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"Networking was key at a local as well as international level; the one-to-one online meeting system at this event is unique. I will attend for the third time this year as I have become a big fan of this event."
Jef Matthe, General Manager, Kender Thijssen Solutions

Keynote sponsors (Alphabetically sorted)

AMD

AMD (NYSE: AMD) is a semiconductor design innovator leading the next era of vivid digital experiences with its ground-breaking AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). AMD's graphics and computing technologies power a variety of solutions including PCs, game consoles and the servers that drive the Internet and businesses.

For more information, visit

www.amd.com

Brocade

Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) networking solutions help organizations transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. Innovative Ethernet and storage networking solutions for data center, campus, and service provider networks help reduce complexity and cost while enabling virtualization and cloud computing to increase business agility.

www.brocade.com

Cisco

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is the world leader of Internet networks which transforms the way in which people connect, communicate and collaborate.

Further information on Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com or http://www.cisco.es.

For ongoing news, please visit http://newsroom.cisco.com.

www.cisco.com

HP

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at

www.hp.com

IBM

IBM is looking at the Canalys Channels Forum as a great platform to meet with leaders from key business partners across Europe, and to discuss mutual opportunities for growth.

We look forward to discussing the potential for cloud computing, with emphasis on how IBM is already working with clients and partners to address pressing business needs.

We will also explore opportunities to work together with business partners in supporting mid-market clients - the "Engines of Growth" in our economies.

Identifying new trends and the capabilities needed to succeed in the rapidly changing IT environment is critical for our partners, our customers and for IBM, and this forum allows time to focus on new thinking and strategies.

www.ibm.com

Premier sponsors (Alphabetically sorted)

APC

APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in critical power and cooling services, provides industry leading product, software and systems for home, office, data center and factory floor applications. Through its unparalleled commitment to innovation, APC provides pioneering, energy efficient solutions for critical technology and industrial applications that are well planned, flawlessly installed and maintained throughout their lifecycle. APC solutions include uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), precision cooling units, racks, physical security and design and management software, including APC's InfraStruxure® architecture, the industry’s most comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution.
As a global specialist in energy management with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments, including leadership positions in energy and infrastructure, industrial processes, building automation, and data centres/networks, as well as a broad presence in residential applications. Focused on making energy safe, reliable, and efficient, the company's 100,000+ employees achieved sales of more than 15.8 billion euros in 2009, through an active commitment to help individuals and organisations “Make the most of their energy”.
www.apc.com
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www.schneider-electric.com

Iomega

Iomega is a well-known industry leader with a powerful brand that is recognized around the worldand is part of EMC® Corporation, the world's premier information infrastructure technology provider— leading customers on the journey to cloud computing. Iomega providesaward-winning network storage solutions, external hard drives, and multimedia devices that are reliable and easy-to-use. In 2010 alone, Iomega shipped more than 14 exabytes of storage for home users, small businesses and mid size businesses with multiple office environments.

www.iomega.com

Main sponsors (Alphabetically sorted)

Fujitsu

Fujitsu Technology Solutions is the leading European IT infrastructure provider with a presence in all key markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, plus India, serving large-, medium- and small-sized companies as well as consumers. With its Dynamic Infrastructures approach, the company offers a full portfolio of IT products, solutions and services, ranging from clients to datacenter solutions, Managed Infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Fujitsu Technology Solutions employs more than 13,000 people and is part of the global Fujitsu Group.

For more information, please see:

ts.fujitsu.com/aboutus

Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks.

www.juniper.net

Lenovo

Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is dedicated to building exceptionally engineered personal computers. Lenovo's business model is built on innovation, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction as well as a focus on investment in emerging markets. Formed by Lenovo Group's acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the company develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and services worldwide. Lenovo has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information see

www.lenovo.com

One-to-one sponsors (Alphabetically sorted)

EMC

EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver Information Technology as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.

Partners play a critical role in helping us meet our customers' needs, and we are committed to ensuring you can deliver best-in-class solutions to meet the depth and breadth of customer IT challenges. The EMC Velocity Solution Provider Program is designed to provide you with the tools, training, support, and resources that you need to advance your business. By joining forces with EMC, partners large and small gain access to a program that fosters success based on investment in solutions to specific customer business challenges in both SMB and enterprise environments.

www.emc.com

Hitachi Data Systems

Hitachi Data Systems helps organizations transform raw data into valuable information by making it more accessible and simpler to manage. Our vision is that IT must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable. Hitachi Data Systems provides best-in-class information technologies, services and solutions that deliver compelling customer ROI, unmatched return on assets (ROA) and demonstrable business impact. As the leader in storage virtualization, only Hitachi Data Systems offers a common, virtualized platform for all data and information. Our solutions cut costs, reduce operational complexity and improve IT agility. Data drives our world - and information is the new currency.

www.hds.com

McAfee

McAfee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the Web more securely. Backed by its unrivaled Global Threat Intelligence, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. McAfee is relentlessly focused on constantly finding new ways to keep our customers safe.

www.mcafee.com

Samsung

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2010 consolidated sales of US$135.8 billion. Employing approximately 190,500 people in 206 offices across 68 countries, the company consists of nine independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Memory, System LSI and LCD. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductor chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs.

With over 40 years' experience in the technology market, Samsung now offers a very comprehensive portfolio of product solutions for businesses, whether it is in the area of banking, hospitality, education, or any other industry. Our commitment to promoting value for our customers and partners is underpinned by three key principles: new technology, innovative products and creative solutions. Our range of business products will provide one integrated solution matched specifically to your needs.

www.samsung.com

Shoretel

Shoretel - The Fastest Growing UC Company in the World - Come & Find Out Why

ShoreTel is the provider of brilliantly simple Unified Communication (UC) solutions based on its award-winning IP business phone system.

A different approach to doing business, a unique architecture delivering a guaranteed total cost of ownership proposition and out of the box functionality on mobile and fixed UC that will make a real difference to any size of business.

The future is here and it is Shoretel.

Come & find out why you should see our product in action and how partnering with ShoreTel could make a real difference to your business.

www.shoretel.com

WatchGuard

WatchGuard is moving security forward with its best-in-class, award-winning hardware and software next-generation firewalls, and messaging and content security solutions that provide extensible network, application and data protection. Providing unparalleled network visibility, management and control, WatchGuard solutions are easy to set-up, use and manage, which eliminates the challenges of protecting IT assets, giving businesses more control. WatchGuard’s broad product line delivers flexibility and deployment options designed to protect against application and network threats through its award-winning hardware and software. WatchGuard products are backed by WatchGuard LiveSecurity® Service, an innovative support, maintenance, and education program.

www.watchguard.com

Emerging vendor (Alphabetically sorted)

Autotask

Autotask was founded in 2001, as a fully-hosted, multi-tenant SaaS application to automate, streamline and optimize business processes for technology solution providers. The software integrates a broad range of critical business systems, including customer relationship management (CRM), service desk, tech scheduling, project management, billing and reporting, and provides real-time service delivery intelligence to help users understand the factors that drive their business and their profitability.

Autotask is designed as an open platform that adapts to a solution provider's business. Accessible from virtually any computer or mobile device connected to the Internet, Autotask features a world-class API that seamlessly integrates with the other systems and tools that providers rely on to run their businesses.

Thousands of IT service providers, value-added resellers (VARs) and managed services providers (MSPs) use Autotask to deliver technology products and services to more than one million organizations and tens of millions of end points around the world.

www.autotask.com

Avira

Avira stands for extreme reliability and internet freedom around the globe. The company was founded 25 years ago on Tjark Auerbach's promise to "make software that does good things for my friends and family". Because of Avira's security expertise and award-winning antivirus software, today more than 100 million consumers and small businesses live free of spyware, phishing, worms and other internet based threats. The company delivers IT-security protection to computers, servers and networks both directly and in the cloud.

For more information, please visit www.avira.com or join the community at www.facebook.com/avira

www.avira.com

CHG-MERIDIAN Group

Publicly traded multinational corporations and medium-sized firms in 18 countries worldwide place their trust in the IT services and financing solutions offered by CHG-MERIDIAN. With a total workforce of some 600 people – most of them employed at seven locations in Germany – the Company, which is headquartered in Weingarten in southwest Germany, has leased assets worth in excess of €2 billion under management. What distinguishes CHG-MERIDIAN as one of the world's leading providers in its field is its non-captive status with respect to banks in its funding operations and with respect to vendors in the composition of its comprehensive IT service packages.

www.chg-meridian.com

Crucial

Crucial is a leading global brand of Micron Technology, one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. Crucial branded products include industry-leading solid-state drives (SSD) and DRAM memory upgrades for desktops, laptops, servers, workstations, and other systems. Crucial products are available worldwide at leading retail and e-tail stores, commercial resellers and system integrators.

www.crucial.com

Joyent

Joyent is a sofware company enabling public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Since 2004, Joyent has been delivering web application hosting Infrastructure as a Service – long before it was ever called Cloud Computing. Over the years, Joyent’s infrastructure has been proven to be extremely stable, flexible and secure. Joyent is the only true Enterprise Class Cloud Computing provider.

The types of customers who have been involved in Joyent’s Cloud Computing evolution have included the individual developer to large enterprises. Virtually every technology and language has proven to operate well on Joyent’s Cloud and applications have scaled from zero traffic to billions of page views per month. In fact today, many of our customers will attest to the Joyent Cloud being “Enterprise Class”.

Today, the company has evolved into providing all three layers of the Cloud Stack – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. The company’s hardware and software technologies have enabled customers to outsource their IT infrastructure needs and better leverage their internal assets. Everyday, Joyent is creating the reality and delivering the benefits of the Public Cloud, the Private Cloud and the Hybrid Cloud by creating solutions that satisfy the requirements of the smallest start-up to the largest enterprise.

www.joyent.com

Distributor partners (Alphabetically sorted)

Also-Actebis

www.also-actebis.com

Arena

www.arena.com.tr

Arrow

www.arrowecs.eu

Avnet

www.avnet.com

Ingram Micro

www.ingrammicro.eu

Magirus

www.magirus.com

Specialist Distribution Group

www.sdg.eu.com

Tech Data

www.techdata-europe.com

Westcoast

www.westcoast.co.uk

Westcon

www.westcon.com
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