Sponsors for OSCON 2012

Microsoft
Microsoft recognizes the industry need for interoperability as there is a greater shift towards mixed environments, and builds interoperability between Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies, including open source software and applications. The company recently announced a new wholly owned subsidiary known as Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. to further advance Microsoft's existing investment in openness - including interoperability, open standards and open source. Microsoft recognizes the need for diverse IT applications and systems to effectively and efficiently exchange information to foster industry growth and innovation, provide greater consumer choice, and help maximize return on IT investments. For examples of ongoing interoperability work at Microsoft, please visit Interoperability @ Microsoft http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/.

Bluehost
Built on Open Source technologies, Bluehost has grown to be one of the largest and most reliable Web hosts on the market today. This award-winning host serves more than a million small businesses, non-profits and individuals. Bluehost's cutting-edge technology-and outstanding support team-earn it some of the highest customer-satisfaction ratings in the industry. Bluehost is a proud of its Open Source heritage, and actively supports and sponsors many different Open Source communities. Moreover, the team behind Bluehost is committed to making Open Source web applications accessible to its customer base, offering one-click installations for more than 80 applications through its SimpleScripts tool.

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.

Citrix Systems
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) transforms how businesses and IT work and people collaborate in the cloud era. With market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible for 260,000 organizations. Citrix products touch 75 percent of Internet users each day and it partnerswith more than 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21 billion.

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/.

OpenStack
OpenStack is open source software for building clouds. Created to drive industry standards, end cloud lock-in and speed cloud adoption, OpenStack is a common, open platform for both public and private clouds with the support of over 175 industry leading companies, more than 3,500 global project participants and 100,000+ downloads. The open source cloud operating system enables businesses to manage compute, storage and networking resources via a self-service portal and APIs on standard hardware at massive scale. For more information and to join the community, visit www.OpenStack.org.Supporters of OpenStack at OSCON 2012 include Calxeda, CSS Corp, DreamHost, Mirantis, Morphlabs, NetApp, Piston, & Rackspace,, Ubuntu supported by Canonical. Stop by the OpenStack Pavilion at the Expo Hall to learn more about OpenStack and become part of the community.

Red Hat
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with more than 70 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with cloud, virtualization, management, storage and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. Where others try to force-fit what they have to what you need, Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS) starts with collaborative problem-solving innovation to create exactly what you want/need - right-sized for your environment and your budget. Dell Data Center Solutions custom designs and delivers hyperscale servers including the PowerEdge C series, optimized Cloud and Big Data solutions and some of the most efficient Modular Data Centers. Leverage DCS experience and expertise in your scale-out data center to decrease your TCO. For more information visit: www.Dell.com?PowerEdgeC, www.Dell.com/OpenStack, www.Dell.com/Crowbar, www.Dell.com/Hadoop

Facebook
Founded in 2004, Facebook's mission is to make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what's going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them. 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, 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 20,000 organizations use New Relic to optimize over 6 billion web transactions in production each day. Fully implemented in just minutes, New Relic provides 24x7 real user monitoring and code-level diagnostics for web apps deployed on dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments. New Relic provides support for Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET platforms and related frameworks. New Relic also partners with leading cloud management, platform, and hosting vendors to provide their customers with instant visibility into the performance of deployed applications.

OpenShift
OpenShift is Red Hat's open source, auto-scaling Platform as a Service (PaaS) for Java, Ruby, Node.js, Python, PHP and Perl applications. OpenShift takes care of all the infrastructure, middleware, and management headaches, allowing developers to focus on their code and customers. Sign up now @ openshift.redhat.com and get a total of 1.5GB RAM and 3GB of storage to host your applications in the cloud for free. All it takes is an email address - use promo code OSCON.

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.

X.commerce
X.commerce brings together the technology assets and developer communities of eBay, PayPal, GSI Commerce and Magento to support eBay Inc.'s mission of enabling commerce. Through its ecosystem of developers, partners and tools, merchants now have a single point of access to open commerce technology they need to engage connected consumers, and scale and grow their businesses.

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).

ActiveState
ActiveState empowers innovation from code to cloud smarter, safer, and faster. With a focus on Perl, Python, Tcl and web languages, over 2 million developers and 97% of the Fortune 1000 rely on ActiveState. Stackato is ActiveState's groundbreaking application platform for creating a private platform as a service (PaaS), and is the cost-effective, secure and portable way to develop and deploy apps to the cloud.

Akiban Technologies
Akiban is the company behind the Akiban Server, an open source NewSQL database that unifies the speed, and ease of a document store with ACID guarantees and powerful SQL that is orders of magnitude faster than traditional relational systems. It can be deployed as a stand alone server for a full operational solution, or alongside existing databases in replication mode to solve immediate bottlenecks.

Alfresco
Alfresco is how great businesses share, organize and protect their content. Alfresco's community includes thousands of customers, partners and developers in 182 countries across the globe. Founded in 2005, Alfresco is headquartered in London, with US headquarters in Atlanta.

Amazon
Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and offers Earth's Biggest Selection. The brightest minds come to Amazon to develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world. Amazon also provides the developer community access to our own in-the-cloud computing infrastructure, enabling virtually any business.

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

Braintree
Braintree helps online and mobile businesses process credit card payments by providing a merchant account, payment gateway, recurring billing and credit card storage. The company is disrupting the payments industry by providing elegant tools for developers coupled with white-glove support. Founded in 2007, Braintree works with the world's most discerning online merchants, including LivingSocial, 37signals, Airbnb, Fab.com, OpenTable, Heroku, Engine Yard and GitHub. The company is processing more than $4 billion in annual credit card volume from more than 2,000 merchants. Braintree was profitably bootstrapped for four years before accepting a $34 million investment from Accel Partners in 2011. Braintree ranked 47th in the 2011 Inc. 500.

Canonical
As a member of the free software community, Canonical is committed to supporting the development of open source. Our employees are passionate about technology, open source and, of course, Ubuntu. While our main goal is to ensure that Ubuntu continues to be freely available to everyone around the world, we are also focused on building new tools and software to encourage innovation. Projects like Unity, Upstart, Apport, Juju, Cloud-Init, Launchpad and Bazaar are just a few examples of our ongoing commitment to initiatives that promote software development and collaboration throughout the community.

Commerce Guys
Commerce Guys, creator of Drupal Commerce, is the leading eCommerce company working with Drupal, a powerful open-source Web infrastructure and social publishing platform. Known for its unprecedented flexibility, scalability, and security, Drupal Commerce offers a range of robust capabilities for conducting modern eCommerce. Drupal Commerce is now in use in over 14,000 websites worldwide. Through Drupal Commerce, online retailers have a leading-edge solution for complex product, content, community and context management. Commerce Guys offers online retailers a range of services and support to fully leverage and customize Drupal for e-commerce. The mission at Commerce Guys is to serve Internet merchants by helping them leverage the power of Drupal for their online stores with cutting-edge technology, expertise, and open-source collaboration.

Hyve Solutions, a division of SYNNEX Corporation
Hyve Solutions, a division of SYNNEX Corporation, is a leader in purpose-built data-center servers. As demand for large-scale data centers continues to grow, so does the need for more cost-effective, efficient, and workload-specific servers. Hyve Solutions servers address cost and space issues. We work closely with our customers to create solutions tailored to their workloads and physical environments. We offer highly energy-efficient solutions via our unique role in the Open Compute Project (http://opencompute.org). Our technical expertise, superior integration and testing, and software experience, along with decades of manufacturing and logistics know-how, make Hyve Solutions the best choice for cost-effective, energy-efficient data-center solutions.

IBM
IBM has been a strong advocate of the open source movement for 10+ years, with over a billion dollars invested into it and 1000+ developers involved in open source. We are participating in 150+ open source projects and leading 80+ of these projects. In turn, we have incorporated literally 100's of pieces of open source software into our product offerings, including our traditional commercial offerings as well as selected free and open source offerings. Stop by our booth to learn more about the work we are doing with Open Source.

LINBIT
LINBIT has led the way in delivering High-Availability since 2001, and continues to be the OSS market leader in business uptime, disaster recovery, and continuity solutions. LINBIT has offices in Europe and North America providing 24x7 worldwide support, training, development and consulting. LINBIT's DRBD is the industry standard for high-availability (HA) and data redundancy for mission critical systems. DRBD enables disaster recovery and HA for any application on Linux, including iSCSI, NFS, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, Virtualization and more.

Nebula
Nebula is dedicated to enabling all businesses to easily, securely and inexpensively deploy large private cloud computing infrastructures. The Nebula private cloud system allows any business to easily build a massive private computing cloud from hundreds or thousands of inexpensive servers. Founded in April 2011 and named after a project that OpenStack co-founder Chris C. Kemp started at NASA, Nebula is privately held and venture-funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners. Other investors include Google's first investors, Andy Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton and Ram Shriram. For more information, visit Nebula at www.nebula.com.

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Oracle
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center-from servers and storage, to database and middleware, through applications. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

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 company serving the entertainment industry. Entertainment insiders rely on Rentrak's innovative and progressive technology to interpret audience data and drive their businesses and the industry forward. Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional U.S. and international offices. For more information, visit www.rentrak.com.

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.
Spanning 13 data centers in the United States, Asia and Europe and a globalfootprint of network points of presence, SoftLayer operates a global cloud infrastructure platform built for Internet scale. SoftLayer is the largest privately held Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider in the world with a diverse customer portfolio.

Synacor
Synacor (NASDAQ: SYNC). Attracting world-class talent and industry attention from the Alley, Valley and Hollywood, Synacor is behind the Cloud-based, Multi-Device Platform delivering TV Everywhere, movies, games, music, sports, news, email services, next-gen portals, utilities and more to tens of millions of consumers across multiple connected devices on behalf of cable, satellite, telecom and consumer electronics companies. What's next for Synacor? Think HTML5. During OSCon, Synacor is hosting a challenge that'll prove your programming prowess. Plus, it comes with a chance to win a $1,000 Apple gift card! Take the challenge at http://challenge.synacor.com/ (Unlocks at the start of OSCon).

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.