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VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity and enable more flexible, agile service delivery. VMware accelerates an organization’s transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments and enabling more efficient, agile service delivery without compromising control. With more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware helps organizations of all sizes lower costs, preserve freedom of choice and energize business through IT while saving energy—financial, human and the Earth’s.

 

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HP is a leading provider of products, technology solutions and services. HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small & medium business. HP, both at worldwide and in Greece, has been organized into core business groups, which co-operate closely together and jointly focus on addressing all customer needs, regardless of their complexity.

 

IBM is an innovation company and focuses on the provision of any assistance to organizations and institutions in order to help them achieve growth, productivity and efficiency, by utilizing technology and drawing upon the capabilities of leading systems, software and services. IBM has also helped thousands of organizations to adopt cloud technologies, either by creating their own private cloud or by the safe use of IBM infrastructure or cloud-based services. Recently, the company has announced the expansion of its global cloud footprint by developing a network of local cloud datacenters around the world, and by supporting an ecosystem of independent companies and OpenStack technologies. By investing in cloud, IBM not only enables enterprises to innovate but offers substantial aid for new companies of all sizes to grow faster. For more information about IBM cloud solutions, please visit ibm.com/cloud-computing. IBM is present in Greece since 1937 and has contributed significantly to the country's business and technological heritage.

 

Gold Sponsors

Automic, a leader in business automation, helps enterprises drive competitive advantage by automating their IT factory - from on-premise to the Cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things. With offices across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, Automic powers over 2,600 customers including Bosch, PSA, BT, Carphone Warehouse, Deutsche Post, Societe Generale, TUI and Swisscom. The company is privately held by EQT.

Lancom is the first and only Greek company with two state-owned Cloud Data Centers build on enterprise specifications, covering any needs of each company / organization, giving them full range of Cloud (IaaS / PaaS / SaaS ) and Data Center services.

The total installations of Lancom’ s data centers consists of proprietary infrastructure, while the design has been done in accordance with the latest international standards, covering every modern business needs. All equipment is enterprise class HP, Cisco and APC, with full high availability (HA) at every level, providing unparalleled performance, guaranteed stability and uptime on all services. Lancom emphasizes in quality, reliability and safety of services offered. Applying international standards requirements for data quality and security, Lancom is certified by ISO 9001:2008 and 27001:2013. The highly trained, know-how and expertise of executives of Lancom, in conjunction with the professional standards of the data center infrastructure, are the real guarantee for the uninterrupted operation of your business services

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions with businesses throughout the world and offices in more than 120 countries. Microsoft’s goal is to help people and businesses realize their full potential, in this way annually invests more than $9 billion in research and development to create products that broaden both individual and business opportunities.

Microsoft Hellas commenced its operations in 1992 and employs 120 persons providing consultancy, training and technical services for both partners and customers.

 

Silver Sponsors

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT 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.

 

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT.

 

SimpliVity delivers the best of both worlds: cloud economics with enterprise performance, protection and functionality. The company provides software-defined infrastructure packaged on industry-standard x86 systems, providing abstraction, pooling and automation of IT resources and services. By assimilating eight to twelve core data center functions, including the hypervisor, compute, storage, network switching, backup, replication, cloud gateway, caching, WAN optimization, real-time deduplication and more, SimpliVity’s Data Virtualization Platform delivered on hyperconverged infrastructure delivers a 3x reduction in TCO. It’s also differentiated by global unified management, integrated backup and replication, and unparalleled efficiency via deduplication, compression and optimization of data before it hits disk to save IOPS and capacity on primary storage and throughout the workload’s lifecycle.

 

Veeam® recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Business™, a business that must operate 24/7/365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Modern Data Center™ by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified protection, leveraged data and complete visibility.
Veeam Availability Suite™, which includes Veeam Backup & Replication™, leverages virtualization, storage, and cloud technologies that enable the modern data center to help organizations save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs.

 

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