Sponsors and Exhibitors

ACM Queue provides a critical perspective on current and emerging information technologies, highlighting the technical challenges and problems that software engineers are likely to encounter when using them. In doing so, Queue helps readers sharpen their own thinking and pursue innovative solutions in their own work.

Avere Hybrid Cloud ends the rising cost and complexity of data storage with the freedom to store files anywhere in the cloud or on premises without sacrificing the performance, availability or security of your data. Achieve unlimited performance scaling, eliminate latency and cut storage costs by more than 50%.

Berkeley Communications is a leading provider of innovative data storage and networking solutions. We are committed to delivering targeted solutions to meet the technology and business challenges of today's data-intensive enterprises. Founded by data storage experts, Berkeley Communications focuses on designing and implementing highly available, scalable, and secure storage and networking infrastructures to ensure business continuity.

CIS is a leader in the development and distribution of consensus-based, internationally recognized best practices for assessing and improving cyber security. CIS secure configuration benchmarks and automated assessment tools are used by hundreds of organizations worldwide and are accepted for compliance with many industry standards, including FISMA, PCI, and HIPAA.

Citrix supports the open source community via developer support and evangelism. We have a number of developers and evangelists that participate actively in the open source community in Apache CloudStack, OpenStack, OpenDaylight, Xen Project and XenServer.

CoreOS, the creator of Tectonic, provides the components needed to build distributed systems to support application containers.

CRC Press is a premier publisher of scientific, technical and medical resources, reaching around the globe to collect essential reference material and the latest advances and making them available to researchers, academics, professionals and students in a variety of accessible formats. CRC Press is a member of Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business. For more information, visit www.crcpress.com.

Device42 Inc., a leader in IT infrastructure management, delivers comprehensive solutions that enable organizations around the globe to quickly, easily, and effectively manage their complex IT infrastructures. Device42 software centralizes data center management making IT assets visible, understandable, and controllable.

Using Device42, companies can identify, visualize, and manage devices (whether physical, virtual, or cloud), networks components, software, and passwords using a browser interface. Device42 helps companies visualize their infrastructure, understand network interdependencies, improve network security, and mitigate the impacts of planned and unplanned IT network changes. Device42 is delivered as a virtual appliance, is easily installed, and provides comprehensive features including auto-discovery via RESTful APIs for rapid data input and reliable results.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. We defend free speech on the Internet, fight illegal surveillance, promote the rights of innovators to develop digital technologies, and work to ensure that the rights and freedoms we enjoy are enhanced, rather than eroded, as our use of technology grows.

EnterpriseTech is a professional resource for news and intelligence covering the migration of high-end technologies into the enterprise and business-IT industry. Delivering a powerful combination of world class journalism, expert commentary, and in-depth analysis, EnterpriseTech clearly defines how the forces driving the integration of advanced computing technologies are merging with the key elements used for enterprise infrastructures. Drawing from its high-tech solutions slant, a dedicated audience of over forty-six thousand Fortune 2000 readers worldwide source EnterpriseTech for solutions in new product development, workload management, increased efficiency, and to maximize their competitive edge.

The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD Project. The Foundation gratefully accepts donations from individuals and businesses, using them to fund projects which further the development of the FreeBSD operating system. In addition, the Foundation can represent the FreeBSD Project in executing contracts, license agreements, and other legal arrangements which require a recognized legal entity. The FreeBSD Foundation is entirely supported by donations.

Fujitsu platform products are based on scalable, reliable, and high-performance server, storage, software, point-of-sale, and mobile technologies. Fujitsu service and support organizations are driven by our firm belief that your satisfaction must continue after the sale. To that end, we offer a range of support plans that allows you to choose the plan that best meets your business and financial needs. Fujitsu America, Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited.

HPCwire is the leader in world-class journalism for HPC. With a legacy dating back to 1986, HPCwire is recognized worldwide for its breakthrough coverage of the fastest computers in the world and the people who run them. For topics ranging from the latest trends and emerging technologies, to expert commentary, in-depth analysis, and original feature coverage, HPCwire delivers it all, as the industry’s leading news authority and most reliable and trusted resource. Visit HPCwire.com today!

InfoSec News is an aggregation website and mailing list for security news articles. These articles come from such sources as newspapers, magazines and online resources. Topics range from security, hacking, firewalls, new security encryption, forensics, critical infrastructure protection, products, public hacks, hoaxes and legislation. 

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is the non-profit corporation that maintains the open source DNS software BIND, and ISC DHCP, distributed on isc.org and through most Linux and UNIX sources. ISC is about to release Kea, a modern open source DHCP server. ISC offers professional support for our open source products, as well as the Unbound and NSD open source DNS systems from NLNET Labs, with 7-day, 24-hour SLAs available. ISC also operates one of the 13 DNS root servers, the F-root system.

iXsystems is the all-around FreeBSD company that builds FreeBSD-certified servers and storage solutions, manages the FreeNAS Project, and is the corporate sponsor of the PC-BSD Project. iXsystems is an employee-owned and operated, open source-centric, customer focused organization, dedicated to providing the highest quality built-to-order enterprise rackmount server solutions, pre-configured server appliances, and scalable storage solutions to our customers around the globe.

The KDE Community is an international technology team dedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computing experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications, and a platform for building and maintaining applications. We find innovative solutions in a vibrant atmosphere open to experimentation.

More than 20 years ago, Linus Torvalds sparked an open source revolution with a short email declaring he was doing a new project “just for fun.” Today, Linux powers 98% of the world’s super computers, most of the servers powering the Internet, the majority of financial trades worldwide and tens of millions of Android mobile phones and consumer devices. In short, Linux is everywhere.

The Linux Foundation is here to help. By supporting the kernel development community -- including employing Linus Torvalds himself -- and fostering collaboration on a truly massive scale, the Linux Foundation unites thousands of curious minds in the free and open exchange of ideas. With this collective wisdom, people everywhere are using Linux to solve harder problems, innovate faster than ever, and change the way the world works together. We are here to provide the crucial services and collaborative infrastructure to continue Linux’ advancement and protection.

 Visit linuxfoundation.org for more information.

In Linux Pro Magazine, you'll find the tools, tutorials, reviews, and concrete technical discussions you'll need to unlock the secrets of Linux. Each issue comes with a full Linux distribution, such as Suse, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, or Debian, on a bonus DVD. Linux Pro provides real solutions for real Linux users.

LinuxFest Northwest is an annual OpenSource event held the last weekend in April, in Bellingham, WA USA. The Fest features presentations and Exhibits on various F/OSS topics, as well as Linux distributions and applications. LinuxFest Northwest has something for everyone from the novice to the professional.

Maxta maximizes the promise of hyper-convergence.

MaxDeploy Reference Architectures and MxSP software solutions provide companies the choice to hyper-converge on any x86 server, the ability to run on any compute abstraction layer, and the flexibility to support any combination of storage devices, eliminating the need for complex and expensive storage arrays. The simplicity of Maxta’s VM-centric solutions reduces IT management and lowers cost, all while delivering hyper-scale, enterprise-level data services and capacity optimization. Think outside the storage box.

For more information visit http://www.maxta.com.

Founded in 1991, Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. Its goals are to enhance the user experience on computing devices, reduce the cost of writing and maintaining software, and invent novel computing technologies. Researchers focus on more than 55 areas of computing and collaborate with leading academic, government, and industry researchers to advance the state of the art in such areas as graphics, speech recognition, user-interface research, natural language processing, programming tools and methodologies, operating systems and networking, and the mathematical sciences. More information can be found at http://research.microsoft.com/.

No Starch Press is one of the few remaining independent computer book publishers. We publish the finest in geek entertainment—unique books on technology, with a focus on Open Source, security, hacking, programming, alternative operating systems, and LEGO. Our titles have personality, our authors are passionate, and our books tackle topics that people care about.

Opensource.com publishes stories about creating, adopting, and sharing open source solutions. Visit Opensource.com to learn more about how the open source way is improving technologies, education, business, government, health, entertainment, and more. Share your story. Follow Opensource.com on Twitter.

Palantir is a software company that builds and sells data fusion platforms and applications for solving large, complex data problems. Our work involves building the infrastructure to fuse together disparate data sources into a single, coherent, interactive, human-understandable picture of a real world problem. We solve big data's 'last mile' problem with engineering that is equal parts large-scale data processing and high-quality user interface. Our systems are broadly deployed in government, financial, and commercial markets. Additionally, our philanthropy team donates our software and expertise to help non-profits work through their challenging data analysis about pressing problems facing our world today.

Platform9 makes it easy to run a production-grade OpenStack cloud using your internal server infrastructure. Our unique OpenStack-as-a-service solution supports new or existing deployments of KVM, VMware vSphere and Docker. Sign up for a free trial today and build your own private cloud in minutes.

PostgreSQL is the world's most advanced open source database, relied upon by millions of people for its reliability, advanced features, and high performance.

Puppet Labs, Inc. is the leader in IT automation. Puppet Labs' software enables system administrators to deliver the operational agility and efficiency of cloud computing at enterprise-class service levels, scaling from handfuls of nodes on-premise to tens of thousands in the cloud.

Quantum is a leading expert in scale-out storage, archive and data protection, providing solutions for sharing, preserving and accessing digital assets over the entire data lifecycle. More than 100,000 customers have trusted Quantum to address their most demanding data workflow challenges. Quantum provides the end-to-end storage foundation to maximize the value of data. See how at www.quantum.com/customerstories.

Rackspace is the #1 managed cloud company. From cutting edge researchers to global giants in the Fortune 100, Rackspace is trusted by more than 300,000 business customers in over 120 different countries.

Raytheon|Websense and its SureView family of cybersecurity solutions deliver end-to-end visibility that allow organizations to detect, contain and control cyber threats. For over two decades, we’ve leveraged Raytheon's cyber expertise and research & development resources to deliver technologies that bridge the gap between defense-grade and enterprise cybersecurity.

Reduxio enables the recovery of applications & virtualization infrastructure instantly to any second in the past with BackDating™, a technology that obsoletes snapshots. Reduxio’s flash hybrid storage arrays provide a flash storage solution for critical applications using Tier-X, a tiering engine, and NoDup™ an inline, in-memory, always-on global dedupe and compression.

ScaleArc is the leader in database traffic management software, enabling zero downtime for applications in a database environment. The ScaleArc software inserts transparently between the application and database, creating an agile data tier that immediately improves application availability and performance, with no changes to the application or database.

ShmooCon is an annual east coast hacker convention hell-bent on offering three days of an interesting atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software and hardware solutions, and open discussions of critical infosec issues.

SNIA is a not-for-profit global organization whose mission is to lead the storage industry worldwide in developing and promoting standards, technologies, and educational services to empower organizations in the management of information.

UserFriendly.Org has been impairing productivity since November 1997 and is considered the most popular daily webcomic in the technology industry. Its IT Professional audience of nearly two million readers represent every continent (yes, including Antarctica!) in the world. Named the #1 technology humour site by Linux Magazine, UserFriendly.Org also appears in over a hundred weekly and monthly publications. 

Since 2004, Vembu’s industry-recognized cloud solutions have delivered tangible value to more than 25,000 businesses worldwide through a network of 4,000+ partners (MSPs/VARs & Resellers). Vembu’s flagship offering is its Backup & Disaster Recovery (BDR) product targeted at IT-Administrators in small and medium businesses to protect their Physical, VMware and Hyper-V environments. Vembu Cloud Services is comprised of multiple offerings – OnlineBackup to protect files, email, databases and applications on servers and desktops and CRM for help desk, sales force automation & social inbox.

The Walt Disney Company is the global leader in high-quality entertainment and innovative technology. Begin a career that delivers  creative content and experiences to audiences.