It’s only through the support of our sponsors that we’re able to put this shindig together!

Principal Sponsors

The Virtualization Technology User Group (VTUG) is an IT professional user group with thousands of members and is growing every day. VTUG is the only virtualization user group of its size that is platform independent providing information content and education for ESX, Hyper-V, KVM and Xen. VTUG topics cover a wide range of technologies and solutions including server virtualization, storage, cloud computing, VDI, back up and data protection, security, networking and much more. VTUG looks to its community for peer to peer education and sharing of best practices and solutions. Join for free at www.vtug.com.

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.

Founded in 2004, Pluralsight is the global leader in online learning for serious software developers, IT specialists and creative technologists. As the world’s largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,000 courses authored by top experts. With customers in more than 150 countries, Pluralsight serves as a career catalyst, delivering hands-on, practical training for the most in-demand and understaffed jobs of today. For more information visit www.pluralsight.com.

Micron is a global leader in semiconductor systems. Our portfolio of memory technologies, including DRAM and Flash, is the basis for solid state drives, modules and other storage solutions. When running VMware Virtual SAN™ on an all-flash configuration from Micron, you have a SOLID storage solution that is simple, flexible, and efficient.

Leading organizations worldwide count on NetApp for software, systems and services to manage and store their data. Combining NetApp’s existing flash solutions with SolidFire’s next-generation architecture positions us as the only comprehensive all-flash portfolio in the industry.

Rubrik has developed the world’s first Cloud Data Management platform for data protection, search, analytics, archival and copy data orchestration for hybrid cloud enterprises. Fortune 500 companies use Rubrik to manage data at scale while realizing data-driven services anytime, anywhere. Rubrik has been named to Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2016. For more information, visit http://www.rubrik.com and follow @rubrikInc on Twitter.

EMC Elect is a community-driven recognition and thank you for individual’s engagement with EMC as a brand over the last calendar year. Members of this peer nominated and peer reviewed group demonstrate outstanding Engagement, Commitment, and Leadership within the online community. Find out more about the EMC Elect and the EMC Community Network at community.emc.com.

Community Supporters

These VARs and integrators may not appear on the expo floor at VMworld, but make no mistake: they’re great VMware partners and are trusted resources for their clientele. They also “get” what the virtualization community is about: work hard/play hard. We at #VMunderground are proud to add them to our list of sponsors.

GCSIT is an award-winning provider of business-aligned IT solutions to business, government and education in Alaska, Washington and Oregon. We have nearly three decades of referenceable experience successfully serving over 500 commercial and public-sector customers. GCSIT‘s technical bench offers hard-to-match depth and breadth of skills paired with rock-solid methodology to deliver IT success and predictable costs and results. GCSIT is the winner of both the Global and the Americas Enterprise Solution Provider VMware Partner Innovation Award. Find out more at www.gcsit.com

OneNeck® IT Solutions specializes in hybrid IT solutions, including cloud and hosting solutions, managed services, ERP application management, professional services, IT hardware and top-tier data centers in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon and Wisconsin. OneNeck’s team of technology professionals manage secure, world-class, hybrid IT infrastructures and applications for thousands of businesses around the globe. For more details, visit us at oneneck.com.