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Sponsors
From enterprise data centers to the service provider core, Brocade(R) (NASDAQ: BRCD) develops extraordinary networking solutions that connect the world's most important information in mission-critical environments. As a result, Brocade end-to-end networking solutions enable today's complex, data-intensive businesses to run in the most efficient manner possible.
Brocade pioneered and continues to lead the Storage Area Network (SAN) market, providing the industry's most reliable, energy-efficient solutions. In 2008, Brocade enhanced its offerings by adding high-performance networking capabilities as part of a complete local, metro-, and wide-area switching, routing, security, and application traffic management portfolio.
Delivered directly and through global partners, Brocade networking solutions support the most demanding business requirements such as consolidation, virtualization, and business continuity. In turn, these solutions help today's organizations optimize information connectivity, increase resource utilization, and maximize the business value of their data.
Brocade combines a proven track record of expertise, innovation, and new technology development with standards leadership and strategic partnerships with the world's leading IT companies. The result is the industry's most comprehensive family of reliable, high-performance, and efficient networking solutions that provide a reliable foundation for next-generation IT infrastructures.
To ensure a complete solution, Brocade also provides a full range of education, support, and professional services offerings. To learn more, visit www.brocade.com
HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work.
No other company offers as complete a technology product portfolio as HP. We provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world's most powerful supercomputer installations. We offer consumers a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment and from computing to home printing. This comprehensive portfolio helps us match the right products, services and solutions to our customers' specific needs.
Intel pushes the boundaries of innovation so our work can make people's lives more exciting, fulfilling, and manageable. And our work never stops. We never stop looking for the next leap ahead--in technology, education, culture, manufacturing, and social responsibility. And we never stop striving to deliver solutions with greater benefits for everyone.
Through our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. We deliver the best-engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that help customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. Because of our 25 years of experience and our vision of interoperability and flexibility, we deliver powerful, next-generation business infrastructures that enable our customers to stay competitive.
Our solutions help customers integrate Linux and other open source technologies into their IT infrastructures while leveraging existing resources. And our IT management software automates management across physical and virtual systems, controls customers' IT assets intelligently and automatically, and enforces business and security policies across the enterprise. These features allow customers to easily align IT with business goals. Our solutions also include the applications, services and expertise customers need to improve their security and address their governance and compliance challenges, and achieve seamless collaboration throughout the enterprise.
Novell technology gives our customers the infinite IT flexibility and agility necessary to meet and exceed their business objectives. We are here to meet customers' demands and to provide the applied technology that today's organizations need to solve today's problems. Our products and solutions, internal team, extended community of open source developers and ecosystem of high-impact partnerships are truly making IT work as one.
Novell® Making IT Work As One™
About OPNET
OPNET Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of solutions for managing applications and networks. OPNET provides the industry's most integrated solution suite for end-to-end application performance management (APM), and leading solutions for network engineering, operations, and planning.
OPNET Solutions
OPNET uniquely provides a comprehensive, integrated APM suite, addressing end-user experience monitoring, application component monitoring, and in-depth troubleshooting, all leveraging exclusive real-time analytics. OPNET's APM solutions provide full lifecycle coverage for 24x7 monitoring and alerting as well as predictive planning that avoids inefficient and costly infrastructure investments.
OPNET also offers preferred solutions for network design and operations engineers to plan, optimize, diagram, visualize, audit, and troubleshoot complex networks. OPNET solutions accelerate network auditing and troubleshooting by creating content-rich network diagrams, including detailed logical and physical device configuration information as well as logical views of the network.
OPNET Customers
OPNET's solutions have been operationally proven in thousands of customer environments worldwide, including corporate and government enterprises, service providers, and defense agencies.
More than 75% of the top 50 US Government Contractors and over two-thirds of the US Government's Executive Departments use OPNET solutions. OPNET solutions are extensively utilized by US Defense and Intelligence Agencies, including US Army, US Air Force, US Marine Corps, US Navy, US Central Command, US Army Research Lab, US Navy Research Lab, Defense Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
RightNow is helping rid the world of bad experiences one interaction at a time, seven million times a day. A leader in bringing the Cloud delivery model to government, RightNow has successfully served the US government for more than ten years. RightNow CX, the customer experience suite, helps agencies deliver exceptional customer experiences across the web, social networks and contact centers, all delivered via the secure government cloud. With RightNow, agencies are able to drive citizen engagement, reduce the cost of operations and increase information transparency within the secure government cloud.
Over 170 government agencies including nearly every U.S. cabinet level agency, Army, Marines, Air Force, members of the Intelligence Community, and DoD, rely on RightNow's cloud based solutions to answer the call for greater service--providing the right information, at the right time, seamlessly across multiple channels. Additionally, with more than eight billion customer interactions delivered, RightNow is the customer experience fabric for nearly 2000 organizations around the globe. For more information, please visit www.rightnow.com/government.
Serena delivers unparalleled IT confidence and peace of mind.
About Serena
Customers choose our industry-leading Application Lifecycle Management solutions whenever they need development controls for mainframe, distributed or embedded development projects. From team-level management of source code to complex development projects that simply cannot fail, Serena delivers the governance needed to make software better.
More recently, we have expanded the Serena solution portfolio to bring the same governance to other business processes. Our Business Process Management solutions quickly automate business processes to increase responsiveness while delivering built-in auditability.
Extreme customer focus
Serena's 15,000 customers worldwide value our commitment to customer success. The Serena support team includes dedicated, knowledgeable technology professionals (with an average company tenure of more than eight years!) who proactively reach out to help our customers. Our development teams are passionate about innovation and continue to deliver market-changing products. Across the company, we are driven by a desire to see our customers gain confidence and peace-of-mind for their applications.
Maximize the value of your application and process investments
Serena products deliver the lowest cost of ownership of any comparable solutions, helping our customers achieve ALM and BPM with as little as 10 percent of the time and expense required by other solutions.
SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of government and business by engineering the cost and complexity out of running a secure network. Over one million SonicWALL appliances have been shipped through its global network of channel partners to keep tens of millions of worldwide business and government users safe and in control of their data. SonicWALL's award-winning solutions include network security, secure remote access, anti-spam and email content security, and centralized policy and management technology. For more information, please visit the SonicWALL web site at www.sonicwall.com/fed/
Media Partners
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The Government Technology Research Alliance (GTRA) consists of over 100 federal leaders in a variety of technology areas of expertise. Meeting twice a year, the GTRA Council brings together executive-level government technology leaders to collaborate, strategize and create innovative solutions for government-wide challenges. Through these council meetings, GTRA provides annual required continuing education (CEUs) in the areas of cloud computing, virtualization, security, enterprise architecture, technology, project management, health IT, green IT and leadership while helping them identify affordable effective technology solutions.
By sharing best practices and lessons-learned, knowledge at the executive-level is exchanged among peers, resulting in actionable government-wide strategic plans to meet OMB and each agency's objectives.
GTRA also provides federal agencies with local Washington D.C. training forums tailored to meet their educational needs through focused hands-on workshops. GTRA's curriculum development team assists government leaders with their educational objectives, desired training topics, coordinating speakers and designing a customized program around their requirements.
Within the GTRA Council there are several Committees for Technology. The Committees are comprised of government executives in the fields of Technology, Security, Mobile/Wireless, Enterprise Architecture, HR, Learning, Training, Health IT, Legal and Leadership. Through Annual Symposiums, Meetings, Networking and the Members Portal, the Committees provide an unparalleled forum for government-wide dialog while advancing strategic technological initiatives and common goals.
The Government Technology Research Alliance (GTRA) provides CXO government leaders a forum to collaborate, strategize and create innovative solutions for today's most pressing IT needs. The research used to drive curriculum for all GTRA initiatives is grounded in the knowledge gleaned from the GTRA Council. GTRA's Council consists of over 100 well-respected government executives who specialize in Enterprise Architecture, Security, Cloud Computing, SOA, Virtualization, Leadership, Defense, Health IT, Workforce Management and Green IT. Through the semi-annual GTRA Symposium, workshops, live demonstrations, the monthly GOVTek Newsletter and the GTRA Members Portal, both public and private sector executives are able to share best practices and lessons learned resulting in actionable government-wide strategic plans. GTRA identifies cutting-edge technologies and solution providers to bridge the gap between strategy and the execution of government IT initiatives. GTRA is revolutionizing government collaboration for solutions and innovation!