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AES www.aesclever.com
AES, global provider of intelligent solutions for eBusiness network service deliveries, provides intelligent views into the world of IP networks & services with its CleverView™ products, designed to maximize the efficiency of critical TCP/IP network & Web site resources: CleverView™ for TCP/IP (network performance monitor), CleverView™ for Route Performance (for dramatically simplified route performance analysis), CleverView™ for Web Performance (Web performance monitor), & CleverView™ for cTrace Analysis (a tool to dramatically simplify component trace analysis).
AKORRI www.akorri.com
	Akorri software enables IT organizations to improve service level assurance while optimizing infrastructure utilization. By deploying Akorri’s Application Resource Optimization software, companies reduce the time and cost of troubleshooting and remediation, improve application performance and availability, optimize resource utilization, and improve capacity planning.
Aptitune Corporation www.sarcheck.com
Aptitune Corporation is the manufacturer of SarCheck® for UNIX and Linux. SarCheck takes performance tuning beyond all other tools. Instead of just re-reporting system data and statistics, SarCheck analyzes sar reports, data from the /proc filesystem, as well as ps -elf output to produce recommendations. System tunable parameters are examined and their interaction with each other. Then in a concise, plain English report, SarCheck identifies problem areas and makes recommendations toward corrections. We’re the folks with the propeller hats! – come by and get one while they last.
AQM Solutions, Inc. www.aqm-solutions.com
	AQM Solutions Inc. is a leading provider of Application Quality Management (AQM) software and professional services. Our mission is to help Fortune 1000 companies implement automated AQM programs to improve application quality, performance, and IT profitability. Our customers consistently defer mainframe upgrades and reduce IT costs using TriTune and APC to automate the task of identifying application performance bottlenecks. Major corporations rely on Automated AQM to turn their tuning practices into a strategic advantage. AQM Solutions is a subsidiary of TRILOGexpert: www.TRILOGexpert.com.
ASG www.ASG.com
	Since 1986, ASG has been using cooperative business practices and more than 200 leading software solutions to help companies around the world overcome everyday business challenges. ASG is headquartered in Naples, Florida, with offices serving the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific.
Baer Consulting, Inc. www.baer-consulting.com
BCI is committed to filling the need for project-based solutions and support services and is the premier consulting organization for the mainframe environment with in-depth industry-specific knowledge and certified expertise in Datacenter, Operations, and System Programming. Solutions include z/OS and Lotus/Domino rollout projects, datacenter implementations, migrations, upgrades, maintenance to third-party operating systems and software, or server consolidations. BCI project management procedures ensure all services are completed on schedule and within budget throughout the project lifecycle.
BEZ Systems, Inc. www.bez.com
	BEZ Systems is an innovator in the market for Proactive Performance Management solutions. PPM provides a line-of-business view of application and Oracle database resource utilization that allows the enterprise to accurately profile both current and future application performance, compare change and growth alternatives, forecast results to set expectations and verify actual performance results versus predictions. BEZ empowers Database Managers to manage change, set realistic expectations, justify provisioning actions and ensure the delivery of consistent, uninterrupted data service to the business.
BMC Software www.bmc.com
BMC Software [NYSE:BMC] is a leading global provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC solutions span enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management. Founded in 1980, BMC posted fiscal 2006 revenues of more than $1.49 billion. For more information, visit www.bmc.com
CA, Wily Technology Division www.wilytech.com
CA's Wily Technology Division is the market-leading provider of Enterprise Application Management solutions. Wily's products enable companies to successfully manage their critical Web applications and infrastructure by providing real-time, end-to-end visibility into the performance and availability of these systems. Wily's collaborative management approach allows enterprises to rapidly detect and diagnose application slowdowns and failures, and better assess the impact of application performance on business success. This means better customer service, more stable revenue streams, and higher IT productivity.
Captell Developments Pty Ltd www.captelldevelopments.com
Captell Development's flagship product is Captell V6 an enterprise wide capacity management reporting system which automates data storage and report generation from data collected by proprietary management packages. Captell V6 was designed for the capacity manager in response to the specific needs of the capacity management community. It is a cross platform solution working on mainframe, midrange and desktop environments
Computer Management Sciences, Inc. www.cpexpert.com
Computer Management Sciences offers CPExpert to help analyze performance problems with MVS environments. CPExpert automates computer performance evaluation by detecting system performance problems, identifying the causes of the problems, and suggesting ways to improve system performance. CPExpert analyzes performance problems with DB2, Workload Manager, CICS, and DASD. The latest component of CPExpert analyzes performance problems with WebSphere MQ for z/OS. CPExpert is written in SAS, executes as a batch job, and analyzes standard SMF/RMF data contained in a performance data base.
Compuware Corporation www.compuware.com
Compuware Corporation, recognized industry leader in enterprise software and IT services, takes pride in supporting new and emerging technologies at any stage in the lifecycle. While Compuware products solve many business challenges, Strobe, Compuware’s application performance management solution, measures activity with mainframe applications and provides recommendations for reducing application inefficiencies that erode performance—even in complex applications that use technologies such as WebSphere MQ, DB2 DDF and Java.
CPT Global Limited www.CPTglobal.com
	CPT Global is listed on the ASX with subsidiaries in US, UK & Germany. CPT Global’s client list includes companies across the Teleco, Financial, Transport and Government sectors. Core Capabilities: Performance Tuning, Capacity Planning, Cost Reduction Services, Testing, Management of IT. CPT Global has 200 specialist IT consultants. This depth of experience allows CPT Global to quickly identify performance & capacity problems, & to implement effective solutions. CPT Global’s Cost Reduction Services provide CPU savings of between15-30%. We offer the option of Risk/Reward (success fee) invoicing.
Demand Technology Software, Inc. www.demandtech.com
Demand Technology Software brings clarity, consistency, and confidence to Windows performance monitoring through Performance SeNTry, the premiere Windows Server 2003 performance data collector. Performance SeNTry's intelligent data collection combined with its Microsoft SQL Server-based Performance Database interface provides professional performance analysts and capacity planners with the ability to take control of their critical Windows servers and applications. Performance SeNTry also enjoys third party support from Lund’s Performance Gallery, Merrill's MXG, and SAS Institute's ITRM
HyPerformix, Inc. www.hyperformix.com
	HyPerformix products and services enable Global 1000 clients to predict and prevent critical application problems before they impact the business. Our solutions cover the full application lifecycle from design to production and reduce the total cost of ownership of IT infrastructures by: - finding performance bottlenecks; - preventing unnecessary firefighting of production systems; - ensuring satisfactory end-user response times can be met; - and verifying applications can successfully migrate from test to production.
IBM Corporation www.ibm.com/software/zseries
	IBM provides the industry-leading and most comprehensive portfolio of System z enterprise solutions. Operating systems, middleware and powerful tools which allow you to develop, manage and maintain a highly effective IT infrastructure in today’s on demand environment. Servers and storage systems which are optimized with capabilities for integrating your business and transforming your IT architecture.
Inside Products, Inc. www.inside-products.com
Inside Products offers innovative solutions for managing mainframe based TCP/IP networks. Our focus is to improve the productivity of the systems programming staff who maintain the data processing infrastructure for large corporations, educational institutions, and government agencies. We are technical people who write products for other technical people. Inside Products offers classes, consulting and products.
Integrated Research www.prognosis.com
Since it began in 1988, Integrated Research has been providing its PROGNOSIS® performance management software solutions for business-critical 24x7 systems. The company's focus has always been to deliver the best, most precise monitoring solution, so the same real-time, fault-tolerant architecture that makes PROGNOSIS® the first choice in the HP NonStop arena has been used as the backbone for solutions on other computing platforms, such as Windows, UNIX, and Linux.
IntelliMagic www.IntelliMagic.net
IntelliMagic's unique and affordable software tools provide new levels of visibility and insight into your enterprise disk and tape infrastructure. Disk Magic is a performance modeling tool that will accurately show your disk performance and model how it will change if you change your workloads or configuration. RMF Magic enables higher levels of performance and problem diagnosis for mainframe disk and remote copy (XRC, Global Mirror, SRDF/A, TrueCopy, etc.) operations. Batch Magic enables you to understand and tune your mainframe tape and virtual tape environment.
ISAM www.isamgroup.com
ISAM provides software financial benchmarking and analysis, usage analysis, and negotiation services that have enabled the largest data centers, corporations, outsourcers and U.S. governments to manage their software costs. ISAM’s unique IBM pricing tool has saved over 90% of its customers in excess of 10% of their IBM software costs.
ISM (the Information Systems Manager) www.perfman.com
Some of the world's most successful companies use ISM's PerfMan capacity management solutions to maintain superior quality, efficiency and dependability in Information Technology. ''ISM - The power behind great IT decisions.''
Itheon Networks www.itheon-networks.com
Itheon Networks uniquely offers products that both measure & diagnose the performance of applications running across networks as well as emulate realistic network environments in which to conduct pre-deployment application performance testing. Itheon Network Emulator recreates networks such as LAN, WAN, WLAN, GPRS, 3G, Satellite etc., in the test environment. Itheon PNC/QoS is an easy-to-use, networked application performance monitoring technology which rapidly identifies the causes of poor application response times. These products are available in portable or rack-mount form.
itSMF USA www.itsmfusa.org
IT Service Management USA: Since our beginning in 1997, the itSMF USA has grown to become the premier IT Service Management professional forum. We have continuously taken exciting steps in professionalizing and expanding our capabilities and services for our membership. As a result, 2006 promises to be our most exciting year yet! We have 39 active itSMF USA Local Interest Groups (LIGs) and growing and one Student-Special Interest Group (S-SIG). Check the Local Interest Group section for meeting details of the LIG nearest to you, or how you can help get one started in your area.
Keynote Systems, Inc.
Lontra, Inc. www.lontra.com
Lontra, Inc. is the leading provider of IT Service Catalog solutions for the Global 1000. Lontra's mission is to transform IT service delivery from reactive “firefighting” to efficient service-centric management built around an actionable Service Catalog. Lontra's solutions are specially designed to handle the complexity and high rate of change of today's IT environments, enabling effective communication of IT services to the business customers, accurate service-based costing and demand management, and efficient service request processing – all based on a common Service Catalog foundation.
Mainline Information Systems www.mainline.com
Mainline Information Systems is IBM's leading Premier Business Partner delivering software, hardware, and application solutions, as well as a comprehensive suite of services and financing options. There is no need for customers to segment their technology solutions among various vendors creating fragmented, ineffective results when Mainline offers comprehensive, integrated solutions.
Merrill Consultants www.mxg.com
MXG is a comprehensive SAS-based software package which processes data records used for Measurement of Performance Objectives and Resource Utilization, for System Tuning, for Cost Recovery and Accounting, and for Capacity Measurement and Management with menu-driven graphical reports and analyses. MXG supports data from all operating systems (AS/400, OS/390, z/OS, z/VM, unix, aix, Windows, etc.), and all of their subsystems. MXG can be executed under SAS on any platform to process data records created on any other platform.
Metron-Athene, Inc. www.metron-athene.com
Metron-Athene is a leading Performance Management, Capacity Planning and Capacity Forecasting software specialist. Athene, our flagship product is a widely adopted solution providing Performance Alerting, Automatic Reporting, Workload Characterization, Service Level Reporting, Trend Analysis and Server Consolidation. Athene supports UNIX, Linux, Windows, VMware and z/OS mainframes.
MVS Solutions Inc. www.mvssol.com
If you’ve been given the task of improving your batch window processing, you must look at ThruPut Manager. ThruPut Manager 6 Automation Edition automates your batch processing, saving a great deal of elapsed processing time, shortening your batch window time and getting your reports out and your online up faster. If you’re a CA-7 user, there's even more! Learn how we can empower CA-7 and help it get your schedule complete, on-time, every time. Look for our vendor presentation and visit our booth to learn how ThruPut Manager solves batch problems encountered by z/OS data centers everywhere.
NetQos www.netqos.com
NetQoS’ network performance management software and services help large organizations improve application delivery across the WAN. NetQoS is the only vendor that can provide global visibility into all three key metrics necessary to quantify network infrastructure performance: end-to-end response time, traffic flows and device performance. Global 2000 corporations rely on NetQoS’ solutions to make informed decisions about network capacity and growth, eliminate inefficient network resource allocations, improve staff productivity and effectiveness, and deliver better services to end users.
Network Physics www.networkphysics.com
Network Physics NetSensory appliances deliver an unmatched combination of real-time performance management, application discovery, and business reporting. NetSensory provides the missing link in application performance by presenting user experience in terms of its network and server components and their business impact. Using NetSensory Insights, unique point-and-click action guides that incorporate problem-solving best practices from hundreds of customers in a wide range of industries, managers can prioritize and track down application performance problems with a few clicks of the mouse.
OC Systems Inc www.ocsystems.com
OC Systems provides software instrumentation tools and consulting services that help organizations gain greater visibility into large, complex applications. Deeply instrument any application--without changing source code or any application files--to monitor actual end-user transactions. Gain the level of detail you need to fully decompose transactions for faster triage and root cause analysis. The instrumentation conforms to the ARM 4.0 standard and integrates with IBM Tivoli or other application management software.
OpTier, Inc. www.optier.com
OpTier™ develops software that dynamically assures IT business service levels and optimizes resources for the enterprise. OpTier’s Transaction Workload Management solutions discover, track and profile all transactions; improve collaboration among different stakeholders; reduce the time to resolve performance issues; and prioritize transactions based on business policies – using current IT infrastructure.
PerfCap Corporation www.PerfCap.com
	PerfCap offers out of the box, fully automated, web-based and highly scalable software for Performance, Capacity and Asset Management. PAWZ-Performance monitoring for historical and real-time data collection, analysis, reporting and alerting. PAWZ Planner-Automated Capacity Planning, every node, every day. eCAP-Capacity Planning with “What if” scenario using analytical queuing network modeling. FindIT-Asset Management and Change Tracking tool providing inventory of hardware, software and licenses. Platforms: HP-UX, Tru64, Sun-Solaris, IBM-AIX, Linux, OpenVMS, Windows NT/2000/2003
Pink Elephant www.pinkelephant.com
	Pink Elephant is the world leader in IT management best practices, offering conference, education and consulting services to public and private businesses globally and many listed in the Fortune 500. The company specializes in improving the quality of IT services through the application of recognized best practice frameworks, including the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL ®).
Platform Solutions, Inc. www.platform-solutions.com
Platform Solutions, Inc., (PSI) makes next-generation open mainframe computers compatible with the broadest set of datacenter environments and operating systems, including the IBM z/OS. Based on proven systems architecture acquired from Amdahl Corporation and industry-standard Intel Itanium 2 processor technology, PSI mainframes are the first mainframe computers that can run the z/OS, Linux, Windows and UNIX on a single server footprint. www.platform-solutions.com
Premitech, Inc. www.premitech.com
The Performance Guard™ end-user based IT management solution provide IT performance information based on all users and all the it services they use. This end-users' perspective is used for performance issue resolution, tuning, capacity planning and documentation. Performance Guard is installed at over 2,000 locations including customers such as eTrade, GE, CIBC, Novartis. Partners include HP, IBM, VMware, Microsoft etc. PremiTech is on the prestigious Red Herring 100 list, named a Fast 50 company by Deoloitte, and Performance Guard was rated “Excellent” in an InfoWorld product review.
ProactiveNet, Inc. www.proactivenet.com
ProactiveNet, Inc. is the ''Time-to-Value'' leader in Business Services Management software solutions for Global 2000 and leading e-commerce companies. Achieving value within weeks, ProactiveNet customers measurably improve the availability and performance of business-critical IT services, shorten problem resolution time, and reduce SLA non-compliance while streamlining IT operations and reducing costs.
Responsive Systems www.responsivesystems.com
Responsive Systems the industry standard Buffer Pool Tool ® for DB2 and the Optimizer for tuning DB2 buffer pools, and Sysplex Group Buffer Pools. Many of our clients have achieved major performance improvements, some saving up to 1000 IO per second.
SAS Institute Inc. www.sas.com
SAS is the leader in business intelligence software and services. Customers at 40,000 sites use SAS software to improve performance through insight into vast amounts of data, resulting in faster, more accurate business decisions. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know®. Join us at our Monday User Group, exhibitor presentation, and in the exhibit hall to learn how SAS® IT Management Solutions deliver the intelligence needed to make the IT performance, capacity, service and financial decisions that will enhance the bottom line.
SeaNet Technologies www.seanet-tech.com
SeaNet Technologies, Inc. (SeaNet) is a leading provider of application performance monitoring solutions. Our products are designed to measure, monitor, and analyze the key metrics of actual business transactions—in real-time. SeaNet’s provides an unprecedented level of metric granularity, resulting in the most comprehensive application topology and usage metrics available in the industry today. Application performance problems on a transactional level, from both the server-side and client-side, can now be measured, monitored, and managed to achieve improvements in the service-level experience.
SHUNRA www.shunra.com
Shunra’s solutions let users know exactly how their voice, video and business applications will perform over any production network – before they are deployed in production. Used by network experts, software developers and architects, and QA/testing professionals, Shunra VE’s network simulation technology gives users a way to apply a working model of the production network environment to every phase of the application lifecycle – from design and development through QA and operations – so IT organizations can quickly and efficiently uncover and resolve problems before they impact the business.
Symmetricom www.ntp-systems.com
As a worldwide leader in precise time and frequency products and services, Symmetricom provides “Perfect Timing” to customers around the world. Symmetricom’s Timing, Test and Measurement Division, provides comprehensive network time synchronization solutions. Products include dedicated network time servers, time displays and the necessary synchronization, management and monitoring software that synchronizes the time on IT devices such as workstations, servers and routers. Perfect Timing. It's Our Business.
TeamQuest Corporation www.teamquest.com
	TeamQuest Corporation is the global leader in IT Service Optimization (ITSO). Specializing in software that helps companies consistently deliver IT services to meet service levels at a minimum cost, TeamQuest provides quick and accurate capacity modeling and performance solutions. TeamQuest Performance Software also complements ITIL efforts. TeamQuest is a trusted provider of software solutions that improve service delivery, proactively align business priorities with IT resources, reduce risk, and cut costs in their IT organizations.
Trident Services, Inc. www.triserv.com
Trident Services, Inc. has announced Version 6.1 for z/OS. OS/EM can help today’s Data Center to improve manageability, improve system throughput, service levels, reduce hardware expenses, software license costs and reduce human resource expense. New functionality includes Improved throughput management by managing Data Set Name Enqueue conflicts, Additional JCL selector criteria for batch resource routing and job classing functions, Enhanced RACF password content controls, Dynamic STEPLIB for TSO REXX Execs, Limit Concurrent Execution of programs and HSM Data Set recalls prior to job execution.
Velocity Software, Inc. www.velocitysoftware.com
Don't play blind man's bluff integrating Linux on your IBM System z servers. Management and monitoring of Linux related performance issues presents unique challenges. Velocity Software's solutions help you clearly see how to manage and enhance the performance of most enterprise environments. Hosted on z/VM, Velocity Software's Linux Performance Suite (ESALPS) is a comprehensive suite of products required for correctly deploying Linux under z/VM. Visit us at CMG to see how Velocity Software provides the complete solution to monitor and measure enterprise performance.
WildPackets, Inc. www.wildpackets.com
Since 1990, WildPackets has been developing innovative, high-quality, easy-to-use and valuable solutions to maintain the health and integrity of critical data-in-motion. From the desktop to the datacenter, wired to wireless, distributed and local, WildPackets products enable IT organizations to monitor, troubleshoot, and secure their network systems. Sold in over 60 countries through a broad network of channel and strategic partners, WildPackets products are deployed in all industrial sectors, including 80% of the Fortune 1000. For further information, please visit www.wildpackets.com.