Sponsors and Exhibitors

Sponsors and Exhibitors are an integral part of the PASS Summit experience. Attendees return each year to learn about the latest SQL Server complementary product offerings, view product demonstrations, and check out the latest upgrades and solutions.

PASS Summit could not exist without the tremendous support of our Sponsors and Exhibitors. Please be sure to visit the Expo Hall to see the latest and greatest solutions for SQL Server.

Premier Sponsor

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. MSFT has worked to achieve this mission by creating technology that transforms the way people work, play, and communicate. MSFT develops and market software, services, hardware, and solutions that we believe deliver new opportunities, greater convenience, and enhanced value to people's lives and does business throughout the world and have offices in more than 100 countries.

Platinum Sponsor

Dell. Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services company and No. 34 on the fortune 500. For more information visit www.dell.com, or to communicate directly with Dell via a variety of online channels, go to www.dell.com/conversations. To get Dell news direct, visit www.dell.com/rss.

Gold Sponsor

Information is a business's most important asset. EMC provides the expertise; technology, solutions and tools that can help you capitalize on it and your Microsoft investments. By understanding your business, application and infrastructure requirements, EMC can work with you to put a comprehensive, efficient, information infrastructure that to work for your business. With an efficient information infrastructure architected for transaction processing applications and data warehouse requirements, you can reduce costs and minimize risks associated with managing information, while fully exploiting its value for business advantage.

expressor software’s smart, ultrafast and affordable data integration solution can cut an organization’s total data integration costs in half. The patent-pending expressor semantic data integration system is based on rationalized business terms that enable collaborative, role-based team development, business rule reuse and end-to-end project lifecycle management. expressor’s parallel data processing engine supports batch and low-latency operations, "natively" handles complex and hierarchical data, and processes terabytes of data per hour on a single machine. For hands-on experience with expressor, register for our free, 30-day eval edition. For more information on expressor, visit www.expressor-software.com

As a world-leading information technology company, HP applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. Our focus is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work through technology products and services, form the individual consumer to the largest enterprise. More information can be found at www.hp.com

VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2007 revenues of $1.3 billion, more than 100,000 customers and more than 10,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies. VMware is based in Palo Alto, California and on the web at www.vmware.com

Silver Sponsor

Idera provides powerful and easy-to-use tools to help you manage your Windows world, including Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint and PowerShell. Our award-winning solutions address real-world challenges including performance monitoring, backup and recovery, auditing and compliance and change and configuration management. Headquartered in Houston, TX, Idera was founded by veterans in the systems and database management industry to bring to market battle-proven technologies developed by practicing database professionals.

Media Sponsor