Location & Date
Thursday 18th June 2009 @ Aintree Racecourse Liverpool
Aintree Directions
Aintree Racecourse
Ormskirk Road
Aintree
Liverpool
L9 5AS
Opening Times
10.00am - 4.30pm
Event Registration
Attendance is free of charge, however, demand is expected to be high and places are limited, so to ensure your space, please register online at Register or call us on 0151 521 2202
More information
2,500 free car park spaces
Refreshment facilities will be available.
Demonstration sessions will continue throughout the day
The Northern Technology Roadshow
EMC VMWare Riverbed Astaro NetApp Citrix DBAM Computhink Phion
See the latest technologies and meet the vendors
At the Virtualise, Consolidate, Secure & Accelerate Roadshow 2009
This invitation only Technology Roadshow is aimed at IT Managers, IT Directors, and CIO's who are concerned with ensuring IT alignment with business strategy and are looking for a northern based technology partner with the credentials to deliver everytime.
You will see how VMWare, Citrix Xen, EMC, Astaro, NetApp, DBAM, Computhink, phion and Riverbed, can benefit your organisation through the deployment of Server Virtualisation, Storage Consolidation, Document Management, Unified Threat Management and WAN Acceleration technology to deliver real tangible benefits for your business through, cost reduction, productivity gains and business continuity.
VMWare: will demonstrate to you how an ESX virtual infrastructure can be deployed to deliver significant operating cost benefits while greatly enhancing application availability & business continuity planning.
EMC: will demonstrate the benefits of mid range storage consolidation & replication technology allowing you to deliver cost savings through information lifecycle management" and simplified business continuity.
Riverbed: will demonstrate the huge potential for cost savings as well as productivity gains through the deployment of Riverbed Steelhead WAN & application acceleration devices.
Citrix: will demonstrate their XEN Server virtualisation technology and show how huge cost savings are possible whilst adopting "Green Computing".
Astaro: will demonstrate their latest version of the Astaro Secure Gateway and Unified Threat Management technology.
NetApp will demonstrate their FAS range of simple to use storage systems featuring their DataONTAP technology and simple deployment and management capabilies.
DBAM: will demonstrate their EP range of WAN traffic management and analysis technologies and show how application response can be improved and bandwidth needs reduced.
Computhink: will demonstrate their ViewWise Intelligent Document Management System and their email archival and retrieval capabilities.
phion will demonstrate their netfence technology that provides a comprehensive answer to all security-related issues, ranging from guarding the perimeter, networking branch offices via reliable and highly available connections, to protecting against malicious content and securing internal networks
This informative event is accompanied by executive briefing sessions covering the subjects on display and will be held throughout the day
Draft Executive Briefing Schedule (Times to be confirmed)
10-10 - 10.40 am phion "Security Edge to Core"
10.50 - 11.20 am DBAM "Active Application Management"
11.30 - 12.00 am EMC "Optimising Virtual Infrastructure"
12.10 - 12.40 pm Riverbed "WAN acceleration applications for DR and Productivity"
12-50 - 13.20 am phion "Security Edge to Core"
13.30 - 14.00 pm Citrix "XenServer and XenMotion"
14.10 - 14.40 pm NetApp "Introducing NetApp - The Best Storage for Virtualised Environments"
14.50 - 15.20 pm VMWare "Virtualisation for Application availability"
15.30 - 16.00 pm Astaro "Unified Threat Management"
About Stack (your hosts)
Stack Computer Solutions ltd help to create an Intelligent Business Infrastructure which is capable of delivering business advantage through reduced IT operating costs, maximised infrastructure agility, minimised business risk and total availability.
Stack have relationships and accreditations with the leading technology vendors such as EMC, NetApp, VM Ware, Citrix, Hitachi, Cisco, HP, Riverbed, Asigra, Astaro, Microsoft and many more to ensure our solutions are the best fit commercially and technically.
Stack has the capability to take your needs from initial assessment through consultancy, design, planning, installation, and ongoing support and maintenance, making us the right choice for a strategic IT Partner.
About EMC
EMC Corporation is the world leader in systems, software, services, and solutions for building and managing intelligent, flexible, and secure information infrastructures. They help their customers maximize the value of their information assets by implementing and accelerating powerful information lifecycle management (ILM) strategies. With ILM, their customers can manage information efficiently for the most business value at every point in the information lifecycle and at the lowest cost.
About VMWare
As the global leader in virtual infrastructure technology, VMware is committed to helping organizations large and small to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their IT operations. VMware solutions are used by more than 20,000 IT organizations worldwide, including 100 of the Fortune 100, to solve a variety of complex business challenges.
About Riverbed
Riverbed's wide-area data services (WDS) solutions enable organizations with more than one office to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between distributed sites, by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times between enterprise datacenters and remote offices, Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead WDS appliances enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Steelhead appliances have been deployed in organizations ranging from the world's largest corporations with offices around the globe to small companies with a couple of sites that are just miles apart.
About Phion
phion is one of the leading European providers of communication protection solutions. With its netfence product portfolio, phion offers solutions that meet the highest standards of availability, security and management. phion netfence provides a comprehensive answer to all security-related issues, ranging from guarding the perimeter, networking branch offices via reliable and highly available connections, to protecting against malicious content and securing internal networks. All phion products feature centralised management and a very favourable TCO
About Astaro
Astaro simplifies network security. Small and medium-sized businesses in particular are able to shape a comfortable, yet more effective network environment through Astaro solutions, protecting against data theft, viruses, spyware and spam.
Astaro's unique approach includes the integration of ten diverse security applications in a single appliance. Based on the proven quality of the Linux platform, Astaro integrates "Best of Breed" solutions through a combination of open source and leading commercial security products. This concept forged the most feature rich "all in one" appliance for network security on the market today. Astaro Security Gateway integrates network protection, web filtering and email security into an intuitive and easy to use, web based user interface.
About Citrix
Today’s businesses run on applications. Therefore, having the right approach to application delivery is critical to every organization. Citrix is the global leader in the application delivery infrastructure market and, since 1989, organizations have been using Citrix solutions to address their application delivery challenges. With Citrix solutions, organizations across all industries can leverage new business opportunities and gain a competitive advantage by using Citrix application delivery infrastructure to deliver optimal application performance and information security to their users in all scenarios, at lower operating costs
About Computhink
Computhink provides feature rich Integrated Document Management/Email Archival Solutions. Features and functionality of ViewWise and The Paperless Office, rival products offered by major industry leaders to the world's largest customers. ViewWise is engineered to facilitate compliance with current and emerging operational and regulatory compliance requirements for document imaging, capture / indexing, searching / retrieval, archiving and records management, while incorporating simplicity and ease of installation/use, complemented by robust reliability and minimal administration.
About NetApp
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NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that help our customers accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today.
Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of solutions for business applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup, and more. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so companies can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before
About DBAM
Your bandwidth is a mission critical part of your communications strategy. It’s also a precious commodity that you should be exploiting to the maximum in order to get the most from your investment. So if all that voice and data traffic is putting a strain on your existing capacity and you’re contemplating boosting your bandwidth… STOP! There is another way…
Let the award winning Exbander Precision (EP) family of network devices ‘maximise’ the efficiency of the bandwidth you have.
Exbander Precision network devices cleverly examine all the different types of traffic that need to pass through your Internet or Wide Area Network (WAN) connection, prioritising it in line with user configurable rules in which every individual piece of voice or data is identified and processed according to those rules
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