CMGA 2004 25 - 27th August 2004 Melbourne Business School, MELBOURNE

Sponsor Profiles

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

EMC Australia
EMC Overview
EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information storage and management. EMC solutions and services help organisations of all sizes-and across the globe-to better and more cost-effectively manage, protect, and share their information. EMC is the only company fully dedicated to helping customers reduce the cost and complexity of managing information as it changes value-through a process called information lifecycle management.

Through information lifecycle management, customers can extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, at every point in the information lifecycle-from creation to disposal. EMC solutions help organisations optimise the management of information such as e-mail, financial records, digital images, and documents-based on business, legal, and regulatory requirements.

EMC customers include the world's largest banks and financial services firms, Internet service providers, manufacturers, healthcare institutions, life sciences organisations, telecommunications providers, airlines, transportation companies, educational institutions, regional and national government agencies, among others.

For more than two decades, EMC has focused on bringing to market new storage technologies that help customers gain faster and more reliable access to more of their information while making it easier and more cost-effective to manage their storage environments. EMC's innovation track record is one of constantly extending what storage can do.

For the last six years, EMC has ranked as the world's #1 provider of external RAID storage systems. EMC is the recognised leader in the new and rapidly growing markets for storage area network integrated solutions and storage area network management software. EMC's investment in storage R&D is several times larger than its closest competitor and has resulted in 1,300 approved or pending storage-related patents.

EMC divisions and companies
LEGATO Software, a division of EMC, is a global provider of open, enterprise-class software solutions and services for Information Management-that help organisations simplify management and control of information, and enable business continuity and compliance at the lowest TCO. LEGATO's information protection, automated availability, and messaging and content management solutions are delivered through a worldwide network of strategic partnerships and alliances, as well as a direct sales force. The division's headquarters is in Mountain View, California.

Documentum, based in Pleasanton, California, is a division of EMC and the leading provider of enterprise content management solutions to more than 2,700 of the world's largest businesses. The Documentum platform brings intelligence and automation to the creation, management, delivery, and archiving of vast quantities and types of content-documents, Web pages, XML files, rich media, fixed content, and collaborative content-in one common content platform and repository.

VMware, an EMC company, is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for Intel-based systems. The world's largest companies use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their existing computing investments and respond faster to changing business demands. VMware is based in Palo Alto, California, and conducts business in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, EMC is represented by more than 100 sales offices and distribution partners in more than 50 countries and has the world's largest storage-dedicated direct sales and service force. Many of the world's major computer companies resell EMC's systems and software, including Dell, NEC, Fujitsu Siemens, Unisys, Groupe Bull, and NCR. EMC has also formed alliances with leading software, networking, and services companies, including Cisco, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Accenture, and EDS to better serve customers.

EMC systems are manufactured in Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ireland, and India. In addition, EMC has R&D facilities in Massachusetts, North Carolina, India, and Japan with customer support centres in Australia, Massachusetts, Ireland, and Japan. EMC holds the most stringent quality management certification from the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO 9001), and its manufacturing operations hold an MRP II Class A certification.

With 2003 revenues of US$6.24 billion, EMC employs more than 20,000 people worldwide, including about 7,000 in Massachusetts. The company's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EMC and is a component of the S&P 500 Index.

Fujitsu Australia
Local leverage on global resources
Fujitsu is a very diverse organisation and a world leader in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Microelectronics industries. Our global network of over 500 companies spans 100 countries and employs more than 180,000 people.

We are playing a major role in bringing the world to the Internet and the Internet to the world. In North America, Fujitsu is the leading supplier of synchronous optical network communications systems that are the backbone of the Internet. In Europe, we are linking homes and businesses to new Internet-based entertainment and commercial services. In Asia, our ultra-high-speed optical networks are supplanting slower electronic networks for Internet transmission and in Japan, Fujitsu is the leading Information Technology company and the No. 1 Internet service provider.

In Australia and New Zealand, we have an enviable track record in transforming the operations of public and private enterprises by delivering the best technology and e-Business solutions available in the world today. Our products and services - from notebooks to PCs and high-speed Intel-based servers, to data centres, award winning call centres, coast-to-coast telecommunications networks, dedicated Retail solutions and sophisticated e-Business applications - are powering the Internet economy.

Our local knowledge and experience is enhanced and complemented by the resources of the Fujitsu group of companies, particularly ICL, one of Europe's leading e-Businesses, the DMR Consulting Group, Amdahl Corporation and Fujitsu's telecommunications subsidiaries in Europe and the USA.

We recognise that no single company has a monopoly on great ideas or great technology. To ensure we can bring the best end-to-end solutions to our customers we partner with some of the most advanced technology companies in the world including Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

Our Australasian development centres evidence Fujitsu's commitment to local manufacture and R&D. In Sydney, the Fujitsu Australia Software Technology group develops global software solutions, including the middleware applications that allow companies to maximise online business potential by integrating diverse computing systems. Melbourne is home to our local manufacturing plant as well as R&D engineers developing state-of-the-art telecommunications products for local and world markets

Did you know?

• We are the largest supplier of Retail solutions in Australia and innovators in touchscreen technology at point-of-sale
• We designed, built and now operate the world's first digital interactive TV service for NTL in the UK
• We created the first Internet refrigerator to show how the Internet will merge into our everyday lives
• Fujitsu is one of Australasia's leading providers of outsourcing services including infrastructure management, help desks and call centres. Our contact centre operations won successive Australian ISP Help Desk Awards in 1999, 2000 and 2001
• We are the No. 1 supplier of hard disk drives for desktops in Australia and New Zealand
• Fujitsu is one of the largest suppliers of ATMs in the world with machines dispensing stamps, processing loan applications and booking theatre tickets as well as providing traditional cash dispensing functions
• We were the first supplier to deliver a commercial transmission system offering more than one terabit of data transmission per second over fibre optic cable

CPT Global
Incorporated for more than 10 years and employing over 200 IT experts, CPT Global is the premier supplier of specialist consulting services in Australia. Today, as companies struggle to do more with less, CPT provides the key services that enable businesses to grow while reducing IT spend.

CPT's client list (locally and overseas) includes major blue chip companies across the Telecommunications, Financial, Transport and Government industry sectors.

Core Capabilities Performance Tuning - by helping organisations quickly attack the root causes that drive ITY costs higher. CPT has saved millions of dollars for its clients. CPT can provide risk free tuning services through our Risk/Reward offering.

Capacity Planning - increasing the organisations control and stability through business and focused plans, allows CPT's service to address the real issue of how to grow more business without over-capitalising IT.

Performance Testing - CPT provides services in automated testing and test management to help organisations avoid the cost and embarrassment of failed application deployment which leads to lost revenues.

Management of IT Services - CPT assists many organisations in developing Information Technology strategies, Selective Outsourcing strategies and the transitioning of the IT organisation into an effective IT Service Provider model. PT has a mission to make the CIO successful.

Merrill Consutlants
To understand what MXG is really all about requires you to know a little about who we are. Our entire company philosophy revolves around several concepts that are near and dear to us. One of them is the ancient concept of Sharing Information. That was what computers were supposed to provide our civilization-a means whereby many users could share and exchange information designed to advance their work and expedite output in a minimum of time. That's exactly what MXG Software does: we share all that we know about Computer Performance Evaluation with bright users who share and contribute their discoveries with us to share with you. [And we give credit in our MXG Newsletter and in Chapter 99 to every user who has contributed to MXG!

We make it easy, since we ALWAYS distribute 100% source code.

Another concept we hold dear is Efficiency. Good quality software does not need to cost an arm and a leg, plus your firstborn child, and should not require multi-page negotiated contracts designed by lawyers. Our price is the same for each data center, and does not depend on the size nor on the number of CPUs at that site. MXG is single priced and will never charge for additional components; it also does not check CPU serial numbers-we trust our honest users. From the smallest computer shop to the largest megadata center with 10-digit budgets, everyone pays the same price, and everyone signs the same agreement.

But most importantly, we are a Service company. Our whole aim in life is to provide support and maintenance to our technical folks who spend their days, nights, and weekends making data centers run smoothly. That's why we often answer our phone on weekends, and have 24-hour fax service, because we believe the Technical CPE person is a data center's most valuable resource. We are devoted to our technical user, and do our best to deliver nearly perfect code, and to document the constant change in hardware, software, and technology through technical MXG Newsletters.

We are a Mom and Dad Texas Software Company, based in Dallas, and we are proud to be a leader in demonstrating that small businesses can provide extremely high quality mainframe software with word-of-mouth marketing! MXG Software has been installed in over 6,000 sites, in all 50 states, and in 52 countries! Our price was changed once since 1984, and we don't plan to change our price again until after the third Woodstock, in August, 2019.

Candle Corporation
About Candle
Candle, acquired by IBM June 7, offers a broad set of solutions to help customers develop, deploy and manage their enterprise data centers and application infrastructure. Over the years, Candle has developed an extensive and highly regarded set of infrastructure management solutions that cover a wide range of hardware and software, including IBM?s DB2, Lotus, Tivoli and WebSphere software, as well as zSeries platforms. Candle is best known for its OMEGAMON® performance-management solutions for complex mainframe environments. Candle's offerings maximize system availability and reduce the time and expense of finding and fixing problems. Candle also has the market-leading performance-management solution for WebSphere MQ and award-winning monitors for WebSphere Application Server.

Contact Candle Corporation on 02 8912 9800, Level 14, 20 Berry Street, North Sydney