Sponsors
IBM Corporate is leader in the innovation, development and production for most advanced IT technologies. The head quarter is in Armonk, NY, and more than 390 thousands employees operate in more than 170 countries. Over than 65% of revenue is by countries outside of US which confirms its pervasive presence around the world. IBM leads in number of patents per year in IT (4186 in 2008) outperforming all major IT companies in the world.
The IBM Research Division is a strategic asset of the company and is composed of 8 research centers and 24 laboratories distributed in several countries with more than 3200 researchers and 5 Nobel Prizes and in 2008, invested more than $6 Billion in research and development. Several collaborations and partnerships with Universities and public and private research institutions have been put in place specifically focusing on IT innovative strategic areas in applied and basic research.
IBM Italy is owned by IBM Corporate with its headquarters in Segrate (Milan). About 10,000 employees are employed by IBM Italy in 17 locations distributed throughout the country. IBM Italy has holds the IBM Tivoli Laboratory (Tivoli Lab in Rome) which actively operates on several projects on innovative areas as cloud computing, pervasive computing and data and system management.
Additionally, four competence centres (Bari, Cagliari, Catania and Napels) are dedicated to different selected areas of excellence: bioinformatics, multimedia, data management and cloud computing. IBM Italy also activated several collaborations with major Italian Univerisities and Research Istitutions coordinated by "Direzione per le Relazioni con l'Universita' e la Ricerca".
EMC provides the technologies and tools that can help customers release the power of their information. They help in designing, building, and managing flexible, scalable, and secure information infrastructures. And with these infrastructures, enable clients to intelligently and efficiently store, protect, and manage their information so that it can be made accessible, searchable, shareable, and, ultimately, actionable.
Using EMC information infrastructure as the foundation for implementing information lifecycle management strategies, securing critical information assets, leveraging content for competitive advantage, automating your data center operations, reducing power and cooling costs, and more. In short, with an information infrastructure, potentially serious risks can be avoided and the significant costs associated with managing information reduced, while fully exploiting its value for business advantage.
EMC works with organizations around the world, in every industry, in the public and private sectors, and of every size, from startups to the Fortune Global 500. EMC customers include banks and other financial services firms, manufacturers, healthcare and life sciences organizations, internet service and telecommunications providers, airlines and transportation companies, educational institutions, and public-sector agencies. EMC also provides technology, products, and services to consumers in more than 100 countries.
To strengthen its core business and extend markets to new areas, EMC has, over the past four years, acquired and integrated more than 40 growth-oriented software and services companies operating R&D centres in Belgium, Brazil, the Netherlands, Ireland, China, India, Israel, Russia, Singapore, and the U.S. and manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Ireland, and Brazil. EMC holds the most stringent quality management certification from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 9001), and manufacturing operations hold an MRP II.
Today, EMC employs approximately 40,000 people worldwide, more than 40 percent of whom work outside the U.S. EMC is represented by approximately 400 sales offices and scores of partners in more than 60 countries around the world. They have the world's largest sales and service force focused on information infrastructure, and work closely with a global network of technology, outsourcing, systems integration, service, and distribution partners.
EMC is committed to acting in a socially and environmentally responsible manner and to being an attentive and thoughtful neighbor in local and global communities. EMC is a publicly traded company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EMC, and are a component of the S&P 500 Index.
Network Providers
GARR is the Italian Research and Academic telecommunication network. Its main aim is to provide high-bandwidth connectivity and advanced services to the national scientific and academic community. The GARR network is planned and operated by Consortium GARR, a nonprofit organization created under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. GARR promoting partners are the major Italian Scientific and Academic organizations: CNR, ENEA, INFN and Fondazione CRUI, the latter acting for all Italian Universities.
Telecom Italia’s leadership on the traditional domestic market has been bolstered and an increasingly tight focus on quality of service. Telecom Italia now manages around 21 million connections on the traditional telephone network and, via the Alice brand, 7.9 million broadband accesses. The Group is attentive to the ICT market too: IT provides enabling platforms so that companies can introduce new services and enhance data center performance.