Sponsors and Exhibitors

We would like to thank the following MMS 2013 sponsors and exhibitors:
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Bronze Sponsors
Exhibitors

Platinum Sponsors

	Amazing things happen when you connect the unconnected. Today’s leaders are looking for Cloud solutions to help them create and expand new markets. Deliver better experiences to build better relationships. And help their people work better together. We’re connecting the world of many clouds today to make all of that happen tomorrow. With our unified data center and cloud-intelligent network we can help you launch new services fast. Connect experiences. And be more agile in your market. All securely and cost effectively. And we can do it like no one else. Together, Cisco and Microsoft promote innovation through the intersection of networking, servers, and enterprise software delivering optimal value to our joint customers. Cisco helps you make the most of tomorrow’s opportunities. www.cisco.com/go/microsoft
	Dell develops and delivers a portfolio of services and solutions that reduce complexity and costs. Our tested and proven solutions help meet business goals while mitigating risk. We offer interrelated consulting, business process, applications, infrastructure, and managed services that deliver value to customers of all sizes and requirements in commercial enterprises, healthcare, government, and education. www.dell.com Download the virtual bag insert
	HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com. www.hp.com Download the virtual bag insert

	1E software is the first to give you maximum IT efficiency by identifying and cutting costs and waste in hardware, software, energy and time. Visit our stand to see how 1E ActiveEfficiency solutions help reduce servers, network bandwidth constraints, software licenses and energy consumption through optimizing and automating many tasks. Learn how we can help you free up your time and cut expenditure on IT operations and maintenance yet improve performance and business processes. Talk to our knowledgeable experts who understand how to maximize automation and scalability achieving OS deployments and upgrading infrastructures as business as usual tasks. www.1e.com Download the virtual bag insert
	Adaptiva is a leader in IT systems management, extending the functionality of Microsoft System Center ConfigMgr 2012 for enterprises across the globe. Adaptiva’s software suite and underlying platform optimizes IT assets for content delivery, PC power management and client health. Adaptiva’s software transforms traditional client server infrastructures into lean distributed networks that minimize the number of servers, simplifies systems management and optimizes content distribution–rapidly increasing ROI on existing systems. A Microsoft Gold Partner, Adaptiva is deployed on more than 2 million devices in over 14 countries, and is sold directly, and through a network of partners and channel resellers. www.adaptiva.com Download the virtual bag insert
	Atea Global Services is part of the Atea group – the 2nd largest IT infrastructure company in Europe. Atea assists customers worldwide with specialist competencies within IT infrastructure services. We are especially famous for our high-end, high capacity client management, system center management tools and world’s largest application packaging factory used by thousands of companies from small to large enterprises. Atea Global Services is ITIL (ISO 20000) and Information Security (ISO 27001) certified. With Cloud Software Asset Management (Cloud SAM), Atea is one of Microsoft’s Azure SQL Reporting top users. http://services.atea.com Download the virtual bag insert
	BridgeWays Management Packs extend Microsoft System Center to monitor the health and performance of business critical applications and virtualization environments in Windows, Linux (Red Hat, SUSE), and UNIX (Solaris, AIX) data center and private cloud environments. Exclusively designed for System Center, these end-to-end management packs deliver deep monitoring, robust knowledge base articles, and extensive coverage for service / health models for: – Virtualization (VMware vSphere, hyper-v) – Database Servers (Oracle, Oracle RAC, Oracle ASM, MySQL, DB2, and Informix) – Application Servers (JBoss, Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic) – Web Servers (Apache HTTP) and more BridgeWays Management Packs have enjoyed wide adoption and praises by companies worldwide. www.bridgeways.ca Download the virtual bag insert
	Citrix is the company transforming how people, businesses and IT work and collaborate in the cloud era. With market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible. Learn more at www.citrix.com. www.citrix.com Download the virtual bag insert
	EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver Information Technology as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. EMC has been recognized as a 22 time Microsoft Partner of the Year winner and has achieved 22+ Gold and Silver Microsoft certifications. www.emc.com Download the virtual bag insert
	Lieberman Software Corporation is a technology leader in privileged identity management (PIM) and Windows security management. We have more than 20 years of product innovation and more than 1,200 enterprise customers worldwide, including 40 percent of the Fortune 50. Our PIM products prevent unauthorized users and programs from gaining anonymous access to the powerful privileged accounts that provide unrestricted access to IT assets and sensitive data throughout the enterprise. Our Windows security management tools manage and report on the groups, users, passwords, registries, objects, permissions, shares, and services dispersed throughout the network. www.liebsoft.com Download the virtual bag insert
	NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Our dedication to the principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today. Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of solutions for server-to-storage virtualization, business applications, data protection, and more. 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. www.netapp.com Download the virtual bag insert
	Parallels is a global leader in hosting and cloud services enablement and desktop virtualization. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with more than 900 employees in North America, Europe and Asia. The company’s suite of proven cross-platform solutions includes Parallels Management – Mac plug-in for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Parallels Desktop for Mac Enterprise Edition, the No. 1-selling solution for running Windows on a Mac without rebooting. For more information, please visit www.parallels.com, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ParallelsMac, and Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ParallelsDesktop. www.parallels.com Download the virtual bag insert
	Veeam® Software, Microsoft’s 2012 Management and Virtualization Partner of the Year, develops innovative products for Modern Data Protection and virtual infrastructure management. Veeam Backup & Replication™ for Hyper-V provides powerful, easy-to-use and affordable data protection for Hyper-V with agent-free backup and recovery. Plus, the Cloud Edition makes offsite backup to the cloud easy with Microsoft Azure, giving small to mid-sized businesses a cost-effective alternative to tape and offsite backup storage. Veeam Management Pack™ extends deep VMware monitoring, management and capacity planning to Microsoft System Center, providing complete app-to-metal visibility from one console. Fully realize the promise of virtualization with Veeam. www.veeam.com Download the virtual bag insert

	AppSense, the people-centric computing company, is a leading global software provider of user virtualization solutions that transform organizations into productive mobile workforces securely governed by IT. AppSense works with customers to reduce IT complexity and enable enterprise consumerization with independent management of the user experience across all mobile devices and desktops. User virtualization improves the deployment, management and migration of multi-platform desktop and mobile environments. The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom with offices around the world. www.appsense.com Download the virtual bag insert
	Avanade provides business technology solutions and managed services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft® technologies to help customers realize results. Our people have helped thousands of organizations in all industries improve business agility, employee productivity, and customer loyalty. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation and has approximately 17,000 professionals in more than 20 countries. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com. www.avanade.com Download the virtual bag insert
	Derdack designs software for mission-critical notifications and mobile incident response that helps customers in over 50 countries to automate alert notifications, to reliably distribute critical information and to rapidly respond to critical incidents and emergency situations before they can impact business continuity and customer service levels. Derdack’s Enterprise Alert® complements Microsoft System Center with advanced alert notifications and smartphone apps for mobile incident and service management – enabling the “mobile NOC”. Derdack is a member of the System Center Alliance. www.derdack.com Download the virtual bag insert
	Embotics provides mid-sized to large IT organizations with virtualization and cloud management software that enables IT-as-a-service (ITaaS) with the fastest time-to-value in the industry. Embotics V-Commander® provides a unified solution that takes economic and operational control of any VMware data center in under 24 hours to help manage the transition to Hyper-V and multi-hypervisor environments. Optimize the automation, deployment and configuration of IT services with Microsoft System Center 2012 and Embotics V-Commander. Free 30-day download: www.embotics.com. www.embotics.com Download the virtual bag insert
	Flexera Software’s Application Readiness and Software License Optimization solutions greatly reduce costs along the lifecycle of Application Usage Management. Our solutions lower the cost of application ownership by automating Windows 7 & 8 migrations and application virtualization deployments; and by providing unprecedented visibility into application usage positions to significantly lower your software license and maintenance spend. For more information, visit www.flexerasoftware.com. www.flexerasoftware.com Download the virtual bag insert
	FyrSoft [fire-soft] is an enterprise consulting services provider specializing in business solutions that automate IT management and workflow across the desktop, datacenter, and cloud with Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center. FyrSoft is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and recognized as one of the top systems management consulting firms enabling customers to fully realize the Microsoft System Center suite and Private Cloud capabilities throughout their business. Be Ready Now with a trusted partner, FyrSoft. www.fyrsoft.com Download the virtual bag insert
	Infront Consulting Group is an IT consulting organization specializing in System Center technologies. This includes the design, implementation, configuration, optimization, and on-going support and training of the System Center suite. As a Microsoft Gold Partner and recipient of the 2012 Microsoft Private Cloud Partner of the year award and 2012 Worldwide Private Cloud Partner of the Year, Infront has the proven track record to implement and provide training on the proposed Microsoft System Center technologies. www.infrontconsulting.com Download the virtual bag insert
	LANDesk helps IT departments maximize user productivity and simplify IT operations. LANDesk® Management Intelligence for Microsoft System Center consolidates the functionality of several add-on products. Management Intelligence helps increase your visibility into software and hardware assets to improve decision-making through reports, dashboards and a mobile app. It also reduces risk with software license and asset lifecycle management. Management Intelligence includes Cloud Aggregators that connect your data to top vendors and hardware and software manufactures, which automates your inventory, auditing and reporting processes. www.landesk.com Download the virtual bag insert
	The Provance® IT Asset Management Pack for Microsoft® System Center provides powerful IT Asset Life Cycle Management and Software Asset Management that drives down IT costs, increases service management efficiency, and reduces risk. Supporting ITIL® and the Microsoft Operations Framework, Provance strengthens IT effectiveness at every level of the Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimization model. Provance is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with the SAM and Volume Licensing Competencies, and System Center Alliance Member. www.provance.com Download the virtual bag insert
	Since being founded in 1999, RES Software has become the leader in making IT organizations 10x more productive at delivering IT services and managing user workspaces. As a pioneer in the workspace virtualization category, RES Software enables you to centrally deliver, manage and secure the key elements of your user’s computing experience, independently of workstyles and devices. RES Software serves more than 2,500 customers with more than 3,500 deployments in 27 different countries. Follow us on Twitter @RESSoftware and www.ressoftware.com. www.ressoftware.com Download the virtual bag insert
	Silect Software provides enterprise configuration, management and reporting solutions for Microsoft System Center and beyond. Get centralized dashboard reporting for enterprise configuration compliance, license tracking, patch management and more. Improve the deployment and management of SCOM management packs and SCCM configuration baselines with Silect. www.silect.com Download the virtual bag insert
	Splunk® Inc. provides the engine for machine data™. Splunk software collects, indexes and harnesses the machine data continuously generated by the websites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices that power business. Splunk software enables organizations to act on massive streams of real-time and historical machine data. More than 3,300 customers in over 75 countries use Splunk Enterprise to gain operational intelligence that deepens business understanding, improves service and uptime, reduces cost and mitigates cyber-security risk. www.splunk.com Download the virtual bag insert

From finding ways to take costs out of your business to managing uptime and changes in demand, you understand your business runs on that network and you need to find new ways to make the most of your investment. Building on our core business of unparalleled network services, CenturyLink helps businesses leverage existing and emerging technology. In addition to services utilizing over 210,000 network miles, CenturyLink has technology and expertise that extends to broader applications and technologies that will help you control your network-related costs, maintaining business continuity, and manage the demands of fluctuating demand and technological changes. www.centurylink.com/business