VSLive! San Francisco 2008

Sponsors & Exhibitors

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Exhibit Hall Hours
The Exhibit Hall opens Monday, March 31st and is located on the 3rd Floor of Moscone West.

Monday: 12:45 – 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. and 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 1:15 – 3:00 p.m.

Platinum Sponsor:
Microsoft Corporation
Deploying desktops in a business environment isn't a trivial task and shouldn't be treated lightly. Things can go wrong. Applications might not be compatible with the new operating system. Users might lose important documents and settings. The infrastructure might not be prepared. These and other pitfalls can cost money. Microsoft Corporation will be on hand to discuss the Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) version 2.0, our prescriptive guidance for deploying Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Office 2003 Professional in a business environment.

Gold Sponsor:
ComponentOne
ComponentOne is the premier provider of the widest range of tools and solutions for Microsoft(r) Windows, Web-based, and Mobile application developers, Help authors who write and develop Help systems, and support centers who utilize Web and email self-service solutions. Studio Enterprise delivers exactly what developers need to produce next-generation UI's for Windows and the Web. Our help authoring tool, Doc-To-Help, empowers authors to create HTML or Microsoft Word content and convert it to virtually every popular Help file format (including browser-based, platform independent Help) or printed documentation.

Gold Sponsor:
Kaseya
Kaseya is a global provider of IT Automation software for IT Solution providers and Corporate IT organization who benefit from deploying Kaseya's Systems management capabilities. Kaseya allows businesses to proactively manage distributed IT infrastructure easily and efficiently with one integrated Web based platform. Kaseya's technology has been deployed on over 1 mm machines in over 25 countries around the world.

Silver Sponsor:
IBM
At IBM, we strive to lead in the innovation of the industry's most advanced information technologies. Microsoft .NET solutions strengthened by IBM help solve the most challenging business and competitive problems. IBM is featuring the IBM Data Server Add-ins for Visual Studio 2008 included with the free DB2 Express-C, a production-ready data server which natively manages both XML and relational data ideal for powering your small and large scale .NET applications. Visit us at booth #10 and join us at the Product Showcase at 1:30-1:55pm on Tuesday, April 1st--"Learn How You May Advance Your Career in Building Solutions for Both Windows and Other Enterprise Systems with Free Software!"

Exhibitors

A10
A10 Networks was founded with a mission to provide innovative networking and security solutions. A10 makes high-performance products that help organizations of all sizes accelerate, optimize and secure their applications. A10’s portfolio includes the AX Series next-generation server load balancers; the EX Series bandwidth management appliances with identity; and the ID Series identity management appliances.

AdRem Software
AdRem Software provides network management solutions for businesses that seek an affordable ways to maximize ROI on IT infrastructures. Company products allow IT Departments to graphically represent network infrastructure, address problems in real-time, and perform capacity planning. AdRem's flagship software NetCrunch is an easy to deploy, agentless monitoring software for performance and fault management. It offers service, system and application monitoring based on predefined monitoring policies. More information at www.adremsoft.com.

AlachiSoft
Alachisoft provides companies powerful yet simple way to improve the performance of their .NET applications and also to cut down their development cycle with improved code quality.

Attachmate
Attachmate helps organizations extend, manage, and secure mission critical IT investments with innovative solutions for host connectivity, legacy integration, systems and security management through its NetIQ business, and PC lifecycle management. Our solutions empower IT organizations to deliver trusted applications, manage services levels, and ensure compliance-leveraging knowledge, automation, and secured connectivity. With a quarter century of experience, Attachmate serves over 40,000 government and business customers in 60 countries, including nearly all Global 10,000 enterprises.

Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Barracuda Networks, Inc., provides powerful, easy-to-use and affordable enterprise-class application security appliances for comprehensive email, Internet and IM protection. These plug-and-play hardware solutions, the Barracuda Spam Firewall, Barracuda Web Filter and Barracuda IM Firewall, are built for businesses of all sizes and protect over 40,000 customers worldwide.

Biscom
Biscom was founded in 1986 and pioneered the fax server marketplace, providing many of the world's largest organizations with its award-winning FAXCOM fax servers. In addition to enterprise fax server products, Biscom also offers hosted fax services, secure file transfer and messaging solutions, file conversion software, and document workflow and automation tools. The company is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

Coverity
Coverity, the leader in improving software quality and security, is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Coverity's groundbreaking technology removes barriers to delivering complex software by automating the identification and resolution of critical defects and security vulnerabilities in C/C++ and Java source code. More than 350 leading companies have chosen Coverity Prevent SQS because it scales to tens of millions of lines of code, has the lowest false positive rate in the industry and provides total path coverage.

Double-Take® Software
Double-Take® Software (Nasdaq: DBTK) is a leading provider of affordable software for recoverability, including continuous data replication, application availability and system state protection. Double-Take Software products and services enable customers to protect and recover business-critical data and applications in both physical and virtual environments. With its unparalleled partner programs, technical support, and professional services, Double-Take Software is the solution of choice for more than ten thousand customers worldwide. For more information: www.doubletake.com.

FarPoint Technologies
FarPoint Technologies is the premier developer of Web Form, Windows Form, SharePoint, BizTalk and COM components for professional developers world-wide. Their feature-rich components offer a cost-effective solution for building enterprise-wide applications. The award-winning Spread series is utilized in more mission-critical applications than any other spreadsheet component world-wide. Stop by their booth for a hands-on demo!

IdealStor
Idealstor is the leader in removable disk to disk backup solutions. With capacities ranging from 80GB to 1TB per disk, Idealstor offers backup administrators a true alternative to tape backup. Removable disk backup offers the speed, capacity and reliability of disk coupled with the portability of tape. Idealstor is also the developer of iBac Data Protection Software. iBac offers native format backup/restore with the ability to run scheduled or continuous backups for Windows servers.

MaxSP
The MaxSP automated and integrated computer support system provides enterprise-level IT services to small and medium enterprises (SME). The service is sold through independent IT support companies and allows them to deliver complete solutions, rather than requiring their integration of a large number of separate products. This decreases their labor costs, increases their profitability and enables their expansion.

Nalpeiron
Nalpeiron develops digital rights management and software licensing technologies to reduce losses from casual piracy without compromising the end user experience.

We add significant value to our Customers by delivering solutions that not only reduce piracy but offer end consumers reliable, friendly and easy to use technology.

Through the use of Patent Pending new Hardware and Software we radically reduce operating costs and offer additional innovative new ways to increase license revenues.

OpenMake Software
OpenMake Software is the innovator of build management. Use OpenMake Meister to extend the build functionality of Microsoft Visual Studio, supporting the creation of multiple language objects including Microsoft VS 6, VS .Net, VS 2005, and Java. Meister also extends MSBuild to support the building of applications which use more than one solution. Visit our booth to play "stump the Meister" and win an "I'm a Meister" t-shirt.

Perforce
Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management System, versions and manages source code and digital assets for enterprises large and small. Perforce supports the way developers want to work by seamlessly integrating with a variety of third-party technologies, including leading IDEs such as Visual Studio and Eclipse, defect trackers, build tools, and more.

PreEmptive Solutions
PreEmptive Solutions protects and maximizes the value of your .NET development investments through application security, analytics and licensing solutions. With over 3,000 corporate clients and distribution inside Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008, PreEmptive Solutions is the clear choice for organizations serious about application security and business performance. Visit booth 201 to learn how our flagship product, Dotfuscator Gold™, protects, monitors and monetizes applications, intellectual property and business processes.

Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric is the world’s power and control specialist. Through its world-class brands, Merlin Gerin, Square D and Telemecanique, Schneider Electric manufactures and markets a comprehensive range of products and services for the residential,buildings, industry, and energy and infrastructure markets. Schneider Electric has 105,000 employees worldwide, operations in 130 countries, and recorded sales of $17.2 (U.S.) billion in 2006 through 13,000 sales outlets.

SDM Software
SDM Software is one of the leading systems management vendors for Group Policy and PowerShell-based management solutions. Our solutions for Group Policy management incorporate years of expertise in IT operations and software development to provide innovative products that reduce the complexity and improve the reliability of Group Policy for managing your Windows server and desktop configurations.

Software FX
Since 1993, Software FX has led the way in bringing data visualization and presentation tools to diverse markets, platforms and environments including .NET, COM, JAVA and IT|SQL. Chart FX and Grid FX represent best-of-breed solutions for developers requiring enterprise quality design-time and run-time capabilities and performance.

Software Pursuits
Software Pursuits, Inc. (SPI), has been developing innovative software solutions since 1975. SPI provides organizations OS protection / availability software and replication software designed for disk-to-disk file protection for quick recovery; data /content distribution to remote offices; or synchronizing files for remote sharing. Our mission, provide easy to use software, for today’s complex environments.

Sparx Systems
Sparx Systems specializes in high performance, highly productive, scalable visual tools for the planning, design and construction of software intensive systems. The company’s flagship product, Enterprise Architect is a powerful team-based, UML modeling environment, featuring complete UML 2.1 support, and provides key benefits at each stage of system development, from requirements analysis through design, testing and deployment.

TechExcel
TechExcel specializes in application lifecycle management solutions. The TechExcel open workflow lifecycle enables a unified solution for software product development. Scalable architecture and flexible configuration options allow organizations to manage, measure, and maintain processes for local and globally distributed teams. DevSuite improves the complete software delivery process.

DevSuite improves the complete software delivery process including: requirements management, software specifications management, software change management, software build management, defect tracking, test case management, version management, project management and workflow management for build and deployment processes.

WIBU-SYSTEMS USA. Inc.
WIBU-SYSTEMS USA. Inc. has been designing, manufacturing and marketing products to secure Intellectual Property and other digital content since 1989. The content may be software applications, proprietary algorithms, data files, media files or documents. WIBU-SYSTEM’s products work cross platform with Mac OS X, UNIX, LINUX, Win32, Win64 and Sun Solaris. The company’s security systems employ a combination of hardware, firmware and software to encrypt files or control access to web sites or networks.

For almost two decades, WIBU-SYSTEMS has been totally focused on enforcing Intellectual Property rights through effective DRM solutions. When companies like SONY, Eastman Kodak, Qualcomm and Motorola need to secure digital assets, they turn to WIBU-SYSTEMS.

Media Sponsor:
The Code Project
The Code Project is a community of Visual Studio .NET developers joined together with certain common goals: to learn, to teach and to have fun programming. Developers from all over the world come together to share source code, tutorials and knowledge for free to help their fellow programmers.

It is our hope that you find The Code Project to be a wealth of information and a valuable resource. All we ask is that if you find The Code Project useful, then please share what source code or knowledge you can in order to give back to the community.

Above and beyond articles and code snippets, The Code Project gives developers a voice. We have over 3.5 million people reading The Code Project each month, including those from companies such as Microsoft, HP, DevelopMentor and Wintellect. The Code Project brings industry and the developer community together, and is proud to be a Microsoft CodeZone community member.

Redmond magazine
The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community.
Redmond magazine is the authoritative, independent voice of the Microsoft IT community, and provides real-world technical, product, news, and industry information for experienced IT professionals working within a Windows platform computing environment. Our readers are the decision drivers of the industry and include IT managers, network administrators and system administrators. These technology leaders establish and drive the technical goals of their organizations, buy and recommend specific solutions to achieve these goals, and manage the implementation and integration of the technology.

How to sponsor or exhibit

Interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at TechMentor San Francisco? We have the perfect package for you! Please contact us for more information.

Who is your target attendee audience?

TechMentor is the event of choice for networking professionals who have hands-on responsibilities for their networks, and are looking to provide immediate ROI to their organizations. TechMentor is a pure training event taught by recognized, independent experts in the field. The same networking experts that write for Redmond magazine produce the content. And it's this great content that attracts serious, qualified attendees.

As an exhibition, TechMentor provides an environment suitable for vendors providing hardware and software tools, products and services to meet directly with network managers and systems administrators who are charged with finding and bringing back solutions for problems they are facing within their organizations.

Sponsors & Exhibitors contact:
Al Tiano
818.435.5490
atiano@1105media.com