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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.

 

 

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BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. BEA® Enterprise 360o, the industry’s most advanced SOA-based offering, is a comprehensive approach to delivering business results that includes technology, professional services, best practices, and world-class partners. Deploying BEA applications on VMware Infrastructure will drive tangible benefits through the complete software lifecycle from development to high availability. By expediting and simplifying the application development and testing processes customers will experience faster time to production while maintaining high quality throughout these processes. Together, BEA and VMware reduce the cost and deployment time while providing increased operational efficiencies and accelerated time to market driving lower TCO and increased ROI for their customers deploying BEA WebLogic applications on VMware Infrastructure.Information about how BEA helps customers build a Liquid EnterpriseTM that transforms their business can be found at www.bea.com.
 
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. Among the 10 most valuable IT product companies in the world, we help organizations of every size around the world keep their most essential digital information protected, secure, and continuously available.
 
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT manufacturer and at the same time market leader in Germany. With its strategic focus on innovative mobility and dynamic data center products, services and solutions, the company offers a unique range of products and services – from notebooks and desktops up to IT infrastructure solutions and services. Fujitsu Siemens Computers is present in all key markets in Europe, Africa and the Middle East – its Infrastructure Services division is active in 170 countries. The company benefits from the global cooperation and innovation power of both its shareholders, Fujitsu Ltd. and Siemens AG. The focus is on the specific requirements of its customers, be they large, small or medium-sized companies or private consumers. Fujitsu Siemens Computers is one of the pioneers in using environmentally friendly technologies and processes throughout the entire lifecycle of a product. It is also a member of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, Green Grid organizations as well as the United Nations initiative "Global Compact".
 
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com
 
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 centre 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.
 
Network Appliance is a leading provider of data management solutions that simplify the complexities of storing, managing, protecting and retaining enterprise data. 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.
 

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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. Learn more at www.amd.com
 
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. www.bmc.com.
 
"Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Within the Data Centre, VMware and Cisco share a long-held vision of the value of virtualisation and provide complimentary solutions that enable customers to create and implement a holistic virtualisation strategy that better supports their business objectives."
 
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies, 98% of the Fortune Global 500 and hundreds of thousands of small businesses. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2006 was $1.1 billion.
 
Emulex (NYSE:ELX) provides enterprise-class solutions and technologies that intelligently connect storage, servers and networks, to ensure access to data that's open, secure and adaptable.
 
Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is the world’s independent memory leader, with over 20 years of expertise. Kingston® offers more than 2,000 memory products that support nearly every device that uses memory, from computers, servers and printers to MP3 players, digital cameras and cell phones. In 2007, the company's sales exceeded $4.5 billion. With global headquarters in Fountain Valley, California, Kingston® employs around 4,100 people worldwide and serves an international network of distributors, resellers, retailers and OEM customers on six continents.
 
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 key technology to help customers achieve self-managing dynamic systems. Across the platform, operating system, applications and management layers we’re delivering functionality and capabilities that enable our customers to significantly reduce operating costs, drive up server utilization and achieve better ROI through full featured virtualization solutions. Learn more at http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization
 
NEC Computers, the subsidiary of the Japanese NEC Corporation, is a leading supplier of state of art server & storage infrastructures and client solutions. Designed and manufactured for the business user, NEC Computers targets markets that include Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. As illustrated by the tagline “Empowered by Innovation”, over 6.5% of its turnover is dedicated to R&D. This enables NEC to offer its customers the latest innovative technologies. NEC Computers recently launched the first combined hardware and software solution featuring virtualized PC and VoIP technology.
 
Optimized Computing Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms. The Parallels family of award-winning products currently optimizes more than 1 million desktops and servers for customers in 125 countries. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.parallels.com.
 
The Pillar Axiom storage system consolidates VMware storage. From a single architecture the Axiom delivers multiple storage tiers with a choice of iSCSI and Fibre Channel SAN and NAS. Its Quality of Service capability allows multiple virtual machines to have storage optimized to their individual performance and SLA requirements. With very simple instant provisioning, massive scalability of performance and capacity and extremely high utilization, the Pillar Axiom is the ultimate platform for flexible VMware storage.
 
PlateSpin products allow organizations to adopt, manage and extend their use of server virtualization in the data center. PlateSpin Workload Portability™ technology streams server workloads (data, applications and operating systems) over the network between physical servers, virtual machines and image archives. Companies use PlateSpin solutions solve critical data center challenges including server consolidation, hardware migration and disaster recovery. The company’s latest product is PlateSpin Forge™, an innovative disaster recovery hardware appliance that leverages virtualization to provide affordable, out-of-the-box workload protection.
 
Founded in 2002, Vizioncore, a fully-owned subsidiary of Quest Software®, is a leading provider of innovative management tools for virtual infrastructure environments. Nearly 7,000 organizations across the world, from SMBs to enterprises, use Vizioncore’s products for P2V/V2V, backup & recovery, monitoring, optimization and chargeback for their virtual infrastructures. Vizioncore has a global sales channel with 1,100 partners worldwide. Additional information about Vizioncore can be found at www.vizioncore.com or obtained by contacting sales@vizioncore.com.
 

Silver Sponsors

3PAR® is the global leader in utility storage, highly virtualized tiered-storage arrays built for utility computing. 3PAR Utility Storage allows users to reliably serve more with less. Organizations creating virtualized IT infrastructures for workload consolidation use 3PAR to reduce the cost of allocated storage capacity, storage administration, and the SAN infrastructure.
 
Acronis is a global provider of storage management software that enables corporations and individuals to move, manage and maintain digital assets. Acronis sells innovative solutions for disaster recovery, server consolidation and virtualization migration, which allow users to maintain business continuity and reduce downtime in computing environments. Acronis software products are sold in more than 180 countries and are available in 13 languages.
 
AppSense Management Suite provides the ability to enforce policy and enable personalization of the VMware virtual desktop environment. Through centralized profile management, application access control and efficient use of server resources, AppSense technology provides a predictable, consistent and responsive user environment. Policy and personalization settings can be persisted across virtual desktop sessions and between physical and virtual environments to ease migration.
 
Avocent provides IT management solution for enterprise data centers, branch offices. Powered solutions allow IT administrators to control, monitor and manage servers, virtual servers, blade servers, network devices, power extension and environmental data (IPMI). Physical security has traditionally meant locked doors, access cards, biometric finger scans and video surveillance. Increasingly, physical security strategies are being supplemented with IT management solutions.
 
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) provides the industry’s leading platforms, solutions, and services for intelligently connecting, managing, and optimizing IT resources in shared storage environments. By developing innovative Storage Area Network (SAN) and File Area Network (FAN) solutions, Brocade helps organizations increase efficiency, reduce costs, and maximize their data assets.
 
CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's leading independent, enterprise management software companies, unifies and simplifies complex information technology (IT) management across both virtual and physical environments for greater business results. With our Enterprise IT Management vision, solutions and expertise, we help customers effectively govern, manage and secure IT.
 
Chip PC drives innovation into reality as a global technology leader for Server-Centric-Computing. Chip PC solutions cover the complete spectrum from user smart access point to Active-Directory-based, remote management software. Chip PC patented technologies include the Jack-PC computer merged with the LAN infrastructure and powered by Power-over-Ethernet.
 
Compellent delivers highly scalable, feature-rich, virtualized SAN solutions that dramatically improve disk utilization, speed data recovery and simplify replication in VMware virtualized server environments. Plus…Compellent storage is very eco-friendly. Boot from SAN, Thin Provisioning and native Cross-tier ILM functionality deliver significant reduction in both number of physical disks AND their associated life cycle energy costs.
 
DataCore Software, the foundation for Total Enterprise Virtualization DataCore™ is a leading provider of Virtual Storage Software, specializing in storage consolidation, business continuity, disaster recovery and SAN solutions. Thousands of users worldwide have embraced DataCore in order to cost effectively virtualize, migrate and automate the management and provisioning of storage for VMware, Windows, UNIX, Linux, MacOS and NetWare systems.
 
Double-Take® Software, (Nasdaq: DBTK) is a leading provider of affordable software for recoverability, including continuous data replication, application availability and system state protection. With its partner programs, technical support, and professional services, Double-Take Software is the solution of choice for more than ten thousand customers worldwide.
 
Embotics Corporation is the Virtual Machine (VM) Lifecycle Management Company focused on the prevention of virtual sprawl. Embotics V-Commander is a management, automation and control system that authorizes, controls, secures and tracks all VM assets, online or offline, throughout their lifecycle. Tightly integrated with VirtualCenter, V-Commander provides realtime insight, monitoring and automation – saving administrators time while preventing sprawl.
 
EqualLogic data storage systems simplify the way enterprises of all sizes store and protect information. The award-winning PS Series provides sophisticated management capabilities that reduce the time and money spent on storage. Combining VMware Virtual Infrastructure and EqualLogic SAN arrays delivers a more flexible, cost-effective, and simpler infrastructure that reduces management overhead and rapidly adapts to changing business requirements.
 
"PHD Technologies is the premier innovator of Enterprise class virtual backup, restoration, replication and disaster recovery tools for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3. Founded in 2004, PHD has fast become the market leader, protecting thousands of systems world-wide with their esXpress product line. All products are distributed, completely fault tolerant and include optional file level backups and industry standard AES-256 encryption."
 
GlassHouse Technologies is a leading provider of information technology (IT) consulting, technology integration and managed services that address inefficiencies and risks inherent in storage and data infrastructure. GlassHouse Technologies provides a differentiated, comprehensive set of IT services using its unique service delivery framework, TransomSM , which consists of proprietary software tools, methodologies and domain expertise.
 
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.
 
LeftHand Networks pioneered the open iSCSI SAN market and is the only storage vendor to build enterprise-class SANs on industry-standard platforms. LeftHand is differentiated by patented SAN/iQ storage clustering software that turns standard servers like the HP ProLiant DL380 or IBM x3650 into scalable network storage ideal for server and storage consolidation projects, disaster recovery and campus SANs.
 
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, high-performance, InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity products that facilitate data transmission between servers, communications infrastructure equipment and storage systems. The company’s products are an integral part of a total solution focused on computing, storage and communication applications used in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing and embedded systems.
 
mySoftIT GmbH presents the Infrastructure Center (IC) for VMware® for ESX. IC means backup, restore and disaster recovery as well as high availability with zero VM-downtime. Established in 2006, the German software manufacturer has convinced with more than 60 product installations up to now. The TAP goes global through a network of partners and distributors, i.e. IBM and Bell Micro.
 
Neterion is the leader in 10 GbE adapters that provide high speed solutions for customers’ server and storage networks. With their unique Hyperframe™ architecture, Neterion’s Xframe® V-NIC™ adapters feature independent physical paths, built into the hardware to offer optimal performance and security in virtualized environments.
 
NetIQ, an Attachmate business, is a leading provider of comprehensive systems and security management solutions that help enterprises maximize IT service delivery and efficiency. With over 12,000 customers worldwide, NetIQ’s best-of-breed solutions help IT organizations deliver critical business services, mitigate operational risk, and document policy compliance. NetIQ AppManager for VMware manages and monitors entire VMware virtual infrastructures- from one location.
 
A 2007 Best of VMworld winner, Netuitive SI self-learns the normal performance behavior and resource profiles of ESX servers and VMs – without any manually created rules, scripts or thresholds. Netuitive learns normal hourly and daily performance variations, enabling it to provide unprecedented performance visibility into your virtualized environment and forecast degradations up to two hours in advance.
 
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers infrastructure software for the Open Enterprise. Novell is a leader in desktop to data center operating systems based on Linux and the software required to secure and manage mixed IT environments. Novell helps customers around the world minimize cost, complexity and risk, allowing them to focus on innovation and growth. For more information, visit www.novell.com/.
 
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 traditional connection brokers, 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 networking solutions, which includes the controller chips, host adapters, fabric switches and management tools for a variety of network topologies including Fibre Channel, iSCSI and InfiniBand. QLogic products form the backbone of storage and HPC networks for Global 2000 corporations, and power solutions for a global community of OEM and channel partners.
 
RES Software provides solutions to help organizations manage their Microsoft Windows® environment, however the Windows environment is delivered to the end-user. Founded in 1999, RES Software develops products in close cooperation with its customers. Currently more than 2,000 organizations worldwide have purchased products from RES Software’s portfolio of solutions. For more information please visit: www.ressoftware.com
 
Stratus is the leading supplier of fault tolerant servers that deliver 99.999% uptime - servers that must not fail. Stratus ftServer offers the best of breed availability platform for today’s mission-critical environments, where downtime is not an option. Over the last 25 years, Stratus has been the vendor of choice for 24/7 processing. Customers include: one of the largest global logistics companies; 115 of the Global 500 companies; 8 out of the world’s 10 top banks; 9 out of the world’s 10 largest pharmaceutical companies; 14 out of the world’s 20 top telecommunication companies.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Veeam Software, a VMware Technology Alliance Partner known for its FastSCP freeware, is taking the lead in virtual server management, with the industry’s most complete suite of software tools. Veeam products include “Best of VMworld” Gold award winner Veeam Reporter, Veeam Configurator and Veeam Monitor. At VMworld Europe, Veeam will unveil Veeam Backup, the 2-in-1 ESX backup and recovery solution.
 
Wyse Technology is the global leader in thin computing. Wyse and its partners deliver the hardware, infrastructure software, and services that comprise thin computing, with better security, manageability, and at a much lower total cost of ownership than a PC. Thin computing allows CIOs and senior IT professionals to reduce costs, manage risk, and deliver access to information. Wyse partners closely with industry leaders Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, and others to achieve this objective.
 

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01 Informatique, number 1 of french business IT press for more than 40 years. They have more than 200,000 readers each week.01 Informatique provides all IT, Business, Technology and Testimonials information to help IT decision makers to choose the right technology products and solutions.