Sponsors details

1. CLOUD COMPUTING & VIRTUALISATION SUMMIT SPONSORS
JUNE 13TH -15TH AT THE INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL, NAIROBI, KENYA
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an
essential part of business, education, government, and home communications. Cisco hardware, software,
and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make these networks possible, giving
individuals, companies, and countries easy access to information anywhere, at any time. In addition,
Cisco has pioneered the use of the Internet in its own business practice and offers consulting services
based on its experience to help other organizations around the world.
Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. This year,
the company celebrates 20 years of commitment to technology innovation, industry leadership, and
corporate social responsibility. Since the company’s inception, Cisco engineers have led in the innovation
of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. This tradition of IP innovation continues with
the development of industry-leading products in the core technologies of routing and switching, along
with Advanced Technologies in areas such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking,
security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a
broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its
products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners,
to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
As a company, Cisco operates on core values of customer focus and corporate social responsibility. We
express these values through global involvement in educational, community, and philanthropic efforts.

2. CLOUD COMPUTING & VIRTUALISATION SUMMIT SPONSORS
JUNE 13TH -15TH AT THE INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL, NAIROBI, KENYA
Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for
consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and
virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 800 employees in
North America, Europe, and Asia.
Parallels market segments include:
Consumers — Already used by more than a million customers worldwide, Parallels Desktop for Mac
virtualization technology is revolutionizing the way we use computers. Consumers also use Parallels
Automation and Parallels Plesk Panels for building and managing personal websites.
Businesses — Small to medium and large businesses rely on Parallels Virtuozzo Containers (and soon
Parallels Server), Parallels Infrastructure Manager, and Parallels Automation to optimize their IT on
premise plus Parallels virtualization and automation through service providers.
SaaS — Application software vendors, hosting providers, and end users use Parallels Virtuozzo
Containers, the Parallels Plesk Panel, Parallels Operations Automation, and Parallels Business
Automation to enable software-as-a-service as an attractive new computing model.
Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS) — Parallels’ virtualization and automation solutions enable cloud
computing scenarios for hosting providers. Parallels IaaS allows delivery of IT infrastructure to SMBs and
developers.
Hosting — Parallels virtualization and automation solutions are used by more than 10,000 hosting
providers and their customers worldwide to deliver optimized hosting services based on Parallels
Virtuozzo Containers (and soon Parallels Server), Parallels Plesk products, and Parallels Automation.

3. CLOUD COMPUTING & VIRTUALISATION SUMMIT SPONSORS
JUNE 13TH -15TH AT THE INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL, NAIROBI, KENYA
Veeam® Software, an Elite VMware Technology Alliance partner and a Microsoft managed partner,
develops innovative products for virtual infrastructure management and data protection. Customers can
reduce costs, minimize risks and fully realize the promise of virtualization with Veeam.
Veeam is an international company with global headquarters in Baar, Switzerland; North American
headquarters in Columbus, Ohio USA; EMEA headquarters in Paris, France; and APAC headquarters in
Sydney, NSW Australia. Veeam has more than 39,000 customers worldwide. The company’s free
FastSCP™ tool is used by more than 150,000 VMware professionals, making it the most widely used tool
to help manage VMware.
The company was founded in 2006 by the team previously behind Aelita Software, well known for its
Windows Server management solutions. In 2008, Veeam acquired nworks, adding solutions that bridge
the gap between VMware and enterprise management systems from Microsoft and HP.
Veeam is rapidly expanding its presence and its partner network around the world and will continue to
offer innovative and practical solutions to help IT professionals better manage their VMware vSphere
and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual infrastructures.
Product Line:
Veeam Backup & Replication™ with vPower™ provides advanced Virtualization-Powered Data
Protection™. It is the #1 VM Backup solution and supports both VMware and Hyper-V.
Veeam ONE™ is a single, easy-to-use and powerful solution that provides 24x7 real-time monitoring,
performance analysis, resource optimization and management reporting for VMware and Hyper-V. Built
from Veeam Monitor™, Reporter™ and Business View™, Veeam ONE affordably delivers the capabilities
that matter most to virtualization administrators.
Veeam extends deep VMware monitoring to Microsoft System Center with Veeam Management Pack™
(MP) and to HP Operations Manager with Veeam Smart Plug-in™ (SPI). With over 1200 deployments
worldwide, Veeam MP and SPI help businesses manage physical and virtual infrastructures, applications
and dependencies from a single console, eliminating the need for additional monitoring frameworks.

4. CLOUD COMPUTING & VIRTUALISATION SUMMIT SPONSORS
JUNE 13TH -15TH AT THE INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL, NAIROBI, KENYA
Westcon Africa, a part of the Westcon Global group, is a leading value-added distributor of advanced
technologies, data centre technologies, enterprise mobility, power and printing solutions. We align our
growth initiatives with our partners to take full advantage of the region's business potential and leverage
the aggressive ICT adoption by end users to drive profitability.
This position is evident when considering that Westcon is the largest Cisco Advanced Technologies
Partner globally. Based on this business positioning strategy Westcon Africa has established Comstor
and two other strategic business units, namely, Data Centre and Mobility to ensure focus and
development of our Vendor and Reseller relations.
The company was formed in late 2007 when Westcon bought the Sparnoon-Dynatech group and Jet
Distribution.
Westcon Africa operates from ten African locations, namely: Angola, Cameroon, Dubai, Ghana, Kenya,
Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, including a marketing and logistics office in
South Africa, with additional logistics offices in the UK and Dubai.
Westcon Africa forms part of the global distribution group of advanced networking and communications
convergence products (Westcon and Westcon Emerging Markets); ICT infrastructure solutions and
services (Logicalis); and consulting services (Analysys Mason and Intact). Datatec, Westcon Africa's
holding company, is registered in South Africa and its shares are listed in Johannesburg and London. The
Group has over 4100 employees around the world (as at February 2009) and in the FY09 the group
reported revenues of $4.2 billion and operating profit of $91.1 million.