GTEC Exhibitors Unveil New Products & Services for 2013 Event

Adobe, Brocade, salesforce.com, VMware & More Make News at Next Week's Leading Government Technology Event in Canada

OTTAWA, Ontario, Sept. 30, 2013 /CNW/ - GTEC, produced by UBM Tech, announces more than 30 exhibitors will be making news and showcasing first-time announcements during next week's event, happening October 7-10 at the Ottawa Convention Centre. The event will feature another bustling expo show floor with over 180 companies showcasing the latest in technology advancements, providing a unique platform for IT professionals to present new products and services to targeted audiences during Canada's leading government technology event. For more information or to register, visit: http://www.gtec.ca/.

"This year's announcements demonstrate the continued innovation in today's industry," said Nancy Dorigo, Executive Director, GTEC Ottawa. "GTEC 2013 is proud to present all attendees with the opportunity to engage first-hand with the latest in technology, tools, services and associated solutions."

In addition, Terry Horsman, Director of Sales said, "The event gathers an incomparable audience from both the public and private sector communities for showcasing the latest and greatest in technology. This impressive snapshot of news demonstrates how companies are working to innovate at all levels, introducing new products and services that will improve collaboration and better serve the Canadian market."

The exhibitors who will be making announcements or showcasing new products leading up to or at GTEC currently include:

Adobe recently unveiled The State of Mobile Benchmark for Q2 2013 that found web-traffic in Canada is increasingly driven by mobile devices. As adoption rates continue to grow, optimizing websites for the mobile-segment will become critical for public-sector organizations to improve user experience and better serve citizens on multiple platforms.

Air Interactive Media introduces AIM mVault, providing a unique design surface across hundreds of devices with simple controls and components that allow for collaboration and document share to rapidly access data. Users are provided secured access to any document, from anywhere, for any mobile and computing device.

babyTEL (Booth # 710), Canada's leading internet telephony provider, will showcase new, reliable, secure and high-quality enterprise telecommunication services including SIP Trunking, real-time faxing over the open internet (T.38 Trunking), Cloud Business Phone (Hosted PBX) with mobility features and Electronic Fax (email to fax, fax to email) services.

Bluink introduces Shift-IT®, a hosted Shift Scheduling – Shift Trading platform that allows you to manage employee schedules, while eliminating the frustration of tracking schedule changes. Give employees the power to trade shifts from their Shift-IT app, while the system enforces shift rules under your control! See us at booth 212.

BriteSky will debut customized cloud solutions built to be flexible and fully support both the hybrid private and public cloud models. Whether it be cloud computing, secure file sharing, backup to the cloud or DR our scalable services allow you to expand into our cloud based on your business demands.

Brocade will showcase HyperEdge™ Architecture, an evolutionary approach to campus network design. By automating and simplifying the campus network, and creating a holistic wired and wireless infrastructure, the Brocade HyperEdge Architecture enables organizations to harness the productivity gains and competitive edge that mobility and cloud-enabled services can offer.

Carbon₆₀ is introducing its new end-to-end hosting solutions. Already a safe haven for private and public sector organizations that need a partner to manage their business-critical websites,Carbon₆₀'s new end-to-end hosting solutions take it to another level by guaranteeing website reliability and performance from the datacenter to the end-user's doorstep.

Cisco will demonstrate Remote Expert Smart Solution for Government Services, a fully interactive kiosk using video, remote and distributed services for exceptional citizen interactions at a fraction of the cost. With face-to-face video access to government representatives and services, users share documents and collaborate through touch screen monitors and document scanner.

ctc TrainCanada will introduce SAP End User Training compliant with Government of Canada standard business practices. As of October 2013, SAP Training will be available through ctc TrainCanada's course catalog. The addition of SAP training comes in response to the growing demand from the Federal Government for SAP end user training.

DLS Technology Corporation proudly presents: vKey, a software on a bootable USB or BlackBerry® device that creates a secure and independent Linux and/or Microsoft® OS environment on any modern Intel-based computer (PC or Mac). vKey provides secure access to your corporate network on any computer, anywhere and anytime.

Empowered will demonstrate the EmpoweredPPM™ Managed Service, a Project Portfolio Management software solution hosted in Canada using CA Clarity™ PPM. The solution includes structured workflows tuned to internal processes, and expert consulting needed to deliver the business value of PPM. Visit Booth #906 for a demonstration, or visit empowered.ca/ppm.

EventDawn, a new Ottawa-based communications company will be demonstrating their online planning platform for event and meeting planners. EventDawn provides planners with the ability to create digital event binders, collaborate online with other planners and suppliers, and communicate with attendees before, during and after events.

ExitCertified (Booth # 829) will showcase its Individual Multimedia Video Presence (iMVP™) technology, which enables individuals to attend a live certified course from the convenience of their office or home. It's a remarkable way to experience premium training when and where you need it. It's virtual training without the virtual.

GRID Corp.'s Servicebook™ G-Cloud portal launching at GTEC enables organizations to design and
deploy Treasury Board-compliant balanced scorecards and logic models for policies & programs under
PAAs … on existing IT infrastructure …sometimes within a month. Ask about PWGSC's Build-in-Canada-Innovation Program that may provide federal departments $.5M to deploy Servicebook™.

HanDreamnet presents next generation Security Switch (SG2024G) designed against internal threats.
It protects from Scanning, Flooding, ARP Spoofing, DoS and DDoS protection without Signature Updates. It provides Internal Network Access Traffic Control with monitoring and metering down to the port. Please visit at www.handream.net

HDI announces recent updates to the HDI Support Center Standard 2013, issued by the technical service and support industry's principal resource for support center best practices. The standard can help you increase service consistency, efficiency, and effectiveness, improve customer and employee satisfaction, increase profitability, improve service quality, and much more.

Hindam Innovation is proud to launch an unprecedented mobile solution for SMB's and large enterprises at GTEC 2013. MeetingRight line of mobile applications integrates the latest technologies, presentations and social network tools for business. It connects very large numbers of devices in an innovative way to improve productivity and efficiency. (#K25)

IB-Learning introduces Paratechnic Training, a unique program to improve front-line productivity and reduce technical support costs. Like paramedics, paratechnics apply first-response solutions, helping non-technical users get back to work faster and stay productive while allowing centralized tech support to focus only on cases that need their higher level of expertise.

Motion Computing, a leader in rugged mobile technology, will showcase new In-Vehicle Computing Solutions designed to work with Motion Tablet PCs for maximized safety, reliable connectivity and increased productivity on the road. The Solutions have passed comprehensive crash and vibration testing that meet or exceed multiple industry standards.

Navvia showcases its powerful Process Management Platform in the cloud designed for anyone with an IT Service Management program. With Navvia you can SURVEY the health of your processes, DESIGN and document new processes, gather requirements for a tool implementation, VERIFY processes are compliant, and LEARN about IT Service Management.

NIKSUN, the global leader in network performance and security monitoring, introduces the NIKSUN Supreme Eagle, the ultimate cyber hunter to equip you to Know the Unknown® in your cyber environment. Unleash the power of Supreme Eagle at data capture speeds up to 100GB per second. Visit NIKSUN at Booth #807.

QualiWare will be demonstrating new Governance Workflow, Analytics, bilingual user interface, and Government of Canada web publishing solutions. Visit Booth #207 to understand how you can easily create and maintain complex management systems, quality systems, and Enterprise Architecture and share this information with your organization in a CLF compliant environment.

RiskLogik will make its global debut at GTEC (Booth K18) to showcase new risk and resilience solutions that leaders and operational managers rely on to inform decisions on protecting critical infrastructure. Learn more: http://www.risklogik.com.

Safari Books Online, the largest subscription-based technology and business learning library, is proud to showcase recent updates to our Safari To Go mobile app, including the ability to cache books for offline reading. We are also excited to announce we have recently surpassed 8,000 hours of video within our offering.

salesforce.com, The Most Innovative Company in the World, will be showcasing new solutions for government, including Rapid Response 311, Mobile Communities for Government, Government Social Command Centre, and Platform Mobile Services for Government. Come and see how salesforce.com is connecting government with its citizens, services, and employees like never before.

Signority will showcase a complete cloud based digital signature workflow solution by using PKI technology. With this Signority breakthrough, users do not need to tradeoff between ease of use and legality while signing high value and sensitive documents online. Signority also offers integration to 3^rd party applications through API.

SnapStream will showcase new additions to its powerful TV monitoring platform: The new iPad app enables TV search, playback, unlimited clips and cloud sharing. The new multi-viewer compares four TV shows at once. See how your organization can save by recording, archiving and tracking TV mentions with SnapStream (booth 1112).

SOMOS Group recently expanded their services to provide: ITIL, CRM, Office 365 implementations; Supply Chain solutions; Health Claims Processing; and Events/Exhibits management, all supplied by industry veterans, in addition to the existing expertise of providing business and technical consulting and delivery of PM training.

Storageflex is proud to showcase an array of new storage technologies including All Flash Based Array to provide 250,000 IOPS, Virtual and Physical Appliance for Layer 3 Wan Optimization, 10Gbit/40Gbit Ethernet/Infiniband Switching as well as FC/FCoE Switches and Adapters. Visit booth 102 to see these exciting technologies.

The Streaming Store will demonstrate the new 1 Beyond StreamMachine. This military grade portable battery powered turnkey streaming video encoder takes 4 HD video sources, mixes them with pre-recorded files, adds titles, and produces professional looking broadcasts that play on computers, tablets and smartphones. Come visit us in booth 525.

Toshiba introduces the World's First ECO-MFP with Erasable Toner. Dramatically reduce paper usage and overall carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 57%, while reusing the same sheet up to five times. Coupled with Self Encrypting Drive and Automatic Data Invalidation providing a secure and ECO friendly print solution.

Travel.gc.ca re-launches as the Government of Canada's one-stop shop for travel information for Canadians travelling and living abroad. Recognized as a source of constantly updated travel-related information and advice from 11 federal government departments, Travel.gc.ca keeps Canadians abroad connected and provides a platform for crisis communications during international emergencies.

Vayyoo is showcasing a unique mobile collaboration solution, Vayyoo Activities, that provides a cross-boundary, multiplatform engagement system to conduct your key activities by delivering the right information to the right people at the right time. Users are empowered in creating their own virtual activity-rooms, simply, securely and easily. www.vayyoo.com

VMware will showcase NSX and VMware's vision for the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). NSX is doing for networking what VMware ESX/vSphere did for servers. NSX transforms network operations and economics in the data center by delivering never before possible service delivery, while dramatically reducing network operations costs. (Booth 819)

For a complete schedule of all educational sessions, keynote addresses and participating exhibitors, visit http://www.gtec.ca/.

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About GTEC
Now in its 21st year, GTEC (Government Technology Exhibition and Conference) is a unique platform that attracts both the government and private sector communities for learning and professional development. GTEC is Canada's largest government technology event, attracting over 7,000 participants, renowned speakers, and exhibitors from across Canada on an annual basis. The event features a Gala Award Ceremony celebrating IM/T public sector accomplishments at municipal, provincial, and federal levels, a four day Conference, and a multi-day Exhibition. For more information, visit: www.gtec.ca.

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