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Event Sponsor Description RedHat Inc. 1801 Varsity Drive Raleigh, NC 27606 www.redhat.com Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Wyse Technology 3471 N. First Street San Jose, CA 95134-1801 http://www.wyse.com Wyse Technology is the global leader in thin computing-based virtualization software and hardware solutions. Wyse and its strategic partners, including, Citrix®, CSC®, IBM®, Lenovo®, Microsoft®, Novell®, VMware® and others deliver the most innovative hardware, software, and services that optimize the benefits of cloud computing, virtualization and green IT. Wyse has the largest global distribution network in the thin computing market through its partners and offices worldwide. For more information, visit the Wyse website at http://www.wyse.com or call 1-800-GET-WYSE.

AppSense
70 West 40th Street, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10018
www.AppSense.com
AppSense, the leading provider of user virtualization solutions for enterprises, makes physical and virtual desktop deployment possible by ensuring a seamless user experience across all delivery platforms. AppSense accelerates multi-platform desktop deployments by eliminatingcostly user management tools, enabling single-image application delivery, and ensuring users have the same experience from any desktop.

Atlantis Computing Inc.
2570 West El Camino Real, Suite 230
Mountain View, CA 94040. USA
http://www.atlantiscomputing.com/
 Atlantis ILIO is a VDI storage and performance optimization solution that complements existing VDI solutions by reducing storage costs, increasing performance and streamlining image management. Atlantis’ patent-pending IO virtualization technology is delivered as a plug-and-play appliance that transparently consolidates desktop images and offloads IO intensive Windows operations from storage. With Atlantis, VDI performs more efficiently with any storage solution, reducing storage CAPEX, size and complexity. It also boosts desktop performance significantly, leading to end-user satisfaction.

NetApp
495 East Java Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA
www.netapp.com
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.

Quest Software
10701 Parkridge Blvd.
Suite 100
Reston, VA 20191
 www.quest.com/vworkspace
Quest’s Desktop Virtualization Group is a platform-agnostic global provider of virtual application delivery and dynamic desktop deployment solutions. Quest vWorkspace aggregates application delivery and desktop deployments from any virtualization platform, blade PCs, and Terminal Services. Quest vWorkspace transforms the corporate desktop infrastructure into an on-demand service. Please visit www.vWorkspace.com.

RES Software Americas
401 Plymouth Road Suite 195
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
Phone: 610-994-0577
www.ressoftware.com
RES Software, the proven leader in user workspace management, is driving a fundamental shift in the way organizations of any size manage and reduce the cost of their PC populations. Designed for physical or virtual desktop platforms, RES Software’s award-winning, patented technology enables IT professionals to address this shift by managing, automating and delivering secure, personalized and more productive desktop experiences to any user. For more information, follow updates on Twitter @RES_Software and visit www.ressoftware.com.

Symantec World Headquarters
350 Ellis Street
Mountain View, CA 94043
http://www.symantec.com/business/endpoint-virtualization-suite
Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite is a powerful and flexible solution for maximizing user productivity while minimizing IT cost and complexity.  By automating the creation of custom user workspaces, as they are needed, systems become far simpler to manage, support costs are dramatically reduced, and systems remain robust longer, all while removing IT from the daily headaches of endpoint management.

Teradici
4621 Canada Way, Suite 101
Burnaby, BC  V5G 4X8
CANADA
www.teradici.com
Teradici’s unique PCoIP® (PC-over-IP®) remote display protocol allows PCs and workstations to be centrally managed in a datacenter while providing high resolution, full frame rate 3D graphics and HD media, with full USB peripheral interoperability, locally over a LAN or remotely over a high-latency WAN. A wide array of PCoIP solutions in hardware and software are available from third party vendors, including rack and tower workstations, blade PCs, zero clients, integrated displays, and server plug-ins.

VMware, Inc.
3401 Hillview Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA
 www.vmware.com
VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven virtualization solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity. VMware accelerates an organization’s transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments and enabling more efficient, agile service delivery without compromising control. Organizations rely on VMware, its partners and its industry-leading virtual infrastructure platform, VMware vSphere, to energize their business through IT, while saving energy—financial, human and the Earth’s. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, VMware has more than 170,000 customers and 25,000 partners worldwide.                       

Xiotech
6455 Flying Cloud Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
http://www.xiotech.com/
Xiotech Corporation is one of the world’s largest privately held data storage companies and a leader in Intelligent Application Storage. Xiotech’s patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology has rebooted storage fundamentals to better align with evolving application demands, including linearly scalable performance and capacity, industry-leading energy savings and zero-touch reliability. Also, ISE technology enables organizations to build systems of interoperable, best-of-breed solutions and overcome bottlenecks caused by current-generation storage infrastructure.

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Aqua Connect
5777 W. Century Blvd Suite #985
Los Angeles, CA 90045
http://www.aquaconnect.net/
Aqua Connect is the leading provider of multi-user and remote access software for the Mac platform. Aqua Connect pioneered the first ever Mac Terminal Server and has continued to provide enterprise-grade Mac terminal services for organizations around the world. Aqua Connect provides a variety of solutions, including Mac Remote Desktop for one-to-one remote access to a Mac desktop. With Aqua Connect Terminal Server you can finally provide your organization with a solution for Mac virtualization.

Double-Take Software
257 Turnpike Road                                        
Southborough, MA 01772                                         
www.doubletake.com
Double-Take Flex offers a complete environment that allows desktop server boot volumes to be virtualized, shared and centrally managed. Power your existing desktops, servers and virtual machines to run Windows or Linux from hardware-independent shared images, drastically reducing administrative effort and time-consuming and costly management tasks.                    

Endeavors Technologies
18400 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 340
Irvine, CA 92612
www.endeavors.com
Endeavors Technologies invented application streaming technology over a decade ago. Our groundbreaking application virtualization product, Application Jukebox, enables existing Windows applications to be streamed on-demand to client computers—where users execute them as if they were natively installed. Because users don’t need training and the applications don’t need to be installed, Application Jukebox enables organizations to reduce the total cost of ownership, improve end user satisfaction, simplify management, and improve security and reliability.

InstallFree, Inc.                                                
60 Long Ridge Road, Suite 201                                                   
Stamford, CT 06902                                                        
www.installfree.com
InstallFree is a leading developer of Desktop Application Virtualization and Management solutions that reduce IT costs, simplify application delivery and increase reliability and end-user productivity. InstallFree stands alone in offering a virtualization approach that creates modular desktop elements that can be independently packaged, managed, configured and updated while leveraging the customer's existing IT infrastructure.

IPeak Networks
411 Legget Drive Ottawa
ON, Canada K2K3C9
http://ipeaknetworks.com
IPeak Networks makes video on your virtual desktop over the WAN a reality. Without redirects. Without local rendering. The technology is IPQ. Internet Performance and Quality. IPQ eliminates the effects of packet loss over IP networks. Turn the Internet into a high performance, high quality network and open up a whole new world of visual communications possibilities with IPQ from IPeak Networks.

Kaviza
1250 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 210
Sunnyvale, CA 94085-4037
http://www.kaviza.com
Kaviza eliminates the three major roadblocks to virtual desktops (VDI) – cost, complexity, and user experience.  Kaviza VDI-in-a-box™, now with Citrix HDX™, delivers turnkey virtual desktops with rich high-definition experience that cost less than PCs – delivering unparalleled ease-of-use, affordability, and functionality.   Kaviza’s innovative grid architecture provides high-availability and scales on inexpensive commodity hardware without requiring shared storage. Industry awards and recognition include: eWeek Product to Watch, Gartner Cool Vendor, distribution by Matrix42, and investment by Citrix.

Leostream Corporation
411 Waverley Oaks Road, Suite 316
Waltham, MA 02452
www.leostream.com
The Leostream Connection Broker is a centralized VDI management layer that delivers Virtual Desktops, Remote Desktop Sessions, and applications to end users. It simplifies the creation of a unified virtual desktop infrastructure from the most complex IT architectures, providing the flexibility to repurpose existing networks while adding new infrastructure elements.

Liquidware Labs
6300 Mansell Rd., Suite 200
Alpharetta, GA 30022
www.LiquidwareLabs.com
Liquidware Labs (www.LiquidwareLabs.com) is a leader in Assessment, User Experience, and Environment Management for next generation desktops including Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View, and Microsoft Windows 7. Liquidware Labs Stratusphere and Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity form a complete VDI “On-Ramp” by providing Assessment, Flexible Workspace Management, User Configuration, and Service Level Assurance. Plan, migrate, and manage Citrix, VMware, and Windows desktops with certified Citrix Ready and VMware Ready solutions from Liquidware Labs.

MokaFive
475 Broadway St., 2nd Floor
Redwood City, CA 94063
http://www.mokafive.com
MokaFive harnesses the power of virtualization and distributed computing to deliver a rich, secure, and fully managed desktop experience—on any device. With the MokaFive Suite, IT organizations can give users the access, mobility, and computing personalization they want while maintaining seucurity and control over corporate applications, policies, and data. As a result, enterprise companies mitigate risk and significantly reduce computing costs.

NComputing
1 Lagoon Drive, Ste 110
Redwood City, CA 94065
www.ncomputing.com
NComputing redefines the economics of client computing, from virtual desktops in small offices to thousands in a hybrid VDI architecture. As a complement to Citrix and VMware, NComputing slashes costs and delights users while saving capex and opex. Millions already use NComputing—including some of the largest companies in the world.

Scense
Handelsplein 125 (Australia building)
3071 PR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
http://www.scense.com
Scense is the fastest-growing provider of user workspace management solutions. The Scense User Workspace Management Suite transforms expensive, mixed and distributed desktop environments into a single, cost-effective, manageable and transparent infrastructure, by keeping the end user workspace independent of the underlying Operating System. All your IT management challenges are addressed whether they relate to virtual and physical desktops/laptops, application virtualization and delivery or the virtualization of user profiles. With Scense, end users are empowered, but ultimate control remains firmly in the hands of the CIO.

ThinPrint
7600 Grandview Ave, Suite 200
Denver, CO 80002
http://www.thinprint.com
ThinPrint specializes in printing solutions in various network environments across all business sectors worldwide. Based in Berlin, we began by providing a print solution for the growing server-based market and have expanded to become the leading print solution in over 80 countries with the various .print products. Today, we also offer the leading print solution for the emerging Virtual Desktop Environment movement. Through our print technology, companies are able to employ a unique solution for their printing environment.

triCerat Inc.
10320 Little Patuxnet Parkway
Suite 200
Columbia, MD 21044
www.tricerat.com
Founded in 1997, triCerat develops software that simplifies and enhances the operation of server-based, workstation, and virtual computing environments. The company's flagship product, Simplify Suite, is a comprehensive package of integrated server management tools that can boost the manageability, reliability, performance, and security of any environment. Licensed by over 8,000 customers worldwide, Simplify Suite creates significant ROI by reducing support and hardware costs while increasing user satisfaction and productivity.

Unidesk
Unidesk Corporation
313 Boston Post Road West
Marlborough, MA 01752
www.unidesk.com
Unidesk's innovative desktop layering technology sharply reduces VDI storage costs, provides persistent personalization of the entire user experience (including user-installed applications!), and makes provisioning and patching of Windows and any application breathtakingly simple.  Learn how Unidesk complements VMware View(tm) and Citrix XenDesktop(tm) to expand the use cases for VDI at www.unidesk.com.

UniPrint
1 Eva Road, Suite 309
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M9C 4Z5
www.uniprint.net
UniPrint specializes in printing virtualization.  Our software-based solutions enhance printing functionality, simplify printer management, and optimize bandwidth availability for physical and virtual desktop environments.  The UniPrint Suite supports all server platforms, operating systems, and client platforms.

Consult a UniPrint representative at BriForum on how UniPrint can help virtualize your printing, minimize network printer management hassles, increase operational efficiency and reduce cost.

Virtual Bridges
6300 Bridge Point Parkway
Building 1, Suite 350
Austin, TX 78730
http://vbridges.com
Virtual Bridges VERDE is the industry’s only comprehensive desktop virtualization solution, providing support for Windows and Linux desktops. Multiple display protocols, and unparalleled support for disconnected users, including from a portable drive, deliver a high-fidelity desktop experience to end users on any client machine both online/offline. With on-premise or VERDE Hosted™ Powered by Rackspace® deployment options, Virtual Bridges sets a new standard for the ease of deployment and management for administrators. Virtual Bridges is headquartered in Austin, Texas. http://vbridges.com.

Virtual Computer, Inc.
Primrose Park
3 LAN Drive, Suite 300
Westford, MA, 01886
http://www.virtualcomputer.com
Virtual Computer is the market leader in distributed desktop virtualization. The company’s flagship product, NxTop®, enables desktop IT professionals to create flexible, reliable, and secure computing environments for any combination of laptops, desktops, VDI or cloud computing infrastructure. Fully managed from a single console, NxTop dramatically lowers the cost of deploying and maintaining personal computers in organizations of any size. www.virtualcomputer.com.

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