Enjoy a delicious cup of coffee while catching up with your IT-professional peers and visiting with our vendors, before beginning your day of education and networking.

As a result of demand from our partners in the IT professional community, The IT Summit has launched a program called The IT Match.  The IT Match is a series of local gatherings for CIOs with similar immediate IT projects to gather information and exchange ideas.

David will be presenting details of The IT Match, collecting input from those attending, and explaining how your company, and you personally, will benefit from this program.

Participation in The IT Match meetings is complimentary for all qualified IT executives.

Is a lion share of your IT infrastructure distributed across remote offices to satisfy performance needs of your employees? Do you operate multiple data centers because you fear that user experience decreases the farther they are away from the data center? If at least one of your answers is “YES” your IT environment is not just complex and expensive to manage, it may be a ticking bomb. Unprotected storage hanging at the branch offices carries a risk of security breach. Handling too many data centers does not give you the flexibility and efficiency you need to scale your business.

The good news is that with the latest innovation in IT performance you can:

– Consolidate entire data centers for greater efficiencies without affecting end-user experience

– Centralize and secure your business critical data without breaking applications

– Extend your virtualization efforts to remote locations to simplify troubleshooting and operations

Join Justyna Bak as she walks you through the latest recommendations on how to achieve the consolidation nirvana.

Join your IT peers for a complimentary luncheon including assorted sndwiches, salads, and dessert.  This is a perfect opportunity to interact with other technology professionals in a relaxed environment.

Location analytics is more valuable than ever in gaining and maintaining competitive advantage in this era of Big Data insights and with the increasing use and availability of location data.  Unfortunately, advanced visualization and analysis of your data may be difficult or cost prohibitive.

The Cloud’s robust, and highly scalable storage options and computational power have contributed to the rise of the Web and mobile app economy by serving up ubiquitous and affordable consumer applications.   Cloud technology has also given rise to advanced visualization and spatial analysis options that were once the exclusive purview of professional analysts working in dedicated GIS departments with specialized software.  Now, individuals with no background in GIS can use familiar tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, or a Web browser to leverage advanced Cloud-based location analytics services  to map, visualize, analyze, and share their data.  The resulting alternative views and interactions with their data can help organizations gain new and valuable insights, identify opportunities, and make better decisions.  In this presentation, Cloud-based location analytics is demonstrated in a simple yet powerful retail site selection workflow using a basic Excel table of addresses.

During the presentation we will discuss the latest newsworthy InfoSec related incidents and propose the steps to avoid them in future.

As a special thank you to all of our guests at The IT Summit, our sponsors have arranged for a prize drawing for you, our valued supporters.  The prizes are different at every conference, but in the past have included items such as iPods, golf clubs, sporting event tickets, and eReaders.

Schneider Electric is the global specialist in energy management. I work for the IT Business, which is responsible for critical power and cooling products, services and solutions for data centers, business networks and homes as well as secured power for industrial applications. The DCIM Software Consultant specializing in mission critical Monitoring and Management Software solutions for data centers. Some of our product brands that you may know of include APC, MGE, Gutor and Uniflair. Additionally, to provide integrated solutions for data centers, we deliver products and services from our other businesses; include Square D, TAC Continuum, Vista, PowerLogic and more

Business runs better when IT runs at its best. That’s why more than 20,000 IT organizations – from the Global 100 to the smallest businesses – in over 120 countries rely on BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) to manage their business services and applications across distributed, mainframe, virtual and cloud environments. With the leading Business Service Management platform, Cloud Management, and the industry’s broadest choice of IT management solutions, BMC helps customers cut costs, reduce risk and achieve business objectives. For the four fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2012, BMC revenue was approximately $2.2 billion.

Charter Business® provides a full range of advanced broadband services and solutions to business organizations, including Charter Business Internet, Charter Business Phone and Charter Business TV in Digital entertainment programming.

All services are delivered over our state-of-the-art network, and backed by professional customer service and support from local technicians. We’re dedicated to bringing our customers innovative, reliable services, and responsive customer care — to help businesses to succeed today and in the years to come.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, provides customers with uncompromised protection against all types of threats, reduces security complexity and lowers total cost of ownership. Check Point first pioneered the industry with FireWall-1 and its patented stateful inspection technology. Today, Check Point continues to develop new innovations based on the Software Blade Architecture, providing customers with flexible and simple solutions that can be fully customized to meet the exact security needs of any organization.

Check Point is the only vendor to go beyond technology and define security as a business process. Check Point 3D Security uniquely combines policy, people and enforcement for greater protection of information assets and helps organizations implement a blueprint for security that aligns with business needs. Customers include tens of thousands of organizations of all sizes, including all Fortune and Global 100 companies. Check Point’s award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumers from hackers, spyware and identity theft.

Computer 1 is a full-service nationwide small business. Our clients range from individuals to federal, state and local government agencies to Fortune 500 companies. We’ve been servicing the IT industry for 19 years and we’ve beat the competition with:

• New Cloud service offering
• Enterprise applications and databases
• Fix/break
• Four-hour, on-site, 24/7 next-business-day support, nationwide
• GSA prenegotiated pricing
• IT management and strategic planning
• Manufacturer deal registration
• Manufacturer expedited drop shop
• Microsoft Exchange, including antivirus, antispam, BlackBerry server, backups and security
• Network and security devices and appliances, including routers, switches, firewalls and assessments
• Outsourcing IT professionals
• PC help desk and user support
• PC, server, hardware and software troubleshooting
• Remote management services
• Server and back-office infrastructures, including domain administration and back-up operations
• Six months’ warehousing of product
• Troubleshooting and implementation assistance
• Volume discounts
• WinView, WinFrame and MetaFrame implementation and upgrades

OUR MISSION

e-Cycle is dedicated to empowering businesses and organizations to take a more responsible, secure and cost-effective approach to wireless recycling. Our clients take this responsibility very seriously and so do we.

OUR VALUE PROPOSITION

Being a leader goes beyond offering innovative green business solutions. The e-Cycle team is devoted to exceptional customer service, client protection, education, environmental responsibility, and community support through charitable contributions and philanthropy.

e-Cycle is the partner you need to help achieve your sustainability initiatives by turning old wireless technologies into new revenue, protecting your corporate reputation and expanding your role in safeguarding the environment.

Geography connects our many cultures and societies and influences our way of life. Esri is built on the philosophy that a geographic approach to problem solving ensures better communication and collaboration.

Geographic information system (GIS) technology leverages this geographic insight to address social, economic, business, and environmental concerns at local, regional, national, and global scales.

Global Knowledge is the worldwide leader in IT and business skills training. We deliver via training centers, private facilities, and the Internet, enabling our customers to choose when, where, and how they want to receive training programs and learning services.

Our core training is focused on Cisco, Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat, business process improvement, and leadership development. Our IT courses include networking, programming, operating systems, security, and telephony. Our business skills courses feature project management, ITIL, people management, and business analysis. Our more than 1,200 courses span foundational and specialized training and certifications.

HCL is a leading global Technology and IT Enterprise with annual revenues of US$ 6.2 billion. The HCL Enterprise comprises two companies listed in India, HCL Technologies ( www.hcltech.com ) and HCL Infosystems

The 35 year old enterprise, founded in 1976, is one of India’s original IT garage start ups. Its range of offerings span R&D and Technology Services, Enterprise and Applications Consulting, Remote Infrastructure Management, BPO services, IT Hardware, Systems Integration and Distribution of Technology and Telecom products in India. The HCL team comprises 90,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, operating across 31 countries including 505 points of presence in India. HCL has global partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including several IT and Technology majors.

Insight Integrated Systems offers comprehensive storage and data management solutions for open network environments that can streamline operations, management, and expenditures, while improving your profitability. IIS has expanded our capabilities in assessing systems, architectures and technology management requirements for highly diversified computing environments. Our IT consulting, integration services and solutions help you build responsive IT governance, infrastructure and application strategy to meet the critical needs of your business. When planning your data management objectives, partner with Insight Integrated Systems for expert solutions that deliver the highest return on your investment and create a solid foundation for your continuing success.

Now more than ever it’s important to have an IT solutions partner who can help you accomplish more of your IT goals, achieve new efficiencies and realize cost savings every step of the way. Whether you need fast access to essential technologies or the support of technical experts for the strategic planning and deployment of solutions, Insight can help.

Insight’s unique model combines an array of advanced services and expert technical resources with a far-reaching supply chain to provide you the level of solution support you need – whenever you need it. Our technology practices bring deep technical skills in vital solution areas to help you implement strategic technologies. Our Lifecycle and Management Services give you new ways to balance changing IT priorities and limited resources.

Insight’s broad technical scope and capabilities offer a single-source for diverse IT goals. With a complete portfolio of hardware, software and services, Insight can help you at every stage – from planning to implementation to ongoing management. Let us know how we can help keep your IT strategy moving forward.

The Information Systems Security Association of Los Angeles (ISSA-LA) is the founding chapter of a not-for-profit international organization of information security professionals and practitioners. We provide educational forums, publications and peer interaction opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skill and professional growth of our members.

From its beginning, Level 3 Communications was founded on the principles of the Silicon Economicssm cycle: create a global telecommunications network with the scale to reduce unit costs, stimulate demand with these lower costs, support that demand by scaling even more. Level 3 created a network that serves as a foundation for the communications services of the 21st century by providing, among other things, information transmission over a fiber optic network and media delivery over a content delivery network. And we’ve grown to support the end-to-end communications services that businesses and carriers rely on.

Leviton is the smart choice, providing the most comprehensive range of solutions to meet the needs of today’s residential, commercial and industrial buildings. Leveraging more than a century of experience, Leviton helps customers create sustainable, intelligent environments through its electrical wiring devices, network and data center connectivity solutions, and lighting energy management systems. From switches and receptacles, to daylight harvesting controls, networking systems, and equipment for charging electric vehicles, Leviton solutions help customers achieve savings in energy, time and cost, all while enhancing safety.

Today’s IT networks are a complex mix of interdependent devices co-mingled with application databases, business applications and various sources of identity information. The ever-increasing volume of information generated by these data sources combined with increases in service level agreements and reductions in operational staff has resulted in one of the biggest challenges in information technology today — effective and proactive network management. Without network availability and performance, business will suffer. Automated tools are required to manage the volume of network issues and critical events that occur each day, ensuring maximum network and application availability for mission critical functions.

That’s where LogMatrix comes in. Our network management software solution is an extensible monitoring and event correlation framework that enables users to implement their IT operational practices and policies. The core component, NerveCenter, helps deliver end-to-end network management by providing visibility across networks, systems and applications, collecting and correlating data, identifying issues and determining root cause.

MDC is a world leader in Vacuum and Ceramic Seal Solutions. MDC was founded in 1975 to serve a rapidly expanding vacuum industry and to satisfy the increasing demand for high quality vacuum components with fast delivery and reasonable prices. Over the years MDC has expanded its portfolio acquiring Insulator Seal (ISI), a ceramic to metal bonding company, Innovent Technologies, a gas and vacuum weldment company. Today MDC is a leading manufacturer engineered process solutions; in HV & UHV Vacuum, ceramic-to-metal bonding and gas delivery.

Neudesic is a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold ISV Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on Microsoft’s technology platform. Our technical and industry expertise empower enterprises to enhance their technological capacity and respond to business opportunities with greater efficiency.

Neudesic was founded in 2002 by forward thinkers Parsa Rohani, Tim Marshall and Anthony Ferry, who saw opportunity in the advent of the Microsoft.NET platform. Since then, we have earned a sterling reputation for our comprehensive understanding of how emerging technology can change the way people do business. Neudesic’s in-depth knowledge, strategic alliances, diverse experience and technology expertise continue to provide a sustainable competitive advantage to companies and organizations in nearly every industry.

Nimble Storage was founded by a team of industry veterans who developed groundbreaking primary storage and deduplication architectures at several market-leading storage companies. Their experience has given Nimble a unique perspective to solving the industry’s most pressing storage issues: reining in storage complexity, reducing costs, and implementing affordable backup and recovery.

The Nimble approach is based on the concept of converged storage, backup, and disaster recovery. It replaces an enterprise’s expensive high-RPM drives with a hybrid architecture that combines high-performance flash memory with low-cost, high-density SATA drives. And by deploying a second Nimble array in an off-site location, enterprises of any size can now obtain a complete, cost-effective data protection solution incorporating WAN-efficient primary-to-primary replication.

Recycle Your Media is a green company that specializes in data destruction services and recycling. We work with many companies who are frustrated with high off-site storage, shredding and recycling fees, mad because dealing with end-of-life equipment takes them away from their main business, upset that the old equipment gets in the way and is wasting space, under pressure because they don’t have the time or man power to handle the disposal of all these products and disappointed with the fact that most of these products end up in landfills…

Riverbed delivers performance for the globally connected enterprise.

With Riverbed®, enterprises can successfully and intelligently implement strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery, without fear of compromising performance.

When organizations consolidate IT and move to cloud environments, the distance created between users and their data often results in high-latency and reduced bandwidth. Riverbed WAN optimization, network performance management, and cloud storage solutions enable enterprises to overcome these drawbacks. At Riverbed we make it easy to understand, optimize, and accelerate IT, so that organizations can build a fast, fluid, and dynamic IT architecture.

SharkRack has been a leading provider of data center solutions for over fifteen years. We provide solutions to Small, Mid-Market, and Enterprise sized clients through our direct and channel sales teams which reach across the United States, Canada, and beyond. We’ve also since our beginning added critical technology and infrastructure partnerships with industry leaders such as Cisco Systems, VMWare, SonicWALL, Extreme Networks, D-Link, Leviton Fiber Connect, Geist Manufacturing, HID-Dirak, Server Technology and Minicom Advanced Systems- just to name a few. This allows us not only to provide our customers and partners with outstanding data center cabinets but also best of breed technology solutions for everyday technical operations- all designed to fit any budget.

For more than a decade, SIOS solutions have been protecting thousands of mission-critical applications and countless volumes of data for customers of all sizes, across every industry, in all parts of the world.

Our innovative high availability and data protection software solutions for Linux and Windows deliver superior RTO and RPO at a lower cost of ownership, whether they are deployed on physical machines or in virtualized or cloud environments.

SIOS products (SteelEye Protection Suites and SteelEye DataKeeper) are easy to implement, easy to use, and easy to manage – eliminating the complexity and capital expenditures associated with traditional high availability and disaster recovery approaches. This makes them ideal for quickly extending protection to new and existing enterprise applications, systems and databases migrating from UNIX to Linux, managed SaaS applications, and projects that must satisfy stringent SLAs and regulatory requirements.

Time Warner Cable Business Class, a division of Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), offers a full complement of business communications tools to small-and medium-sized businesses and enterprise-sized companies. Its phone, Internet, Ethernet, cable TV and security solutions are enhanced by award-winning customer service and local support teams. Time Warner Cable Business Class was founded in 1998, offering high-speed Internet to small businesses. Today, it serves approximately 450,000 business customers throughout Time Warner Cable’s markets.

Over 90 years of manufacturing excellence

Tripp Lite is a leading manufacturer of products that power, connect and protect computers and other electronics. Founded in 1922, it is best known for its Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Systems and Isobar® Surge Suppressors (with over 18 million sold).