We’d like to thank the following sponsors for contributing, and helping to get the party started.  In order of appearance:

Thin Desktop makes it easy to turn a Windows based PC into a locked down device that restricts the user to run a single application which becomes the entire user interface. The standard Windows desktop and start menu will be prevented from appearing.

Veeam Software, a VMware Technology Alliance Premier partner, helps organizations safeguard their investment in virtual infrastructure by providing innovative systems management software designed to reduce costs, increase productivity and mitigate risk. Veeam is an international company with U.S. headquarters in Columbus, Ohio and European headquarters in London, UK.

Citrix Systems, Inc. is the leading provider of virtualization, networking, and software as a service technologies for more than 230,000 organizations worldwide. Its Citrix Delivery Center, Citrix Cloud Center (C3), and Citrix Online Services product families simplify computing for millions of users, delivering applications as an on-demand service to any user, in any location on any device

Nexenta, a VMware Technology Alliance Premier partner, is the developer of the leading OpenStorage solution NexentaStor.  NexentaStor is a fully featured NAS/SAN solution based upon the ZFS file system; the VM Data Center module for NexentaStor simplifies the management of storage and data replication for virtualized environments.

Liquidware Labs Inc. (LWL) is the market leader in virtual desktop and application assessments and brings a completely new and innovative approach to accelerating the adoption and consumption of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI). Being described by analysts and the industry as providing the “on ramp to VDI”, LWL provides a combination of software, professional services and ITIL methodologies to intelligently assess desktop and application viability for virtualization.

Train Signal is the global leader in professional computer training and one of Inc Magazine’s 5000 Fastest Growing Companies. Their video training products include Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA, and VMware. Included in their product lineup is the best selling video training product for VMware ESX by vExpert David Davis. Watch for his upcoming vSphere video training course!

Inspiring confidence across your organization. With vWire you monitor the health of your virtual infrastructure, correlate this information to provide context and insight into potential issues, and act to prevent and resolve problems. Learn more.

Hyper9 isn’t new to the virtualization management space – but they’re looking to bring something completely different and innovative to it. They’ve worked long and hard with some of the best virtualization minds in the industry to understand their pain, wants and needs.  Go offworld here.

If Google can index and let users search billions of pages of Web content in seconds, why can’t we do the same for the data center? The result of thinking differently, Splunk indexes the data generated by any application, server or network device running across technical, functional and geographic IT silos and lets you instantly search, alert and report on it. All Batbelt. No Tights.

HyperIP software delivers WAN Optimization for data replication, cloud storage, iSCSI replication, and other large IP storage and file transfer applications. Deploying HyperIP for replication, backup, recovery and data center migrations provides our partners and customers the confidence that their valuable information will be protected and moved on-time, every time.

visionapp is a leading provider of solutions to optimize core IT infrastructure, simplifying the build, customization and maintenance of centralized environments and the unified delivery of application services to end users across all devices.

By developing simple yet intelligent software, triCerat’s solutions prevent known system limitations while maintaining and improving the end users experience. triCerat is a Citrix Ready Technology Partner, a Certified Microsoft Partner, and VMWare Technology Alliance Partner.

Vizioncore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quest Software, provides the most comprehensive and innovative set of software solutions that extend and enhance the capabilities of virtualized infrastructures. Additional information can be found atwww.vizioncore.com or obtained by contacting sales@vizioncore.com.

Last, but not least, VMware is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter—bringing cloud computing to businesses of all sizes. Customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensurebusiness continuity, strengthen security and go green.