Event Sponsors

Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. As an innovator in the communications and information technology industry, Cisco and our valued partners sell Cisco hardware, software, and services to businesses of all sizes, governments, service providers, and consumers. Learn more at www.cisco.com

Spanning 13 data centers in the United States, Asia and Europe and a global footprint of network points of presence, SoftLayer operates a global cloud infrastructure platform built for Internet scale. With 100,000 servers under management, SoftLayer's modular architecture provides unparalleled performance and control, with a full-featured API and sophisticated automation controlling a flexible platform that seamlessly spans physical and virtual devices for secure, low-latency communications. SoftLayer is the largest privately held Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider in the world with a portfolio of 25,000 leading-edge customers from Web startups to global enterprises.

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Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with more than 70 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with cloud, virtualization, applications, management, storage and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more at www.redhat.com.

Akamai® is the leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high performing user experiences on any device, anywhere. At the core of the company’s solutions is the Akamai Intelligent Platform™ providing extensive reach, coupled with unmatched reliability, security, visibility and expertise. Akamai removes the complexities of connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and enabling enterprises to securely leverage the cloud. To learn more about how Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation in a hyperconnected world, please visit www.akamai.com and follow @Akamai on Twitter.

Nuage Networks has developed a unique SDN solution that enables the creation of programmable and virtualized DC network fabrics in a highly automated way. Nuage Networks envisions a highly programmable infrastructure that bridges the gap between the application-centric view and the equally important network-centric view. The Nuage team is applying our expertise to combine SDN and virtualization techniques with routing technologies to solve the need for a highly consumable network fabric to support very high-scale multi-tenant cloud compute and storage services.

ProfitBricks - is Cloud Computing 2.0. ProfitBricks is a cloud computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) company offering more speed and flexibility than any other cloud provider. Founded in 2010 by the previous co-founders of 1&1 AG, ProfitBricks has built the world's first, true virtual datacenter, enabling users custom defined instances with live vertical scaling and class-leading double redundant cloud storage -- all with simple and transparent minute-based billing. It also developed the first graphical Data Center Designer that makes the ProfitBricks Cloud Computing service the easiest to setup and maintain. CRN Magazine recently picked ProfitBricks as the "Coolest Startup" of 2012. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany and Boston, Mass., ProfitBricks can be found online at http://www.ProfitBricks.com

F5 Networks, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), ensures the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications. F5's framework enables innovation that helps organizations enhance IT agility. F5's vision of unified application and data delivery redefines the management of resources, streamlining application delivery and reduce costs. www.f5.com

ActiveState empowers innovation from code to cloud smarter, safer, and faster. More than two million developers and 97% of Fortune-1000 companies use ActiveState’s products to develop, distribute and manage their software applications. Stackato, ActiveState’s enterprise private Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution, makes it easy to deploy, manage and monitor applications on any cloud. Learn more at www.activestate.com.

Comcast Business Class offers outstanding data, voice and video solutions for companies of all sizes. For mid-sized and larger organizations, Comcast offers highly reliable, scalable portfolios of Ethernet Services configurable from 1Mbps to 10Gbps and certified by the Metro Ethernet Forum. Combined with our voice solutions including Business Voice Edge – a cloud-based voice and unified communications system, PRI and voice trunks, Comcast offers a cost effective and truly diverse portfolio of services delivered over America’s leading enhanced fiber network. Enterprise customers are supported by highly trained, experienced specialists. For more information, please visit our website. www.business.comcast.com/enterprise

Backed by a global IT services organization with decades of experience managing huge data streams and currently providing real-time data and video services to 17 million customers worldwide, Hughes Cloud Services (HCS) combines the security and control of private clouds with end-to-end support. HCS leverages state-of-the-art data centers, virtualization technologies, our global network and Department of Defense MAC I experience to provide clients with unparalleled solutions and support. From cloud design and migration support to disaster recovery and network services, HCS has the expertise and the experience to deliver the ideal cloud strategy, tailored to the unique demands of your business. www.hughes-cloud.com

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