for your virtual environment—the foundation for your journey to the private cloud. Find out why VMware customers are more than twice as likely to choose EMC for storage over other vendors, according to spending intentions survey from a major independent analyst firm. EMC unified storage is simple and efficient. At the EMC Partner Pavilion, Partners will be demonstrating solutions designed to solve real customer needs in virtual environments. The Partners are: Nexus IS, Ahead, Presidio Network Solutions, Alexander Open Systems, Computer Design and Integration, Applied Computer Systems and Green Pages. The solutions include storage, data de-duplication, management, data protection, replication, disaster recovery, business continuity, deployment and performance tuning.

NetApp

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers. Customers choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of solutions for server-to-storage virtualization, business applications, data protection, and more. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes 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 www.netapp.com.

Global Platinum Sponsor

HP

At HP we believe technology can create new possibilities for people around the world—from high school students to budding entrepreneurs and senior executives. Our healthcare solutions are helping hospitals reduce errors and insurers bring down costs. Our TouchSmart products are helping individuals with autism communicate for the first time. Our digital printing solutions are revolutionizing the publishing industry by allowing publishers to print individual books on demand. And that’s just the beginning. Where others see challenges, we see opportunities. We never stop exploring. We never stop at impossible. And we can’t wait to show you what we think of next.

Intel

Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Intel® microprocessors provide leading performance and proven reliability for the foundation of your virtualized environment. VMware and Intel work together to deliver reliability, value, and ease of deployment from the dynamic datacenter to the cloud of today and in the future, giving customers the confidence to start benefiting now from virtualization. Through close collaboration in technology advancements and ecosystem enabling, VMware and Intel provide the foundation for virtualization solutions that allow businesses to better serve their customers at reduced cost.

Platinum Sponsor

Compellent Technologies

Fluid Data Storage from Compellent is the ideal platform for VMware virtualized server environments. Compellent is built on an Advanced Storage Virtualization engine that creates a smart, shared pool of storage resources. These shared resources eliminate the guesswork of capacity planning and simplify storage provisioning for any number of servers. With Compellent you can quickly and easily create hundreds of virtual volumes to support any virtual server platform and optimize the placement of virtual applications without wasting your time, money or disk space. For more information visit www.compellent.com.

CSC

CSC is a $16 billion global IT services company with more than 90,000 employees and 50 years of experience delivering technology-driven solutions to commercial and public sector clients worldwide We are known for supporting the world's most complex IT programs and delivering on our client commitments. CSC’s advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting.

IBM

IBM provides deep virtualization expertise and an integrated portfolio of solutions to enable and support your business & IT virtualization objectives. IBM approaches transformation from a holistic perspective with smarter systems, software, and services, enabling virtualization not only at the platform level, but also across software. IBM leverages experience from thousands of engagements to help you define and execute transformation with platforms tuned to better support virtualized environments, enabling greater virtual system density along with the performance needed to virtualize demanding workloads. IBM provides multiple offerings and options to further optimize your business.

Novell

Through our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. We deliver the best-engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that help customers worldwide reduce cost, complexity and risk. Because of our 25 years of experience and our vision of interoperability and flexibility, we deliver powerful, next-generation business infrastructures that enable our customers to stay competitive. Novell® Making IT Work As One™

Symantec Corporation

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help our customers – from consumers and small businesses to the largest global organizations – secure and manage their information-driven world against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently. As the world’s fourth largest independent software company, our unique focus is to eliminate risks to information, technology and processes independent of device, platform, interaction or location. Our software and services protect completely, in ways that can be managed easily and with controls that can be enforced automatically – enabling confidence wherever information is used.

Virtual Computing Environment coalition

The Virtual Computing Environment coalition, formed by Cisco, EMC and VMware, represents an unprecedented level of collaboration in development, services and partner enablement that ‘de-risks’ the infrastructure virtualization journey of customers to private cloud implementation. Enabled by Vblock Infrastructure Packages, the coalition delivers the industry’s first completely integrated IT offering that combines best-of-breed virtualization, networking, computing, storage, security, and management technologies with end-to-end vendor accountability. The three companies have invested in an industry-leading seamless support experience, featuring innovative collaboration that features a single point of contact for customer support and integrated collaboration support processes and tools.

Wyse Technology

Wyse Technology is the global leader in cloud client computing, leveraging its industry-leading thin and zero client computing-based desktop virtualization software, hardware and services. Cloud Client Computing is the ultimate client computing solution for our time. It replaces the outdated computing model of the unsecure, unreliable, un-green and expensive PC. It delivers the security, reliability, user experience with the lowest energy usage and total cost of ownership. It simply connects all the dots: Thin and zero client computing, unified communications, desktop virtualization and the web for users to reach the clouds – in a private, public, government or hybrid cloud.

Gold Sponsor

3PAR Inc.

3PAR® is the global leader in utility storage, a category of highly virtualized storage arrays built for private and public cloud computing. 3PAR Utility Storage meets the challenges of server virtualization and the virtual datacenter with a range of technologies and solutions unique to 3PAR and uniquely complementary to VMware vSphere™. When deployed together, highly virtualized, dynamically tiered, multi-tenant storage from 3PAR and server virtualization from VMware deliver a compelling solution that boosts VMware vSphere ROI.

Acronis

About Acronis Acronis is a provider of easy-to-use backup, disaster recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. Its patented disk imaging and management technology enables corporations and individuals to protect digital assets in physical and virtual environments. Acronis' backup, recovery, server consolidation and virtualization migration software helps users protect their digital information, maintain business continuity and reduce downtime. Acronis software is sold in more than 180 countries and available in 13 languages. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.com

BMC Software, Inc.

Business runs on IT. IT runs on BMC Software. Business thrives when IT runs smarter, faster, stronger. That’s why the most demanding IT organizations rely on BMC Software across both distributed and mainframe environments. Recognized as the leader in Business Service Management, BMC provides a comprehensive and unified platform that helps IT organizations cut cost, reduce risk, and drive business profit. For the four fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2010, BMC revenue was approximately $1.91 billion. Visit www.bmc.com for more information.

CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies’ innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems.

CommVault

CommVault is a leading data management software company committed to giving companies a better way to organize, protect, and access business information. Our unique Simpana® software delivers complete data management solutions with infinite scalability and unprecedented control over data and costs. CommVault is a certified Technology Partner and provides a compelling, cost effective and data-efficient end-to-end solution to protect entire VMware environments from virtual disks to files and applications in VMs.

EMC Hands On Lab

The EMC Hands On Lab offers practical experience for your Journey to the Private Cloud with EMC advanced tools and technologies. Learn how to better manage storage and data protection with EMC’s vCenter Plugins, tackle backup challenges with Avamar Virtual Edition, deploy technologies such as VPLEX for distance vMotion, monitor virtual data centers with RSA Envision, and discover how VAAI improves vSphere 4.1 storage operations. This is your chance to get your "hands on" the Private Cloud” at Booth #1107.

F5 Networks

F5 Networks, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), ensures the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications in both traditional and virtualization environments. F5's framework enables community-driven innovation that helps organizations enhance IT agility. F5's vision of unified application and data delivery redefines the management of application, server, storage, and network resources, streamlining application delivery and reducing costs. Global organizations, service and cloud providers, and Web 2.0 providers trust F5 to keep their business moving forward.

Forsythe

Founded in 1971, Forsythe is as an information technology infrastructure integrator. Forsythe helps complex organizations across all industries optimize the cost and manage the risk of their IT while improving performance. Forsythe provides independent technology and business consulting services, technology leasing services, and value-added reseller services for all the leading technology product manufacturers. Headquartered in Skokie, Illinois, Forsythe employs 890 people in 48 offices throughout the United States and Canada. Forsythe is privately held and 100-percent employee-owned.

Hitachi Data Systems

Hitachi Data Systems helps organizations transform raw data into valuable information by making it more accessible and manageable. Our vision is that IT must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable. Hitachi Data Systems provides best-in-class information technologies, services and solutions that deliver compelling customer ROI, unmatched return on assets and demonstrable business impact. As the leader in storage virtualization, only Hitachi Data Systems offers a common, virtualized platform for all data and information. www.hds.com.

Insight

Insight is a leading provider of brand-name information technology ("IT") hardware, software and services to large enterprises, small to medium-sized businesses and public sector institutions serving clients in 170 countries around the world. Insight brings a comprehensive portfolio of products and services across technology areas including the Data Center, LAN/WAN, Wireless, Security, Desktops, Peripherals, Software and more. Our technology practices bring deep technical skills in vital solution areas to help you implement strategic technologies.

Quest Software

Quest Software creates simple-to-use IT management software that saves time and money across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Our innovative solutions help simplify the toughest IT challenges for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Quest simplifies virtualization management from server to desktop, enabling organizations to reduce administration costs and make more efficient use of virtualized computing resources. Quest Desktop Virtualization Management solutions enable organizations to reduce complexity and improve operational efficiency.

Quest Software (formerly Vizioncore)

Vizioncore, the leader in virtualization management, is now Quest Software’s Server Virtualization Management group. Quest Server Virtualization Management solutions span data protection, monitoring and administration to help organizations improve operational efficiency and productivity, and manage private clouds. Our innovative solutions help simplify the toughest IT challenges for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Quest simplifies virtualization management from server to desktop, enabling organizations to reduce administration costs and make more efficient use of virtualized computing resources.

RES Software

RES Software, the proven leader in user workspace management, is driving a fundamental shift in the way organizations of any size manage and reduce the cost of their PC populations. Designed for physical or virtual desktop platforms, RES Software’s award-winning, patented technology enables IT professionals to address this shift by managing, automating and delivering secure, personalized and more productive desktop experiences to any user. For more information, follow updates on Twitter @RESSoftware and visit www.ressoftware.com.

Samsung Semiconductor Business

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, and digital convergence technologies. The company consists of seven independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Semiconductor and LCD. The Samsung Semiconductor Business provides the most extensive range of Flash, DRAM, SRAM and specialty memories in the world and paces the industry in advancing memory technology for home, mobile and office environments, for consumer electronics and networked applications.

Terremark

Terremark Worldwide is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry's most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers worldwide with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, Terremark delivers government and enterprise customers a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery, security, data storage and cloud computing services. Terremark's Enterprise Cloud computing architecture delivers the agility, scale and economic benefits of cloud computing to mission-critical enterprise and Web 2.0 applications.

Trend Micro

Trend Micro is a market leader in Internet content security and a security innovator. Always proactive, Trend Micro is leading the security industry by recognizing the challenges of virtualization and cloud computing, and developing security solutions for these environments. Trend Micro helps organizations benefit from virtual and cloud computing by deploying security that’s designed to meet the challenges of securing these infrastructures, while allowing our customers to realize the cost and productivity advantages, without compromising the security of their data.

Veeam Software

Veeam Software, a premier-level VMware Technology Alliance Partner and member of the VMware Ready Management program, develops innovative software for managing VMware vSphere 4 and Virtual Infrastructure 3. Veeam offers an award-winning suite of tools to assist the VMware administrator. Veeam’s latest innovation is SureBackup™, the new standard for data protection. Organizations of all sizes can reduce costs, mitigate risk, and fully realize the promise of virtualization with Veeam. Learn more at www.veeam.com.

Xiotech

Xiotech Corporation is one of the world’s largest privately held data storage companies and a leader in Intelligent Application Storage. Xiotech’s patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology has rebooted storage fundamentals to better align with evolving application demands, including virtualization, linearly scalable performance and capacity, industry-leading energy savings and zero-touch reliability. Also, ISE technology enables organizations to build systems of interoperable, best-of-breed solutions and overcome bottlenecks caused by current-generation storage infrastructure.

Xsigo Systems

Unleash your virtual machines with Xsigo virtual I/O, the fastest and most interoperable virtual I/O on the planet. With just two cables, connect any server to as many as 64 physical networks (1GE, 10GE, or Fibre Channel). Boost performance with up to 80Gb bandwidth to each server. Gain precise performance management with quality of service controls. Visit us for a hand-on demo and see how you can get the most from your VMs.

Silver Sponsor

Akorri

Akorri develops cross-domain analytical software solutions that optimize performance and utilization in the dynamic data center. BalancePoint virtual infrastructure management software provides automated, infrastructure-wide visibility and analysis to help enterprises fix problems, optimize utilization and improve performance for both virtual and physical servers and storage. IT organizations use BalancePoint to reduce costs and ultimately enable a service oriented infrastructure.

AMD

AMD is an innovative technology company dedicated to collaborating with customers and technology partners. AMD Opteron™ processors are designed for heavy workloads including virtualization, and the AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform addresses the unmistakable needs of server customers today - workload-specific performance, power efficiency, and overall value - while delivering more cores and more memory for less money.

AppSense

AppSense, the leading provider of user virtualization solutions for enterprises, makes physical and virtual desktop deployment possible by ensuring a seamless user experience across all delivery platforms. AppSense accelerates multi-platform desktop deployments by eliminating costly user management tools, enabling single-image application delivery, and ensuring users have the same experience from any desktop.

BlueCat Networks

BlueCat Networks is a profitable and rapidly growing leading provider of enterprise-class IP Address Management (IPAM) platforms and secure DNS / DHCP network administration appliances. Thousands of BlueCat’s award-winning Proteus™ platforms and Adonis™ family of DNS/DHCP appliances have been successfully deployed to meet the rising IP management demands of the largest and most recognizable organizations in a variety of industries.

Broadcom Corporation

Broadcom Corporation is a global leader in semiconductors that enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia for the home, office and mobile environment. Broadcom provides the industry's broadest portfolio of silicon and software solutions to manufacturers of communications equipment and devices. These solutions support our mission: Connecting everything®.

Brocade

Brocade® networking solutions help the world’s leading organizations transition smoothly to a virtualized world where applications and information reside anywhere. Industry-leading Brocade offerings for Ethernet, storage, and converged networking environments help these organizations achieve their most critical business objectives. In addition, Brocade works with leading companies, such as VMware, to deliver best-in-class solutions for virtualized environments. Learn more at www.brocade.com.

Citrix Systems, Inc.

Citrix Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand service. Citrix combines virtualization, networking, and cloud computing technologies into a full product portfolio that enables virtual workstyles for users and virtual datacenters for IT. Over 230,000 organizations rely on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT environments.

Compuware Corporation

Founded in 1973, Compuware provides software, experts and best practices to ensure applications work well and deliver value. Compuware solutions optimize application performance across the Enterprise and the Internet for leading organizations worldwide, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the 20 most-visited U.S. websites.

EvoStor

The EvoStor Evolution 1200 is the first enterprise storage system purpose-built for VMware environments.

Exar

Exar Corporation provides the Neterion family of 10GbE adapter solutions optimized for virtualized environments as well as a broad range of solutions for high performance data encryption, compression, and deduplication. Exar’s products minimize TCO, maximize performance, and optimize system efficiency by providing dynamically configurable, power-efficient hardware offload for both compute and I/O-intensive workloads.

Fujitsu

Fujitsu America, Inc., is a leading ICT solutions provider for North American enterprises. Delivering integrated technology and service offerings ranging from managed services and systems integration to enterprise applications and data center technologies, Fujitsu specializes in solutions for manufacturing, retail, healthcare, government, education, financial services and communication.

Fusion-io

Ushering in a new era of application-centric, solid-state storage solutions for the enterprise, Fusion-io is revolutionizing the way database, application and system administrators architect their data centers. The company is closing the gap between processing power and storage needs by delivering breakthrough performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional disk-based storage systems.

GreenPages Technology Solutions

GreenPages is a national consulting and integration organization that helps clients virtualize their environments and transform their datacenter and IT operations to strategically leverage the power of cloud computing. The company’s deep technology expertise, broad engineering certifications, and agnostic business model offer clients a strategic, cross-platform, proactive approach to designing, deploying, and supporting modern IT environments.

Isilon

As the global leader in scale-out storage, Isilon’s powerful yet simple solutions work with VMWare to eliminate traditional barriers and enable a fully virtualized infrastructure – from servers to storage. Over 1400 customers rely on Isilon to maximize data center performance while eliminating the costs and complexity of storage sprawl. When you think of enterprise storage, think simple. Think Isilon.

Kingston Technology, Inc.

Kingston Technology Company is the world’s independent memory leader, with an extensive line of computer and Flash memory products and solid-state drives. Founded in 1987, Kingston operates manufacturing facilities in Malaysia, Taiwan, China and Fountain Valley, CA, and serves a network of distributors, OEMs and retail customers in 3,000+ locations worldwide. For details, visit kingston.com.

Mellanox Technologies

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage that optimize data center performance. Mellanox products deliver market-leading bandwidth, performance, scalability, power conservation and cost-effectiveness while converging multiple legacy network technologies into one future-proof solution. Mellanox is the choice for Fortune 500 data centers and the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

NTT Communications

Renowned for its broad range of managed solutions leveraging global Tier-1 IP backbone networks, low-latency private networks, and secure data centers, NTT Communications is the global service arm of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, a Fortune Global 500 telecom leader. The company delivers high-quality hosting services worldwide, including hosted virtualization services, enterprise-grade cloud, managed security and storage solutions.

Pano Logic, Inc.

Pano Logic, the leader in zero client computing has redefined the delivery of end-user computing by radically centralizing desktop management. The Pano System was purpose-built for virtualization to simplify complex desktop deployment, optimize user experience, eliminate endpoint security and ensure environmental sustainability. Together, the Pano Device and Management Software guarantee lower overall total cost of ownership.

Precise

Precise Transaction Performance Management (TPM) improves QoS for mission critical applications on cloud, virtual and physical infrastructure: • Guarantees instant, consistent monitoring of every transaction, regardless of any dynamic provisioning changes • Automatically isolates transaction performance problems within application clusters, virtual machine pools, and shared physical resources • Improves transaction cost performance by optimizing application, database, and storage.

Quantum

Want 95% disk reduction and 3x performance for your VM environment? Quantum’s deduplication solutions are optimized for achieving maximum ROI, increased performance and reducing the redundant data characteristics of virtual implementations. Visit us in booth 430 to learn more.

Rackspace Hosting

Rackspace Hosting is the world’s leading specialist in hosting and cloud computing. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support ® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.

Samsung Electronics America, EBD (Enterprise Business Division)

Samsung’s Enterprise Business Division (EBD) is a division of Samsung Electronics America (SEA), a U.S. subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd. (SEC). Samsung EBD offers a complete line of award-winning color and mono-laser printing solutions, desktop monitors including VMware Ready™ Certified PC-over-IP® All-in-One Monitors, notebook computers, digital signage solutions and projectors. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com or call 1-800-SAMSUNG.

Siemens IT Solutions and Services

Siemens IT Solutions and Services is an internationally leading provider of IT solutions and services. With its comprehensive know-how and industry-specific knowledge, Siemens IT Solutions and Services has the right answers for your IT environment. Siemens IT Solutions and Services employs more than 35,000 people and posts annual sales of about $6.3 billion.

Splunk

Splunk IT Search is changing the way organizations manage, secure and audit their infrastructures. Splunk software lets them search and analyze all their IT data from one location in real time. With Splunk, now they can troubleshoot outages, investigate incidents and demonstrate compliance in minutes instead of hours or days.

Stratus Technologies

Stratus Technologies, the innovator of industry-standard fault tolerance, delivers unparalleled uptime protection to virtualized tier-one applications – from the heart of the data center to key workloads at the edge. Stratus ftServer systems help customers fully leverage their VMware investment. For 30 years, Stratus has been trusted to run some of the most mission-critical applications around the globe.

SunGard Availability Services

SunGard AS provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. SunGard assists IT organizations prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime. We help ensure their people and customers have uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do business.

Syncsort, Inc.

Syncsort is a global software company that helps the world’s most successful organizations rethink the economics of data. Syncsort provides extreme data performance and rapid time to value through easy to use data integration and data protection solutions. The company has delivered more profitable results to thousands of customers worldwide.

Teradici Corporation

Teradici has developed PCoIP® technology, a unique remote display protocol which makes network delivered computing a viable corporate computing reality. Whether integrated into VMware View or directly in silicon devices for hardware accelerated performance, PCoIP protocol allows enterprise desktops, from task workers to power users, to be centrally located and managed in the datacenter while delivering an exceptional user experience.

Verizon Business

Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications, is a global leader in communications and IT solutions. We combine professional expertise with one of the world's most connected IP networks to deliver award-winning communications, IT, information security and network solutions. Many large businesses and governments rely on our professional and managed services and network technologies to accelerate their business. www.verizonbusiness.com.

Virtensys

Virtensys develops industry-leading PCI Express®-based I/O virtualization technologies for servers and storage platforms. Virtensys solutions revolutionize the way I/O infrastructure is deployed and used in data centers. They deliver significant improvements in I/O utilization, cost, performance, power consumption, and management. The company was founded in December 2005 by leading technologists in the fields of high-performance switching, networking, and systems design.

World Wide Technology

World Wide is a leading systems integrator and VAR of technology products and services to businesses and government entities around the world. We support our customers with award winning service and a full portfolio of services including project planning, design, logistics, implementation and managed services.

Zenoss

Zenoss is a commercial open source provider of Unlegacy enterprise IT management products. Zenoss Enterprise is a single model-based product that enables organizations to seamlessly manage physical, virtual and cloud based infrastructure with unprecedented power, agility and value. Zenoss products monitor over one million network and server devices daily. Customers include Rackspace, VMware, LinkedIn, Motorola and Deutsche Bank.

VMworld 2010 Sponsors & Exhibitors

Exhibitor

10ZiG Technology

10ZiG Technology offers a wide-range of VMware Ready Certified thin clients optimized for desktop virtualization. These units offer increased flexibility and a complete desktop experience. Customized thin client solutions to meet your exact requirements and hassle-free trials are available.

A10 Networks

A10 Networks is a technology leader and innovator in networking and security. A10 makes high-performance products that accelerate, optimize and secure applications. A10’s flagship AX Series are new generation server load balancers that deliver a faster web experience.

Aberdeen LLC

Aberdeen delivers VMware Certified customizable servers featuring; high performance Stirling Servers, AberNAS scalable Network Attached Storage appliances and the AberSAN ZFS-based unified storage solution with robust deduplication, unlimited scalability and iSCSI/Fibre connectivity. All servers feature an unrivaled 5-Year.

AC&NC

AC&NC designs, manufactures and markets high-performance, competitively priced data storage RAID systems. Our RAID hardware ensures rapid, round-the-clock access to all of the information our customers rely on to move forward in the 21st century.

Actifio, Inc.

Delivering next generation Data Protection, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions using Data Management Virtualization technology

AFORE Solutions Inc.

Best of VMworld 2009 Finalist AFORE Solutions extends winning platform and launches Cloudlink ASE-V software appliance. ASE-V provides secure and managed communications for VMware based public/private clouds with SLA monitoring, network optimization, traffic management, VPN and one-click cloud deployment capabilities.

Altor Networks

Altor is the leading provider of security for virtual data centers and clouds. The company developed the first firewall purpose-built for virtual networks. Altor's hypervisor-based software is a comprehensive security package featuring IDS, VM Introspection, security automation, and compliance assessment.

AMAX

With 30 years experience in HPC, AMAX delivers customized computing solutions and global services to diverse industries. AMAX provides turnkey custom server appliance solutions to OEM partners. In joining with VMware, AMAX offers virtualized cluster, server, storage, and workstations solutions.

Amplidata

Amplidata provides unbreakable storage technology. It addresses some of the inherent weaknesses of RAID systems, such as performance, bit error rates, MTBF and RAID rebuild times which have not improved sufficiently to keep up with the explosion of datastorage needs.

APC by Schneider Electric

APC by Schneider Electric is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner. APC's PowerChute Network Shutdown for VMware ESXi provides for graceful shutdown of the virtual machines and their associated physical machines in the event of an extended power outage.

AppDynamics

AppDynamics is the only Application Performance Management (APM) solution built for production java applications in virtual, cloud, and physical environments.

APTARE

APTARE® provides reporting and management solutions that simplify the optimization of VMware environments. APTARE StorageConsole® Virtualization Manager is a Web 2.0 solution that increases visibility of VMware storage capacity to maximize efficiency and reduce costs.

Aqua Connect

Leading provider of multi-user and remote access software for the Mac platform. Pioneers of the first Mac Terminal Server, we continue to provide enterprise-grade Mac terminal services. With Aqua Connect TS you can finally provide a solution for Mac virtualization.

Argent Software

World leader in INTEGRATED VMware management, monitoring, and automation. Only Argent for VMware monitors both VMware Hosts and all VMware Guests in one product. Old server-centric products that monitor just Guests are all obsolete. www.Argent.com/VM for a free 30-day evaluation.

Aria Systems

Aria Systems is the leading provider of cloud billing and subscription management solutions. We help companies in every industry develop and automate recurring revenue models blending one-time, subscription and usage-based fees as well as virtual goods and currencies.

Arkeia Software

Arkeia Software develops backup and disaster recovery software to protect both physical and virtual environments, using VMware’s vStorage APIs and CBT to support ESX/ESXi, including vCenter. Arkeia delivers fast, easy-to-use, and affordable solutions to over 7,000 customers in 70 countries.

Arrow ECS

Arrow ECS operates in more than 26 countries, connecting our partners with the foremost technology suppliers. Partners benefit from technical support, supplier-certified training, customized configurations and other services that simplify business, identify new markets and increase sales.

Aspera

Aspera is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the world’s digital assets at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions. Aspera’s core technology delivers unprecedented control over bandwidth, complete security and uncompromising reliability.

AT&T

AT&T Inc. is a global leader in communications and recognized leader in Business-related voice and data services, including global IP services, hosting, applications, and managed services. Businesses all over the world deploy AT&T services to improve productivity & manage costs.

Atlantis Computing, Inc.

Atlantis complements VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop by cutting storage costs, boosting desktop performance and streamlining image management. Atlantis’ patent-pending IO virtualization technology is delivered as a plug-and-play appliance that consolidates images and offloads IO intensive operations from VDI storage.

ATTO Technology, Inc.

ATTO is a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments helping customers better store, manage and deliver their data. ATTO designs/manufactures host and RAID adapters, CNAs, bridges, switches, RAID storage controllers, and software.

Avere Systems, Inc.

Avere provides Demand-Driven Storage solutions that dynamically organize data in response to business demand. The Avere FXT Series enables faster application performance at dramatically lower cost by intelligently moving active data between traditional storage devices and FXT appliances.

Azaleos

Azaleos Corporation provides email and collaboration services for organizations with cloud, on-premise, or mixed environment deployments. Azaleos’ 24X7 managed services for Exchange, SharePoint, AD, Office Communications Server, and BES improve availability, security and performance, while reducing maintenance time and costs.

BeyondTrust Software

BeyondTrust is the global leader in privilege authorization management, access control and security solutions for virtualization and cloud computing environments. BeyondTrust empowers IT governance to strengthen security, improve productivity, drive compliance and reduce expense.

Blade Network Technologies, Inc.

Leader in 1 and 10GbE blade switches, top-of-rack RackSwitch, VMready network virtualization and Smart Server Control software. BLADE's Unified FabricArchitecture integrates servers, storage and networking. BLADE’s “Rackonomics” enables datacenters to achieve optimal TCO.

BlueArc Corporation

BlueArc provides intelligent tiered storage solutions with industry leading performance and scalability on a converged network storage platform that supports both NAS and SAN

BlueLock

Named 2009 VMware Service Provider of the Year for the Americas, BlueLock is an experienced provider of cloud hosting services, offering the expertise, IT infrastructure and innovation to enable IT-friendly management of public, private and hybrid cloud solutions.

Catbird

Catbird, pioneering security and compliance for virtual and cloud infrastructure, is a three-time VMworld Best of Show Finalist. Maintaining regulatory compliance in the new data center and eliminating uncertainty over secure virtualization, Catbird’s protection keeps deployment plans on track.

Centrify

Centrify enables organizations to leverage Active Directory to secure virtual systems, reduce IT expenses, and enhance compliance in their cross-platform data centers. Organizations can dynamically manage authentication, access, and server protection for their heterogeneous systems, hypervisors and applications.

Check Point Software Technologies

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, is the only vendor to deliver Total Security for networks, data and endpoints, unified under a single management framework.

CiRBA

CiRBA DCI is analytics software that enables organizations to safely maximize efficiency through intelligent planning and management of physical and virtual infrastructure. Only CiRBA’s policy-driven, multi-dimensional analytics dictate where to place workloads and how to allocate and configure resources

CLI (Computer Lab International)

CLI, thin client customization experts, specializes in virtual desktop devices. ComputerLab offers thin clients tailored to meet organizations’ needs, providing and delivering custom images. CLI’s longevity demonstrates our ability to guarantee superior, cutting edge devices for an array of requirements.

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Based in Teaneck, NJ, Cognizant provides information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services. With over 50 global delivery centers and 85,500 employees, Cognizant is listed in Forbes Global 2000, Fortune 1000, and BusinessWeek’s Hot Growth and Top 50 Performers.

CORAID

CORAID EtherDrive® solutions deliver a flexible tier of high performance scale-out storage. Designed from the ground up for simplicity and virtualization, Coraid enables lower OPEX and 5-8x price performance advantage over legacy Fibre Channel systems.

Cortado. A Division of ThinPrint

Cortado – a Gartner Cool Vendor 2010 for enterprise mobility – extends the virtual desktop to Android smartphones, BlackBerry, iPhone and iPad. Utilizing Virtual Desktop Processes technology, Cortado brings new customized desktop functionality to each mobile device.

CrashPlan PRO

Backup everyone, everywhere: Only CrashPlan PRO provides people-friendly, enterprise-tough backup onsite, offsite and online. Use CrashPlan PRO for continuous, cross-platform backup and self-service restores that won’t slow you down.

Cyber-Ark Software, Inc.

Cyber-Ark® Software, a global information security company provides the enterprise-class Privileged Identity Management Suite, a unified policy-based solution that secures, manages and monitors privileged accounts and activities associated with virtualized and traditional datacenter assets whether on-premise or within the cloud.

Data Robotics, Inc.

Data Robotics, the company that is changing the way the world stores digital content, develops automated storage products designed to ensure data is always protected, accessible and simple to manage.

DataCore™ Storage Virtualization Software

DataCore eliminates storage-related disruptions, bottlenecks and funding roadblocks that jeopardize VMware server and desktop virtualization projects, letting you provision, share, reconfigure, migrate, replicate, expand and upgrade storage without slowdowns or downtime. It contains costs, mitigates risks, and improves I/O performance.

Datalink

A data center solutions and services provider, Datalink helps enterprises get the most from IT investments – with storage, server, and network expertise across the infrastructure. We design what we sell, deploy what we design, and support what we deliver.

Desktone, Inc

Founded in 2006, Desktone is leading an industry transformation toward easy-to-implement, low-maintenance enterprise desktops. We deliver the only highly scalable, end-to-end virtual desktop solution that is designed specifically to enable enterprises to consume hosted, subscription-based desktops as a service.

Diskeeper Corporation

For the past 30 years, Diskeeper Corporation has produced performance technology innovations for corporate and enterprise level computer sites. Our breakthrough technology includes virtual platform optimization, fragmentation prevention, and zero-overhead background processing.

Double-Take Software

Double-Take® Software offers a family of affordable products that are easy to use and enable you to easily move, protect and recover critical data and applications in physical and virtual environments, on any platform, across any distance.

VMworld 2010 Sponsors & Exhibitors

DynamicOps

DynamicOps was provides the industry’s most flexible platform for rapidly automating the delivery and management of private cloud services. Customers include global enterprises, regional businesses, hospital groups, educational institutions, and government agencies.

Eaton Corporation

Eaton is a global leader in power distribution, power quality, control and automation, and monitoring products. Worldwide, Eaton serves the power system needs of data center, industrial, institutional, public sector, utility, commercial, residential, mission-critical, IT, alternative energy and OEM markets.

eG Innovations, Inc.

eG Innovations designs software for business service monitoring with automated root cause analysis. eG Enterprise is VMware Optimized and won best of show for application monitoring at VMworld 2008. We have been selected as a Gartner Cool Vendor for 2010.

Embotics Corporation

Embotics V-Commander is an affordable, easy to deploy, yet comprehensive Virtualization Management system: Providing ALL the necessary management components to ensure that virtual environments are optimized for growth, in a fully integrated system… For the price of a single tool.

Emulex

Emulex is the leader in converged networking solutions for the data center and its connectivity solutions are trusted by the world's largest IT environments. www.emulex.com

Endeavors Technologies

Spun out of a university think tank, Endeavors creates groundbreaking, patented application virtualization software. In its third generation, Application Jukebox™ software is the first to use both isolation streaming and integrated streaming—even for different parts of the same application.

Equinix, Inc.

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) operates International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers offering businesses a place to reliably run their operations and securely exchange critical information in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. For more information, please visit www.equinix.com.

Eucalyptus Systems, Inc.

Eucalyptus Systems delivers open source infrastructure software that enables enterprises to establish their own private cloud computing environment. With Eucalyptus, customers make efficient use of their computing capacity, deploy applications faster, and protect sensitive data, while reducing capital expenditure.

Extreme Networks, Inc.

Extreme Networks provides converged Ethernet network infrastructure & solutions supporting data, voice & video, featuring high performance, availability, scalable switching, wired/ wireless secure LANs, data center infrastructure & Service Provider Ethernet transport solutions, complemented by global, 24x7 service & support.

FalconStor Software

FalconStor Software provides open data protection solutions, including the industry’s leading VTL with deduplication, CDP, FDS, and NSS, each enabled with WAN-optimized replication. These VMware Ready certified solutions are offered as software, appliances and Virtual Appliances for VMware Infrastructure.

fluid Operations

fluid Operations (fluidOps) developed eCloudManager, the innovative cloud management platform for complex, virtualized enterprise application environments, focusing on the creation of a flexible cloud infrastructure and the rapid provisioning of enterprise application landscapes through a portal as Landscape-as-a-Service (LaaS).

GlassHouse Technologies

GlassHouse Technologies, a global provider of data center consulting and managed services, partners with customers to define a strategy, execute that plan and operate their environment to improve cost efficiency, risk mitigation and service.

Gluster

Gluster delivers an open storage software platform focused on simplifying the task of storing and managing the explosive growth of unstructured data. Our scalable NAS solutions address needs of traditional data centers, storage for virtual servers, and public/private storage clouds.

GNAX - Global Net Access

Global Net Access (GNAX) owns and operates mission-critical data centers that specialize in cloud and colocation services.

Great Lakes Computer Source

Come see our hardware lineup in action, with daily demos of VMware technology on multiple hardware platforms. Our position in the new and refurbished Dell, HP, IBM, Juniper, and Cisco marketplaces makes us the perfect complement to your virtualized environment.

GreenBytes, Inc.

GreenBytes, Inc. is a provider of high-performance, energy-efficient, inline deduplication storage appliances. Combining highly innovative software technology with a world-class server platform, GreenBytes storage appliances feature the highest levels of scalability and reliability in an easy-to-use, cost-effective package.

Hatsize Corporation

Hatsize SaaS solutions accelerate sales and profitability of complex enterprise technology products by showcasing performance anytime and anywhere. Over a million hours of automated demonstration and training sessions have been delivered for companies like ArcSight, IBM, Juniper, Sun, and Symantec.

Hosting.com

Hosting.com provides enterprise colocation, cloud computing, dedicated hosting, managed hosting, disaster recovery, and business continuance services to a global customer base.

Hyper9

Hyper9 discovers virtual elements and relationships, restoring line of sight to the business for "business-enabled" virtualization environments. IT can then focus management efforts on resource performance, capacity and configuration and ensure the highest levels of reliability for key business applications.

Hyperformix

Automated Capacity Management solutions from Hyperformix supports end-to-end analysis of physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. Hyperformix predicts resource requirements and automatically prescribes answers to ensure optimal performance of infrastructure and delivery of business services on an enterprise scale.

HyTrust, Inc.

HyTrustis is the leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure. HyTrust empowers organizations to virtualize more—including servers that are subject to compliance—by delivering enterprise-class controls for access, accountability, and visibility to their existing virtualization infrastructure.

i365, A Seagate Company

i365, a Seagate Company, provides Cloud-Connected and on premise storage solutions to help SMBs protect/access their business data – anytime, anywhere. With EVault storage software, SaaS, managed services and appliances, our customers maintain business continuity in multi-platform, multi-site environments.

IceWEB Storage Corporation

IceWEB offers the Storage System 5000, a high-performance unified platform for file and block data offering all-inclusive storage management: volume provisioning, built-in thin-provisioning, unlimited snapshots, de-duplication, synchronous and asynchronous data replication, VMware integration management, and capacity and utilization reporting.

IGEL Technology

IGEL Technology is the third largest client vendor by revenue and market leader in Germany. Our Linux and Microsoft Windows based thin clients and PC-to-TC conversion software provide access to server-based infrastructures and applications including virtual desktops from VMware®

iland

iland, a Premier VMware Service Provider, provides enterprise hosted, private cloud infrastructure across verticals and through partner alliances. iland enables business continuity, production infrastructure, and hosted desktop solutions with datacenters in Boston, Washington D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, Dallas, and London.

Imprivata Inc.

Imprivata OneSign and VMware View solve the “last mile” problem for end-users by providing seamless, efficient, and secure access to application data across multiple clients. See demos for one-touch roaming, strong authentication, single sign-on, session management, and location-aware desktop.

InContinuum Software

CloudController® enables Public, Private and Hybrid cloud environments to automate and control configuration, provisioning, deployment, billing, charge-back and payments, fully automating management andbusiness operations, truly creating a hands-free supply chain for Service Providers and Enterprises. Cloud Computing Simplified!™

Infortrend Corporation

Infortrend is a pioneer in cost-effective, high performance storage products. For over a decade, Infortrend has provided reliable, fault-tolerant technology to ODMs, distributors and storage integrators. Infortrend is now also providing branded storage solutions for SOHO, mid-range and enterprise markets.

InMage Systems

InMage offers a low overhead, software-based solution that covers backup, disaster recovery, and application high availability in a single platform for mixed physical/virtual server environments. Customers can address stringent disaster recovery requirements, backup problems and application availability with one product.

InstallFree

InstallFree provides application compatibility and portability solutions to accelerate the adoption of new operating systems and applications, solve conflicts and reduce cost and complexity.

Integrien Corporation

Integrien is the real-time performance analytics company that enables the proactive management of VMware environments. Integrien AliveVM's powerful analytics allow automated management of the performance of VMware, provding vCenter administrators the ability to visualize and optimize health, workload and capacity.

INX

INX partners with enterprise organizations to design, deploy, and support a full suite of advanced technology solutions focused on the entire lifecycle of enterprise communication network and data center infrastructure. Core competencies include managed services, network infrastructure, and data management.

Ixia

Ixia is a leading provider of converged IP performance test systems and service verification platforms for wireless and wired infrastructures and services.

Joyent

Joyent, the premier IaaS and PaaS provider, is the only company that runs a major public cloud infrastructure, builds the technologies that power that infrastructure, and uses those technologies to enable multiple third-party public, private, and hybrid clouds.

Kaviza

Kaviza, the leader in affordable plug-and-play desktop virtualization for Small-to- Medium Enterprises (SMEs), delivers high-definition virtual desktops using Citrix HDX with built-in high-availability and on-demand scaling for a total cost per desktop of $260 to $410. Recommended by Gartner, eWeek.

Kroll Ontrack

Kroll Ontrack provides world-class services and software to help IT professionals recover and restore lost, archived or damaged data. Through Ontrack Data Recovery services, Kroll Ontrack is the only worldwide provider of data recovery services for virtualized systems, including VMware.

Lakeside Software

SysTrack is the industry's only tool for desktop virtualization assessment, planning and design. SysTrack qualifies candidates, defines hardware requirements, plans image pools and assesses application virtualization compatibility. SysTrack end-user experience management ensures optimized application and desktop delivery.

Leostream Corporation

Leostream is a centralized VDI user access management layer that provides Virtual Desktops, Hosted Desktops, sessions, and applications to users. It delivers the right desktop to the right user in any environment, subject to any required policies - every time.

Likewise

Likewise streamlines operations and enhances security in modern enterprise IT environments by integrating Linux, Unix, Macs, and virtualization platforms with Microsoft Active Directory. Likewise ships with VMware vSphere™ and supports ESX and ESXi. More than 60,000 organizations already use Likewise.

Liquidware Labs

Liquidware Labs’ Stratusphere and ProfileUnity provide an “On-Ramp” to VMware View and Windows 7 with Assessment, Personalization Management, and User Experience Monitoring. Transitions to View are simplified with in-depth analysis, user profile and data migration, and ongoing user experience management.

ManageIQ

ManageIQ is an emerging leader in the management and automation of virtualized IT infrastructures and private cloud environments. Our Enterprise Virtualization Management Suite™ provides policy-based insight, control, automation, and integration necessary to secure, optimize and automate virtual and cloud environments.

McAfee

McAfee is the world’s largest dedicated security technology company. We relentlessly tackle the toughest security challenges to deliver solutions to enable consumers and businesses to combat known and emerging threats. Stop by to learn about McAfee for Virtualization.

MDS Micro, Inc.

MDS Micro manufactures with Supermicro Computers (SMCI), enterprise-class, server solutions built specifically to address 21st century datacenter needs. MDS Servers offer industry leading I/O and memory performance powered by Netlist, Inc. (NLST). Storage technology provided by American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI).

Metron-Athene Inc

Athene capacity reporting and planning software provides enterprise-wide capacity management support. zOS, zVM and all leading UNIX, Windows and Linux physical and virtual platforms are supported. Integration with all leading frameworks and custom data import.

Microsoft

Microsoft provides customers and partners with a full range of desktop and datacenter virtualization and cloud capabilities, with the flexibility to deploy these based on your needs. Microsoft will showcase how customers are realizing the value from these solutions.

Mitel

Mitel® is a leading provider of unified communications solutions delivering software applications that offer choice and flexibility. Mitel is reinventing how organizations gain competitive advantage by easily collaborating and communicating over distance and time with customers, colleagues and partners.

MokaFive

MokaFive has developed a breakthrough product that leverages virtualization to deliver desktops anywhere, anytime, to any device, at half the cost of existing approaches. It fundamentally changes the way enterprises manage desktops to reduce cost and align with the business.

NComputing

NComputing, Inc. is the fastest growing desktop virtualization company in the world with over 20 million daily users in 140 countries. The company's award-winning, patented technology lowers desktop computing costs, improves manageability, and reduces both energy consumption and e-waste.

Neptuny

Neptuny is a leading provider of Capacity and Virtualization Planning solutions for large data centers. Neptuny flagship product, Caplan, has been adopted by major US and European companies such as Expedia and Vodafone, to optimize their infrastructure while avoiding risks.

NetEx

NetEx HyperIP: WAN Optimization virtual appliance that operates on VMware virtual infrastructures. The HyperIP software provides significant performance enhancements to VMware applications including VMotion, SRM, and other replication and backup applications by mitigating network issues including packet loss and latency.

Netuitive

Netuitive is the leading provider of self-learning performance management software. Netuitive’s patented, award-winning products replace human guesswork with automated mathematics and analysis to improve the performance of systems, business services and virtual infrastructures.

Neverfail

Neverfail provides application aware high availability and disaster resiliency software solutions for business-critical windows applications deployed across physical and virtual platforms. In addition Neverfail provides the technology that powers VMware’s vCenter Server Heartbeat Product ensuring continuous availability of vCenter Server.

newScale, Inc.

newScale provides self-service and lifecycle management software for data center virtualization and cloud computing. With a newScale service catalog, enterprises and service providers can rapidly deploy private or hybrid clouds – to deliver agile and cost-effective IT as a service.

NorthScale

NorthScale provides products that enable customers to lower data management costs while improving scalability and performance of interactive web applications. NorthScale NoSQL database technology powers some of the world’s busiest web applications, including Zynga's FarmVille and Café World applications.

PHD Virtual Technologies

As pioneers of the Virtual Backup Appliance (VBA™) and recognized innovators in backup and recovery, PHD Virtual has been transforming data protection for virtual IT environments since 2006. Our award-winning data protection solutions are used today by 2,000 enterprises worldwide.

PROMISE Technology

PROMISE® Technology - high-performance storage solutions enabling customers to build flexible, reliable and scalable storage environments –the new VMware certified VTrak S3000 data storage appliance provides feature sets that address business continuity and disaster recovery challenges for your virtualized world

QLogic Corporation

QLogic is a global leader and technology innovator in high performance networking, including adapters, switches and ASICs. Leading OEMs and channel partners worldwide rely on QLogic products for their data, storage and server networking solutions. For more information, visit www.qlogic.com.

QNAP Systems, Inc.

QNAP Systems, Inc. is a member of VMware Technology Alliance Partner and provides industry-leading VMware Ready Network Attached Storage solutions. The renowned Turbo NAS series (as both NFS and iSCSI datastore) offers high performance within affordable price in virtualization deployment.

Red Hat

Red Hat is the world's most trusted open source provider. Bringing the choice, collaboration, and value of open source to enterprises worldwide.

Reflex Systems

Reflex’s VMC is designed to provide essential management capabilities to effectively manage and secure the complex, dynamic virtual environment. VMC is a single point of management to visualize and automate policy utilizing the award-winning vTrust, vWatch and vProfile technology components.

Riverbed Technology

Riverbed Technology is the IT performance company. Riverbed WAN optimization solutions liberate businesses from IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, providing network and application visibility. Riverbed partners with VMware to deliver desktop virtualization, disaster recovery and IT consolidation.

rPath, Inc.

rPath is an innovator in next-generation system automation technologies. Enterprise IT organizations, ISVs and on-demand service providers use rPath for fast, low-overhead and controlled system construction, deployment and change across any physical, virtual and cloud-based environment.

Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online is an on-demand digital library that provides one integrated source for over 12,000 expert reference and learning materials from leading publishers, such as O’Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, Adobe Press and hundreds more.

Sanbolic, Inc.

Sanbolic’s Melio 2010 software suite extends the benefits of server virtualization to the storage layer by delivering a flexible, scalable, and dynamic shared SAN storage solution for physical AND virtual machines. QoS, snapshots, and mirroring improve storage infrastructure management capability.

Savvis, Inc.

Savvis, Inc. is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises. More than 2,500 unique clients use Savvis to reduce capital expense, improve service levels and harness the latest advances in cloud computing.

Seanodes

As the inventor of Shared Internal Storage (SIS), Seanodes is changing the face of network storage technology. Exanodes converts the internal disks on your ESX servers into a virtual SAN and radically alters the economics of your data storage.

VMworld 2010 Sponsors & Exhibitors

Sendmail, Inc.

Sendmail, Inc. provides products and services that enable enterprises to modernize their messaging infrastructures. The company's comprehensive suite of add-on applications addresses the challenges of gateway management, inbound threat protection, data leak prevention, email authentication, and intra-company message management.

Shavlik Technologies

Shavlik provides cloud-based software for simplifying and automating IT operations, enabling organizations to verify, secure and manage their physical and virtual cloud IT assets.

SHI

SHI is a leading provider of information technology products and services. SHI offers virtualization, DaaS and managed desktop solutions, Data Center services, Microsoft Services and much more. SHI employs top industry talent to provide world class solutions and support.

Silver Peak

Silver Peak’s real-time network optimization techniques improve the performance of all applications while lowering IT operations costs. Learn how WAN optimization enables data center consolidation, disaster recovery, server centralization, cloud, and VDI. Visit http://www.silver-peak.com/Solutions

Skytap, Inc.

Skytap provides cloud automation solutions for businesses to develop, test, train, demo, migrate and support any application in the cloud. Users are empowered with a 100% self-service model, while IT gets visibility and control and reduce costs by 70%.

TBD Networks, Inc.

Storage bottlenecks are the most common problem in VMware environments. TBD Networks does for Storage and SAN/LAN resources what VMware and DRS already do for CPU and memory resources. The result is better performance and utilization with less management fuss.

TeamQuest

TeamQuest is the global leader in IT Service Optimization, specializing in Capacity Management software. Plan, predict and manage virtual machines to minimize infrastructure costs and mitigate performance risks with TeamQuest software. Visit www.teamquest.com or call (641) 357-2700.

ThinPrint

ThinPrint – Printing for VMware The best print solution for: VMware View, thin clients, physical desktops, terminal servers, VDI, branch offices, mobile workers, Apple iPad, Apple iPhone, Google Android, BlackBerry and now printing as a service with true cloud printing!

Thycotic Software, Ltd.

Thycotic Software, Ltd. is committed to providing secure password management solutions. From managing privileged accounts to Active Directory self-service resets, our software securely manages all credentials critical to your company's operations.

Train Signal

Train Signal provides computer-based training that gives individuals the tools and confidence to tackle real-world challenges, pass their certification exam and succeed in today’s competitive global IT market.

triCerat Inc.

By developing simple yet intelligent software, triCerat’s solutions prevent known system limitations while maintaining and improving the end users experience. triCerat is a Citrix Ready Technology Partner, a Certified Microsoft Partner, and VMWare Technology Alliance Partner.

UC4 Software

UC4 Software combines robust automation technology with real-time intelligence to forecast, visualize and automate complex IT and business processes across computing environments, from physical to virtual to cloud. More than 1,700 organizations worldwide trust UC4 to automate their businesses.

Unidesk

Unidesk extends View, Pano, and other VDI access solutions to all use cases with 100% personalization (including user-installed applications), massive storage savings, and single image management of Windows and impossible-to-virtualize applications. See why customers are adopting Unidesk’s desktop layering technology.

UniPrint

UniPrint specializes in printing virtualization. Our PDF-based universal printer driver technology maximizes printing functionality, minimizes printer management, and optimizes bandwidth availability for all server-centric environments. UniPrint customers worldwide enjoy increased operational efficiency, and save time and cost.

V3 Systems

V3 offers an out of the box drop in solution that offers the fastest desktops availabe in the cloud or locally. V3 offers virtualization with the lowest CapEx and OpEx of any other virtual or physical desktop solution.

Virtacore Systems Inc.

Virtacore Systems delivers Cloud Solutions designed to meet the needs of small-to-midsize businesses. Built on our unified vCore™ platform, our solutions easily scale as your business grows without costly migrations. Our partnerships with VMWare, Equinix and Google enable our enterprise-class platform.

Virtual Computer, Inc.

Virtual Computer is the market leader in distributed desktop virtualization. Our flagship product, NxTop®, enables desktop IT professionals to create flexible, reliable, and secure computing environments for any combination of laptops, desktops, VDI or cloud computing infrastructure.

Virtual Instruments

Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom is an innovative solution that helps IT organizations realize economic benefits of server and storage virtualization. VirtualWisdom provides comprehensive instrumentation and SAN I/O measurement capabilities that reduce application response time, increase availability and improve SAN resource utilization.

VKernel

VKernel the number one provider of Capacity Management products for VMware and Microsoft virtualized infrastructures. Our powerful, easy to use and low cost products simplify the complex and critical tasks of planning, monitoring and predicting capacity utilization and performance bottlenecks.

VMLogix

VMLogix provides award-winning software that automates and accelerates test and development cycles to get better products to market quicker. VMLogix technology leverages leading virtualization platforms and cloud infrastructures for consolidating test lab infrastructures and automating build and test processes.

Voltaire

Voltaire delivers scale-out computing fabrics for virtualized data centers. Voltaire’s family of server and storage fabric switches and advanced management software improve performance of mission-critical applications, increase efficiency and reduce costs through infrastructure consolidation and lower power consumption.

Vordel

Vordel delivers fast, safe, connectivity for SOA and Cloud services. Customers rely on Vordel’s Gateway and Cloud Service Broker to increase performance, strengthen security and enhance interoperability in SOA and Cloud deployments.

Wanova

Wanova reinvents desktop virtualization to help IT organizations centralize management, support and protection of remote and mobile PCs, while optimizing the end users’ experience -- all without a forklift upgrade to the data center or existing PC hardware.

WATCH4NET

Service Providers and enterprises requiring a unified view to manage the performance of their entire IT infrastructure trust the proven powerful, scalable and flexible reporting capabilities of APG Software Suite.

Xangati, Inc.

Xangati is the leading infrastructure performance management solution that accelerates virtualization with confidence through its patented VM-to-Anything visibility. IT organizations use the Xangati solution to infuse better design, optimization and troubleshooting techniques when virtualizing desktops and business critical applications.

New Innovator

Abiquo, Inc.

Abiquo’s leading Enterprise Cloud Management solution operates across an organization’s global infrastructure enabling sophisticated, hypervisor agnostic, private and public Clouds.

Apptio, Inc

Apptio provides comprehensive IT Service Costing and Bill of IT software for Private Cloud and virtualization environments.

Bluesocket

Discover the Power of vWLAN(r), virtual wireless LAN, at booth #1319. Bluesocket™ delivering fast, secure, scalable & virtual wireless.

Box.net

Box.net, a cloud content management provider, makes it simple for businesses to manage, collaborate, and share content online.

Cloud.com

Cloud.com delivers an innovative open source software platform used to build, deploy and manage multi-tier and multi-tenant infrastructure cloud environments

Connectria Hosting

Connectria is a global provider of complex and managed hosting services that include dedicated, cloud and custom solutions.

Mezeo Software

Mezeo Software offers a deployable cloud storage platform that is secure, multi-tenant and highly scalable with REST Web Services APIs.

NETGEAR

ReadyNAS® family of network storage systems is VMware Ready and delivers a cost-effective high quality virtualization solution for SMB’s

Netreo

Finally, virtual environments have a true capacity-planning and performance management tool with Netreo's Virtualization Visualizer (V²).

Pancetera

Pancetera reduces virtual storage complexity and cost by minimizing the I/O associated with backup, anti-virus and WAN migration.

ParAccel, Inc.

ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB), the world’s fastest, most cost-effective platform for big data insight. Visit us at http://www.paraccel.com

QuorumLabs Technology

QuorumLabs' turnkey appliances deliver simple, affordable, business continuity - integrating replication, deduplication, continual virtualization - protecting physical & virtual servers.

Scale Computing

Storage costs halting your virtualization plans? Get a storage solution that reduces costs, increases control, and makes storage management convenient.

SRA International
SRA and its subsidiaries are dedicated to solving complex problems of global significance for government organizations and commercial clients.

Sychron

Sychron provides desktop virtualization and automation that couples service level guarantees with provisioning, brokering, and load balancing for VDI deployments.

UShareSoft

UShareSoft simplifies software delivery, automating the creation of virtual and cloud images for provisioning to public and private cloud environments.

Viridity Software

Using Viridity EnergyCenter software, organizations are making their data centers more energy efficient – simply, quickly, and affordably.

Virtual Bridges

Virtual Bridges purpose-built desktop virtualization transforms TCO with unparalleled deployment ease, and functionality spanning VDI, branch offices and disconnected use.

VMTurbo

VMTurbo provides system administrators with an integrated suite of analytical tools that automatically resolve problems and optimize virtual infrastructure performance.

WhipTail Tech

Deploy, deliver, and dominate the cloud @ 90% less cost on solid-state. Disk is dead.

Zetta

Zetta delivers enterprise cloud storage services that meet the offsite data storage and protection needs of mid- to large enterprises.

Zeus Technology

Zeus software enables our customers to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services in Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments.

Service Provider Cloud Pavilion Sponsorship

ACS A Xerox Company

A global leader providing business process and IT Outsourcing. We help clients by integrating ACS private cloud and public cloud.

BlueLock

Check out the BlueLock CloudConnector plug-in for VMware Cloud Director to experience the true power of hybrid.

CoreLink

CoreLink Data Centers, LLC - offers cloud enabling solutions in state-of-the-art colocation facilities delivering security and 100% uptime services for day-to-day network requirements, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

FusionStorm

IT Xpress Enteprise Cloud, which Delivers On-Demand Enterprise-Class IT Infrastructure as a Service with Enhanced OS, Database, Network and Application Management

IBM

IBM Smart Business Cloud solutions developed to provide the enterprise class flexibility, security, ease of use, and resiliency needed today.

JustWorks CENTRAL

JustWorks now offers completely virtualized business I.T infrastucture, including desktops and servers, through their integrated contract hire facilities.

Siemens AG, Siemens IT Solutions and Services

Siemens IT Solutions and Services is currently engaged with VMware in the next generation of cloud computing solutions.

Terremark Worldwide, Inc.

Terremark Worldwide is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services including cloud computing, managed hosting, collocation and security services.

Verizon Business - Cloud

Verizon demonstrates how cloud security, network management, availability, and control are addressed by Computing as a Service and its VMware vCloud enhancements.

Xtium LLC

Cloud-based DR, hosting and managed services – bridging on-premise to on-cloud with N+2™ stack resilience, OPT™ cloud appliance, NeverTape™ backup and NeverSleep™ monitoring technologies.

Media Sponsor

Distributed Management Task Force, Inc (DMTF)

DMTF standards help alleviate the challenges with managing complex, heterogeneous environments while retaining flexibility to meet tomorrow’s needs. DMTF technologies are designed to work together to address the industry’s needs and requirements for interoperable distributed management. By enabling end-to-end management solutions, they provide valuable tools for managing multiple platforms.

SearchServerVirtualization.com

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SiliconANGLE Network

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