Once again, without the support of these fine organizations, we wouldn’t be able to present either Opening Acts or VMunderground. Contact them for more information on their products, plus opportunities for VIP access to the party on Sunday.

Presenting Sponsors

Veeam provides Availability for the Always-On Enterprise. If you want to have high speed recovery, avoid data loss, have verified recoverability, leverage your data and have complete visibility; take a look at Veeam. Products include Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE (these two together are Veeam Availability Suite), Veeam Agent for Linux and Veeam Agent for Windows. You can find more at veeam.com.

Cohesity makes your data work for you by consolidating secondary storage silos onto a hyperconverged, web-scale data platform that spans both private and public clouds. Enterprise customers begin by radically streamlining their backup and data protection, then converge file and object services, test/dev instances and analytic functions to provide a global data store. Cohesity counts many Global 1000 companies among its rapidly growing customer base. CRN named Cohesity a Top 25 Disrupter and one of the 10 Coolest Hyperconverged Products of 2016.

VMware vSAN, the only vSphere native storage, seamlessly evolves your datacenter with no new tools while protecting existing investments. vSAN has the industry’s largest ecosystem to run on your preferred infrastructure from over 15 OEM server vendors, a turn key appliance, Dell EMC VxRail, and native HCI-as-a-Service from AWS. Cloud ubiquity eliminates specialized skills and provides a true hybrid cloud instantly with hundreds of public cloud providers. Native security protects data-at-rest and in-motion, and integration with the SDDC stack provides additional networking security options. VMware is the HCI software market leader with over 14,000 customers; follow us on Twitter at @VMwarevSAN or learn more at vmware.com/vsan.

Druva protects and manages enterprise data across endpoint, data center and cloud workloads. Druva is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. You can find more information at druva.com

Supporting Sponsors

Kemp (@kemptech) is the world’s most popular load balancer for virtual deployments. As a VMware Technology Alliance Partner and a Dell EMC Select Partner, Kemp powers an always-on application experience (AX) for service providers and enterprises. Leveraging an agile per-app ADC/load balancing consumption model, predictive analytics, and automated issue resolution, Kemp is radically simplifying how customers optimize, analyze and secure their applications across private and multi-cloud environments. Kemp counts more than 25,000 customers and more than 100,000 deployments in 115 countries.