Platinum Sponsor

As leaders in cloud technology since 2001, we're using our strengths and business grade acquisitions to bring innovation to business technology. Our recent acquisition of Nexmo, the Vonage API Platform, has expanded our capabilities even further with the addition of CPaaS. Joining voice, messaging and verify API's with UCaaS enables deeper integration of contextual communications for improved customer experiences. Vonage serves single-person companies to enterprises with thousands of employees spread over multiple locations (including Houston and Dallas). With 40+ intuitive phone features, it's business innovation that improves productivity and scales as you grow. But the 600,000+ business users who trust Vonage for their phone solutions agree, Vonage Business is so much more. https://business.vonage.com/

Gold Sponsor

Arbor Networks customers gain a micro view of their own network, through our suite of products, combined with a macro view of global Internet traffic and emerging threats, through our ATLAS threat intelligence infrastructure. See, understand and solve more security threats with Arbor Networks. https://www.arbornetworks.com/

Lunch Sponsor

Since our beginning in 1992, NetApp have been delivering technology and product firsts with one goal in mind: the success of our customers. We continually push the boundaries of what’s possible to provide efficient and flexible IT, so our customers’ budgets can go further and business can go faster. We have repeatedly set the industry standard with game-changing innovations that have the power to transform business. http://www.netapp.com

Reception Sponsor

IronEdge Group provides Texas-based organizations and their locations around the globe with enterprise class IT solutions and powerful data driven decision-making tools. Named to CRN Magazine 2016 Managed Service Provider 500 list and voted Best Places to Work by HBJ for the fourth consecutive year. Get to the Edge! https://www.ironedgegroup.com/

Beverage Sponsor

Pyramid Analytics is a recognized innovator in business analytics. Our focus is to help people overcome BI limitations and put data to work so everyone can make smarter decisions based on trusted information. We have engaged with hundreds of industry-leading companies to take them from data blind to data driven, empowering more than 1M decision makers to steer their business forward. http://www.pyramidanalytics.com/

Silver Sponsors

Barracuda Networks, Inc. offers industry-leading solutions designed to solve mainstream IT problems - efficiently and cost effectively - while maintaining a level of customer support and satisfaction second to none. Our products span three distinct markets, including: 1) content security, 2) networking and application delivery, as well as 3) data storage, protection and disaster recovery. https://www.barracuda.com

Hewlett Packard Enterprise helps customers use technology to slash the time it takes to turn ideas into value. In turn, they transform industries, markets and lives. Some of our customers run traditional IT environments. Most are transitioning to a secure, cloud-enabled, mobile-friendly infrastructure. Many rely on a combination of both. Wherever they are in that journey, we provide the technology and solutions to help them succeed. https://www.hpe.com

IBM MaaS360 is the trusted enterprise mobility management solution to thousands of customers worldwide -- from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses. We make working in a mobile world simple and safe by delivering comprehensive mobile security and management for apps, documents, email, and devices. Backed by the most responsive support in the industry, we put our customers first by providing them with the best user experience for IT and employees. http://www.maas360.com/

Infor Public Sector has innovative & comprehensive solutions designed to meet the most complex challenges facing the State and Local Governments from building industry-specific solutions supporting your back-office to the way you engage your constituents - timely and efficiently. http://www.infor.com/

Since 2002, Solid Border, a HUB & DIR vendor, has been offering efficient & reliable network security products hand-picked by our engineers to make life easier. Stay in control of your network with straightforward products you can manage yourself. www.solidborder.com

Presentation Sponsors

DataCore's full-featured, Software-defined storage platform, SANsymphony-V10, shaped by the experiences of 10,000+ customers and ten generations of refinements, maximizes the performance, availability and utilization of diverse storage equipment, current and future. The strategic and novel storage virtualization approach, free from hardware manufacturer biases, sensibly balances business objectives against budget constraints. http://www.datacore.com/

EVault from Carbonite offers a complete portfolio of best-in-class cloud and hybrid backup and disaster recovery solutions that enable you to securely and efficiently protect your organization's critical data, automatically backing up data from across your organization, and ensuring that it is available when and where you need it. http://www.evault.com/

ExaGrid offers the only disk-based backup appliance with data deduplication that leverages a unique architecture optimized for performance, scalability and price. ExaGrid is the only solution that combines compute with capacity and a unique landing zone to permanently shorten backup windows, eliminate expensive forklift upgrades, and achieve fast, reliable restores, tape copy and disaster recovery. http://www.exagrid.com/

Fortinet provides top-rated network and content security, as well as secure access products that share intelligence and work together to form a cooperative fabric. Our unique security fabric combines purpose-built ASICs, an intuitive operating system, and applied threat intelligence to give you proven security, exceptional performance, and better visibility and control--while providing easier administration. https://www.fortinet.com/

Nimble Storage thinks enterprises shouldn't have to compromise on performance, capacity, ease of use, and price. So they developed the first storage architecture designed from the ground up to seamlessly integrate SSDs with high-capacity disks, all to give you unparalleled performance and capacity efficiency, easier backup/DR, and stress-free operations. https://www.nimblestorage.com/

Proofpoint Inc. is a leading next-generation security and compliance company that provides cloud-based solutions to protect the way people work today. Proofpoint solutions enable organizations to protect their users from advanced attacks delivered via email, social media and mobile apps, protect the information their users create from advanced attacks and compliance risks, and respond quickly when incidents occur. https://www.proofpoint.com

Scale Computing integrates storage, servers, and virtualization software into an all-in-one appliance based system that is scalable, self-healing and as easy to manage as a single server. The result is a data center solution that reduces operational complexity, allows a faster response to business issues, and dramatically reduces costs. https://www.scalecomputing.com

Secure Data Solutions provides comprehensive results giving our clients confidence in their security strategy and eco-system to focus on their core business. Using fundamental and leading edge security technologies, Secure Data Solutions provides expertise and visibility in all aspects of Network and Cyber-Security. Through our discovery process, we align technical and financial requirements to create a holistic reference architecture specific to each client. http://www.securedatasolutions.net/

Based in Dallas, Texas, Sentinel IPS began as EcoNet.com, a web development firm founded in 1995. By the early 2000s, the company became a successful network security product reseller and developed its first intrusion prevention system. Sentinel IPS provides 24/7 network management, monitoring and stellar support. Sentinel IPS customers include Fortune 100 firms, government and municipal agencies, financial institutions, and small businesses. https://sentinelips.com/

TelePacific Communications is a premier integrated managed services provider delivering guaranteed comprehensive business communications solutions to 75,000 locations nationwide for customers ranging from small businesses to enterprises with hundreds of sites. TelePacific's broad portfolio enables companies to focus on growing their bottom lines instead of overseeing their infrastructure. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the 1,600-person, $664 million enterprise's award-winning managed services, networks, continuity solutions and focus on customer service have powered 58 consecutive quarters of growth. http://www.telepacific.com/

The mission of Veeam is to ensure that every company in the world has the capability to operate as an Always-on Business. Veeam's trusted technology solutions allow their customers to support company growth initiatives while also maintaining peace of mind around the reputation risk that comes with unplanned downtime. www.veeam.com.

Seattle-based WatchGuard has deployed nearly a million of its integrated, multi-function threat management appliances worldwide, to businesses that range from SMEs to large distributed enterprises. Recognizing an unmet need for a security solution that addresses the rapidly evolving threat landscape, WatchGuard architected its high-throughput, highly scalable, and flexible Fireware operating system to form the backbone of its products. This platform yields dramatically higher performance at a much lower cost than competitors in environments where multiple security engines are enabled. http://www.watchguard.com/

Zerto is committed to keeping enterprise and cloud IT running 24/7 by providing innovative, simple, reliable and scalable business continuity software solutions. Through the Zerto Cloud Continuity Platform, organizations can seamlessly move and protect virtualized workloads between public, private and hybrid clouds. The company's flagship product, Zerto Virtual Replication, has become the standard for protection, recovery and migration of applications in cloud and virtualized data centers, and won numerous awards, including Best of Show at VMworld 2011, Best of VMworld Europe 2014, as well as 2011, 2012 and 2013 Product of the Year Awards for its innovative hypervisor-based replication approach. http://www.zerto.com/