London 2008 | Oct 14 Reseller Day, Oct 15-16 Congress Days

Platinum Sponsors

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 a traditional connection broker, VAS is a highly scalable solution for enterprise desktop management, transforming the corporate desktop infrastructure into an on-demand service.

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.

ManageIQ delivers smart management for virtual infrastructures, with policy-based systems supporting virtual machines and appliances, in any format, in any state - online or off. ManageIQ’s patent-pending agent-free products uniquely address the management challenges of virtualization.

Citrix Systems, Inc. is the global leader and most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure and offers the industry's most comprehensive end-to-end virtualization portfolio. Citrix XenServer for server virtualization, Citrix XenApp for application virtualization, and Citrix XenDesktop for desktop virtualization are the foundation of a dynamic datacenter that enables organizations to respond effectively to business change.

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.

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.

Phoenix Technologies Ltd. is the global market leader in system firmware that provides the most secure foundation for today's computing environments. The Company's BIOS-based hypervisor, HyperCore, enables HyperSpace which is a parallel computing environment aimed at revolutionizing the PC user experience by delivering unprecedented security, reliability, uptime and ease-of-use.
PC users will find that computers are easier to use, very fast, easily maintained and repaired, and much more secure. Important applications such as a safe browser, email, messaging and media applications will be "always on” before, during and after Windows boots up. This PC3.0 vision of Phoenix has become a reality this year.

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company offers a wide range of virtualization and automation solutions to help individuals and organizations of all sizes realize the benefits of optimized computing. Serving 10 Million end-users in 125 countries, Parallels is today the #1 vendor in OS-level virtualization (Parallels Virtuozzo Containers), in client based Desktop Virtualization with 1Million individual users (Parallels Desktop for Mac) and in Server Control Panels (Parallels Plesk).

EMC Corporation is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Come by our booth and hear more about EMC's virtualization offerings and solutions that optimize VMware infrastructures: Energy Efficiency, ILM solutions, Resource Management solutions, Next Generation Backup, Platforms and Recovery Management solutions.

Gold Sponsors

Marathon Technologies is the industry recognized leader providing software products and services that bridge the high availability gap as companies come to grips with having "all their eggs in one basket" in virtualized server environments. The company's everRun product family provides a complete range of fault tolerant-class availability, disaster avoidance and recovery software solutions that protects Windows Server applications operating standalone or within a XenServer virtual environment.

Founded in 2002, Vizioncore, a fully-owned subsidiary of Quest Software, is a leading provider of innovative management tools for virtual infrastructure environments. Nearly 7,500 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.

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.

Silver Sponsors

Media Sponsors

Windows IT Pro reaches deeper and wider into the Windows IT Pro community than any other independent publication. We are the voice of the readers, the voice of our community – the IT managers, network and systems administrators; the developers; the systems analysts, and the CTOs. As the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, the Windows IT Pro network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its Web sites each month, and more than 1 million subscribers who opt-in to one or more email newsletters.

Event Host

Established in 2003, virtualization.info is recognized as the leading news and analysis site for the virtualization industry, recording over 160,000 page views per month and referenced by more than 36,000 other sites, blogs and forums. It provides unique tools, like the Virtualization Industry Radar, to allow new customers to follow and ultimately make purchasing decisions within virtualization.

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