17th GSE ISP Symposium

23 — 25 September 2024

Hilton Cologne, Germany

PLATINUM SPONSOR

IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. More than 4,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service. Visit ibm.com for more information.

GOLD SPONSOR

Concat AG offers a broad portfolio of managed services to efficiently support IT organizations in their transformation to digital service providers. This ranges from the implementation of tailor-made IT infrastructures and cloud services to the assumption of IT operations by the company’s own service and support organization (24×7). Concat also operates its own infrastructures in highly secure data centers in Germany, which are certified in accordance with ISO 9001 and 27001. The head office is located in Bensheim, with 13 additional locations across Germany. In the 2023/2024 financial year, around 370 employees generated a turnover of 170 million euros. Concat has been part of Meridian Group International Inc. in the USA since 2006.

Discover more at www.concat.de

AUSSTELLER

Schmitz RZ Consult GmbH is the developer of BACKUP EAGLE® globally proven as the timesaving and most flexible backup monitoring and reporting solution on the market. Covering IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage Protect Plus, IBM Storage Protect Online Services, IBM defender (Cohesity) and IBM BRMS BACKUP EAGLE® it is ready to protect your backup environment. Our vendor agnostic approach creates a single pane of glass and saves you each day hours spent on monitoring and reporting. Being on the market for 25 years Schmitz RZ Consult GmbH transforms outstanding backup expertise into a ready to use out-of-the box solution. Our user centric focus and long years of experience in this field ensure high user satisfaction and short response times.

Predatar is on a mission to give organisations complete confidence in their ability to recover 100% of their data. Predatar’s unique Recovery Assurance platform continually validates the integrity and cleanliness of backups to prove they will recover – before a crisis hits.

As #1 Digital Business Provider, CANCOM accompanies organizations into the digital future. The CANCOM Group’s range of IT solutions includes consulting, implementation, services, and the operation of IT systems. Customers benefit from the extensive expertise as well as a holistic and innovative portfolio that covers the IT requirements that are necessary for a successful digital transformation.

With IBM CANCOM has maintained a close partnership since around 30 years. Especially in the field of IBM Storage Protect CANCOM looks back on many years of experience in supporting customers from different industries.

PROFI Engineering Systems AG PROFI AG is a medium-sized IT service provider headquartered in Darmstadt. For over 40 years, the company has been supporting its customers in all aspects of digital transformation with a specialized portfolio of IT solutions, services and consulting offerings in the areas of server and storage systems, hybrid cloud, business continuity, cyber resilience, IT automation, virtualization, digital workplace, software development and managed services.
The claim is highest competence, reliability and quality, with measurable success and direct contribution to the added value and competitiveness of the customers. PROFI employs over 300 people at 12 locations across Germany. The company has been one of Germany’s most successful IT solution providers for many years and has long-standing partnerships with all leading IT manufacturers.

Cristie – your partner for comprehensive data security since 1969

For over 50 years, Cristie has stood for reliable and innovative solutions in the field of data security, backup, disaster recovery and cyber resilience. Our mission is to protect data and ensure your business continuity.

Our company name eXstor sums up our activities in one word: for us, eXtended storage means that we expand the functionality of the storage products you use, particularly IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), using our products, services and service offerings.

With our base product TSMCluster® we are since 19 years in the market. The new version of this robust, scalable and widely used cluster software for TSM offers significant improvements and numerous new functions in the event of a failure.

As well as these core competencies, as an IBM Business Partner, we offer new tape tools as an addition to your tape hardware, e.g. the eXstor Tape Vault, which is an out-of-the-box safe guarded tape tool.