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AdRem Software  Booth 37
http://www.adremsoft.com/
AdRem Software provides network monitoring and network management solutions for businesses that seek affordable ways to maximize ROI on IT infrastructures. AdRem's products allow IT Departments to graphically represent network infrastructure, address problems in real-time, and perform capacity planning.
Advanced Computer & Network Corporation  Booth 45
http://www.acnc.com/
AC&NC designs, manufactures and markets high-performance, competitively priced data storage JetStor RAID systems. With an extensive line of storage solutions for any computing platform and operating system, comprehensive free technical support, and fast on-time product deliveries, AC&NC brings freedom of choice to all clients, from workgroups to enterprise.
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
Booth 16
http://www.arin.net/
ARIN distributes Internet number resources, including IP addresses, in Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. Applying the principles of stewardship, ARIN allocates Internet number resources; develops consensus-based policies; and facilitates the advancement of the Internet through information and educational outreach. Learn more at www.arin.net.
BakBone Software  Booth 51
www.bakbone.com/
Thousands of users worldwide leverage BakBone Software's Integrated Data Protection (IDP) approach to simplify the management of enterprise and multi-platform environments with a portfolio of backup, disaster recovery, replication and storage reporting solutions for Linux, Windows, Unix and Mac OS environments. www.bakbone.com/
Barracuda Networks  Booth 36
www.barracudanetworks.com/
Barracuda Networks Inc. is the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances, and also provides world-class IM protection, application server load balancing and message archiving solutions. With more than 50,000 customers, our success results from the ability to deliver easy-to-use, comprehensive appliances to solve the most serious network issues.
Berkeley Communications  Booth 21/22
http://www.berkcom.com/
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.
Cambridge Computer Services, Inc.  Cambridge Computer Storage Pavilion
http://www.cambridgecomputer.com/
Cambridge Computer is a national integrator specializing in data storage and data protection solutions. We provide comprehensive solutions drawing on best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers. Our professional services include consulting, integration, project management, and knowledge transfer. Our technical expertise is known throughout the storage industry. Our clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, vital government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses.
Centrify  Booth 34
http://www.centrify.com/
Centrify's auditing, access control and identity management solutions enable secure, connected computing by centrally securing systems, web applications, databases and storage systems using Microsoft Active Directory. Centrify DirectAudit and DirectControl help improve IT efficiency, increase compliance with regulatory requirements, and centrally audit and control access to a heterogeneous computing environment.
Compellent  Cambridge Computer Storage Pavilion
http://www.compellent.com/
Compellent is a leading provider of enterprise-class network storage solutions that are highly scalable, feature-rich, and designed to be easy to use. The Storage Center SAN is a comprehensive solution that lowers storage infrastructure, power and cooling costs, reduces management time, and enables continuous data availability and storage virtualization.
Distributed Management Task Force, Inc.  Booth 38
http://www.dmtf.org/
DMTF standards help alleviate the challenges with managing complex, heterogeneous environments while retaining flexibility to meet tomorrow's needs. DMTF technologies are designed to work together to address the industry's needs and requirements for interoperable distributed management. By enabling end-to-end management solutions, they provide valuable tools for managing multiple platforms.
e-DMZ Security  Booth 20
http://www.e-dmzsecurity.com/
eDMZ Security offers two unique solutions focused on privileged access control. Our Password Auto Repository (PAR) for privileged shared and embedded password management and eGuardPost for privileged session management, control, recording and replay. Visit booth 20 for a demo and enter to WIN a 320GB portable drive!
Exanet  Cambridge Computer Storage Pavilion
http://www.exanet.com/
Simple to use and flexible, Exanet's ExaStore Clustered NAS is a high-performance, scalable solution that changes the economics of storage with a clustered distributed file system. ExaStore enables businesses to optimize workflow, maximize productivity, and minimize the total cost of ownership of storage.
Facebook  Booth 33
http://www.facebook.com/
Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
FileTek  Cambridge Computer Storage Pavilion
http://www.filetek.com/
FreeBSD  Booth 42
http://www.freebsd.org/
"The FreeBSD Project supports and sponsors FreeBSD, the free and open source operating system of choice for many companies due to its business-friendly user license. A significant number of companies run their entire IT networks on FreeBSD, including Yahoo! and Pair Networks. The Juniper routers and NetApp storage appliances are based on FreeBSD as well.
Free Software Foundation  Booth 2
http://www.fsf.org/
Fusion-io  Cambridge Computer Storage Pavilion
http://fusionio.com/
Fusion-io is a leading provider of enterprise solid-state technology and high-performance I/O solutions that unlock a world of possibilities for performance-starved applications, closing the gap between processing power and storage performance. The company's ioMemory architecture creates a new tier in the memory hierarchy - one that has 100 times the capacity density and 10 times the capacity per dollar of DRAM.
Google  Booth 32
http://www.google.com/
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com/.
Groundwork Open Source Solutions, Inc.  Booth 1
http://www.groundworkopensource.com/
GroundWork Open Source (www.groundworkopensource.com/) integrates, enhances and develops leading open source software to deliver comprehensive IT operations management solutions. With GroundWork solutions, enterprises leverage the flexibility and low cost of open source tools to achieve enterprise-level availability, performance and operational efficiency at a fraction of the cost of traditional software.
Hitachi ID Systems  Booth 3
http://hitachi-id.com/
Hitachi ID Systems is a leading provider of identity management solutions offering comprehensive password management, user provisioning, account provisioning and access management capabilities. Licensed users range from mid-sized companies to global enterprises. Hitachi ID Systems is the only identity management software vendor to consistently prove an ROI in three to six months.
IEEE Computer Society  Booth 15
http://www.ieee.org/
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ISC (Internet Systems Consortium)  Booth 48
http://www.isc.org/
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation best known for developing and maintaining market leading DNS BIND and DHCP software. F-root nameservice and Hosted@ are ISC operational programs further supporting the Internet community. ISC is funded by the donations, membership fees, software support and development service fees.
Linux Pro Magazine  Booth 46
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/
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.
LOPSA   Booth 19
http://lopsa.org/?lisa2008/
The League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) is a nonprofit corporation with members throughout the world. Our mission is to advance the practice of system administration; to support, recognize, educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to serve the public through education and outreach on system administration issues.
MindTouch  Booth 50
http://www.mindtouch.com/
MindTouch, an open source software company and developers of MindTouch Deki, the most sophisticated enterprise-based wiki for collaboration and application integration platform. MindTouch Deki helps information workers, IT professionals, developers and others to easily and effectively collaborate and connect disparate enterprise systems, Web services, Web 2.0 applications and other data sources.
MRV Communications  Booth 18
http://www.mrv.com/
MRV Communications is a leading provider of telecommunications equipment including optical transport, physical layer switches, metro Ethernet, and Out-of-Band Networking solutions. MRV's Out-of Band-Networking product portfolio provides complete IT infrastructure management capabilities including: secure remote console access, intelligent power management and environmental monitoring optimized for data centers and remote locations.
NetEx  Cambridge Computer Storage Pavilion
http://www.netex.com/
NetEx, the global leader in Data Center Acceleration supporting mission-critical enterprise-class BC/DR requirements.

NetEx's Virtual HyperIP protects replication/backup applications from network disruptions that degrade performance and throughput.

HyperIP provides bandwidth management features including time-of-day rate controls and block-level compression for minimizing replication costs. Includes Synchronization and Recovery on Demand features.
Nexsan Technologies  Cambridge Computer Storage Pavilion
http://www.nexsan.com/
Nexsan is the worldwide leader in energy-efficient, long term storage systems. Nexsan delivers a complete line of disk storage solutions for fixed content storage and archiving including: email, medical imaging, compliance and litigation support, disk-based backup, digital video, and rich media. Nexsan's exceptional price and performance has made it the choice of enterprises around the world.
No Starch Press   Booth 26
http://www.nostarch.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.
Ocarina Networks  Cambridge Computer Storage Pavilion
http://www.ocarinanetworks.com
The world is experiencing explosive growth of unstructured data. The accelerating growth of user generated content, graphics intensive applications, and increased compliance requirements, combined with the increasing sizes of most file types is straining storage infrastructures worldwide. As a result, organizations are struggling to contain rising storage acquisition costs as well as operational expenses such as power, cooling and datacenter space. A new solution is needed to reduce data footprint for online storage.

Ocarina reduces data footprint with the world's first file-aware storage optimization solution for online data. Our solution drastically reduces capital and operational expense for customers across a broad range of industries where explosive data growth is a major challenge.
Opengear Opengear  Booth 61
http://www.opengear.com
Opengear is a manufacturer of Next Generation Infrastructure Management solutions which enable system administrators to securely access and control local and remote routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and ups systems in distributed networks through serial console access and IPMI connectivity.
Oracle Technology Network (OTN)   Booth 28
http://otn.oracle.com/
Oracle Technology Network is the world's largest community of developers, DBAs/admins, architects, and QA testers using Oracle products and industry-standard technologies. Millions of members collaborate via OTN every day to share real-world expertise and best practices about how to best design, build, deploy, manage, and optimize applications.
Permabit Technology Corporation  Booth 53
http://www.permabit.com/
Permabit delivers massively scalable data-reduced disk based archive storage for the Enterprise. Scalable Data Reduction with in-line sub-file data deduplication provides cost-effective archiving and Permabit delivers industry leading RAIN-EC technology, the highest level of data protection available. Visit us in booth #53 to see why no other solution can compare.
PostgreSQL  Booth 23
http://www.postgresql.org/
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 20 years of active community-driven development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. Thousands of developers, governments and companies worldwide use PostgreSQL for its high performance and advanced features.
QLogic  Cambridge Computer Storage Pavilion
http://www.qlogic.com/
QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, which include the controller chips, host adapters, and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage networks for most Global 2000 corporations. The company delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and InfiniBand solutions.
Qualstar  Cambridge Computer Storage Pavilion
http://www.qualstar.com/
Qualstar's new XLS Enterprise Tape Library System expands from 240 Terabytes to over 15 Petabytes. These libraries deliver very high density and cost-effective archiving and data protection solutions. Qualstar also manufactures rack mount and free-standing libraries, spanning capacities from 1 TB to over 340 TB, supporting LTO and AIT formats.
SCALE   Booth 39
http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/

Server Technology, Inc.  Booth 27
http://servertech.com/
Server Technology, Inc. designs and manufactures products to reduce downtime and improve data center power management. Products include intelligent Cabinet Power Distribution Units (CDU's), that provide power management via IP, branch circuit protection, input current power monitoring, environmental monitoring and serial console port access.
SNIA   Booth 35
http://www.snia.org/
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit global organization made up of more than 420 active member companies plus their worldwide affiliates and close to 7,100 active individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA members share the common goal of advancing the adoption of storage networks as complete and trusted solutions. To this end, the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For additional information, visit the SNIA web site at http://www.snia.org/.
Splunk  Booth 29
http://www.splunk.com/
Splunk is the search engine for IT data. It's software that indexes and enables you to search your logs and IT data from any application, server or device in real-time. You can figure out what's happening across your infrastructure and achieve extreme availability, meet compliance requirements and slash operations costs.
Sun Microsystems  Booth 52
http://sun.com/
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision—"The Network is the Computer"—Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com/.
Teradactyl LLC   Booth 56
http://www.teradactyl.com/
Teradactyl specializes in the development of enterprise network backup system software for backup and disaster recovery of large installations in commercial, education, and government sectors. Teradactyl's patented multi-level and multi-volume synthetic consolidation enables system administrators to run perpetual True incremental network backups. The True incremental Backup System (TiBS) consolidates the incremental volumes offline in a variety of configurable fashions to meet the desired balance of cost, data granularity, and expedient restore times. TiBS can scale backup operations with significantly lower impact on network and client resources while maintaining disk and tape verification and repair to ensure restore integrity.
The Register   Booth 25
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
The Register is among the world's leading IT and tech websites—essential reading for more than five million monthly visitors attracted to its unique blend of solid news and off-beat reporting. Whether you're looking for the latest insights into virtualization, opinion on Apple's iPhone or a service call from the legendary Bastard Operator from Hell, The Register is your one-stop IT news destination at www.theregister.com/.
The Written Word  Booth 30
http://www.thewrittenword.com/
The Written Word provides pre-compiled Open Source binaries for AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Redhat Linux, Solaris, and Tru64 UNIX. Our managed solution offers easy-to-install packages, security fixes, patches, and centralised bug reporting. Open Source made easy!
Trusted Computer Solutions  Booth 31
www.tcs-sec.com/
Security Blanket from Trusted Computer Solutions (TCS) allows users to easily lock down an installed Linux operating system and periodically check the state of system security. Security Blanket is menu driven providing choice of predefined industry standard or customized conformance guidelines and audit reporting.
Xirrus  Booth 17
http://wwwxirrus.com/
Xirrus is the leader in High Performance Wi-Fi. We manufacture the patented Wi-Fi Array. The Wi-Fi Array integrates 4, 8, or 16 radios and high-gain directional antennas into a single device providing the performance & security to replace traditional workgroup switches with Wi-Fi technology. The Xirrus solution obsoletes traditional access points by delivering 2X more range, 4X more coverage, 8X more bandwidth, and 14X more throughput per cable drop—using 75% fewer devices & installation time.
Xsigo Systems  Cambridge Computer Storage Pavilion
http://www.xsigo.com/
Zenoss, Inc.  Booth 49
http://www.zenoss.com/
Zenoss Inc., based in Annapolis, MD, offers an award-winning, complete network monitoring and systems management platform that discovers networked IT resources, monitors them for performance and availability, and tracks changes through a configuration management database (CMDB). Zenoss offers enterprise-grade support, services, and commercial add-ons through its Enterprise Subscription. Make IT easy.
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