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

Jaimie kicks off The IT Summit Denver 2013 with a brief history of the conference, followed by an overview of the topics guests can look forward to learning about throughtout the day. 

The discussion will center around the key elements that enterprises consider when incorporating a Cloud based model into their IT infrastructure i.e. flexibility, simplicity, and security. With the need for speed and reliability, the integration of the network and the cloud becomes more important and imperative in today’s business environment as well as the need to create agility and efficiency across multiple cloud resources and applications. How and where your Cloud is deployed does matter, listen to how enterprises are approaching this transformation and ensuring that they maintain the control, security and agility required to manage the constant change within their business environment.  

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.

With over 10+ years of providing AV design, AV services and audio visual solutions for clients from the military to churches and from corporations to universities and named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Hot 100 list in 2008, 5280 Digital knows how to design and implement audio visual solutions for all AV needs!

Representing the non-linear industry from its very inception, we have a unique perspective on the products in the AV market, their capabilities, and how they fit into an individual customer’s business. We don’t stop there. Once the product has been developed for delivery we have strategies for delivering media on DVD, CD, Streaming and finally onto large-screen projection (LCD, DLP projection).

Additionally, we’re the only Denver re-seller that carries all CTS Certifications in addition to Microsoft and Avid Certifications.

Integrated presentation systems for conference, training, and theatrical applications are a significant part of 5280 Digital Inc., representing the final destination of the media our content creation tools develop.

Aerohive Networks simplifies enterprise networking by reducing the cost and complexity of distributed enterprise deployments with cloud-enabled Wi-Fi and routing solutions for medium and large headquarters, campuses, branch offices and teleworkers. Aerohive’s award-winning cooperative control architecture, public or private cloud platform, and easy-to-deploy routing and VPN solutions eliminate costly hardware appliances and single points of failure, drastically simplify network operations, and provide mission-critical reliability and the flexibility to start small and expand your deployment without limitations.

AITP is the community of IT knowledge focused on empowering the IT profession by evolving its members to their full potential as a professional.

It is our goal, our purpose to provide a community network for the IT business professionals to reach their true potential by providing education programs for advancing technology and business skills, leadership development opportunities, networking, peer mentoring and knowledge sharing, and online resources.

At Allied, we’ll work closely with your business to find the right solutions for your particular telecom needs. Our industry knowledge is second to none, and our personalized customer service is beyond comparison.
 
Just think of us as an extension of your business, serving as the single point of contact to handle all your voice, data, video, and Internet access needs.
 
Let us make your telecom simple.

Founded in 2001, Application Security, Inc. (AppSecInc) has pioneered database security, risk, and compliance solutions for the enterprise. AppSecInc empowers organizations to assess, monitor and protect their most critical database assets in real time, while simplifying audits, monitoring risk, and automating compliance requirements.

As the leading provider of cross platform solutions for the enterprise, AppSecInc’s products – AppDetectivePro for auditors and IT advisors, and DbProtect for the enterprise – deliver the industry’s most comprehensive database security solution. With over 1,300 active customers in 130 countries, AppSecInc is headquartered in New York City and has offices throughout North America and the United Kingdom.

Axis provides IP-based network video solutions including network cameras (IP cameras) and video encoders for security surveillance and remote monitoring.

The love of sound is Biamp‘s reason for being, and has been since our founding 35 years ago. We’ve grown to be an acknowledged international leader in professional installed audio electronics. Our staff still shares a passion for sound that resonates through every product and every decision the company makes.

You can sense our dedication to sound when you call for support and Biamp’s own technicians answer — in-house. You touch it when you use our intuitive software to configure new systems. You can hear our passion for great sound grow louder with every breakthrough design Biamp launches.

Most people have never seen Biamp products, but they’ve probably heard them work wonders — in airports, arenas, courtrooms, Houses of Worship, theaters, universities, corporations, and conference centers. Around the world, around the clock, Biamp equipment is delivering, managing and enhancing the sound.

For the love of sound, we never stop experimenting, tinkering and making the impossible actually practical. Because ultimately, when the lights dim and the speakers come on, it’s not about the system. It’s all about the sound..

What started as a technology products catalog company has grown to a $1 billion communications and infrastructure services provider. This growth enables us to offer you an unrivaled solutions portfolio and international footprint, all built on the foundation of our business—trusted technical advice and support.

Black Box Network Services is now your single-source provider of comprehensive communications, infrastructure, and product solutions.

Blue Star Recyclers is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that recycles electronics to create jobs for adults with developmental disAbilities. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Blue Star Recyclers and the Vocational Electronics Recycling Network (VERN) have partners located throughout the state of Colorado. Recycling with Blue Star Recyclers makes a Triple Bottom Line impact: People, Planet, and Profit. To inquire about data destruction or recycling electronics with Blue Star Recyclers, please visit: www.bluestarrecyclers.com, email [email protected], or call 855-302-2583

Cetis, Inc., formed through the 2006 merger of Scitec and TeleMatrix, and the 2009 acquisition of Teledex assets, designs and manufactures a broad range of analog and VoIP telephones and high-speed Internet products. Designed and engineered in America and Europe for hotel, resort, enterprise, SMB, SOHO, healthcare, education, military, and government applications, Cetis products are built to exacting standards, and backed by our global distribution and support network.

At Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) customers come first and an integral part of our DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships and working with them to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success.

The concept of solutions being driven to address specific customer challenges has been with Cisco since its inception. Husband and wife Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, both working for Stanford University, wanted to email each other from their respective offices located in different buildings but were unable to due to technological shortcomings. A technology had to be invented to deal with disparate local area protocols; and as a result of solving their challenge – the multi-protocol router was born.

Since then Cisco has shaped the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors and ecosystem partners and has become the worldwide leader in networking – transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate.

The Commission will adhere to the City Charter, the City’s Code of Ethics, and we will endeavor to certify the best qualified candidates for employment and promotions that represent the diversity of the community we serve. This will enable the Commission to not only meet but exceed our responsibilities to the Mayor, City Council, Denver Police and Fire Departments, respective unions, employee organizations and the Citizens of Denver.

The Colorado Community College System comprises the state’s largest system of higher education.  Its career and academic programs in the 13 state community colleges serve more than 162,000 students annually.  In addition, CCCS oversees 1200 secondary and 800 postsecondary career and technical programs in more than 150 school districts and seven other post-secondary institutions across the state.

Coraid is redefining storage with its breakthrough line of EtherDrive storage solutions. EtherDrive delivers scale-out performance, Ethernet simplicity, and faster than Fibre Channel performance at commodity hardware economics. Designed from the ground up for big data, virtualization and cloud architectures, Coraid solutions have been deployed by more than 1,700 companies worldwide.

For more than 26 years, Dell has empowered countries, communities, customers and people everywhere to use technology to realize their dreams. Customers trust us to deliver technology solutions that help them do and achieve more, whether they’re at home, work, school or anywhere in their world.

At the Chamber, we help qualified, interested buyers find you. A listing in our Membership Directory and Buyer’s Guide, participation in our Referral Program, and service links on our Web site are included in your membership. Plus, you can stand out from the crowd even more when you take advantage of sponsorship opportunities.

Gain one client – or one big idea – from your involvement in the Chamber and your membership pays for itself.

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.

Firetide is the leading provider of multi-service mesh networks for industrial and municipal applications. Firetide provides a secure, high performance wireless mesh infrastructure and access solution for video surveillance, Internet access, public safety networks, and temporary networks wherever rapid deployment, mobility, and ease of installation are required.

Fluke Networks offers best of breed solutions that span network deployment, network performance management and troubleshooting, as well as security and performance monitoring. Fluke Networks solutions are trusted by:

    •Network professionals to help them deploy, manage and troubleshoot business critical networks

    •Agencies, Enterprises & Carriers around the world

    •By 98 of the Fortune 100 Companies

FORTRUST is a world-class high-availability data center services provider, progressively designed and precisely managed to preserve business continuity for our customers. Our Denver colocation facility was built to be the most reliable and secure data and colocation center in the Rocky Mountain region.

Leading companies choose the FORTRUST data center to gain a trusted partner who will preserve and protect their data as well as serve as an essential extension of their operations. We stake our reputation on exceptional customer service and back our promise to uptime with industry-leading colocation service level agreements.

Green House Data is dedicated to our mission of providing enterprise-quality infrastructure and cloud infrastructure along with services and support, all delivered in an environmentally sustainable way.
 
Our secure and reliable vCloud Powered cloud hosting and colocation facilities are located in geographically diverse green data centers. Each facility is SSAE 16 Type II and HIPAA compliant and is highly reliable and redundant. We realize your bottom line relies on uptime, so we guarantee our 100% SLAs. You’ll also get customer service that will WOW you and prices that will benefit your budget.

The Holistic Information Security Practitioner (HISP) Institute (HISPI) is an independent certification organization consisting of volunteers that are true information security practitioners, such as Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), Information Security Officers (ISOs), Information Security Managers, Directors of Information Security, Security Analysts, Security Engineers and Technology Risk Managers from major corporations and organizations.

The HISPI certification approach prides itself on ensuring that an educational foundation provided by information security training is the corner stone of the HISP certification and the Institute as a whole.

Don’t stop at IT security certification alone. IT certification is important but full security training for a business’s IT Security team is what will make you stand out from the competition. The security certification available through HISPI will show your commitment to the process.

InfraGard is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) program that began in the Cleveland Field Office in 1996. It was a local effort to gain support from the information technology industry and academia for the FBI’s investigative efforts in the cyber arena. The program expanded to other FBI Field Offices, and in 1998 the FBI assigned national program responsibility for InfraGard to the former National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) and to the Cyber Division in 2003. InfraGard and the FBI have developed a relationship of trust and credibility in the exchange of information concerning various terrorism, intelligence, criminal, and security matters.

At Intrascope, we are constantly striving to bring quality results at a fair price.
 
We accomplish a good part of this drive through our people.  We empower every person involved throughout the solution process to focus on what is best for the customer with the most value for their dollar.  We make sure all expectations are clearlly communicated at the beginning of all of our projects to ensure we meet your needs and resolve your concerns.  With those clearly defined, we’re that much more empowered to give you the quality results you’re looking for.

At Juniper Networks, we are leading the charge to architecting the new network. At the heart of the new network is our promise to transform the economics and experience of networking for our customers. We offer a high-performance network infrastructure built on simplicity, security, openness, and scale. We are innovating in ways that empower our customers, our partners, and ultimately everyone in a connected world.

Kelly IT Resources^®specializes in connecting companies around the world with information technology professionals.

We are a part of Kelly Services^®, a US-based Fortune 500 company and a global industry leader in workforce solutions. Our network of international branch locations allows us to provide consistent, quality service to our employees and clients worldwide.

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.

Meru Networks provides a virtualized wireless LAN solution that optimizes the enterprise network to deliver the performance, reliability, and operational simplicity of a wired network, with the advantages of mobility.

Meru’s innovative approach to wireless networking uses virtualization technology to create an intelligent and self-monitoring wireless network. With Meru, enterprises can become all wireless, smoothly migrating their business-critical applications from wired to wireless networks.

Milestone Systems was founded in 1998 upon a dream to build a software development company that could improve business through managing and distributing digital video data regardless of time or location. Today, that dream is being realized as more and more security installations are moving toward digital technologies.
 
With headquarters in Brøndby, Denmark, Milestone is leading the pack as the world provider of true open platform IP video management software. Milestone XProtect® software is powerful and advanced, yet easy to use, reliable and proven in more than 100,000 installations worldwide. The open platform allows best-in-class solutions to video enable business: reducing costs, optimizing processes, protecting people and assets and ultimately increasing value in your organization’s products and services.

Gain a competitive advantage by replacing inefficient and error-prone paper forms with automated mobile solutions that boost productivity and increase revenue. Our code-free enterprise mobility platform enables businesses to easily create, deploy and administer sophisticated custom mobile applications. Our intuitive point & click system eliminates time-consuming and expensive custom coding and includes the management tools necessary for a successful mobility project.

New Frontier Communications is dedicated to providing a world-class experience.  Our industry knowledge, ongoing support and contract negotiations are backed by over 15 years of communications expertise.  Our industry knowledge enables us to provide solutions that put your business in a position to compete in today’s marketplace.  Ongoing support is critical in eliminating unexpected overages, keeping costs low, and providing you with a trusted advisor. We work with the carriers to negotiate the best rates and incentives to ensure that you stay within your budget.  New Frontier Communications is about creating an exceptional experience throughout the sales process and beyond.

The reason for New Horizons’ 30-year success is simple—we are the best source for computer training and certification in the world. New Horizons offers an extensive selection of vendor-authorized training and certifications for top technology providers such as Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA and VMware. In fact, we are Microsoft’s largest training provider, delivering more than 40% of all authorized Microsoft training worldwide; the largest Cisco-authorized training partner with courses available at 250 centers worldwide; and the largest authorized provider of CompTIA training and certification in the world. Being an authorized partner ensures that our students have the highest quality training materials and train on the latest products and technologies available. New Horizons offers the largest Guaranteed-to-Run course schedule in the world.

Old world principles applied to current technology.

Platte River Networks (PRN) strives to identify problems before they arise. Rather than looking to address individual computing snags, we use our own Intuition technology to take a 24×7 proactive approach when assessing and managing our customers’ environments. This allows us to be everywhere simultaneously with both onsite and remote monitoring capabilities. Many companies throughout Colorado and the United States benefit from both our proactive tactics and flexible service plans.

Providea Conferencing, an SPS Company is a leading global provider of video conferencing, collaboration and telepresence technology solutions. As an SPS company, Providea addresses a comprehensive UC strategy that includes voice applications, data, infrastructure, mobility, video conferencing, collaboration and telepresence – plus cloud-based and managed service options to support customer needs at every level. Providea holds partner authorizations and certification with manufacturers including Cisco, Polycom and LifeSize, enabling us to provide customers with powerful, best-of-breed solutions. Providea is also a Masergy Platinum Partner and provides managed, secure global network and cloud communications services to enterprises that have multiple locations.

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.

In today’s business environment, your data is one of your greatest resources. Any glitch or loss equates to needless wasted hours and dollars.

Sanity Solutions is a specialist in comprehensive equipment and services for your data storage needs. If your organization has stored data, consider Sanity Solutions.

At Sanity, we identify your business needs and create strategic goals and technical solutions that maximize your investments and results. Our employees are trained on the latest products, services, and industry standards to provide you with storage and technology solutions that surpass your objectives, including eliminating data loss, increasing data availability, and lowering overall costs, with continual technical and account support.

SK&T was founded by Kathy Lawson, SK&T’s CEO and President, in 1997. As a woman-owned, small business enterprise, SK&T is favorably positioned to benefit from multiple programs offered by the federal, state and county agencies, as well as major corporations. Though this has contributed to the overall success of SK&T, the driving reason for our record growth is our commitment to delivering outstanding customer service and quality solutions.
 
Not only can SK&T meet the current demands of your business but we have structured our company growth in anticipation of fulfilling your future needs. Our strategic partnerships with manufacturers, suppliers and other corporations contribute towards our high-quality, affordable solutions, while our diverse client base has provided us with extensive knowledge of the challenges facing businesses today.
 
We seek every opportunity to serve as a knowledgeable, valued partner, supplying our clients with impact-producing solutions and a high return on investment. SK&T is not just a box pusher, SK&T Integration has set itself a side and committed to our customers that we will support everything we sell. we want our customers satisfied with the products and services they receive from SK&T.

The IT Summit would like to gratefully acknowledge the State of Colorado’s continued support of our conferences.

We take great pride in the selection and training of our engineering and support team. For this reason, there are no ‘second string’ players at VirtualArmor. The care of your network is always handled by experienced, certified engineers working around the clock to insure that all your systems are running smoothly. In fact, our engineering and support staff has literally hundreds of years of total experience in network operations.
 
You may never need to contact us, but if you do, VirtualArmor will always pick up the call. Our Help Desk is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days of the week, with the most knowledgeable and friendly service professionals in the industry. You’ll get the right answers, fast.

Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq: WIN) is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas. Windstream has more than $6 billion in annual revenues and is listed on the S&P 500 index.

Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq: WIN) is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas. Windstream has more than $6 billion in annual revenues and is listed on the S&P 500 index.

A global leader respected for innovation and reliability, Zebra offers technologies that give a virtual voice to an organization’s assets, people and transactions, enabling organizations to unlock greater business value.  
 
The company’s extensive portfolio of marking and printing technologies, including RFID and real-time location solutions, illuminates mission-critical information to help customers take smarter business actions.