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Hitachi Data Systems leverages global R&D resources to develop storage solutions built on industry-leading technology with the performance, availability and scalability to maximize customers' ROI and minimize their risk. By focusing on the customer's perspective as it applies the best hardware, software, and services from Hitachi and its partners, HDS uniquely satisfies its customers' business needs. With approximately 2,900 employees, Hitachi Data Systems conducts business through direct and indirect channels in the public, government and private sectors in over 170 countries. Its customers include more than 50 percent of Fortune 100 companies.

  
 

A singular vision — "The Network Is The Computer" — guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age.
 
       
 
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Opsware Inc. is the world's leading Data Center Automation software company. The growth of the Internet is driving a shift from client/server computing to Web architecture. With this shift, the number of business applications an IT organization manages is doubling every few years. This has caused an explosion in the amount and complexity of IT infrastructure — across every layer of the stack — networks, software, servers, and storage. It's also caused a corresponding explosion of disconnected organizational silos — resulting in slow response times, miscommunications, and downtime. Conventional management tools are reactive and only address the symptoms rather than the root cause. To address the crux of the problem, a new proactive approach is needed. Opsware is that new approach. Opsware automates the complete IT lifecycle and enables IT to automatically discover, provision, patch, configure, secure, change, scale, audit, recover, consolidate, migrate, and reallocate servers, network devices, and applications. Product awards and analyst rankings have identified Opsware as the leader in the marketplace.
 
 

EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information storage and its management. EMC sets the information storage standard for every major computing platform and, through its solutions, serves as caretaker for more than two-thirds of the world's most essential information.

  
       
 
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QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions including Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs, iSCSI routers, and storage services platforms for enabling advanced storage management applications. The Company is also a leading supplier of server networking products including InfiniBand host channel adapters that accelerate cluster performance. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, and Sun Microsystems.
 
 
Juniper Networks is revolutionizing the economics of global information exchange. Our purpose-built, high-performance IP platforms enable customers to support many different services and applications at scale. Service providers, enterprises, governments, and research and education institutions worldwide rely on the company to deliver products for building networks that are tailored to the individual needs of their users, services, and applications. Juniper Networks focuses on customers who derive strategic value from their networks.
 
       
 
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Enterprises and consumers need to keep their infrastructures up and running 24x7. They need to be able to access information anytime and anywhere. That means that their critical systems must be up and running all the time. Therefore, it is important that they protect the physical systems, the operating environments, and the applications — across all tiers of their infrastructure. They must protect a broad range of information types — from email to business documents to digital photos to audio and video files. And, they must ensure that the interactions — the connections, the collaborative environments, and the movement of data while in use — are protected. Symantec is focused on helping customers protect their infrastructures, their information, and their interactions. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Symantec has operations in 40 countries.
 
 
Founded in 1980, Quantum is the leading global storage company specializing in backup, recovery, and archive solutions. Because all of Quantum's resources are dedicated to backup, recovery and archive, the company offers the focused expertise, customer-driven innovation, and platform independence that storage generalists, such as system OEMs and primary storage providers, cannot match. This combination helps customers solve data protection and retention issues more easily, effectively, and securely. In addition, unlike start-ups that offer point products or technologies, Quantum has the global scale and scope to support a worldwide customer base, along with a comprehensive portfolio of systems, software, devices, and services. In August 2006, Quantum and Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) joined forces to form the largest independent supplier of backup, recovery and archive solutions. The combined organization is focused on developing solutions that give customers greater value and a better overall experience than either company could offer on its own. The new Quantum has nearly 1,000 sales, marketing and service employees to provide informed expertise, advice and support to companies of all sizes. Quantum — Backup. Recovery. Archive. It's What We Do.
  
 

Founded in 1993, Red Hat is the premier Linux and open source provider. Rated as CIO Insight Magazine's Most Valued Vendor for the second consecutive year, Red Hat maintains the highest value and reliability rankings among its customers, and is the most recognized Linux brand in the world. We serve global enterprises through technology and services made possible by the open source model. Solutions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating platforms, sold through a subscription model, and a broad range of services: consulting, 24x7 support, and Red Hat Network. Red Hat's global training program operates in more than 60 locations worldwide and features RHCE, the global standard Linux certification.

  
 
Dataram Corporation, founded in 1967, is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of reliable, high capacity and innovative memory solutions. With 40 years experience, Dataram provides memory upgrades for leading brands including Sun, IBM, HP, SGI, Dell, Intel and AMD Opteron at savings of up to 50% off OEM memory prices. Engineering excellence, quality products, timely delivery, superior service and support make Dataram the best choice in memory.
  
 
Citrix is the global leader and most trusted name in on-demand access. More than 180,000 organizations around the world use the Citrix Access Platform to provide the best access experience to any application for any user. Citrix customers include all of the Fortune 100 companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and individuals.
 
 
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Networks are now an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction, and strengthen competitive advantage.
 
 
To ensure that their information is stored securely and backed up reliably, many organizations rely on Brocade-based Storage Area Network (SAN) and application infrastructure management solutions. With its new Tapestry family of solutions and its industry-leading SilkWorm family of SAN infrastructure solutions, Brocade is paving the way for more efficient management of the three C's: cost, complexity, and compliance. Today, Brocade solutions help maximize technology investments by providing a highly-available and easily-managed foundation for mission-critical storage, server, and application resources. Leveraging these innovative solutions, organizations can simplify their IT environments to increase asset utilization, reduce operating costs, and ensure compliance with their business objectives. The result is a high-performance, high-availability IT environment designed for cost-effective growth.
  
 
Founded in 1976, CA today is a global company with headquarters in the United States and 150 offices in more than 45 countries. We serve more than 98% of Fortune 1000® companies, as well as government entities, educational institutions and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide. We are driving our next level of growth through our four-part strategy of product development, leveraging partners, global expansion, and strategic acquisitions — all with the goal of helping our customers realize the full power of IT to drive their business.
  
 
Belkin provides comprehensive SMB and Enterprise solutions in networking, racks/enclosures, KVM and power protection, including a broad USB and cable product mix. For home theater, we provide extensive networking solutions with our PureAV® line of cables, power, and digital wireless accessories. Belkin is the recognized leader in connectivity solutions, in addition to accessories for iPod® devices, computers, and more. Our diverse and innovative product mix provides people with seamless electronics integration in their business, homes, cars, and on the go. A privately held company founded in California in 1983, Belkin has developed industry-leading innovations, prized by channel partners and end-users alike for their dependability, customer service, and comprehensive warranties. Belkin has achieved over twenty consecutive years of dramatic growth and remains committed to making significant strides in the areas of research and design. Belkin's phenomenal growth has led to our expanding global presence. In addition to corporate headquarters in Los Angeles, we now have offices throughout Europe — in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany, among others — and in the Asia Pacific region, including Australia, Shanghai, and our regional headquarters in Hong Kong.
  
 

Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is a leading global provider of innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and consumer electronics markets. AMD is dedicated to driving open innovation, choice and industry growth by delivering superior customer-centric solutions that empower consumers and businesses worldwide.

  
 
IBRIX® delivers increased application performance to enterprise computing environments utilizing a unique, software-based parallel file serving solution. The IBRIX FusionT software suite, comprised of a single namespace parallel file system, a scalable volume manager, high availability features, and a comprehensive management interface, is the most scalable, economical, multipurpose file serving solution available for cluster computing, grid computing, and enterprise computing environments. Based on IBRIX's patented Segmented File SystemT, IBRIX Fusion increases application performance, simplifies administration, and reduces total cost of ownership. The IBRIX Fusion software suite is available through leading OEMs and Solution Provider partners. For more information, visit www.ibrix.com.
  
 
Riverbed Technology is the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local.
  
 
Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ GS: TECD), Founded in 1974, Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ: TECD) is a leading distributor of IT products, with more than 90,000 customers in over 100 countries. The company's business model enables technology solution providers, manufacturers and publishers to cost-effectively sell to and support end users ranging from small-to-midsize businesses (SMB) to large enterprises. Ranked 107th on the FORTUNE 500, Tech Data generated $20.5 billion in sales for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2006. Tech Data's Mission To be the IT distributor of choice for our customers and business partners, thus enabling our shareholders to prosper.
  
 
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. For the four fiscal quarters ended Oct. 31, 2006, HP revenue totaled $91.7 billion. Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE, NASDAQ: HPQ) Headquarters: Palo Alto, California HP serves more than one billion customers in more than 170 countries on six continents. HP has approximately 150,000 employees worldwide. HP's 2006 Fortune 500 ranking: No. 11 HP's mission is to invent technologies and services that drive business value, create social benefit and improve the lives of customers — with a focus on affecting the greatest number of people possible. HP dedicates $3.6 billion (U.S.) annually to its research and development of products, solutions and new technologies.
  
 
Oracle's business is information — how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided the software that lets organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems. For more information, visit www.oracle.com.
  
 
CommVault® provides Unified Data Management® solutions for high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of data on complex storage networks. The CommVault® QiNetixT platform, based on CommVault's Common Technology Engine, integrates Galaxy backup and recovery, snapshot management and recovery, remote replication, active data migration and archiving, e-mail compliance, enterprise service level management and reporting and storage resource management software solutions. The QiNetix unified approach is designed to allow customers to add/integrate QiNetix components, at a fraction of the time, effort and money required by separate point products. Information about CommVault is available at www.commvault.com or by calling 732. 870.4000. CommVault's corporate headquarters is located in Oceanport, New Jersey in the United States.
  
 
F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. F5 provides solutions that make applications secure, fast and available for everyone, helping organizations get the most out of their investment. By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload applications, F5 optimizes applications and allows them to work faster and consume fewer resources. F5's extensible architecture intelligently integrates application optimization, protects the application and the network, and delivers application reliability — all on one universal platform. Over 10,000 organizations and service providers worldwide trust F5 to keep their applications running. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices worldwide.
 
 
Ingram Micro Inc. is the world's largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services and product aggregation and distribution.
  
 
SurfControl provides a portfolio of security solutions to protect our customers from Internet threats, deliver business and regulatory compliance, and enable business continuity. SurfControl believes that security should be treated as a science, delivering protection at multiple points — "in the cloud" with on-demand security services, on the network with software and appliances, and on the desktop and mobile client. All of SurfControl's solutions for Web, e-mail and endpoint security are backed by industry-leading threat detection technologies, delivered by SurfControl's Global Threat Experts who work 24/7 to provide customers with dynamic zero-day protection. The company protects more than 14.5 million users and over 23,000 customers worldwide, and employs more than 600 people in offices across Europe, the Americas, and Asia/Pacific. For further information and news on SurfControl, please visit www.surfcontrol.com.
  
 
SYNNEX Corporation is a global information technology (IT) supply chain services company which provides a comprehensive range of offerings to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and value-added resellers (VARs). The company has built a solid reputation as an outsourcing partner, providing customized, fully integrated computing solutions to its customers. Our supply chain services include IT distribution, contract assembly services and logistics services. SYNNEX's model streamlines processes and reduces the number of intermediaries throughout the supply chain, thus providing much greater efficiencies in time to market and cost.
  
 
Founded in 1998, today VMware is a leader in virtual infrastructure technology. Our 4 million users and over 20,000 corporate customers depend on us for solutions to their server consolidation, business continuity, improved software development and testing, and desktop managability and security needs. VMware virtual infrastructure simplifies IT so companies leverage their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond faster. The VMware virtual infrastructure approach to IT management creates virtual services out of the physical IT infrastructure, enabling administrators to allocate these virtual resources quickly to the business units that need them most.
  
 
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is a leader in securing the Internet. It is a market leader in the worldwide enterprise firewall, consumer Internet security and VPN markets. Through its NGX platform, the company delivers a unified security architecture for a broad range of perimeter, internal, Web, and endpoint security solutions that protect business communications and resources for corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets. The company's ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite and additional consumer security solutions are among the highest rated in the industry today, proactively protecting millions of people from hackers, spyware, viruses and identity theft. Extending the power of the Check Point solution is its Open Platform for Security (OPSEC), the industry's framework and alliance for integration and interoperability with "best-of-breed" solutions from hundreds of leading companies. Check Point solutions are sold, integrated and serviced by a network of thousands of Check Point partners around the world and its customers include 100 percent of Fortune 100 companies and tens of thousands of businesses and organizations of all sizes.
  
       
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