Archives: Sponsors

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), connects more than 4,500 companies directly to the customers and partners that matter most to their businesses. It enables 135,000 connections between its customers, making Equinix the world’s leading global interconnection platform.

Equinix colocation services help organisations safeguard their mission-critical data with the highest levels of security and operational reliability. Inside each Equinix IBX® data center, customers gain access to a vital ecosystem where major networks, enterprises, and business partners interconnect to each other and to more than 1,000 networks and 450 cloud service providers.

With over 100 data centers in 32 markets on five continents, Equinix is anywhere its customers need to be. Our global reach allows Equinix customers to rapidly deploy data center operations worldwide, giving them the flexibility to scale up or down depending on where business leads.

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson, delivers software, hardware and services that maximize availability, capacity and efficiency for data centers, healthcare and industrial facilities. A trusted industry leader in smart infrastructure technologies, Emerson Network Power provides innovative data center infrastructure management solutions that bridge the gap between IT and facility management and deliver efficiency and uncompromised availability regardless of capacity demands. Our solutions are supported globally by local Emerson Network Power service technicians.

Emerson (NYSE: EMR), based in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and consumer markets around the world. The company is comprised of five business segments: Process Management, Industrial Automation, Network Power, Climate Technologies, and Commercial & Residential Solutions. Sales in fiscal 2013 were $24.7 billion.

Diligent is the leading provider of secure corporate governance and collaboration solutions for boards and senior executives. Over 3,100 clients in more than 50 countries rely on Diligent to provide secure, intuitive access to their most time-sensitive and confidential information, ultimately helping them make better decisions. The Diligent Boards solution (formerly Diligent Boardbooks) speeds and simplifies how board materials are produced, delivered and collaborated on using iPad, Windows and web tools, removing the security concerns of doing this by courier, email and file sharing. Diligent is a publicly listed company with nearly US$90 million in annual recurring revenue (NZX: DIL). Visit www.diligent.com to learn more.

Digital Realty focuses on delivering client-driven data center and colocation solutions by providing secure, reliable and cost effective facilities that meet each client’s unique data center needs. Digital Realty’s clients include domestic and international companies across multiple industry verticals ranging from information technology and Internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services. Digital Realty’s 100+ properties are located across 30+ markets throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.

DataCore is a leader in Software-defined Storage. The Company’s SANsymphony-V storage virtualisation and Virtual SAN solutions empower organisations to seamlessly manage and scale their data storage architectures, delivering massive performance gains at a fraction of the cost of solutions offered by legacy storage hardware vendors.

Over the past 17 years, we’ve risen to become the global leader in Software-defined Storage solutions with over 10,000+ customers and 25,000+ deployments around the globe. DataCore’s adaptive and self-learning and healing technology takes the pain out of manual processes and helps deliver on the promise of the new software-defined data center through its hardware agnostic architecture.

Our well-differentiated software technologies offer state-of-the-art, cost-effective solutions to the major storage-related problems faced by CIOs, for any company engaged in virtualisation technologies, where traditional “hardware-centric” approaches to expanding storage capacity are often cost-prohibitive and result in unacceptably inflexible storage infrastructures.

CIOs rapidly adapt to changing circumstances, regularly reporting the following benefits after deploying DataCore’s solutions: reducing effort by 90%, attaining nearly 100% availability, multiplying performance by 3 to 5 times, and achieving more than 4X capacity reclamation, all while realising substantial cost savings.

A singular vision—a belief in a better way to address current and future data management needs—guides  CommVault in the development of Singular Information Management® solutions for high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplied management of data on complex storage networks. CommVault’s exclusive single-platform architecture gives companies unprecedented control over data growth, costs and risk. CommVault® Simpana® software modules were designed to work together seamlessly from the ground up, sharing a single code and common function set, to deliver superlative Backup & Recovery, Archive, Replication, Search and Resource Management capabilities.

Cloudera is revolutionising enterprise data management with the first unified Platform for Big Data: The Enterprise Data Hub. Cloudera offers enterprises one place to store, manage, process and analyse all their data, empowering them to extend the value of existing investments while enabling fundamental new ways to derive value from their data. Founded in 2008, Cloudera was the first and is still today the leading provider and supporter of Hadoop for the enterprise. Cloudera also offers software for business critical data challenges including storage, access, management, analysis, security and search. With over 15,000 individuals trained, Cloudera is a leading educator of data professionals, offering the industry’s broadest array of Hadoop training and certification programs. Cloudera works with over 700 hardware, software and services partners to meet customers’ big data goals. Leading organisations in every industry run Cloudera in production.

Citrix is a leader in virtualization, networking and cloud infrastructure to enable new ways for people to work better. Citrix solutions help IT and service providers to build, manage and secure, virtual and mobile workspaces that seamlessly deliver apps, desktops, data and services to anyone, on any device, over any network or cloud. This year Citrix is celebrating 25 years of innovation, making IT simpler and people more productive with mobile workstyles. With annual revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than 330,000 organisations and by over 100 million people globally.

CipherCloud, the leader in cloud visibility and data protection, delivers cloud adoption acceleration while ensuring security, compliance and control.  CipherCloud’s FIPS 140-2 validated open platform provides comprehensive cloud application discovery and risk assessment, data protection – strong encryption, tokenization, data loss prevention, key management and malware detection – and extensive user activity and anomaly monitoring services.  The CipherCloud portfolio, named as SC Magazine’s 2013 Product of the Year, protects popular cloud applications out-of-the-box such as Salesforce, Box, ServiceNow and Microsoft Office 365.

CipherCloud is backed by premier venture capital firms Transamerica Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Delta Partners, and T-Venture, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom. The company has experienced exceptional growth, with over 3 million business users across 25 countries, in 11 industries such as Finance, Insurance and Banking, Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications and Government.

For more information, visit www.ciphercloud.com and follow us on Twitter @ciphercloud.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, provides customers with uncompromised protection against all types of threats, reduces security complexity and lowers total cost of ownership. Check Point first pioneered the industry with FireWall-1 and its patented stateful inspection technology. Today, Check Point continues to develop new innovations based on the Software Blade Architecture, providing customers with flexible and simple solutions that can be fully customized to meet the exact security needs of any organization. Check Point is the only vendor to go beyond technology and define security as a business process. Check Point 3D Security uniquely combines policy, people and enforcement for greater protection of information assets and helps organizations implement a blueprint for security that aligns with business needs. Customers include tens of thousands of organizations of all sizes, including all Fortune and Global 100 companies. Check Point’s award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumers from hackers, spyware and identity theft.