Sponsors for OSCON 2012

HP
As the world's largest IT company, HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all its customers - from individual consumers to large enterprises. HP helps businesses focus on innovation instead of IT operations by offering robust solutions based on HP inventions, open source software, and industry-standard hardware in a converged infrastructure. In fact, as the leading provider of scalable Linux platforms, HP ships one Linux server every minute. HP not only uses open source within the company extensively but also contributes our expertise to hundreds of open source projects worldwide. In fact, we built tools for open source governance in enterprises, then released them as an open source project called FOSSology. Also, HP helps lead the thriving FOSSBazaar community focused on free and open source governance best practices, education, and tools. Stop by our booth to learn more about open source and Linux from HP.

Shared Learning Collaborative
The Shared Learning Collaborative is working to make personalized learning a reality for every U.S. student by improving the usefulness, variety and affordability of education technology. The SLC aims to accelerate the progress of public schools toward personalized learning by creating a set of shared technology services that will work better and cost less per state than what can be accomplished by each state working individually. The SLC technology will support the Common Core State Standards and help states and districts provide teachers with the instructional data and tools they need to make personalized learning the norm in every classroom.

DataStax
DataStax offers products and services based on the popular open-source database, Apache Cassandra™ that solve today's most challenging big data problems. DataStax Enterprise (DSE) combines the performance of Cassandra with analytics powered by Apache Hadoop™, creating a smartly integrated, data-centric platform. With DSE, real-time and analytic workloads never conflict, giving you maximum performance with the added benefit of only managing a single database. The company has well over 100 customers, including leaders such as Netflix, Cisco, Rackspace and Constant Contact, and spanning verticals including web, financial services, telecommunications, logistics and government. DataStax is backed by industry leading investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Crosslink Capital and is based in San Mateo, CA.

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/.

Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that helps over 500 million people around the world communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The site has been built on common open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP and over the past few years, the company has developed a number of open source infrastructure technologies to support the site's growth including HipHop for PHP, Cassandra, Hive, Scribe, and Thrift. Facebook engineers actively contribute and participate in various open source projects especially around the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, developing technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph.

Intel
The Open Source Technology Center is at the heart of Intel's open source development efforts. Through measurable leadership in upstream contributions, project participation and maintenance, the Intel OTC helps shape the user experience across an array of products. Linux Kernel. Yocto Project. Android. Google Chrome. Tizen. MeeGo. Power Management. Linux Graphics. ConnMan. oFono. ACPICA. Mesa 3D Graphics Library. Cairo. Clutter. OpenSolaris. Xen. KVM.

Media Temple, Inc.
(mt) Media Temple, Inc. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since 1998, the company has provided businesses around the world with reliable, professional-class services to host websites, email, business applications, and other rich Internet content. The team is comprised of 150+ incredibly smart and friendly employees who help create an award-winning culture. (mt) is an always-on company (24/7/365) with a U.S. based support department serving customers in over 60+ countries.

New Relic
New Relic is the all-in-one web application management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. More than 14,000 organizations use New Relic to optimize over 6 billion transactions daily. Implemented in minutes, New Relic provides 24x7 real user monitoring and code-level diagnostics for web apps deployed on dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments.

Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace Hosting is the world's leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. In 2010, Rackspace was recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company and listed on the InformationWeek 500 as one of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. The company was also positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the "2010 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting." For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.

VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2010 revenues of $2.9 billion, VMware has more than 300,000 customers and 25,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

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).

AppDynamics
AppDynamics is the leading provider of application management in the cloud and the data center, delivering solutions for highly demanding distributed, dynamic, and agile environments. Our customers use us to monitor, troubleshoot, diagnose, and scale their production applications, and over 60,000 people have downloaded our free Java solution at appdynamics.com/free

Puppet Labs
Puppet Labs develops and commercially supports Puppet, the leading open source platform for datacenter and systems management. Puppet automates and standardizes how machines are configured, managed and controlled in the enterprise and the cloud. With Puppet, your team can manage more systems with less effort.

Rentrak
Rentrak Corporation is a global digital media measurement and research company, serving the most recognizable names in the entertainment industry. For more than two decades, entertainment insiders have relied on Rentrak's innovative software and progressive technology to interpret their complex audience data and drive their businesses and the industry forward. Whether an established Hollywood film studio, a local video store, an unrated cable network or an emerging provider of live mobile TV, entertainment providers from across the industry utilize Rentrak's revolutionary products and services to gain the insights needed to better understand their audiences and effectively compete in an increasingly complex media environment. Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices worldwide in Los Angeles, New York City, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Chicago, Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Mexico, Russia, Spain and The United Kingdom.

Silicon Mechanics
Silicon Mechanics is a leading manufacturer of rackmount servers, storage, and high-performance computing clusters. Our products are supported by the best warranty offerings available, and backed by experts dedicated to excellence. Our unique website allows customers to easily configure hardware and evaluate their options. Visit www.siliconmechanics.com to custom-configure your system.

SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
Headquartered in Dallas, SoftLayer is the innovation leader in Cloud, Dedicated, and Managed hosting, and the largest private hosting company in the world. SoftLayer provides cloud, dedicated, and seamlessly integrated computing environments, leveraging world-class data centers in Dallas, Houston, San Jose, Seattle, and Washington D.C., Singapore, Amsterdam, and network Points of Presence around the globe. The company automates all elements of its platform, empowering customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management via a leading Customer Portal and Open API. The company's proprietary offerings include the industry's first Network-Within-a-Network topology for true out-of-band access, providing remote access to all management options.