Silver Peak and Storage-IT Solutions to Sponsor directIT Chicago 2012

Silver Peak develops data center class network appliances that maximize WAN performance during minimizing WAN costs. The company's unequalled Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture delivers unprecedented scalability and flexibility, enabling enterprises to easily and cost effectively deploy WAN optimization anywhere. Silver Peak's Award winning NX appliances are standalone devices that seamlessly fit into any enterprise network, scaling from Mbps to Gbps of WAN capacity. They use real-time network optimization techniques to overcome common bandwidth, latency, and quality challenges inherent to most WAN environments.

Storage-IT Solutions is a data-centric solutions integrator that leverages industry standard best practices to implement leading solutions for the modern enterprise. Their mission is to ensure performance and integrity of data as it moves through the data center into networks that are being challenged by complexity of end point growth and rapid deployment of mobile infrastructure. Their Audit procedures provide complete classification of your data and a detailed understanding of the way it moves through your infrastructure to the end points. This understanding determines specific infrastructure requirements enabling a solution to be tailored to organizational initiatives during minimizing expenditure.

directIT Chicago is a strategic event where we welcome the Office of the CIO to share strategies, successes, failures, and lessons learned as they are an important part of the continual education of successful IT leaders. The role of the CIO requires an effective leadership model that will incubate a team of forward thinking innovators who can effectively leverage research to support the goals of the business and its many facets.

Scott Shuster - ABC News foreign correspondent. Producer of NPR's After all. Consulting Editor, The McGraw-Hill Companies and Business Week. Should the contingency arise Scott Shuster has led virtually every BusinessWeek CEO-, CFO-, and CIO-only conference held since the founding of the magazine's events group. Mr. Shuster's remarkable background and prodigious skills onstage make him the right choice to serve as moderator to the CIOpanel.

About Silver Peak Founded in 2004, Silver Peak is a privately held company that improves backup, replication and recovery between data centers and facilitates branch office server and storage centralization by improving application performance across the Wide Area Network. The company's award winning Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture delivers exceptional performance improvements with unprecedented security and scalability across all enterprise applications, including data replication, backup, file transfers, email, web and real-time applications just as Citrix and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).

About Storage-IT Solutions Established in 2000, Storage I.T. Solutions developed into a global solutions integrator with innovation serviced in 13 Nations. Our global deployment capabilities extend nevertheless are not limited to 42 nations. In an economy that requires global infrastructure in order to remain competitive Storage I.T. Solutions is your trusted innovation advisor.