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VMware, Inc. is a provider of virtualization infrastructure solutions and cloud infrastructure solutions. The Company develops and markets its product and service offerings within three product groups, which include software-defined data center (SDDC), hybrid cloud computing and end-user computing (EUC). Its compute virtualization includes offerings that allow organizations to manage Information technology (IT) resources across private clouds and complex multi-cloud, and multi-device environments. Its SDDC is designed to transform the data center into an on-demand service. Its cloud strategy has three components, which include continue to expand beyond compute virtualization in the private cloud, extend the private cloud into the public cloud, and connect and secure endpoints across a range of public clouds. Its End-User Computing portfolio enables IT organizations to deliver secure access to applications, data and devices for their end users.

Microsoft Corporation is a technology company. The Company develops, licenses and supports a range of software products, services and devices. Its segments are Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. Its products include operating systems; cross-device productivity applications; server applications; business solution applications; desktop and server management tools; software development tools; video games, and training and certification of computer system integrators and developers. It also designs, manufactures, and sells devices, including personal computers, tablets, gaming and entertainment consoles, phones, other intelligent devices, and related accessories, that integrate with its cloud-based offerings. It offers an array of services, including cloud-based solutions that provide customers with software, services, platforms, and content, and it provides solution support and consulting services. It also delivers online advertising.

Mirantis opens doors for companies wanting to set up shop in Russia and Ukraine. The firm creates, staffs, and manages custom Product Development Centers (PDCs) for technology, financial services, and life science companies that want to establish a business presence in the region. Mirantis hires engineers to conduct research and development, finds office space, provides administrative functions, and helps with international and domestic regulatory compliance. Clients have included Intel, 3M, Siemens, General Motors, and Fujitsu. The company was formed in 1993 as ProSys. In 2009 Mirantis expanded its capabilities in emerging technologies when it merged with Grid Dynamics, an expert in grid and cloud computing.

Red Hat, Inc. (Red Hat) provides open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to develop and offer operating system, virtualization, management, middleware, cloud, mobile and storage technologies. Red Hat operates through three geographical segments: the Americas, including the United States, Canada and Latin America; EMEA, including Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific. Its products and services include infrastructure-related offerings, application development-related and other technology offerings, and consulting, support and training services. Its infrastructure-related offerings include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Its application development-related and other technology offerings include Red Hat JBoss Middleware, Red Hat cloud offerings, Red Hat Mobile and Red Hat Storage. Its consulting services include upgrade planning, platform migrations, solution integration and application development.

Canonical was created alongside Ubuntu to help it reach a wider market. Our services help governments and businesses the world over with migrations, management and support for their Ubuntu deployments. Together with our partners, we ensure that Ubuntu runs reliably on every platform from the PC and the smartphone to the server and, crucially, the cloud.

Dome9 Security protects cloud infrastructure. Leveraging cloud-native technologies Dome9 visualizes security risks, verifies and enforces security policies, and remediates threats to ensure continuous secure application delivery in cloud. Dome9’s self-managed cloud service is trusted by hundreds of enterprise customers to protect clouds over Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows Azure, IBM/Softlayer and many others.

Xplenty’s cloud-based, easy-to-use, data integration service makes it easy to move, process and transform more data, faster, reducing preparation time so businesses can unlock insights quickly. With an intuitive drag-and-drop interface it’s a zero-coding experience. Xplenty processes both structured and unstructured data and integrates with a variety of sources, including SQL data stores, NoSQL databases and cloud storage services.

Wind River®, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel® Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for addressing the system-level challenges and opportunities of IoT that is backed by world-class global professional services, award-winning customer support, and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the software and expertise that enable the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit www.windriver.com.

Wind River® Titanium Cloud™ is the industry's only fully integrated, ultrareliable, and deployment-ready portfolio of virtualization software products. Titanium Cloud provides the ideal software infrastructure designed for the rigorous demands of the carrier and critical infrastructure networks.

Founded in 2010, Midokura was an early global leader in network virtualization. The company’s pedigree includes Amazon, Cisco, Google and VMware. With its Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) solution, Midokura offers the industry a complete overlay technology that integrates with cloud platforms, such as OpenStack. Now gaining awareness in 122 countries, the source code for MidoNet is freely available at www.midonet.org. MidoNet delivers the first truly open, vendor-agnostic network virtualization solution available to the OpenStack community. Midokura is a contributing member of the OpenStack Networking (Neutron) Project and the Kuryr Project.

Nu-âhj: From French, meaning ‘cloud’. Nuage Networks from Nokia brings a combination of technologies and networking expertise to the enterprise and telecommunications industries. The Silicon Valley-based business has applied new thinking to the problem of delivering massively scalable and highly programmable SDN solutions within and across the datacenter and out to the wide area network with the security and availability required by business-critical environments. Nuage Networks, backed by the rapidly growing IP/Optical Networks business of Nokia has the pedigree to serve the needs of the world’s biggest clouds. The cloud has made promises – the mission of Nuage Networks is to help you realize them.

Founded in 2011, by experts in networking, security, and scalable systems PLUMgrid is headquartered in the Silicon Valley and has sales and development offices around the world. PLUMgrid is backed by US Venture Partner, Hummer Winblad, Longworth Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and Swisscom Ventures. From the beginning PLUMgrid strived to re-envision how the IO infrastructure of the data center. The focus is on networking complexities of the cloud world and how to simplify the creation of applications without relying on operations teams to deliver complex changes in the infrastructure.

VMware NSX® is the network virtualization platform for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), delivering the operational model of a virtual machine for entire networks. With NSX, network functions including switching, routing, and firewalling are embedded in the hypervisor and distributed across the environment. This effectively creates a “network hypervisor” that acts as a platform for virtual networks and services. Similar to the operational model of virtual machines, virtual networks are programmatically provisioned and managed independently of underlying hardware. NSX reproduces the entire network model in software, enabling any network topology—from simple to complex multitier networks—to be created and provisioned in seconds. Users can create multiple virtual networks with diverse requirements, leveraging a combination of the services offered via NSX to build inherently more secure environments

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company is a provider of technology solutions. The Company operates through five segments: Enterprise Group, Software, Enterprise Services, Financial Services and Corporate Investments. The Enterprise Group segment provides its customers with the technology infrastructure they need to optimize traditional information technology (IT). The Software segment allows its customers to automate IT operations to simplify, accelerate and secure business processes and drives the analytics that turn raw data into actionable knowledge. The Enterprise Services segment brings all of its solutions together through its consulting and support professionals. The Financial Services segment enables flexible IT consumption models, financial architectures and customized investment solutions for its customers. The Corporate Investments segment includes Hewlett Packard Labs and certain business incubation projects, among others.

Dell Inc. provides technology, business solutions and services across the world. The Company offers products in various categories, including Laptops & 2-in-1 PCs; Desktops & All-in-One PCs; Tablets; Gaming; Workstations; Thin Clients; Servers & Storage; Networking; Monitors; Printers & Ink; Software, and Electronics & Accessories. It also offers television wall mounts and television stands. It offers headphones, projector screens, speaker wire and connectors, and video cables. The Company's solutions and services include Application Services; Big Data and Analytics; Business Process Outsourcing; Cloud; Data Center; Digital Business Services; End User; Information and Data Management; Information Technology (IT) and Lifecycle Services; Mobile; Security, and Training. Its solutions by industry include education, energy, financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, original equipment manufacturers, telecommunications, media and entertainment, and Web development.

Super Micro Computer, Inc. is engaged in developing and providing end-to-end green computing solutions to the cloud computing, data center, enterprise information technology (IT), big data, high performance computing (HPC) and Internet of Things (IoT)/embedded markets. The Company's solutions range from server, storage, blade and workstations to full racks, networking devices, server management software and technology support and services. The Company sells its server systems and server subsystems and accessories through a combination of distributors, including value added resellers and system integrators, and other equipment manufacturers (OEMs). As of June 30, 2016, the Company offered over 4,950 stock keeping units (SKUs), including SKUs for server and storage systems, server boards, chassis, power supplies and other system accessories. The Company develops and manufactures server solutions based upon a modular and open architecture.

Avnet, Inc. is a distributor of electronic components, enterprise computer, networking and storage products and software, information technology solutions and services, and embedded subsystems. The Company operates through two segments: Electronics Marketing (EM) and Technology Solutions (TS). The EM segment markets and sells semiconductors and interconnect, passive and electromechanical devices (IP&E), and embedded products to a customer base serving various end markets. The TS segment focuses on the distribution of enterprise computing servers and systems, software, storage, services and solutions from the technology manufacturers and software developers. It also provides hard disk drives, microprocessor, motherboard and dynamic random access memory module technologies to manufacturers of general-purpose computers and system builders. It has operations in the Americas; Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Asia/Pacific, consisting of Asia, Australia and New Zealand (Asia).

Flex Ltd, formerly Flextronics International Ltd. provides design, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain services and solutions. The Company designs, builds, ships and services packaged consumer electronics and industrial products for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Its segments include High Reliability Solutions (HRS), Consumer Technologies Group (CTG), Industrial and Emerging Industries (IEI) and Communications & Enterprise Compute (CEC). The HRS segment consists of its medical business, automotive business, and defense and aerospace businesses. The CTG segment includes its mobile devices business, consumer electronics business and high-volume computing business. The IEI segment consists of semiconductor and capital equipment, office solutions, household industrial and lifestyle, industrial automation and kiosks, energy and metering, and lighting. The CEC segment includes radio access base stations, remote radio heads, and small cells for wireless infrastructure.

A Jabil business unit based in San Jose, Calif., StackVelocity is an end-to-end global services provider for workload-optimized hardware solutions at the platform and data center level. With more than 100 facilities worldwide, the company’s rack-level integrated solutions are designed for customers with specific requirements for open source software and cost-optimized hardware. StackVelocity is engaged with tier one and two customers in the public cloud market, as well as SaaS providers and large enterprises. StackVelocity provides a complete suite of capabilities from design, manufacturing, delivery, services and support.

Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability. Ceph was made possible by a global community of passionate storage engineers and researchers. Ceph is open source and freely-available, and it always will be.

Nexenta is the inventor and global leader in Software-Defined Storage. Nexenta delivers secure, high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage software solutions on any hardware platform realizing the “true” Software Defined Data Center to enable the biggest challenges in IT today; from rich media-driven Social Media to Big Data; from Internet of Things to Mobility via the Cloud. Built upon an “open platform” and running on a broad choice of industry-standard hardware, Nexenta eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, secure and scalable unified storage management at significantly lower total cost than legacy systems.

DataDirect Networks (DDN) is the world’s leading big data storage supplier to data-intensive, global organizations. For more than 15 years, DDN has designed, developed, deployed and optimized systems, software and storage solutions that enable enterprises, service providers, universities and government agencies to generate more value and to accelerate time to insight from their data and information, on premise and in the cloud. Organizations leverage the power of DDN storage technology and the deep technical expertise of its team to capture, store, process, analyze, collaborate and distribute data, information and content at largest scale in the most efficient, reliable and cost effective manner. DDN customers include many of the world’s leading financial services firms and banks, healthcare and life science organizations, manufacturing and energy companies, government and research facilities, and web and cloud service providers.

DataON™ is the industry leading provider Hyper-Converged Cluster Appliances (HCCA) and storage systems optimized for Microsoft® Windows Server environments. Our solutions are built with the single purpose of rapidly and seamlessly deploying Microsoft applications, virtualization, data protection and hybrid cloud services. Our company is focused on customers who have made the “Microsoft Choice” and we provide the ultimate platform for the Microsoft Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). DataON is the division of Area Electronics.

IRON is a leading provider of purpose-built, application-specific, server-appliance and embedded systems platforms. We provide product lifecycle management services for networking, storage, security, medical and communications markets worldwide. Our team is best known for our innovative customer specific solution design, integrations, supply chain management expertise, and unique deployment capabilities – all backed by global technical support and maintenance services. IRON offers everything modern software developers need to deploy their application as a complete platform solution.

StorPool is software for distributed data storage. StorPool enables businesses to work with their data reliably and efficiently. StorPool makes shared storage pool out of standard drives (HDDs/SSDs) placed in standard servers. It is like virtual SAN, aggregating the performance AND capacity of all drives into a single pool of storage distributed between all servers.