Tech·ed India 2009 :: Partners

SPONSORS AT MICROSOFT TECH.ED-INDIA 2009

Tech.Ed-India 2009 will feature many Microsoft partners showcasing the latest products and solutions for businesses and consumers. We would like to give a special thanks to our sponsors who continue to support Microsoft and help us make Tech.Ed the best event possible. Below you will find information about or 2009 sponsors.

Platinum Partner

	Intel is a world leader in silicon innovation, and develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Intel® Software aims to accelerate advanced technologies and computing models by enabling innovators everywhere with products, services and a global presence, delivering the power of Intel platforms. Whatever you envision, we can help make it a reality. Designed for today’s serial applications and tomorrow’s software innovators learn more about the latest and greatest Intel® software products. Unleash the power of multicore; Intel brings simplified, end-to-end parallelism to Microsoft Visual Studio* C/C++ developers with Intel Parallel Studio. Leveraging more than 25 years of parallel software and high-performance expertise, Intel provides advanced tools to optimize client applications. Create parallel applications for the desktop and compete in a multi core industry. Discover the full suite of software development products available to help you create the fastest software possible on Intel® architecture on www.intel.com/software/products. To know more, visit the Intel Software Network, a centralized repository of resources on latest Intel technologies and also a venue to connect, collaborate and share ideas. Understand new technologies and speed your development cycle. Get expert advice from the developer community and Intel engineers. Join the discussion and share your own specialty with your peers. Let the Intel Software Network community help you get your product to market faster.


Official Travel Partner

	Kingfisher Airlines: India’s only Five star Airline Kingfisher Airlines, India’s favourite airline commenced operations with a brand new fleet of aircraft on May 9, 2005. Widely acclaimed as India’s most premium private airline, it now offers over 400 flights daily connecting 69 key business and leisure destinations. Kingfisher Airlines, India’s favourite airline, has been conferred the ‘Five - Star Airline Status’, the most recognized and prestigious award that honours airline Product and Service Quality Excellence, by Skytrax, the world’s leading, independent travel forum and air travel information organization Kingfisher Airlines is committed to the spirit of innovation and offers its guests the unparalleled flying experience. Kingfisher Airlines offers world-class, in-flight entertainment with personalized video screens on every seat with 10 channels of chartbusting Kingfisher Radio, 5 channels of the trendy FUN TV and 16 channels of Live TV onboard its flights. The Kingfisher Class experience also includes extra-wide seats, spacious leg room and large overhead storage space, international-class cabin crew and designer interiors. Built on the strong core values of lifestyle, being trendy and youthful, Kingfisher Airlines aims to leverage the equity of the mother brand Kingfisher – one of India’s truly home-grown global super brands. Kingfisher Airlines is more than just a means of getting from here to there. It is not in the transportation business but is in the ‘Aviation hospitality’ business. That’s why there are no passengers on Kingfisher Airlines, only ‘guests’. Kingfisher Airlines has been rated as India’s No. 1 airline in customer satisfaction under the CSMM survey conducted by one of the leading business magazines – Business World . Kingfisher Airlines has been voted as India’s ‘Second Most Buzziest Brand Of 2007’ by consumers across India in a survey conducted by agencyfaqs.com and has also won the Avaya Award for excellence in ‘Customer Responsiveness’ in January 2007.


Hands-on-Lab Sponsor

	Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is an innovative technology company dedicated to collaborating with customers and partners to ignite the next generation of computing and graphics solutions at work, home, and play. A world where the amazing power of AMD technology improves the quality of people's lives. AMD set a goal to enable affordable, accessible Internet connectivity and computing capabilities for 50 percent of the world's population by the year 2015. Learn more about AMD’s 50x15 Initiative. Lead through innovative, customer-centric solutions that empower businesses, enhance the digital lifestyle, and accelerate global digital inclusion. AMD's culture is characterized by an indomitable will to succeed and prosper in one of the world's most challenging industries. At the heart of our unique and strong culture is the belief that people are the ultimate source of our competitive advantage. By living these core values, each one of us helps to deliver on our promises to customers, maximize shareholder value and ensure our enduring success. We respect people, honor diversity and treat each other fairly. These are the cornerstones of our culture and key to our ability to work successfully as a global team. Learn about what it’s like to work at AMD. We operate with the highest standards of honesty and responsibility—as individuals and as a corporation—to be a role model worldwide through our business practices, community involvement and environmental stewardship. View our corporate responsibility mission and achievements. We ensure our customers' ongoing success by forging deep relationships founded on our commitment to meet their diverse technology needs and a shared passion for excellence. Read about how AMD drives customer success. We lead through innovation—championing creative ideas and solutions that enable our customers to truly differentiate their solutions in the marketplace. We deliver on our promises to our customers, stakeholders and to each other by taking risks, seeking proactive solutions and assuming ownership of the results. At AMD, we take a measured approach to evaluate and continually improve global environmental efficiency, from how we run corporate facilities to how we develop products that deliver superior performance-per-watt. Learn more about AMD’s Green initiative at: www.amd.com/climate.


Bronze Partner

	CA (NASDAQ: CA) is the world’s leading independent IT management software company. With CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and expertise, organizations can more effectively govern, manage and secure IT to optimize business performance and sustain competitive advantage. We serve more than 99% of Fortune 1000® companies, as well as government entities, educational institutions and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide. We are driving our next level of growth through our four-part strategy of product development, leveraging partners, global expansion and strategic acquisitions — all with the goal of helping our customers realize the full power of IT to drive their business. For more information, visit http://www.ca.com.



	Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in Application Delivery Infrastructure. More than 215,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 8,000 partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion



	DevMarch is India's leading online information portal for the software developer ecosystem. Backed by a world-class editorial team that constantly updates the portal with exclusives, videos and podcasts, fresh wires and white papers on Java, Agile, Open Source, Microsoft Computing Technologies and Rich Web Technologies, DevMarch is where India's software developers meet development. With an India Alexa ranking of 8000 within a month of its launch, and a membership base of 90,000 (as of April 30 2009), http://www.devmarch.com/ is what every software developer is book marking now to stay competitive and also benefit from Saltmarch Media's offerings.



	F-Secure Mobile Security makes your Smartphone safe for today’s connected life, whether you are making calls, exchanging multimedia messages, surfing the Web, checking e-mail, downloading music or paying your bills. This complete security package includes anti-virus, anti-spyware, a firewall and a remote control anti-theft feature (* that safeguards your confidential information even if the phone is lost or stolen. Advanced automatic security updates keep the phone constantly protected against the latest threats. F-Secure is a pioneer in mobile security so this application is easy to install and smooth to use without affecting the smartphone’s performance. It is designed to operate transparently in the background, conserving disc space and minimizing memory and battery use.



	Oracle is the world’s largest business software Company. From its inception to the present, Oracle has focused on innovation and results, and how they can benefit enterprises across the globe. Oracle customers use Oracle technology, applications, middleware and services to build information systems that help them retain the value of existing investments, stay competitive in the current economic climate, cut costs and improve security, make compliance easier, and manage complex upgrades with fewer risks. Oracle's more than 320,000 customers from every industry in more than 145 countries are able to work with a single vendor for implementation and support, leverage Oracle's complete stack of complete, open, and integrated products that work with each other and with existing products, and realize low total cost of ownership and high return on investment. Oracle offers the industry's most complete and integrated set of tools for application development, database development, and business intelligence to support any development approach, technology platform, or operating system. Oracle also provides a variety of free JDeveloper and Eclipse tools to help database and application developers streamline Web application and database development, and make it easy for .NET developers to deploy Oracle-based applications and Web services on the Windows platform. Click here to get more details on Developer tools: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/developer-tools/index.html



	Oriensoft XpressHost (Microsoft Certified Gold Partner) is an leading Managed Hosting Services Provider offering i.e. Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers, Co-location, Dedicated Servers, Business E-mail, Managed Services & SAAS Hosting which includes Hosted Microsoft Dynamic CRM, Hosted Microsoft Exchange, Hosted SharePoint & MOSS Hosting to companies with a critical Internet component since 1999 in datacenters in India (Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi), USA, UAE, UK & Singapore.



	Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM) is the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice solutions and a visionary in communications that empower people to connect and collaborate everywhere. Companies choose Polycom for solutions that allow even geographically dispersed workforces to communicate more effectively and productively over distances. Using Polycom voice, video, and telepresence products and services, people connect and collaborate with one another from their desktops, meeting rooms, class rooms, and mobile settings. Companies use Polycom solutions to easily and quickly collaborate “face-to-face” wherever they are, spending their resources, time, and energy addressing business challenges. In today's economy, Polycom solutions offer a rapid ROI and help customers reduce costs, increase productivity and lower their carbon footprint. In India, Polycom now has offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata; as well as a state-of-the-art product and solutions development centre in Hyderabad, which produces a portfolio of voice communications solutions for mobile, desktop and conferencing applications. Find out how you can collaborate anytime, anyplace with any device in a virtual experience that’s as natural as being there. Visit www.polycom.co.in.


National TV Partner

	From a pure-news focused player, NDTV is metamorphosing into a diversified global media player and intends to consistently break new ground. NDTV’s tryst with television began way back in 1988, when it produced a news and current affairs show ‘The World This Week’ for the Government-owned broadcaster Doordarshan. The show proved to be immensely popular, and NDTV established its image as a credible private news producer. It moved on to become the sole news content provider and producer for India’s first 24-hour news channel, Star News. The company’s biggest milestone was established in 2003, when it launched two 24-hour news channels— NDTV 24x7 in English and NDTV India in Hindi—followed by a 24-hour business news channel NDTV Profit in 2005, which became a leading business news channel in a short period of time. In 2007, the company broke new ground, formulating a strategy to build a global business. NDTV Networks Plc, a subsidiary of NDTV was formed to seize opportunities in areas ‘beyond news’. The Company launched NDTV Imagine (for general entertainment), NDTV Good Times under NDTV Lifestyle Company (for lifestyle content), NDTV Convergence (triple play; to exploit the synergies between television, internet and mobile), NDTV Labs (to develop media software and technology for captive use), NGEN Media Services (outsourcing of media post-production services) as 50:50 joint venture with Genpact and Emerging Markets BV that has helped launch channels in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Middle East.


Regional TV Partner

	The Associated Broadcasting Company Pvt Ltd (ABCL) is one of the fastest growing media companies in India today. It started a 24-hour news channel (TV9 Telugu) in Andhra Pradesh in 2004, and quickly became a trendsetter. In just four years ABCL has added seven more channels to its bouquet from six states, each a major player in its métier. TV9 network of news channels today is India’s leading news channels network in terms of viewership (Source: TAM). For more details please visit www.tv9.net/.


Media Partner

	CyberMedia is the largest specialty media house in South Asia and amongst India's top five magazine publishers. The group's Media business includes 15 publications including Dataquest, PCQuest, Voice&Data, BioSpectrum (India & Asia), Living Digital, Global Services, DQ Channels, DQ Week (Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata), Voice&Data Connect, DARE and Hallsbury’s Law. The group has twelve websites led by www.ciol.com, India's largest technology website. CyberMedia Events, the region's largest organizer of IT events, conducts over 100 events every year. CyberMedia produces two knowledge based weekly TV programs. CyberMedia reaches out to a community of over 1.5 million people. Its brands have consistently been leading in their respective domains. Its Media Services include IDC India, the leading IT and telecom research company in the region; and Content Matrix which provides through its operating units (TDA Group, Publication Services and CyberMedia Services) creative custom media solutions for today’s global marketplace ranging from global marketing programs and custom publications for enterprises to content management, editorial and production services for publishers.



	Over the last 41 years, EFY group has become synonymous with cutting edge technology. Today, this renowned media group is spread across 8 locations catering to the intellectual needs of a diverse readership across India and abroad. Starting with its flagship publication Electronics For You, South Asia’a most popular electronics magazine, the group now offers a bouquet of specialized publications to answer the needs of a technology hungry nation. EFY, symbolizing the company’s vision is the source of enlightenment for an elite electronics fraternity, in India and abroad. Surprisingly, the appeal of the subsequent publications – Linux For You, BenefIT, Facts for You and Electronics Bazaar, spilled much beyond the targeted audience – penetrating non-technical readership with vocabulary and easy-on-the-eye design. The group also publishes directories and books and is behind several leading technological events. Recently, it also launched web-portals, including Electronicsforu.com, EFYTimes.com, BPOTimes.com and openITis.com, which have become leaders in their respective categories. EFY Readers’ Choice Awards is a coveted honor and Open Source India Week (LinuxAsia) is among the eagerly awaited annual events organized by the group.


SMS Partner

	Unicel Technologies is in the business of providing solutions to enterprises across verticals - BFSI, IT & ITES, Government, Retail, Manufacturing and distribution, Media, etc. Unicel has unique product offerings for enterprises using the platform of SMS, Voice and LBS. Standard solutions offered by Unicel to address the generic requirements of enterprises are as follows: General communication Advertising / permission based marketing Sales force automation Supply chain management Emergency response alerts Transport and Logistics facilitation Monitoring security application Fleet Management (LBS) Security Application e.g. property, vehicle etc. Apart from above standard offerings, Unicel excels in designing and implementing customized solutions basis customer requirement. It has over 400 customers including Wipro, HP, Accenture, EMC, IBM, HUL, ING Vyasa, Standard Chartered Bank and more.