Exhibitors and Sponsors

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Gold Sponsors (view sponsor descriptions)

 

 

 

 
Silver Sponsors (view sponsor descriptions)

 

 
Industry Partners (view sponsor descriptions)

 

Storage Decisions Pavilion (view sponsor descriptions)

 

Emerging Technology Showcase (view sponsor descriptions)

 

 

 

 

Solutions Provider Showcase (view sponsor descriptions)
Event Sponsor Descriptions

NEC Corporation of America
6555 N. State Highway 161
Irving, TX
www.necam.com

NEC is a major player in enterprise-class IT infrastructure solutions.  As a Global Fortune 200 firm with over $46 billion in revenues, NEC Dynamic IT Infrastructure, including servers, storage, software and services, drives 1 out of 3 data centers in the U.S.

 

Platinum Sponsor Descriptions

Bycast Inc.
401-2608 Granville St.
Vancouver, BC V6H 3V3
http://www.bycast.com

Bycast is the leading provider of storage virtualization software that enables private and public storage clouds. Bycast StorageGRID allows cloud storage providers, or IT departments running their operation as a service, to deliver storage and archiving as a service. The software offers robust facilities for provisioning, managing, and tracking storage services. StorageGRID is sold globally through OEM relationships with two of the world’s major storage vendors and has hundreds of installations in over nineteen countries.

 

Dell
300 Innovative Way, Unit 301
Nashua, NH 03062
www.dell.com/PSseries

Dell provides a comprehensive family of storage solutions from direct attached storage to network storage, disk backup to tape backup, as well as innovative modular services offerings from assessment to design and implementation.  Dell storage solutions are designed to deliver reliability, manageability, and scalability, so less time is spent worrying about data and more time is spent putting it to work.

 

NetApp
495 East Java Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA
http://www.netapp.com/us/

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad product and service portfolio. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.  

 

 

Gold Sponsor Descriptions

Data Domain Inc.
2300 Central Expressway
Santa Clara, CA 95050
http://www.datadomain.com/

Data Domain® is the leading provider of deduplication storage systems. Over 2,900 companies worldwide have purchased Data Domain systems to reduce storage costs and simplify data management. Data Domain delivers the performance, reliability and scalability to address the data protection and nearline storage needs of enterprises of all sizes. Data Domain products integrate into existing customer infrastructures and are compatible with leading enterprise backup and archive software products. To find out more about Data Domain visit www.datadomain.com or call 1-866-933-3873.

 

Fusion IO
6350 South 3000 E. 6th Floor
Salt Lake City, UT 84121

Fusion-io is a leading provider of enterprise solid-state technology and high-performance I/O solutions. The company’s SSD technology closes the gap between processing power and storage needs delivering breakthrough performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional disk-based storage systems. The result is a world of possibilities for performance-starved applications.

Fusion-io — Powering Storage Innovation
www.fusionio.com   

 

Symantec
20330 Stevens Creek Boulevard
Cupertino CA 95014
www.symantec.com

Symantec is a global leader in infrastructure software, delivering software and services that help enable businesses and consumers to have confidence in a connected world. Symantec helps organizations manage IT risk and maximize IT performance by standardizing and automating their software and processes. For consumers Symantec offers security, data backup and PC tune-up solutions that protect consumers' connected experiences so that they can enjoy the best of what the online world has to offer.

Silver Sponsor Descriptions

Compellent
7625 Smetana Lane
Eden Prairie, MN  55344
http://www.compellent.com/

Compellent is a leading provider of enterprise-class network storage solutions that are highly scalable, feature rich, and designed to be easy to use and cost effective. The Storage Center solution from Compellent is a storage area network (SAN) that helps significantly lower storage and infrastructure capital expenditures, reduces the skill level and number of personnel required to manage information, and enables continuous data availability and storage virtualization. http://www.compellent.com

 

Quantum Corporation
141 Innovation Drive
Irvine, CA 92617
www.quantum.com

Backup and recovery needs are growing in scale and complexity. You’re faced with new recovery and retention requirements, more data to protect, and less money to get it all done. At Quantum, we can help address these challenges by sharing our expertise and delivering comprehensive solutions that integrate technologies like deduplication, replication, and LTO-4 with encryption.  Come visit us to learn more about the latest trends and technologies for backup and recovery.

Industry Partner Descriptions

3PAR Inc.
4209 Technology Drive
Fremont, CA 94538
www.3par.com

3PAR® is the global leader in utility storage, a category of next-generation storage arrays built for utility computing. 3PAR offers a smart, thin, and ready tiered-storage array for resilient utility computing that allows customers to reduce the costs of allocated capacity, administration, and SAN infrastructure while increasing adaptability and resiliency.

 

CIENA Corp
1201 Winterson Rd
Linthicum, MD 21090
www.ciena.com

Ciena Corporation, the network specialist, provides systems, software and services with the highest availability and lowest latency possible for today’s real-time enterprise applications. Ciena’s FlexSelect Architecture supports server, storage and network consolidations; disaster recovery and business continuity; grid computing; service-oriented architectures and Web services. Ciena's solutions have been qualified by major storage vendors, including EMC, IBM, HDS, HP, and Brocade, andare proven in carrier and Global 2000 enterprise networks around the world.

 

COPAN Systems, Inc.
1900 Pike Road
Longmont, CO 80501
www.copansys.com    

COPAN Systems provides the industry’s only purpose-built Persistent Data platform for cost-effective management, storage, access and recovery of Persistent Data for Global 5000 companies challenged with managing the cost and complexities of accelerated data growth. With the only Enterprise MAID OS in the world, COPAN Systems provide operative best practice for the long-term storage, protection and retrieval of persistent data. The Enterprise MAID architecture dramatically reduces power, cooling and floor space costs in the data center. Expanding to well over 8 PB within a single chassis, COPAN Systems delivers unmatched density and scalability for large enterprise environments, including healthcare, financial, government, media and service provider industries. www.copansystems.com

 

FalconStor Software
2 Huntington Quadrangle, 2S01
Melville, NY 11747

FalconStor Software (NASDAQ: FALC) provides TOTALLY Open™ data protection solutions, delivering proven data protection and storage virtualization for the continuous availability of business-critical data. Built upon the award-winning IPStor® platform, solutions include the industry-leading Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with deduplication, Continuous Data Protector (CDP), and Network Storage Server (NSS), each enabled with WAN-optimized replication for disaster recovery and remote office protection. FalconStor solutions are deployed by thousands of customers worldwide and are available through OEMs and solution providers. www.falconstor.com

 

LTO Ultrium Program
515 S. Flower St. 7th Floor     
Los Angeles, CA 90071

The LTO Program, formed by technology provider companies HP, IBM and Quantum, develops a powerful, scalable, adaptable open tape format created to address data protection in the midrange to enterprise-class server environments. The LTO Ultrium format offers users competitive sources of products, a six generation roadmap, and state-of-the-art features including data encryption, WORM support, high capacity -- up to 1.6TB per cartridge -- and blazing performance at up to 120MB/second (LTO-4 at 2:1 compressed). With low energy consumption, tape technology can also provide organizations with a green alternative for the data center, delivering substantial TCO benefits and energy savings.

 

Riverbed Technology
199 Fremont St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
www.riverbed.com     

The Riverbed Steelhead appliance enables distributed organizations to accelerate applications by up to 100x over the WAN, and reduce WAN traffic by up to 95%. The Steelhead appliance simultaneously addresses issues networking, applications and storage limitations in order to provide orders-of-magnitude improvements in application performance. By taking an integrated approach to application performance, the Steelhead appliance makes distributed collaboration, IT consolidation, and network-based backup a reality for enterprises of all sizes.

Storage Decisions Pavilion

Continental Resources
175 Middlesex Turnpike, Ste. 1
Bedford, MA 01730

Continental Resources (CRI) is a trusted provider of comprehensive IT solutions to business, government, and academia. Solutions offered include: networking, security, directory services, VoIP, storage, disaster recovery, directory services, and managed services. CRI is a Hitachi Data Systems Platinum Partner and holds engineering certifications across all Hitachi Data Systems product platforms.  CRI is also a Sun Executive Level Partner holding certifications across all Sun Platforms. Founded in 1962, CRI has offices in major metropolitan areas around the country. To learn more, please go to www.continentalresources.com/solutions

 

 

Emerging Technology Descriptions

Cleversafe
224 N. Desplaines Street
Suite 500
Chicago, Illinois  60661

Cleversafe is the leader in Dispersed Storage™ technology, the ideal way to store massive amounts of data. Cleversafe enables enterprises to build Dispersed Storage Networks (dsNets) that store slices of data rather than copies. Only a subset of slices are necessary to perfectively retrieve data resulting in limitless storage.
 
Cleversafe powered dsNets provide data storage without limits in scalability, longevity, security, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. Cleversafe is the sponsor of an open source community movement to help standardize dispersed storage.  For more information, please visit www.cleversafe.com or www.cleversafe.org.

Solutions Provider Showcase

Agilysys
1001 Warrenville Road, Suite 200
Lisle, IL 60532
(630) 824-9440
sun.agilysys.com

Agilysys is a systems integrator and solutions provider that specializes in simplifying the computing infrastructure and enabling secure access, compliance and cost reduction.  We offer businesses integrated software and technology solutions with supporting services from Sun Microsystems—and complementary partners—including Identity & Access Management, Virtualization and Data Management & Storage.  For more, visit sun.agilysys.com.

 

Zenith Infotech Ltd
One Williamsburg Place,
Suite 100, Mail Stop 5
Warrendale, PA 15086, U.S.A.

The Zenith Infotech Advanced Recovery & Continuity Appliance (ARCA) provides the speed and reliability of enterprise-class business continuity and recovery solutions…without the enterprise-class price. The ARCA is loaded with features such as fast disk-based, block level backups, 15 minute snapshots, ability to virtualize multiple failed servers, perform bare metal restores to dissimilar hardware, and Exchange mailbox and message level recovery.