The Midsize Enterprise Summit Spring, which takes place April 30-May 2 in Nashville may be three months away, but we are seeing a tremendous early response from the vendor community to support the conference.

The MES Spring vendor lineup features headline sponsors and long-time midmarket supporters HPE/Intel and SimpliVity. Yes, all eyes will be on these two with the recent announcement of HPE’s $650 million purchase of SimpliVity, a leader in the hot hyperconvergence market. In addition to those event stalwarts, Brazil IT and Datto are sponsoring at the gold level; and Information Builders, SAS Zyxel, and newcomer Intermedia have signed on as silver sponsors.

Other new sponsors to Midsize Enterprise Summit include security firms FireEye and  WatchGuard (mirroring the midmarket IT leaders’ focus on cybersecurity) and Level 3 Communications, a networking company whose offerings include managed security, among many other solutions. 

In addition to the companies listed above, MES is proud to list Cato Networks, Connectwise, Easton, Essential Costa Rica, Netreo, The Comtel Group and Zerto among its growing list of vendors that cater to the midmarket.

The Midsize Enterprise Summit is the world’s largest gathering of midmarket CIOs and IT leaders. Taking place twice a year, it brings together leading and emerging technology suppliers with IT leaders from a broad cross-section of industries. Midmarket IT leaders look to MES for business technology solutions that can help their organizations grow and meet the needs of their internal and external customers.

Vendors interested in sponsoring MES should contact erodriguez@thechannelco.com, and midmarket CIOs/IT leaders interested in attending should contact dplant@thechannelco.com for more information.