Sponsors for OSCON: Data 2011

10gen
10gen sponsors the open source project MongoDB, and provides commercial support, consulting, and training for MongoDB. MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, document-oriented database. MongoDB bridges the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which provide rich queries and deep functionality).

DataStax, Inc.
DataStax is rewiring the world's application and data infrastructure for massive scale. The company is pioneering data-centric software infrastructure products and services that infuse massive scalability and fault-tolerance into widely used Java and web application stacks. As the commercial leader in Apache Cassandra™, DataStax is leveraging this next-generation data platform that evolved from work at Google, Amazon and Facebook to make it easy for customers to build, deploy and operate elastically scalable and cloud-optimized applications and data services.

Dell
Dell, Inc. helps customers succeed by understanding their issues and needs and delivering innovative, high-value IT solutions. Dell is the infrastructure partner for the world's largest cloud computing providers and hyperscale data center operators, offering customized systems and services. Through its Cloud Solutions and PowerEdge C systems, Dell is bringing that experience to a wider audience helping customers build efficient cloud computing and scaled-out data center infrastructures.

Google
Google is a proud user and supporter of open source software and development methodologies. Google contributes back to the Open Source community in many ways, including more than 20 million lines of source code, project hosting on Google Code, programs for students including Google Summer of Code and the Google Code-in Contest, and support for a wide variety of projects, LUGS, and events around the world. Learn more at code.google.com/opensource/.

Lexis Nexis
LexisNexis (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading provider of content and information solutions that enable professionals in legal, corporate, government, academic and non-profit organizations reach essential insights that advance and protect people, industry and society. A member of Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with 15,000 employees worldwide.

Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, visit oracle.com.

VMware
VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform - VMware vSphere® - customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2010 revenues of $2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization, which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs.

Percona
Percona makes MySQL more valuable to customers and users by advancing the performance of the database, and by teaching clients how to achieve high performance and scalability with MySQL. Our flagship product is Percona Server with XtraDB, an enhanced, open-source variant of the MySQL database with an improved version of the InnoDB storage engine. Our founders wrote the book High Performance MySQL and are world-famous MySQL experts. We provide consulting, support, training, and development services for MySQL.