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Hewlett-Packard is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. Our offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. HP software helps IT organizations make sure that every dollar delivers positive business outcomes. Our business technology optimization (BTO) products automate key processes across critical IT functions, and our OpenCall platforms enable people to communicate, access services, and share content. As the focus of IT shifts from systems management to business results, leading companies are investing in HP software to lower costs, improve delivery time and reduce risk for their strategic business initiatives.

   
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Solidcore® is a leading provider of change control for critical systems. Solidcore’s S3 Control™ software is the industry’s first and only solution to automate the enforcement of change management policies. Solidcore automatically reconciles infrastructure changes against change tickets, and provides real-time change auditing so enterprises can measure the effectiveness of change management processes and policies. Leading organizations worldwide trust Solidcore to improve service availability, implement ITIL initiatives, and lower costs related to Payment Card Industry (PCI) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance initiatives. Solidcore is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, visit www.solidcore.com.

   
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Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills and technologies to help clients improve their performance. With more than 158,000 people in 49 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$16.65 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2006. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

   

AlarmPoint Systems, Inc. enables leading enterprises to maximize their investment in IT Service Management, ensure availability of critical systems and increase productivity of IT personnel. AlarmPoint is an enterprise-wide event notification and resolution application used for automating exceptions in incident, support, service impact, and continuity processes. The AlarmPoint products automate event notification and resolution by managing real-time workforce data including schedules, roles, attributes, event assignments and skills. AlarmPoint bridges IT services and events to IT personnel and business users and provides accountability in the resolution process. AlarmPoint Systems is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif. with European operations based in Woking, U.K.

   

August Schell specializes in the use of Opsware's Server Automation System (SAS), OMDB (with ITIL expertise), and Process Automation System (PAS) to support complex data center architectures. Their specialists receive direct Opsware training on the many sophisticated features of the Opsware products which allow them to support some of the largest, most complex data center architectures in the world. As a Professional Services partner, August Schell provides support to Opsware's Commercial and Federal Government customers and retains the necessary credentials to support agencies involved in defense and national security. August Schell also specializes in virtualization as a VMware Authorized Consultant.

   

Cisco network management solutions help you automate, simplify, and integrate your network to reduce operational costs and improve productivity. The tools within the solutions provide innovative ways to centrally manage your network to achieve critical functions such as availability, responsiveness, resilience, and security in a consistent way.

These management solutions help reduce the troubleshooting and planning time associated with the introduction of new services such as voice, wireless, and security management. Cisco network management solutions helps ensure you get the most out of your Cisco investment as well as ensure your network is ready to move your organization into the future.

www.cisco.com/go/nms

   

FusionStorm -- "Making Technology Work" -- is an Opsware Premier Partner. FusionStorm is able to offer Opsware’s full suite of data center automation solutions to enterprises as managed services or as premises-based software. The company is a leading national provider of IT products, professional services, support contract services and 24x7 managed services for enterprises of all sizes. The company assists organizations by providing complete solutions for system infrastructure, storage, networking, voiceover-IP communications, security, database, disaster recovery, managed hosting and remote managed services, both on-site and in the data center. FusionStorm’s core technology partners include: Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, EMC Corporation, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, VMware, Opsware and Hewlett Packard.

FusionStorm is The VARBusines, VAR of the Year for 2006/7. FusionStorm operates offices nation-wide. www.fusionstorm.com 800.228.TECH (8324).

   

KlioSoft, Inc. offers a comprehensive Security Workflow Automation Platform (SWAP) solution to significantly reduce an IT organization’s exposure to vulnerabilities. Armed with a seasoned team of experts with over 30+ years of security, operations and networking experience, KlioSoft is dedicated to providing a fully automated system to analyze incidents, remediate issues, and protect companies from security vulnerabilities across servers, software, and network devices. KlioSoft’s flagship product, Conductor, removes the labor-intensive task of analysis and remediation that is typically highly manual and inconsistent, and provides a single platform for complete, automated security management.

   

mValent tackles IT complexity and compliance challenges by automating configuration management for software and middleware assets. The company’s flagship product, mValernt Integrity™, enables application support teams to capture the current state of configuration settings for software and middleware assets, monitor them for authorized and rogue changes and automate processes for provisioning changes and setting up new environments throughout the application lifecycle – from development, testing and through production.

mValent and Opsware have a technology integration and sales partnership to deliver a comprehensive, best-of-breed solution for configuration, change and release management across the application, server, storage and network layers of IT infrastructure.

   

Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world’s most critical information. Serving both service provider and enterprise customers, Nortel delivers innovative technology solutions encompassing end-to-end broadband, Voice over IP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband designed to help people solve the world’s greatest challenges. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com.

Nortel, the Nortel logo and the Globemark are trademarks of Nortel.

   

Riverbed is the leader in Wide-area Data Services, enabling distributed organizations to simplify, accelerate, and consolidate their IT and applications. Riverbed provides the highest performance level across the broadest range of applications over WANs, accelerating applications by up to 100x, and reducing WAN traffic by up to 95%. With this order-of-magnitude improvement in performance, Steelhead appliance makes distributed collaboration, IT consolidation, and network-based backup a reality for enterprises of all sizes.

   

Seamless Technologies' Opsware ITIL asset middleware products merge the operational data used to configure and provision data center elements with the configuration data from Remedy Atrium CMDB used to request and approve changes. This enables a merged CMDB data view and extends run-book automation use cases.

Seamless provides consulting, best of breed technology products and ITIL best practices aligned to business objectives. Seamless' solutions provide significant service improvements and efficiencies of operations. Seamless' data center automation solutions, based on Opsware products, enable automated closed loop change and configuration management.

For more information, see us at OpsWorld 2007 booth 25 or contact us atsales@seamlessti.com or www.seamlessti.com.

   
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AirWave provides the most powerful, affordable, and flexible wireless network management solution available to enterprises, governments and schools worldwide. The easy-to-use AirWave Wireless Management Suite lets IT monitor Wi-Fi users wherever they are, control any size WLAN infrastructure, manage configurations, firmware and security policies, and provide unmatched reporting capabilities.

   

Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is a global provider of enterprise-class solutions that intelligently connect storage, servers and networks, to ensure access to data that's open, secure and adaptable. Emulex is a leader and catalyst for innovation and investment protection with a proven record of success that spans nearly 30 years. Visit www.emulex.com.

   

GridApp Systems is the leading provider of database automation software, currently supporting hundreds of customer installations worldwide, across multiple industries. By automating recurring operational tasks, such as patching and provisioning, companies using GridApp can streamline operations, reduce errors, satisfy compliance requirements and gain more value from their database staff.

   

For over 15 years, Themis has delivered mission critical innovations to the worlds most demanding applications. Our software product Quorum is a Policy-Based Automation Appliance. Quorum is an easy-to-use appliance that delivers application monitoring and measurement, application high availability, workload management and Application QoS for VMware.

   

Stratavia is a leading provider of IT Automation software. Stratavia's flagship platform, Data Palette, automates complex, error-prone, repetitive IT administration tasks, while providing predictive analytics to detect and resolve issues before they can impact operations. Fortune 1000 companies rely on Data Palette to simplify their IT operations and increase their operational efficiency.

   
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OPNET Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of management software for networks and applications. OPNET's best-in-class solutions address: application performance management; network operations; capacity planning and design; and network R&D. OPNET solutions have been operationally proven in thousands of customer environments worldwide, including corporate and government enterprises, defense agencies, network service providers, and network equipment manufacturers.

   

Pink Elephant is the world leader in IT management best practices, offering conferences, education and consulting services. For more information please visit www.pinkelephant.com