VIRTUALIZATION & CLOUD COMPUTING FORUM 2013

Sponsors

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.gr. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com.

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.

From 1983 Hewlett-Packard Hellas E.P.E. (HPH) helps people and business apply technology in meaningful ways by harnessing new thinking and ideas to deliver reliable products and services. HP is a leading provider of products, technology solutions and services.

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small & medium business.

HP, both at worldwide and in Greece, has been organized into core business groups, which co-operate closely together and jointly focus on addressing all customer needs, regardless of their complexity.

More information about HP Hellas is available at http://www.hp.gr

Veeam® Software, an Elite VMware Technology Alliance partner and a Microsoft managed partner, develops innovative products for virtual infrastructure management and data protection. Customers can reduce costs, minimize risks and fully realize the promise of virtualization with Veeam.

Veeam is an international company with global headquarters in Baar, Switzerland; North American headquarters in Columbus, Ohio USA; EMEA headquarters in Paris, France; and APAC headquarters in Sydney, NSW Australia. Veeam has more than 58,000 customers worldwide. The company’s free Veeam Backup Free Edition tool is used by more than 150,000 VMware professionals, making it the most widely used tool to help manage VMware.

VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity and enable more flexible, agile service delivery. VMware accelerates an organization’s transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments and enabling more efficient, agile service delivery without compromising control. With more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware helps organizations of all sizes lower costs, preserve freedom of choice and energize business through IT while saving energy—financial, human and the Earth’s.

Co-Sponsors

Alfavad SA is a newly established corporation, managed and staffed by professionals with a successful track record in sales, channel development, product management and marketing functions.Operating as a pure Value Added Distributor, we specialize in virtualization, storage, security and ITSM solutions. We work closely with major vendors to market a portfolio of IT products and services that address the needs of both small/medium businesses and of large enterprises and the government sector. We provide to our channel partners guidance and expert technical pre-sales and post-sales services, with absolute commitment on quality and customer satisfaction. We organize and deliver a variety of technical education services and accreditation trainings, conducted by our qualified instructors. Courses offered include hands-on labs, are conducted in our own classroom facilities, on customer`s site and/or remotely over the internet.

StarWind Software is a global leader in storage management and SAN software for small and midsize companies. StarWind's flagship product is iSCSI SAN software that turns any industry-standard Windows Server into a fault-tolerant, fail-safe iSCSI SAN. It is designed for use as networked storage and has been qualified to support VMware, Microsoft and Hyper-V environments, Linux & Unix. StarWind Software is focused on providing affordable, high availability, technology which was previously only available in high-end storage products. Advanced, enterprise-class features include Automated Failover and Failback, Remote Replication across a WAN, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) , Snapshots, Thin Provisioning and Virtual Tape Library management.

Since 2003 StarWind has pioneered iSCSI and SAN software and is the solution of choice for over 30,000 global users in over 100 countries, from small and midsize companies, to governments, Fortune 1000 companies, and education.