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Novell
Novell is a global leader in enterprise class software and services,
with over $1B in sales and 100 offices around the world. We got there by
providing a flexible combination of open source and commercial
technologies, based on open standards. We help our customers manage,
simplify, secure, and integrate their IT systems. This helps them lower
cost and complexity while at the same time increasing return on their
investment.
Novell provides global services and support and has a strong history of
innovation and world-class engineering. We also build customer solutions
leveraging our network of over 800 technology partners, 900 training
partners, and 3,200 solution providers. Software for the Open Enterprise
from Novell. There's more to Novell than you think.
Learn more: www.novell.com
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Microsoft Corporation
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: www.microsoft.com/virtualization
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PolyServe, Inc.
PolyServe, Inc. provides virtualization software solutions specifically designed for business-critical applications. PolyServe's unique approach to virtualization consolidates servers and storage into easily managed, highly available and fully scalable utilities with the performance and fault tolerance demanded by applications including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and enterprise file serving. PolyServe's solutions go beyond just server virtualization to consolidate servers, storage and software for more comprehensive cost savings as well as superior failover capabilities, infrastructure management and application performance. For more information about PolyServe, call 877-476-5973.
Learn more: www.polyserve.com
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Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe.
The most trusted name in open source, CIOs and other senior-level IT
executives have ranked Red Hat as the industry's most valued vendor for
two consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study.
Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by
making high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides
operating system software along with middleware, applications and
management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training and
consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier
partnerships. Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long
term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage
open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management.
Learn more: www.redhat.com
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PlateSpin
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 servers 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 initiatives such as server consolidation, test lab automation and disaster recovery.
Learn more: www.platespin.com
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American Power Conversion (APC)
Founded in 1981, American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC) is a leading provider of global, end-to-end solutions for real-time infrastructure. 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. APC offers a wide variety of products for network-critical physical infrastructure including InfraStruXure(TM), its revolutionary architecture for on-demand data centers, as well as physical threat management products through the company's NetBotz® division. These products and services help companies increase the availability and reliability of their IT systems. Headquartered in West Kingston, Rhode Island, APC reported sales of $2 billion for the year ended December 31, 2005.
Learn more: www.apc.com
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CA
CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest information technology (IT) management software companies, unifies and simplifies the management of enterprise-wide IT. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and serves customers in more than 140 countries.
Learn more: www.ca.com/vpm/infoworld
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DataSynapse, Inc.
DataSynapse, Inc. is a global provider of application virtualization software. The company's flagship products, GridServer® and FabricServer(TM), virtualize business-critical applications and adaptively provision them across a shared infrastructure. DataSynapse drives business agility through shared services, helping clients reduce the cost and complexity of their IT infrastructure. The company is headquartered in New York City.
Learn more: www.datasynapse.com
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Egenera, Inc.
Egenera, Inc., a leader in datacenter virtualization architecture, delivers enterprise computing solutions that simplify datacenter operations and infrastructure. The Egenera BladeFrame® system simplifies the datacenter with an innovative server architecture specifically designed to reduce complexity and enable IT to respond rapidly to business requirements. Market-leading enterprises around the world trust the Egenera BladeFrame system to run their most important business applications and achieve higher resource utilization, faster application time to market and lower total cost of ownership.
Learn more: www.egenera.com
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EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in systems, software, services, and solutions for building and managing intelligent, flexible and secure information infrastructures. We help our customers maximize the value of their information assets by implementing and accelerating powerful information lifecycle management (ILM) strategies. With ILM, our customers can manage information efficiently for the most business value - at every point in the information lifecycle and at the lowest cost.
Learn more: www.emc.com
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Altiris
Altiris is a leading provider of modular, service-oriented management solutions that deliver a future-proof approach to managing diverse and distributed information technology. Open solutions from Altiris align IT lifecycle service management with business objectives by automating operations of client, server, mobile and network devices. With the ability to simplify challenging IT requirements like PC and server provisioning, audit-ready security, patch management, migration, and IT asset and service management, Altiris can help provide a TCO savings of up to 85 percent. Altiris solutions can be implemented as a comprehensive IT lifecycle management solution or piece by piece as needed.
Learn more: www.altiris.com
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LeftHand Networks
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.
Learn more: www.lefthandnetworks.com
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Sentillion vBusiness
vThere(TM) is the first virtualized, serverless solution for remote access. The flagship product of Sentillion vBusiness, vThere extends the corporate domain to deliver exactly the same security, policies, application access and experience as if the user were physically in the enterprise. vThere's virtual security model protects the enterprise from exposure to viruses, worms, or spyware, which may be present on a remote user's PC. In addition, IT departments can extend the reach of the enterprise and manage remote users in the same manner as if they were physically in the enterprise. Sentillion vBusiness is a division of Sentillion, Inc., the largest freestanding provider of identity and access management solutions.
Learn more: www.vthere.net
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SWsoft
SWsoft is a global leader in server virtualization and automation software. More than 10,000 customers rely on the proven performance and management capabilities of SWsoft products to optimize their IT infrastructures. Founded in 1999, the company has offices located throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, call 703-815-5670.
Learn more: www.swsoft.com
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| Virtualization Executive Forum Event at a Glance |
Industry experts. Senior-level executives. Leading solution providers.
Full day conference focused on enabling enterprise virtualization for IT Solutions Management
February 12th, 2007
Hotel Nikko
San Francisco
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| Who Should Attend |
Senior Technologists
Including CIOs, CTOs, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network managers, network engineers, enterprise architects
Business Executives Including CEOs, CMOs, CIOs, presidents, VPs, directors, business development; product and purchasing managers
Interested in Sponsoring this event? Contact Hal Mentlik/East Coast or Miles Dennison/West Coast for more information
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Join InfoWorld's IT Exec-Connect to mingle with your peers, start discussions, and secure meetings for the Virtualization Executive Forum
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