APC

About APC by Schneider Electric

APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in critical power and cooling services, provides industry leading product, software and systems for home, office, data center and factory floor applications. Backed by the strength, experience, and wide network of Schneider Electric’s Critical Power & Cooling Services, APC delivers well planned, flawlessly installed and maintained solutions throughout their lifecycle. Through its unparalleled commitment to innovation, APC delivers pioneering, energy efficient solutions for critical technology and industrial applications. In 2007, Schneider Electric acquired APC and combined it with MGE UPS Systems to form Schneider Electric’s Critical Power & Cooling Services Business Unit, which recorded 2008 revenue of €2,6 billion (including APC-MGE sales of $3.7 billion) and employed 12,000 people worldwide. APC solutions include uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), precision cooling units, racks, physical security and design and management software, including APC's InfraStruXure® architecture, the industry’s most comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution. Schneider Electric, with 114,000 employees and operations in 100 countries, achieved sales of €18,3 billion in 2008. All trademarks are the property of their owners. www.apc.com

Avaya

Avaya is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers.  Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications.  Avaya's technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it.  Avaya does business in more than 150 countries around the world.  For more information, visit Avaya on the Web at www.avaya.com.  For the latest Avaya news, visit www.avaya.com/news.

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco, (NASDAQ: CSCO), is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate.  Information about Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com.

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Dolby Laboratories

Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB) develops and delivers products and technologies that make the entertainment experience more realistic and immersive.  For four decades Dolby has been at the forefront of defining high-quality audio and surround sound in cinema, broadcast, home audio systems, cars, DVDs, headphones, games, televisions, and personal computers.  Based in San Francisco with European headquarters in England, the company has entertainment industry liaison offices in New York and Los Angeles, and licensing liaison offices in London, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.  For more information about Dolby Laboratories or Dolby(R) technologies, please visit www.dolby.com.

EMC

EMC helps customers design, build, and manage intelligent, flexible, and secure information infrastructures.  These infrastructures are the versatile foundations on which organizations can implement their information lifecycle strategies, secure their critical information assets, leverage their content for competitive advantage, automate their data center operations, reduce power and cooling costs, and much more.

With an information infrastructure, people can avoid the potentially serious risks and reduce the significant costs associated with managing information, while fully exploiting its value for business advantage.  For more information about EMC, please visit www.emc.com.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is a storage technology leader, founded in 2003 through the combination of Hitachi's and IBM's hard disk drive businesses.  Hitachi GST enables users to fully engage in the digital lifestyle by providing high-value hard drives in formats suitable for the office, on the road and in the home.

With its legacy in hard drive invention, Hitachi GST will lead the industry in celebrating the hard drive's golden anniversary in 2006.  After five decades of innovation, the hard drive has had a profound effect on the computing and consumer electronics industries.  That heritage lives on at Hitachi GST through products that define the standard for hard drive miniaturization, capacity, performance and reliability.

With more than 30,000 employees worldwide, Hitachi GST offers a comprehensive range of hard drive products for desktop computers, high-performance servers, notebooks and consumer devices.  For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.hitachigst.com.

Hewlett-Packard Co.

   

HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers – from individual consumers to the largest businesses.  With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world’s largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $91.7 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended Oct. 31, 2006.  More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

International Business Machines (IBM)

International Business Machines Coporation (IBM) develops and manufactures information technology products and services worldwide. The Global Technology Services segment offers IT infrastructure and business process services, such as strategic outsourcing, integrated technology, business transformation outsourcing, and maintenance. The company's Global Business Services segment provides professional services and application outsourcing services, including consulting and systems integration, and application management. The Systems and Technology segment offers computing and storage solutions, including servers, disk and tape storage systems and software, semiconductor technology and products, packaging solutions, engineering and technology services, and retail store solutions. IBM's Software segment primarily offers middleware and operating systems software comprising WebSphere software for Web-enabled applications; information management software for database, content management, information integration and business intelligence; Tivoli software for infrastructure management, including security and storage management; Lotus software for collaboration, messaging, and social networking; and rational software, a process automation tool. IBM's Global Financing segment provides commercial financing to dealers and remarketers of IT products; lease and loan financing to external and internal clients; and sale and lease of used equipment. IBM serves banking, insurance, education, government, healthcare, life sciences, aerospace and defense, automotive, chemical and petroleum, electronics, distribution, telecommunications, media and entertainment, and energy and utilities, as well as small and medium sized business. The company was formerly known as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. and changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation in 1924. IBM was founded in 1910 and is based in Armonk, New York.

Juniper Networks, Inc.

Juniper Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers a high-performance network infrastructure that creates a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. This fuels high-performance businesses. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.

Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

ORACLE

Oracle's business is information—how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided the software and services that let organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems. Today, Oracle is the world's largest business software company, with 345,000 customers. Learn more about Oracle.

PricewaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders. More than 163,000 people in 151 countries across our network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice.  

PwC's Technology Practice provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services for public and private clients. We invest significant resources in building and sharing our industry knowledge, and as a result, we have the scope, depth and expertise to advise technology companies on the changes they face.  

PwC's Licensing Management & Contract Compliance practice guides companies related to licensing management, contract compliance and revenue recovery. We analyze compliance with licenses and other business agreements to help companies realize incremental revenue and mitigate risk.  

PwC's Internal Audit practice provides a range of services, from internal audit outsourcing and co-sourcing, to ERM assistance and Sarbanes-Oxley services that go beyond traditional financial reporting to help internal audit realize its full strategic potential. PwC's Internal Audit services methodology stresses industry focused, cost effective and value-focused solutions for business transformation.  

For more information, please visit www.pwc.com.

QLogic

QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions including Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs, iSCSI routers and storage services platforms for enabling advanced storage management applications.  The Company is also a leading supplier of server networking products including InfiniBand host channel adapters that accelerate cluster performance.  QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community.  QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems.  QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index.  For more information, go to http://www.qlogic.com.

Samsung Electronics America Inc.

About Samsung Electronics America Information Technology Division

Samsung’s Information Technology Division (ITD) is one of the fastest growing IT companies in the world, and is committed to serving the IT needs of consumers ranging from the home user to the Fortune 500 elite, and supports the valued channel partners who serve our customers. Offering innovative solutions and award-winning designs, Samsung ITD presents a complete line of award-winning color and mono-laser printing solutions, desktop monitors, notebook computers, digital signage solutions and projectors. Based in Ridgefield Park, N.J., ITD is a division of Samsung Electronics America (SEA), a U.S. subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd. (SEC). For more information, please visit www.samsung.com or call 1-800-SAMSUNG.

About Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2008 consolidated sales of US$96 billion. Employing approximately 164,600 people in 179 offices across 61 countries, the company consists of two business units: Digital Media & Communications and Device Solutions. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.

Seagate

Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disc drives that enable the creation, storage, sharing, and protection of digital content everywhere-the home, hand, car, and office.  Providing products for a wide range of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions, Seagate's business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, with a goal to be the lowest cost producer in all markets in which it participates.  The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information storage.  Seagate can be found around the globe at www.seagate.com.