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The Times—They are a-changin’! Quality Technology Solutions, Inc. 1639 Route 10, Suite 103 Parsippany, NJ 07054 www.QTSnet.com (973)984-7600 Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Location: Microsoft Corporation, 640 8th Avenue, 6th Floor, New York City Why Attend: Learn how to embrace the Cloud and understand the impact this movement has on IT Leadership Plan for and enable self-service IT and develop ways to empower the business Learn about Microsoft’s current direction and strategies under new CEO, Satya Nadella Learn 10 Steps to keep IT relevant in a changing world Develop plans and budget for 2015 and beyond Keep current on new technologies and IT ideas Meet industry-leading manufacturers and service providers Network with your peers QTS’s 7th Annual Technology Conference QuikEnvision 2014 — The Premier Technology Conference of the Year

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The Times—They are a-changin’!

Quality Technology Solutions, Inc.

1639 Route 10, Suite 103

Parsippany, NJ 07054

www.QTSnet.com

(973)984-7600

Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Location: Microsoft Corporation, 640 8th Avenue, 6th Floor, New York City

Why Attend:

Learn how to embrace the Cloud and understand the impact this movement has

on IT Leadership

Plan for and enable self-service IT and develop ways to empower the business

Learn about Microsoft’s current direction and strategies under new CEO, Satya

Nadella

Learn 10 Steps to keep IT relevant in a changing world

Develop plans and budget for 2015 and beyond

Keep current on new technologies and IT ideas

Meet industry-leading manufacturers and service providers

Network with your peers

QTS’s 7th Annual Technology Conference

QuikEnvision 2014 — The Premier Technology Conference of the Year

“QTS’s QuikEnvision Conference played an important role in our decision making process to move to MS Office 365 platform. This is one of the key IT events I am looking forward to attending this year.” - Hakan Ayanoglu, True World Group

8 : 3 0 – 9 : Registration & Breakfast & Exhibit Area Open

9 :0 0 – 9 :1 5 Welcome and Introduction

Christine Bongard, Vice President & COO, QTS and Eric Zarski, Area Sales Manager, Microsoft

9 :1 5 – 1 0 : 1 5

Keynote: The Times—They are a-changin’!

“10 Steps to Keep IT Relevant in a Changing World”

Neil A. Rosenberg, President & CEO, Quality Technology Solutions

1 0 :1 5 – 1 0 :3 0 Break – Exhibit Area Open

1 0 :3 0 – 1 1 :0 0 THE NEW MICROSOFT

Microsoft’s Technology Roadmap and Vision in the Post-Ballmer World

1 1 :0 0 – 1 1 :1 0 Break – Exhibit Area Open

1 1 :1 0 – 1 1 :4 5

Breakout Panel Discussions

Cloud-Enabled Licensing

Models:

Changing the Way

Software is Licensed

Drive Down Storage Costs:

New Models for Data

Virtualization, Back-Up and

Disaster Recovery

Pros and Cons of

21st Century Desktop:

Traditional vs. Virtualization

1 1 :4 5 – 1 2 :0 0 Break – Visit Exhibit Area

Box Lunch is Served

1 2 :0 0 – 1 2 :4 5 Lunch: CIO Panel Discussion—Change Just Ahead!

Christine Bongard, Vice President & COO and mid-market CIOs

1 2 :4 5 – 1 : 3 0 Break – Visit Exhibit Area

Embrace the Cloud The Mobile Business Do More with Less

1 :3 0 – 2 :5 0

Review Cloud Services:

SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, IDaaS,

Storage & Management and

Microsoft Solutions

21st Century Mobility

with Windows 8 and

Modern Devices, BYOD &

Mobile Device Management

Review how to optimize

use of internal staff, and

drive greater value from

technology investments

2 :5 0 — 3 :2 0 Break – Visit Exhibit Area

Infrastructure Optimization New Productivity Models Business Effectiveness

3 :2 0 — 4 :4 0

Drive down Infrastructure Costs

with Hyper-V, Azure, System

Center and Leverage

Management Tools to Maximize

Uptime and Enable Staff to

Work Efficiently

Embrace the Social Wave

with Yammer and Enhance

Employee Communications &

Collaboration with SharePoint

and Lync

Create your Competitive

Edge with CRM and

Empower Better Business

Decisions with Microsoft

Business Intelligence

4 :4 0 – 5 :0 0 Conclusion & Giveaways

Wednesday, September 10, 2014 (Agenda Subject to Change)

QTS QuikEnvision 2014—Conference at a Glance

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QTS QuikEnvision 2014—Track Descriptions (subject to change)

Keynote Sessions The Times—They are a-changin’! QTS President Neil Rosenberg will open this year’s Conference with his thoughts on the changing role of the CIO and IT Leadership in today’s increasingly Cloud-centric, self-service world, and guide us through “10 Steps to Keep IT Relevant in a Changing World.”

The NEW Microsoft—Microsoft’s Technology Roadmap and Vision in the Post-Ballmer World – A Microsoft executive will present on Microsoft’s strategy and direction under Satya Nadella’s new leadership, and how Microsoft will work with its customers to embrace and drive change in a rapidly evolving world.

11:10 am Breakout Sessions: Drive Down IT Cost Cloud-Enabled Licensing Models – A panel of industry licensing experts will discuss how the Cloud is changing the way we license software from Microsoft and other vendors (i.e., SHI, SoftwarOne, QTS, etc).

Drive Down Storage Costs – A panel of storage experts will discuss changing models for using storage for data and virtualization, for backup and for disaster recovery (Microsoft Azure, NetApp, CommVault).

21st Century Desktop – Traditional, Mobile VDI or Something Else? - A panel of Desktop engineering experts will discuss the pros and cons of the traditional managed desktop (or mobile laptop) versus desktop, application and presentation virtualization (Microsoft, Citrix, QTS).

12:00 Lunchtime Session: CIO Roundtable “Change—Just Ahead!” QTS Vice President Christine Bongard and a panel of mid-market CIOs will discuss common challenges including doing more with less, leveraging technology to create genuine business value, aligning with business leadership and embracing “Shadow IT.”

1:30pm Tracks Embrace the Cloud – Attend this session to hear about the various models of Cloud services explained. This will

include discussions on software, infrastructure and platform as a service, as well as identity, management and storage. Listen to how these solutions help you drive down costs and make IT more agile and responsive to your business. The Mobile Business— This session will address ways to enable your users to leverage mobility technologies, specifically Windows 8.1 on modern devices, through Direct Access, and how to strategically manage the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement. Managing mobile devices from Microsoft and other vendors will be discussed.

Do More with Less – Attend this session to review how to optimize use of internal staff, enhance the user experience and drive greater value from technology investments.

3:20pm Tracks Infrastructure Optimization – This session will explore how to drive down infrastructure costs, and leverage management tools to maximize uptime and IT department staff leverage.

New Productivity Models – Attend this session to explore how to leverage social networking tools to create employee engagement and drive information faster through your business. This session will also focus on how to drive employee collaboration and communication using the current Microsoft productivity tools.

Business Effectiveness – This session consists of two parts: helping you to understand how Microsoft’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution can launch your business into new levels of service, as well as how Microsoft’s Business Intelligence and Big Data tools drive better business decisions.

“From a strategic standpoint the QuikEnvision Conference is invaluable. Not only do I get an opportunity to see what is out there and how it is being used and working for others…. I get to see what new products and ideas may appear in the next year or two and how these new tools will be able to help my business going forward.”

David C. Stafford L.J. Gonzer Associates Inc.

“The two times that I have attended the event, I came away with a better understanding of where Microsoft’s technology is heading and an idea of how it can help in my company’s environment.”

Tony Montalvo Deer Stags Inc.

Dear Customer or Prospective Customer:

I hope you can join us for our 7th Annual QuikEnvision™ Technology Conference at the NEW Microsoft

NYC office on September 10th. This conference, targeted at CIOs and IT Decision Makers, represents a

great opportunity to learn more about how technologies from Microsoft and our other hardware and

software partners, as well as services from QTS and our Solutions Alliance services partners, can help you

achieve your IT goals and drive business value from technology. We hope this helps you with your 2015

strategic planning so you can get the most value out of your IT investments and get the most done with

your IT resources.

This year, we will focus on how the changing IT landscape (the Cloud, consumerization, mobility and

device changes) are increasing pressure on the IT organizations to be agile, flexible and responsive—or be

left behind! In the immortal words of Bob Dylan, The Times—They are a-changing’!

Our keynote presentations will be strategic in nature and help you understand Microsoft’s strategy,

direction and roadmap under the new direction and leadership of Satya Nadella, as well as provide ideas

and input on how to align IT with your business in these changing times. We’ll then drill down into more

detailed content around individual products and technologies, and you’ll see the technologies in action

through demos.

We are keeping the structure of last year’s event, which we feel had a good pace but allowed enough

break time for networking and Q&A, an important benefit of attending the conference. The opportunity

to talk to Microsoft experts and the QTS staff, and to network with our customers and other similarly

situated organizations, and share ideas and challenges, can offer great value to you.

I look forward to seeing you at our 7th annual conference, and to exploring how QTS can help you to meet

the changing needs of your business, while keeping relevant in this changing world.

Neil Rosenberg, President and CEO

Quality Technology Solutions, Inc.

QTS QuikEnvision 2014—Note from the President