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Avocent
Avocent® is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure management solutions for enterprise data centers, small/medium businesses and branch offices.
Capitalizing on more than two decades of experience, product innovations and strategic acquisitions, Avocent is positioned as an international leader in advancing digital, embedded, wireless and mobile technologies.
Products include local and remote switching, serial console servers, digital extension, embedded (IPMI), service processor managers, wireless, mobile and video display solutions. Avocent hardware, software and embedded technologies combined provide customers with the power of centralized management. IT administrators can sit at a single console and control local and remote servers, network data center devices, and mobile, power and environmental appliances.
Avocent actively participates in the development of many industry standards and specifications that are integrated into Avocent products including silicon, firmware, remote access cards and blade server management modules.
Avocent has more than three dozen embedded design wins with industry leaders and maintains an OEM relationship with leading technology providers including HP, Dell, IBM, Intel and FSC. Thousands of client sites, including those of Fortune 100 companies, rely every day on Avocent technology. Customers include Microsoft Corp., Intel, HP, Dell, Time Warner, GE, Exxon Mobile, FedEx and Home Depot, among others.
Headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, Avocent has more than 1,800 employees and sales, operations and R&D centers worldwide.
Avocent stock is traded as AVCT on the NASDAQ Stock Market. More information on Avocent is available at www.avocent.com.
EMC
EMC IT Infrastructure and Service Management Solutions enable you to leverage the power of automation to transform the way you manage IT. They empower you to tackle today’s critical IT management challenges: increasing efficiency, gaining control, doing more with less, and delivering continuous service improvement.
So why choose EMC Infrastructure Solutions? They help you continue forward on the journey of transforming and unifying IT infrastructure and service management across the data center to deliver IT as a true utility, where IT services gain a business-first, business-focused perspective. IT management information becomes a strategic business asset. Service delivery continuously improves. You can do more with less because operational costs go down while IT efficiency goes up, ensuring your IT organisation not only survives, but thrives and transforms to maximise the business value of management information.
Contact EMC to discuss how we can help you make IT management work for you so that you can:
• Deliver service management excellence
– Automate and rapidly deploy ITIL processes for consistent and reliable service delivery
• Increase IT operations insight
– Automate root-cause analysis of performance and availability across physical and virtual infrastructures
• Streamline data center automation and compliance
– Automate manual, error-prone tasks and sustain best practices across servers, networks, and storage systems
• Take control of the virtualised data center and private cloud
– Automate and unify management across servers, storage systems, networks, and applications to achieve service-level, policy-based control
Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) provides global data center services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world. Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and network service providers rely upon Equinix’s insight and expertise to protect and connect their most valued information assets. Equinix operates 42 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across 18 markets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Customers do business at Equinix as part of a vital ecosystem, where their most critical information assets are protected and connected. Every day, without compromise, the people who control the world’s most valued information assets place their trust in us, leveraging our insight, expertise and world-class service to do business with confidence.
In 1998, Equinix was founded on the idea that a network-neutral data centre could revolutionise the scalability of the Internet. This insight created a new direction for an industry. But, it took the people of Equinix to create an industry leader that could ensure the vitality of the Internet, protecting and connecting the modern world’s most valuable asset––its information. It’s what we do every day––without compromise. We have created a reliable and secure destination for the world’s most powerful networks and companies. Our expertise is at your service. Global companies bring their most valuable information assets to Equinix for our exceptional service. Our technical experts from around the world anticipate the needs of our customers, providing industry insight and expertise around the clock, every day of the year. From high-density power and cooling requirements to the design of data centre installations, our people add value to the way our customers do business. Today Equinix is a truly global provider of collocation services operating in 18 countries in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
Important information about Equinix is routinely posted on the investor relations page of its website located at www.equinix.com. We encourage you to check Equinix’s website regularly for the most up-to-date information.
www.equinix.com
Richardson Eyres
Richardson Eyres provides solutions for data centre consolidation. It works with its customers to streamline IT infrastructures, freeing up time, resources and ultimately saving its customers’ money.
Richardson Eyres develops long-term and mutually beneficial relationships working with its customers to ensure that it provides bespoke solutions to help their business run efficiently, effectively and above all, profitably.
It has partnerships with HP and VMware, and is one of a small number of HP Professional Services Partners (PSP) in the UK. It also provides solutions for companies globally, from their offices in the UK and the US. With over 20 years experience as a data centre consultant, Richardson Eyres has extensive technical knowledge and the know-how to apply this knowledge to help organisations run their IT infrastructures more efficiently.
Richardson Eyres has been awarded HP DataCentre Specialist Partner of the year 2008.
http://www.richardsoneyres.co.uk/
TelecityGroup
TelecityGroup is the leading premium provider of highly connected data centres in Europe, offering a range of flexible, scalable data centre and value added services. TelecityGroup specialises in the design, build, and management of highly connected and secure environments in which customers can house their technical, web and internet infrastructure. Each of its data centres acts a connectivity and content hub facilitating the storage, sharing and distribution of data, content and media. Headquartered in London, TelecityGroup operates 20 network independent data centres across seven European countries. The data centres are located in prime positions for commerce and connectivity, including Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Manchester, Milan, Paris and Stockholm.
Telecity Group is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: TCY)
www.TelecityGroup.com



