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VMware is the leading provider of virtualization solutions. VMware’s customer base includes 100% of the Fortune 100 and more than 84% of the Fortune 1000. VMware’s broad and proven suite of virtualization solutions address a range of complex IT problems that include infrastructure optimization, business continuity, software lifecycle management and desktop management. VMware was founded in 1998 and is based in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit www.vmware.com.

Platinum Sponsors

AMD is the customer-centric innovation company, a processing powerhouse that offers smarter choices for its customers and makes technology more accessible to the world. AMD is focused on best meeting the needs of leading computing, wireless, and consumer electronics companies to help them deliver high-performance, energy efficient, and visually realistic solutions. AMD is the customer-centric innovation company, a processing powerhouse that offers smarter choices for its customers and makes technology more accessible to the world. AMD is the smarter choice and is committed to delivering the innovative solutions our customers need, building the framework for sustainable growth going forward. www.amd.com
 
Network-driven Service Orchestration: Cisco offers new solutions to automate, simplify, and integrate your Data Center Network to reduce operational costs and improve productivity. For more information visit www.cisco.com/go/datacenter. Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking, providing the broadest line of solutions for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses, or globally. Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of the Internet and most corporate, education, and government networks worldwide. Cisco is recognized as a pioneer, using the Internet to provide customer support, sell products, offer training, and manage finances. The tradition of innovation continues as Cisco creates leading products and key technologies to make the Internet more useful and dynamic in the years ahead.
 
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services company and No. 34 on the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.dell.com, or to communicate directly with Dell via a variety of online channels, go to www.dell.com/conversations. To get Dell news direct, visit www.dell.com/RSS.
 
EMC Corporation is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Come by our booth #801 and hear more about EMC's virtualization offerings and solutions that optimize VMware infrastructures: Energy Efficiency, ILM solutions, Resource Management solutions, Next Generation Backup, Platforms and Recovery Management solutions. For information about EMC's products and services visit www.EMC.com <http://www.emc.com/>.
 
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing.
 
IBM is the world's largest information technology company with over 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of products, services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. For more information about IBM, please visit www.ibm.com.
 
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 in the dynamic data center of today and in the future, giving customers the confidence to start benefiting from virtualization now. 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.
 
NEC Corporation is one of the world's leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its diverse and global base of customers. NEC delivers tailored solutions in the key fields of computer, networking and electron devices, by integrating its technical strengths in IT and Networks, and by providing advanced semiconductor solutions. NEC Corporation of America (NECAM) is the North America subsidiary of NEC Corporation. NECAM delivers technology and professional services ranging from server and storage technologies, IP voice and data solutions to biometric security, virtualization and digital cinema solutions.
 
Network Appliance is a leading provider of data management solutions that simplify the complexities of storing, managing, protecting, and retaining enterprise data. Our broad portfolio is backed by Professional and global support programs designed to maximize the value that customers derive from their data management investments. Our focus on architectural simplicity, our passion for applied innovation, and our dedication to customer success make us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today. Market leaders around the world choose NetApp to help them reduce cost, minimize risk, and adapt to change. For solutions that deliver unmatched simplicity and value, visit us on the Web at www.netapp.com.
 

Gold Sponsors

BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. The BEA SOA 360TM platform is the industry’s most unified SOA platform for business transformation and optimization. Customers depend on the BEA Tuxedo®, WebLogic®, and AquaLogic™ product lines to reduce IT complexity and leverage existing resources, achieving Business LiquidITy™ while improving cost structures and growing new revenue streams. In close cooperation with VMware, we have now extended this to virtualized environments. Find out more at bea.com/virtualization.
 
Brocade® provides the industry’s leading platforms, solutions, and services for intelligently connecting, managing, and optimizing IT resources in shared storage environments. The company has pioneered the Storage Area Network (SAN) market with its comprehensive family of SAN infrastructure solutions. In addition, Brocade leads the industry with innovative File Area Network (FAN) solutions that provide the foundation for efficient file management. As a result, Brocade helps organizations of all sizes increase efficiency, reduce costs, and maximize the value of their data assets.
 
Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, with U.S. offices in Stamford, CT, Dunes provides the only open orchestration platform, Dunes VS-O, capable of improving IT performance by automating and managing business processes in both virtual and physical environments. Dunes VS-O enables organizations to reduce overall IT complexity and increase business agility by leveraging a library of more than 400 workflows and integrating with all of VMware’s more than 830+ APIs. More information about the Company can be found at www.dunesUSA.com.
 
EDS (NYSE: EDS) is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. EDS founded the information technology outsourcing industry 45 years ago. Today, EDS delivers a broad portfolio of information technology and business process outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries and to governments around the world. Learn more at eds.com
 
Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is a global provider of enterprise-class solutions and technologies that intelligently connect storage, servers and networks, to ensure access to data that's open, secure and adaptable. Emulex is a leader and catalyst for innovation and investment protection with a proven record of success that spans nearly 30 years. The world's leading OEMs rely on Emulex products to build scalable, high-performance storage and server solutions for today's largest, most demanding data centers. Visit www.emulex.com.
 
Foedus is a leading provider of Virtualization Infrastructure technologies and services to companies worldwide. We specialize in helping organizations utilize emerging technologies to solve their IT business challenges by offering a unique combination of consulting talent and implementation expertise that enables companies to realize a measurable return on their Virtual Infrastructure investment. Our approach, predicated on a proven engagement methodology, allows us to develop cost-effective solutions for business issues such as BC/DR, Consolidation & Containment, and Desktop Virtualization. For more information visit www.foedus.com.
 
Insight Enterprises, Inc. is a leading provider of a broad range of top name-brand IT computing products, software and advanced IT services helping companies around the world enable, manage and secure their IT environment. Located in major cities around the globe, Insight serves clients in over 100 countries and has the process knowledge, technical expertise and management tools necessary to ease the burden of selecting and purchasing IT assets while streamlining IT management and costs.
 
Whether you’re considering a consolidation/virtualization solution or want to maximize the performance of servers that are already consolidated, count on Kingston memory to deliver the most dependable performance from your server running VMWare. With Kingston, you get quality components, engineering expertise, guaranteed compatibility and the reassurance that your memory has passed Kingston’s patented burn-in testing. All backed by free, 24/7 tech support, a lifetime warranty and the legendary reliability that makes Kingston the world’s independent memory leader. Visit us at Booth 813 for details.
 
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is a worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. At Microsoft, we look at virtualization as a key technology to help customers achieve self-managing dynamic systems. Microsoft offers a comprehensive set of technologies to virtualize servers, applications, and desktop PCs. Equally as important, Microsoft provides a powerful toolset for managing both the virtual and physical resources in a unified environment, reducing system complexity and streamlining management tasks.
 
With concerns over data security increasing, PC and laptop support costs rising, and productivity pressures on IT professionals climbing, Neoware offers thin client software and devices that deliver a powerful value proposition. Now you can choose from the most comprehensive line of personal computer virtualization devices available to date. Neoware's virtual desktop-ready editions of its most popular thin client devices are fully compatible with leading virtual personal computer initiatives from Citrix®, IBM® and VMware®. Visit our booth to learn more!
 
PHD Technologies is the premier innovator of Enterprise class virtual backup, restoration, replication and DR tools for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3. esXpress is the only solution utilizing Virtual Backup Appliances, where all processing takes place inside a virtual machine rather then on the service console. As the only distributed solution, esXpress is fast, completely fault tolerant, scalable and the most secure way to backup your virtual machines without needing expensive dedicated hardware and operating systems. Download our demo at www.esXpress.com.
 
PlateSpin provides advanced data center automation software to optimize the use of server resources across the enterprise. PlateSpin technology liberates software from hardware and streams server workloads over the network between any physical or virtual machine, ensuring the best fit between server resources and workload demands. Global 2000 companies use PlateSpin solutions to lower costs, improve service levels and solve today’s most critical data center challenges such as server consolidation, disaster recovery and hardware migration.
 
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of technologies and solutions that power the world's most important markets.  Partnering with VMware, Sun offers a comprehensive approach to virtualization with new levels of eco-efficiency from the datacenter to the desktop. At VMworld, Sun is showcasing both server and desktop virtualization solutions.
 
Founded in 2002, Vizioncore Inc. is a leading provider of innovative dynamic backup, performance monitoring, migration and disaster recovery software applications that enhance VMware® Infrastructure. The creator of the first commercially-available hot backup disaster recovery tool for VMware ESX Server, Vizioncore's products now include esxRanger Professional, esxCharter, esxReplicator, and esxMigrator. All Vizioncore products support VMware Infrastructure 3. Additional information about Vizioncore and its products can be found at www.vizioncore.com.
 

Silver Sponsors

Acronis provides advanced, scalable storage management and disaster recovery software that helps enterprises safeguard their information and assures the availability, security, integrity and recoverability of their infrastructure. Acronis’ patented disk imaging technology has won broad industry acclaim and numerous awards for excellence in data protection, backup and recovery, system deployment, and server migration for both physical and virtual machine servers.
 
APC, a leading provider of global, end-to-end solutions for real-time infrastructure, recently combined with MGE UPS SYSTEMS to form the Critical Power and Cooling Services business unit of Schneider Electric. Founded in 1981, APC’s comprehensive products and services for home and corporate environments improve the availability, manageability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communication and industrial equipment of all sizes.
 
Avocent delivers IT operations and infrastructure management solutions for enterprises worldwide, helping customers reduce the cost and simplify the management of complex IT environments via integrated, centralized in-band and out-of-band hardware and software. Through LANDesk, Avocent also is a leading provider of systems, security, and process management solutions.
 
BMC Software delivers the solutions IT needs to increase business value through better management of technology and IT processes. Our industry-leading Business Service Management solutions help you reduce cost, lower risk of business disruption, and benefit from an IT infrastructure built to support business growth and flexibility. Founded in 1980, BMC has offices worldwide and fiscal 2006 revenues of more than $1.49 billion. Activate your business with the power of IT.
 
CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's leading independent, enterprise management software companies, unifies and simplifies complex information technology (IT) management across the enterprise for greater business results. With our Enterprise IT Management vision, solutions and expertise, we help customers effectively govern, manage and secure IT.
 
CDW, ranked No. 342 on the FORTUNE 500, is a leading provider of technology solutions for business, government and education. CDW is a principal source of technology products and services including top name brands such as Acer, Adobe, APC, Apple, Cisco, EMC, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, Panasonic, Quantum, Samsung, Sony, Symantec, ViewSonic and Xerox. For more information, visit CDW.com.
 
Citrix Systems, Inc. is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries.
 
Harness the full power of VMware server virtualization with Compellent’s advanced storage virtualization technology. Improve utilization and lower overall costs with flexible server connectivity, fully automated boot from SAN, thin provisioning, and cost-effective remote replication. Compellent Storage Center is certified on the VMware HCL providing seamless integration and support.
 
Configuresoft, an innovator in systems management technology, delivers Configuration Intelligence™ to efficiently manage today’s complex, heterogeneous enterprise computing infrastructures. Configuration Intelligence optimizes IT process by correlating behavioral information and systems management metrics for both physical and virtual environments. Configuresoft products, used by the world’s largest companies, provide continuous visibility into organizations’ virtual security posture ensuring security, compliance and control. (888) U-CONFIG • www.configuresoft.com
 
Data Domain is a leading provider of Enterprise Protection Storage systems for disk backup and network-based disaster recovery. For more information, visit www.datadomain.com.
 
DataCore Software is a leading independent software vendor specializing in storage virtualization, storage management, and storage networking. Founded in 1998, the privately-held firm operates global sales, support and service from headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida along with worldwide subsidiaries and distribution partners. Small to medium enterprises, Global 2000 data centers and storage subsystems OEMs rely on DataCore's comprehensive product family to easily expand capacity, protect and enhance access to data, and centralize and automate storage administration for Windows, UNIX, Linux, MacOS, VMware, and NetWare systems.
 
EqualLogic is the leading provider of virtualized iSCSI SANs, recognized for uniquely complementing VMware environments with a storage infrastructure that simplifies deployment, management, and growth. VMware customers of all sizes have adopted the award-winning EqualLogic PS Series solutions to reduce the cost and complexity of enterprise-class storage in support of consolidation, DR, lab automation, and virtual desktop initiatives
 
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Fujitsu Computer Systems is committed to the design, development and delivery of advanced computer systems and managed services for the business enterprise. The company offers a complete line of high-performance mobile and desktop computers, scalable and reliable servers as well as managed and professional services.
 
GlassHouse is a global IT consulting and services firm focused on transforming IT environments into service oriented infrastructures. GlassHouse services span data centers, data infrastructure services, and managed services. Through the recent acquisition of RapidApp, the market leading server virtualization firm, GlassHouse expanded its portfolio to include a complete virtualization solution.
 
Hitachi Data Systems leverages global R&D resources to develop storage solutions built on industry-leading technology with the performance, availability and scalability to maximize customers' ROI and minimize their risk. By focusing on the customer's perspective as we apply the best hardware, software, and services from Hitachi and our partners, we uniquely satisfy our customers' business needs.
 
LeftHand Networks is the leader in Open iSCSI SANs, and gives customers the freedom to build enterprise-class storage solutions on their choice of hardware. The SAN/iQ® platform turns enterprise-class x86 servers like the HP ProLiant or IBM System xSeries into scalable network storage ideal for server consolidation and virtualization projects, Microsoft application environments, and disaster recovery solutions.
 
Leostream’s Connection Broker architecture has been designed from the ground up for scalability and reliability. With multi-datacenter support, hot failover, and horizontal scaling it is production proven to tens of thousands of global users on blades, physical and virtual machines. Functionality includes provisioning, remote USB support, RDP/VNC/ICA/RAdmin/Teradici, and external SSL-VPN integration. Worldwide customers span Financial, Government, Healthcare, and Educational markets.
 
Novell is a leader in enterprise infrastructure software, offering an open platform and fully integrated security, identity and systems management solutions. From desktop to data center, we help customers add the power and flexibility of open source to their existing IT investments. These solutions lower cost, complexity and risk, giving customers more time to focus on innovation and growth.
 
Patni’s presence in the enterprise application and infrastructure management space makes us an ideal partner for facilitating migration to a virtualized environment. Our product engineering service offerings can help independent software vendors speed up time to market, reduce engineering expenses, and improve customer support. Patni Computer Systems Inc. is a leading global provider of Information Technology and business consulting services delivering high quality, reliable and cost-effective services.
 
Provision Networks is a platform-agnostic global provider of virtual application delivery and dynamic desktop deployment solutions. The Virtual Access Suite aggregates application delivery and desktop deployments from any virtualization platform, blade PCs, and Terminal Services. More than a traditional connection broker, VAS is a highly scalable solution for enterprise desktop management, transforming the corporate desktop infrastructure into an on-demand service.
 
QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions including host bus adapters, blade server embedded switches, stackable switches, routers and storage services platforms for enabling advanced storage management applications. The company is also a leading supplier of server networking products that accelerate cluster performance. For more information go to www.qlogic.com.
 
Reflex Security is a leader in security infrastructure for enterprise-class networks. Its Network Security Switches deliver multi-Gigabit performance for integrated security (deep-packet IPS inspection, firewall, anti-spyware, network access control/discovery). Dubbed “Visionary” by Gartner and “Top Performer” by SC Magazine, Reflex Security secures enterprises, carriers and virtualized networks of all sizes.
 
rPath’s rBuilder and rPath Appliance Platform transform applications into software appliances. Software appliances eliminate the hassles of installation, configuration, and maintenance for customer. Software vendors can expand their markets and reduce their development and support costs by adopting software appliances. rBuilder produces VMware certification-ready virtual appliances that include VMware Tools, and can automatically publish the appliances to the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace.
 
Surgient is the leading provider of enterprise Virtual Lab Management applications which automate the setup and teardown of complex, multi-machine software environments on-demand. Surgient applications enable end users to rapidly provision computing resources to accelerate software lifecycle processes including QA/test, training, sales, marketing and support. Surgient received InfoWorld’s 2007 Technology of the Year Award for Best Virtual Lab Automation Solution.
 
Symantec is a global leader in infrastructure software, enabling businesses and consumers to have confidence in a connected world. The company helps customers protect their infrastructure, information and interactions by delivering software and services that address risks to security, availability, compliance and performance. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in 40 countries. More information is available at www.symantec.com.
 
Worldwide IT technology and services provider focused on optimizing infrastructures to support business objectives. Primary components: platforms ranging from two sockets to enterprise-class 32 socket servers (all VI3 certified) intended to deliver mission-critical virtualized environments; software such as resource measurement/charging capabilities to manage highly condensed environments; high skill services to discover, analyze, design and implement.
 
Industry insiders have been eagerly watching developments at Veeam Software. The company, best known for its popular FastSCP product, also offers Veeam Reporter, an automated way to discover and document VMware environments, as well as Veeam Configurator, providing GUI-based centralized control over ESX settings and subsystems. More new products will be unveiled at VMworld. Learn more at www.veeam.com.
 
Virtual Iron provides enterprise-class server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management software at 1/5 the cost of comparable alternatives. Organizations use Virtual Iron for server consolidation, rapid provisioning, business continuity, capacity management and policy-based automation to deliver significant improvements in utilization, manageability and agility. It is available for free at http://www.virtualiron.com/free.
 
Wyse Technology is the global leader in thin computing. Wyse and its partners deliver the hardware, infrastructure software, and services that comprise thin computing, allowing people to access the information they need using the applications they want, but with better security, manageability, and at a much lower total cost of ownership than a PC. For more information, visit the Wyse website at http://www.wyse.com or call 1-800-GET-WYSE.
 
XenSource is the leading provider of high-performance enterprise virtualization solutions based on the Xen hypervisor, supporting Windows and Linux. Companies worldwide deploy XenSource products to increase business resiliency, and realize TCO savings that result from server consolidation, and increased utilization.
 
Xiotech Corporation, a member of VMware's Technology Alliance Partner program, is a leading provider of midmarket data storage and protection solutions. Xiotech’s Magnitude 3D® 3000 storage system is certified for VMware ESX Server 3.0, enabling organizations to easily and affordably deploy a fully virtualized storage and server environment. For more information, visit www.xiotech.com, email info@xiotech.com or call toll free 1.866.472.6764.
 

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