ADVA Optical Networking is a global provider of intelligent telecommunications infrastructure solutions. With software-automated Optical+Ethernet transmission technology, the Company builds the foundation for high-speed, next-generation networks. The Company’s FSP product family adds scalability and intelligence to customers’ networks while removing complexity and cost. Thanks to reliable performance for more than 15 years, the Company has become a trusted partner for more than 250 carriers and 10,000 enterprises across the globe.

Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) networking solutions help organisations transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. Innovative Ethernet and storage networking solutions for data centre, campus, and service provider networks help reduce complexity and cost while enabling virtualisation and cloud computing to increase business agility. www.brocade.com

Cisco Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in networking, offers a complete data centre portfolio of secure, intelligent data, storage, and server networking products. With a common set of intelligent networking services, the integration of these products and technologies into network architectures enables the consolidation of compute, storage, and network resources within and between data centres.

A singular vision—a belief in a better way to address current and future data management needs—guides CommVault in the development of Singular Information Management® solutions for high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of data on complex storage networks. CommVault’s exclusive single-platform architecture gives companies unprecedented control over data growth, costs and risk. CommVault® Simpana® software modules were designed to work together seamlessly from the ground up, sharing a single code and common function set, to deliver superlative Backup & Recovery, Archive, Replication, Search and Resource Management capabilities.

FalconStor Software is Defining Data Protection, Again™ by transforming traditional backup and recovery into next-generation service-oriented data protection. Open, integrated FalconStor solutions maximize data, system, and service availability without vendor lock-in, simplifying management and improving efficiency. Our solutions eliminate backup windows and ensure rapid recovery of complete services for business continuity. FalconStor products are built upon an award-winning platform that delivers disk-based backup, continuous data protection, WAN-optimized replication, and disaster recovery (DR) automation to meet the evolving needs of today’s data center.

The Hitachi IT Operations Software Suite Monitors and Manages IT Infrastructure to help companies address IT complexity. The combination of two easy-to-use products, Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer and Hitachi IT Operations Director, provide companies with a powerful set of infrastructure monitoring tools and lifecycle management tools.

Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer provides essential availability and performance monitoring capabilities for your heterogeneous servers, network and storage devices. Analyzer delivers fully featured tools through an award winning Web-based interface, and it includes automated root cause analysis, logical network path views, agentless architecture and an open platform for both XML and Java based plug-ins. Hitachi IT Operations Director is a fully integrated systems management solution that makes it simpler to administer security management, asset management and software distribution. Plus, Director is easy to install, easy to configure and easy to learn – so you can get more out of your limited IT resources.

The Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track Program is a joint reference architecture for building private clouds that combines Microsoft software, consolidated guidance, and validated configurations with OEM partner technology/Hitachi Data Systems - including computing power, network and storage architectures, and value-added software components. Hitachi Fast Track

As the global leader in backup, recovery, and archive, Quantum provides its customers with expert advice and integrated solutions to better manage their short- and long-term storage requirements. IT managers need real-time access to data, reliable backups, and cost-effective retention. And with Quantum, vital information is available across sites, storage environments, and time.

SAP and Hitachi Data Systems share many of their largest and most high-profile customers – in every major Geography and Market around the world. The Hitachi Companies have numerous partnerships with SAP ranging from the sale, integration and implementation of SAP solutions. Hitachi Data Systems and SAP work together to certify integrated offerings that provide our mutual customers with industry-leading availability, scalability and performance for their critical corporate information.

Hitachi Data Systems customers benefit in two key ways by utilising Silver Peak within their organisation. Customers can improve backup, replication and recovery processes between Data Centres while substantially reducing the amount of data being transferred, enabling faster transfers over smaller and lower quality WAN links, achieving lower Telco Operational costs. Organisations can also leverage new Hitachi Data Systems solutions such as Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) between Data Centres and Branch Offices and enable it to share existing Branch office links with Data, Voice, Video and other applications without the need to invest in higher speed Branch office links or negatively impact Application performance.

SmartOptics is revolutionising optical networking solutions based on Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology. At the forefront of new designs and technology, SmartOptics enables telecom operators, SAN/IP architects and ISPs to build simple and cost effective optical networks to fulfil current and future network capacity needs.

VMware delivers virtualisation and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organisations to energise businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualisation platform – VMware vSphere® – customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green.