Partners

CDM Media is a complete marketing powerhouse, but part of the reason we are such a dynamic company when it comes to achieving results for our clients is because of the strategic partnerships we establish with key analysts and media companies. Our partners allow us to offer our clients more exposure to a variety of high-level audiences, thereby increasing the quality of the leads we can deliver.

The partnerships we have developed range from several important analysts that participate in our various events via moderating podcasts, panel discussions and webinars to media players that afford more exposure for maximum client lead generation. CDM Media only partners with the highest quality of organizations that complement the efforts we put forth to create the best marketing programs for our clients.

A sampling of our partners can be seen below:



Yankee Group Yankee Group

As the first independent technology research and consulting firm, Yankee Group is the most respected source of deep insight and counsel on the impact of global connectivity revolution on enterprises and consumers. Yankee Group's expertise spans the technologies creating communications change, and the regions and industries affected by that transformation.
Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group

Aberdeen Group is the leading provider of fact-based research helping organizations and individuals make better business decisions. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen has earned the reputation as being the voice that matters when it comes to understanding the implications and results of process innovation, methodology advancements, technology deployments, and business re-engineering.

Aberdeen's mission is to educate buyers to action providing hard hitting insights into the actions, activities, processes, methodologies, and technologies that drive best-in-class performance. Each year Aberdeen conducts hundreds of primary research studies surveying hundreds of thousands of individuals as to their decisions and experiences when it comes to running their business. Aberdeen's fact-based research arms senior executives and line of business managers with the information they need to make key technology decisions.
AFCOM AFCOM

Celebrating more than 25 years in the data center industry, AFCOM is the only association dedicated to providing education and resources for data center managers. The AFCOM mission is to enable data center management professionals to share industry best practices by providing a forum for dissemination of critical information; to provide education on key data center management issues; to provide the industry's most comprehensive insight and analysis in key areas affecting all data-intensive organizations; and to be the most comprehensive and effective resource available to the overall data center community.
Bennu Group Bennu Group

Bennu Group LLC is a privately held business located in the DFW Metroplex (Dallas, Texas area). From this location, Bennu serves clients thoughout the world. Founded in 2006 by Terry Schurter, Bennu Group brings unique experience and insight into global strategy, innovation and business performance leadership. Always a leader and never a follower, Bennu Group is paving the way for a new generation of agile, efficient and market-aligned businesses that redefine the term success.
Blade.org Blade.org

Blade.org is a collaborative organization and developer community focused on accelerating the development and adoption of open blade server platforms. The organization was established in February 2006 to increase the number of blade platform solutions available for customers and to accelerate the process of bringing them to market. From eight founding companies, Blade.org has grown to nearly 100 members including leading blade hardware and software providers, developers, distribution partners and end users from around the globe.
Integration Consortium Integration Consortium

The Integration Consortium (IC) is a member-driven community that shares experiences, knowledge and best practices in multiple forums. Members champion; innovation, feedback between members, collaboration with standards bodies and the articulation of strategic and measurable business benefits for leading-edge capabilities. Annual meetings are complemented by a growing number of regional chapters who meet periodically.

The mission of the Integration Consortium (IC) is to foster the leading community of like-minded Information Technology professionals responsible for transforming business through both traditional systems integration and emerging SOA with greater agility, ease of use and business results.

One of the IC's strengths is the diversity of member support and interest. Membership includes end user corporations, independent software suppliers, hardware suppliers, system integrators, academic institutions, non-profit institutions, individual members as well as various industry leaders.
The Blade Systems Alliance The Blade Systems Alliance

The Blade Systems Alliance's (BladeS) mission is to advance the adoption of modular and blade-based computing systems. In cooperation with the worldwide community of data center professionals and other advanced systems users, BladeS:

* Promotes multi-vendor standards for modular systems management and racking.
* Works with the user community to address real-world data center and advanced computing issues.
* Delivers information, programs and forums to educate and inform.

The Blade Systems Alliance is a forum for end users, consultants, and vendors who are interested in the deployment and application of blade systems.
SOA Consortium SOA Consortium

The SOA Consortium is a new SOA advocacy group comprised of end users, service providers, and technology vendors, committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt SOA by 2010. The SOA Consortium mission, strategies and tactics center on the following premises:

* Service-oriented architecture adoption is a key enabler for the 21st century enterprise
'CIO Finance Summit' * Achieving the benefits of service-oriented architecture requires significant changes for both IT and business executives
* Service-oriented architecture is perceived by business executives as an IT integration and productivity story, rather than a business agility story

Enterprise SOA practitioners would greatly benefit from a vibrant practitioner community to drive local, business-driven, SOA success, and to spur broader enterprise and industry-wide, SOA adoption.

Burton Group Burton Group

Burton Group helps technologists make smart enterprise architecture decisions in increasingly complex environments. Burton Group's research and advisory services focus on technical analysis of infrastructure technologies related to security, identity management, application platforms, service-oriented architecture, collaboration, content management, network and telecom and the data center.
EMA EMA

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is the leading independent industry analyst and consulting firm 100 percent dedicated to the IT Management market.

For more than ten years, EMA has been providing our clients with objective insight into the real-world business value of IT Management technologies ranging from CMDB to Virtualization to SLM to Security and more.

Why is EMA different than other firms? Because of the real-world experience of EMA's skilled analysts, their reputation for objectivity and focused insight into the IT Management market.
Forrester Research Forrester Research

Forrester Research, Inc. is an independent technology and market research company that provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and technology. For more than 24 years, Forrester has been making leaders successful every day through its proprietary research, consulting, events, and peer-to-peer executive programs.

Forrester focuses on the business implications of technology change. Uniquely, Forrester guides marketing executives, business strategists, and IT professionals to create a unified technology plan that gains business advantage.
IDC IDC

IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets. IDC helps IT professionals, business executives and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. More than 900 IDC analysts provide global, regional and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 90 countries worldwide. For more than 43 years, IDC has provided strategic insights to help clients achieve their key business objectives. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world's leading technology media, research and events company.