Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the company transforming how people, businesses and IT work and collaborate in the cloud era.  With market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile work styles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible for 250,000 enterprises.  Citrix touches 75 percent of Internet users each day and partners with more than 10,000 companies in 100 countries.  Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21 billion

DynamicOps solutions transform the way cloud and virtual desktop infrastructure environments are managed so that organizations can quickly respond to and capitalize on market changes.  The DynamicOps Cloud Automation Center (DCAC) platform provides automated delivery and management of on-demand IT services, enabling enterprise orchestration of service delivery in private and public clouds. Global 1000 organizations rely on the DCAC platform to significantly improve business agility and flexibility in managing IT resources, while allowing IT to maintain governance and control and reduce operational costs. The company is privately held and based in Burlington, MA. http://www.dynamicops.com/.

Atlantis Computing is transforming enterprise desktop computing by making virtual desktops more affordable, reducing implementation risks and addressing key barriers to market adoption: storage costs and user acceptance. Atlantis Computing software complements Citrix and VMware solutions by reducing the amount of storage needed, enabling the use of less expensive storage, and boosting the performance of desktop and mobile devices. Atlantis Computing is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Founded in 2009, Liquidware Labs™ is the leader in desktop transformation solutions for next-generation physical and virtual desktops, including VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft Windows 7. The company's Stratusphere™ and ProfileUnity™ solutions have been described by analysts as the industry's first 'On-Ramp to VDI,' providing a complete methodology and software that enables organizations to decouple users and applications from the operating system and to cost-effectively plan, migrate, manage and validate the user experience for next-generation desktop infrastructure. Liquidware Labs products are VMware and Citrix certified, and are available through a global network of certified partners.

The Liquidware Labs executive team is comprised of veteran technologists and experts with hands-on knowledge of virtualized environments and solutions. Because of their decades of combined software solutions experience and depth-of-expertise in virtualization and thin technologies, our management is constantly asked to provide their perspective on trends, and speak at virtualization events around the world. Our management also actively participates in and supports the virtualization community and contributes to its shared knowledge.

Flexera Software is the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for software producers and enterprises, trusted by over 80,000 customers to strategically manage application usage.  Our solutions deliver continuous compliance, optimized usage and maximized value, helping our customers increase profits, cut costs and boost efficiencies.  From installation, licensing, entitlement and compliance management to application readiness and enterprise license optimization, our comprehensive solutions uniquely deliver this value through the systems-level approach we provide. For more information, please go to: http://www.flexerasoftware.com

WhipTail commercialized the first NAND Flash Silicon Storage Array (SSA) which dramatically improves application performance while consuming less energy than legacy storage arrays. Installed worldwide, WhipTail’s SSAs enable databases, virtualized and online environments to process more data in significantly less time. WhipTail's customers experience substantial operational improvements because data processing time shrinks from days to hours or hours to minutes. Move your data at the speed of life at www.whiptail.com.

VKernel makes easy-to-use and low-cost virtualization management software to simplify the tasks of planning, monitoring and predicting capacity utilization and performance bottlenecks. VKernel products are used by over 50,000 system administrators to maximize capacity utilization, reduce virtualization costs and improve application performance. In 2010, VKernel won the "Best of VMworld 2010" Gold Award for Virtualization Management and has since improved on their award-winning capacity management suite of products with the release of vOperations SuiteTM in March of 2011. vOPSTM is made up of four virtualization management applications, three of which won that Best of VMworld 2010 Gold Award for Virtualization Management. The fourth app, vOPSTM Performance Analyzer, is the newest addition to the family so that the suite now completely addresses the four basic capacity management requirements of MONITORING, PLANNING, OPTIMIZING and REPORTING on your virtual environment.

Smart-X Software Solutions Ltd. The designer and developer of ControlUp – A Super Console for TS and VDI providing a powerful real time performance grid with extensive management capabilities. Established in 2009, by a team of IT experts who have been active in the field of Server Based Computing and System Administration for more than a decade, Smart-X innovative software solutions solve some of the most complex and common problems faced by System Administrators in every industry.

VMTurbo's virtual appliances use patented analytics to automate key virtualization management operational procedures. These include complex workload balancing, real time & continuous rightsizing, and virtual infrastructure performance & capacity management. Our solution increases virtual infrastructure utilization by more than 50%, while eliminating the risk of virtual machine performance degradation and downtime. VMTurbo provides the only virtualization management solution that combines monitoring (Observe), analytics (Advise) and actions (Automate), for proactive, rather than reactive management.

VMTurbo is headquartered in Valhalla, NY, minutes from New York City. We are led and advised by the cofounders of SMARTS, a leading systems and network management vendor, which was acquired by EMC in 2005 for $285 million. Our company is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. For more information, please visit http://www.vmturbo.com/

Virtual Computer provides the first reliable, scalable and secure distributed desktop virtualization solution.

NxTop®, the next generation virtual desktop, combines centralized desktop lifecycle management with an optimized "bare-metal" Type 1 client hypervisor to make managing thousands of desktops as easy as managing one. NxTop's patented distributed desktop virtualization technology lets IT professionals create flexible infrastructure that accommodates any combination of remote, local and cloud computing, allowing them to realize the benefits of desktop virtualization without the data center expenses, network demands, user-experience challenges, and mobility limitations of the more traditional approaches. With NxTop, IT professionals are more efficient and effective managing their desktop and mobile computing environments.

HyTrust(R), headquartered in Mountain View, CA, is the leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure. HyTrust empowers organizations to virtualize more--including servers that may be subject to compliance--by delivering enterprise-class controls for access, accountability, and visibility to their existing virtualization infrastructure. The Company is backed by top tier investors Granite Ventures, Cisco Systems, Trident Capital, and Epic Ventures; its partners include VMware; Symantec; Citrix; RSA and Intel Corporation.

The company was founded in 2006 by the team previously behind Aelita Software, well known for its award-winning Windows Server management solutions. In 2008, Veeam acquired nworks, adding enterprise management connectors that bridge the gap between VMware virtual infrastructure and enterprise systems management tools from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft.

Veeam is rapidly expanding its presence and its partner network around the world, and will continue to offer innovative and practical solutions to help IT professionals better manage their virtual infrastructure. Today the company focuses on managing VMware servers, but as customer requirements grow, Veeam will support other virtual environments. With its drive for innovation, strong investment in R&D, and extensive product line, Veeam is well positioned for continued success.

DataCore Software provides intelligent, storage hypervisor software that enables enterprises to radically improve the efficiency, performance and availability of their storage infrastructure through virtualization. Customers worldwide use DataCore’s flagship product, SANsymphony™-V, as their “storage hypervisor” to overcome storage cost, capacity, performance and availability challenges inherent in desktop and server virtualization projects.

DataCore’s SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor  creates an active, transparent and intelligent virtualization layer across disks to improve availability, performance and efficiency. These capabilities make SANsymphony-V the perfect complement to desktop and server virtualization solutions from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix. It enables customers to get the most out of these solutions. 

DataCore’s software solutions work across all major storage hardware products and have been proven in more than 20,000 deployments worldwide, for customers ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses. Companies rely on DataCore to virtualize their storage infrastructures in data centers, branch offices and disaster recovery sites.

eG Innovations award-winning performance assurance solutions automate and dramatically accelerate the discovery, diagnosis, and resolution of service performance issues in virtual, cloud, and physical service infrastructures. Our customers use eG Innovations to enable maximum end user productivity, reduce cost and complexity, and deliver on the ROI promise of transformational IT investments. Only eG Innovations offers complete 360-degree, cross-silo service visibility with patented, virtualization-aware performance correlation across every layer and every tier of the IT infrastructure. From desktops to applications and from network to storage - eG Innovations delivers deep, actionable insights into the true causes of cross-domain service performance issues to ensure reliable service availability and user productivity, while dramatically reducing administrative cost.

MIT has used its expertise in graphics and networking to develop a thin-client technology called ThinAnywhere, which provides efficient, on-demand, remote access to centralized application servers.

ThinAnywhere can enable any company to reduce their costs while at the same time gain an edge over their competitors. ThinAnywhere bridges the gap between the person and their data giving them access to their applications from any where there is an Internet connection.

Ericom® Software is a leading global provider of Application Access and Virtualization Solutions. Since 1993, Ericom has been helping users access business-critical applications running on a broad range of Microsoft® Windows® Terminal Servers, Virtual Desktops, Blade PCs, legacy hosts, and other systems. Ericom provides concrete business value by helping organizations realize the benefits of their IT investments. With offices in the United States, United Kingdom, EMEA, India and China, Ericom also has an extensive network of distributors and partners throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the Far East. Our expanding customer base is more than 30 thousand strong, with over 7 million installations.

RES Software is driving a transformation in the way organizations manage, maintain and reduce the cost of their desktop infrastructure. The RES Software award-winning, patented products enable IT professionals to manage and deliver secure, personalized and compliant desktops independent of the underlying computing infrastructure - thin clients, virtual desktops, physical desktops, or server-based computing environments.

RES Dynamic Desktop Studio helps you analyze, simplify, automate and manage each user's experience through a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Using advanced technology, RES Dynamic Desktop Studio is able to create dynamic desktops optimized for your users based on their needs at that time, and since that workspace is centrally managed and separated from the hardware and operating system, making changes to your infrastructure is a snap.

Workspaces are fully secure and context-aware, and IT has full control and management. IT can also automate all day-to-day tasks and combine them into run books, saving time on about 80% of manual tasks. Ultimately, IT can introduce service orchestration, where users can request services directly. The combination of these RES solutions results in a fully dynamic desktop environment that is prepared for future changes. Dynamic Desktop Studio includes two products: Workspace Manager and Automation Manager.