Open Network Exchange: SDN, OpenFlow and Network Virtualization
 

 UNDERWRITERS
  
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.
  
 
Increase data center agility, IT efficiency and business competitiveness with IBM System Networking’s smart, fast, virtual, converged and standards-based connectivity for cloud, big data and analytics. IBM’s portfolio of Ethernet, Fibre Channel and FCoE switches with advanced virtualization, management and software defined networking and OpenFlow, bring speed and intelligence to the network edge. IBM enables clients to reduce cost, space, power and complexity, while flattening the network for increased performance, flexibility and user control.  www.ibm.com/networking.
  

 NEC Corporation, with over $35B in annual revenues, is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies and a pioneer in OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking (SDN). The award-winning NEC ProgrammableFlow® Network Suite was the first OpenFlow-based, enterprise class SDN solution in the industry.  ProgrammableFlow SDN allows enterprises to build secure, multi-tenant networks that support unlimited VM migration, scale out new applications quickly, and achieve higher levels of service availability.  NEC invests over $2B each year in technology R&D, and brings more than 100 years of technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society.
 
PLATINUM SPONSORS
   Big Switch Networks is the leader in Open Software-Defined Networking. The company’s Open SDN Open platform embraces industry standards, open APIs, open source, and vendor-neutral support for both physical and virtual networking infrastructure. Big Switch Networks product suite supports a broad range of networking applications, including network virtualization for public and private cloud data centers built upon OpenStack, CloudStack and other platforms. For more information, please visit www.bigswitch.com
    
   Cyan is a global supplier of software-defined networks (SDNs) for service providers and data centers. Cyan solutions include Blue Planet SDN software and the Z-Series packet-optical transport platforms. Cyan allows its customers, including some of the world’s largest telecommunication companies, to scale their networks, simplify operations, and accelerate service delivery. For more information, please visit http://cyaninc.com/
 
   Businesses are being transformed by a modern mobile workforce and cloud-enabled IT, but networks are not keeping pace. Pertino is reinventing networking for the cloud era by combining the power and pervasiveness of the cloud with SDN, virtualization, and social-inspired management. The result is a simple and secure cloud network that connects people and IT resources anywhere. For more information, please visit pertino.com.
    
   Pluribus Networks is the leader in performance-oriented network virtualization.  Our systems transform how IT administrators deploy applications in order to realize productivity gains and enable new business models. Our Openflow-enabled F64 Server-Switch delivers operational excellence through datacenter optimization, while maintaining required levels of performance, reliability and availability. For more information, please visit http://pluribusnetworks.com/solutions/
 
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 Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services. More information is available at www.mellanox.com.