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NCA Security & Technology
Conference 2010

Technology Answers to Business Initiatives

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	IT agility that drives business forward F5 helps organizations create an agile IT infrastructure that aligns with their business demands. With F5 solutions in place, businesses gain strategic points of control wherever information is exchanged, from client devices and the network to application servers, data storage, and everything in between. Join the tens of thousands of F5 customers who are achieving the highest levels of performance, security, and availability while minimizing the costs and impacts to their business.
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	About McAfee, Inc. McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee is committed to relentlessly tackling the world's toughest security challenges. The company delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the web more securely. Backed by an award-winning research team, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. http://www.mcafee.com
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	ShoreTel, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR) is the provider of brilliantly simple Unified Communication (UC) solutions based on its award-winning IP business phone system. We offer organizations of all sizes integrated, voice, video, data, and mobile communications on an open, distributed IP architecture that helps significantly reduce the complexity and costs typically associated with other solutions. The feature-rich ShoreTel UC system offers the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and the highest customer satisfaction in the industry, in part because it is easy to deploy, manage, scale and use. Increasingly, companies around the world are finding a competitive edge by replacing business-as-usual with new thinking, and choosing ShoreTel to handle their integrated business communication. ShoreTel is based in Sunnyvale, California, and has regional offices in Austin, Texas, United Kingdom, Sydney, Australia and Munich, Germany. For more information, visit www.shoretel.com.
	Extreme Networks provides converged Ethernet network infrastructure that support data, voice and video for enterprises and service providers. The company's network solutions feature high performance, high availability and scalable switching solutions that enable organizations to address real-world communications challenges and opportunities. Operating in more than 50 countries, Extreme Networks provides wired and wireless secure LANs, data center infrastructure and Service Provider Ethernet transport solutions that are complemented by global, 24x7 service and support. For more information, visit: http://www.extremenetworks.com
	Ruckus Wireless is new class of technology company revolutionizing Wi-Fi for both the enterprise and service provider markets. Based in Sunnyvale, CA, Ruckus is credited with developing "Smart Wi-Fi." Smart Wi-Fi breaks the conventional barriers that have prevented the reliable transmission of voice, video and data over standard 802.11 technology. The company was formed in 2004 by Selina Lo, Victor Shtrom and Bill Kish.
	ExtraHop Networks, a technology startup gaining momentum in the Application Delivery Assurance market, delivers innovative solutions to ensure that business-critical transactions do not fail. The ExtraHop solutions provide real-time analysis of applications to improve customer experience and quality of service while reducing IT costs. The privately held company was founded in 2007 by F5 Networks veterans Jesse Rothstein and Raja Mukerji and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. ExtraHop Networks boasts a rapidly growing customer base that includes Microsoft, Pixar, Alaska Airlines, Continental Airlines, McAfee, and Kayak.com.
	Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand service. Founded in 1989, Citrix combines virtualization, networking, and cloud computing technologies into a full portfolio of products that enable virtual workstyles for users and virtual datacenters for IT. More than 230,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT environments. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2009 was $1.61 billion.
	Palo Alto Networks™ is the network security company. Its next-generation firewalls enable unprecedented visibility and granular policy control of applications and content – by user, not just IP address – at up to 10Gbps with no performance degradation. Based on patent-pending App-ID™ technology, Palo Alto Networks firewalls accurately identify and control applications – regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or SSL encryption – and scan content to stop threats and prevent data leakage. Enterprises can for the first time embrace Web 2.0 and maintain complete visibility and control, while significantly reducing total cost of ownership through device consolidation. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
	Qwest Communications is a global leader in broadband, Internet-based communications. Because of our strategic partnership with Qwest, NCA can assist with the purchase of, design, implementation, and troubleshooting of your local and wide area networks - at no additional cost to you. Our technical networking expertise is the perfect added value to your telecommunications planning. Read more about Qwest Services offered by NCA... Visit their website: http://www.qwest.com
	WatchGuardÂ® was founded in 1996 with the goal of meeting the security needs of small- to mid-sized businesses with solutions built around proactive protection. We pioneered the security appliance for our target customers with the introduction of our FireboxÂ® firewall, which has evolved into the only integrated platform designed to be fully extendable that's available on the market today. Our products deliver the exceptional protection and integrated security our customers really need.
	Force10 Networks is the global technology leader that data center, service provider and enterprise customers rely on when the network is their business. The company’s high performance solutions are designed to deliver new economics by virtualizing and automating Ethernet networks. Force10’s high density and resilient Ethernet switching and routing products increase network availability, agility and efficiency while reducing power and cooling costs. Force10 provides 24x7 service and support capabilities to its global customer base in more than 60 countries worldwide. For more information on Force10 Networks, please visit www.force10networks.com.
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