Sponsors

IBM

See how hardware and software solutions from IBM and Red Hat provide solutions for a Smarter Planet. Providing the advantages of Linux, comprehensive services, technology leadership and global reach, the IBM and Red Hat alliance gives you the confidence and ability to deploy a resilient infrastructure throughout your enterprise. The entire IBM Systems product line is enabled for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, making it easy for your business to take advantage of the power of open standards.

Alfresco

Alfresco is the open platform for social content management – combining the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. Alfrescos flexible, standards-based architecture provides document management, web content management, records management and social collaboration to over 1,500 enterprise customers in over 40 countries. Alfresco was founded by content management and enterprise software veterans – including the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell. As the most popular open source alternative for Enterprise Content Management, Alfresco has been downloaded more than 3 million times.

Cisco

Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Businesses of all sizes, governments, service providers, and consumers use Cisco hardware, software, and services to improve collaboration, simplify operations, increase customer satisfaction, and improve competitive advantage. We follow responsible business practices to help ensure business sustainability and environmentally conscious operations and products. Learn more at www.cisco.com.

HP

As a world-leading information technology company, HP applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. Our focus is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work through technology products and services, form the individual consumer to the largest enterprise. More information can be found at www.hp.com

Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 211,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the worlds most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$21.6 billion for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2010. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

Intel

Intel transforms the enterprise through innovation. Solve your most business critical IT challenges with powerful and reliable servers featuring the Intel® Xeon® processor E7. This top of the line processor delivers performance that optimizes your most data demanding workloads and also comes with scalability, memory, and I/O capacity that allows you additional flexibility. You can proactively protect your business critical assets with features that automatically manage hardware errors and guard against malicious software attacks.

Breakthrough Capability for Mission-Critical Computing

AMD

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is an innovative technology company dedicated to collaborating with customers and technology partners to ignite the next generation of computing and graphics solutions at work, home, and play. AMD Opteron(tm) processors offer uncompromised design and deliver unprecedented performance-per-watt capabilities, providing the scalability needed to drive demanding and data-intensive applications.

AMD and HP are Proven in Business

Eucalyptus Systems

Eucalyptus Systems provides cloud technology leaders in enterprises, government agencies, web 2.0 businesses, and industry partners the most widely deployed software platform for on-premise infrastructure-as-a-service clouds. In 2010, over 25,000 Eucalyptus clouds were started all over the world including more than 20% of Fortune100 companies. Eucalyptus is specifically designed for enterprise use and is built as open source software product uniquely suited for standard hybrid clouds.

Fusion-io

Fusion-io, the industry leader in system, application & database acceleration, is unleashing the potential of performance-starved applications, allowing companies to rethink the way they architect their data systems. With a Fusion-Powered data center companies can increase productivity, shrink time to market, improve their customers experience, and they can do it all with less hardware, less software and less power. Fusion-io helps you do more with less.

Sybase

Sybase, an SAP company, is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. We are recognized globally as a performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all major systems, networks and devices. Our information management, analytics and enterprise mobility solutions have powered the worlds most mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government. For more information, visit http://www.sybase.com. Read Sybase blogs: http://blogs.sybase.com.

Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help our customers from consumers and small businesses to the largest global organizations secure and manage their information-driven world against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently. Our software and services protect completely, in ways that can be easily managed and with controls that can be enforced automatically enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored.

Active Endpoints

Active Endpoints, Inc. provides products to develop, integrate and deploy processes quickly and easily, making businesses more agile and effective. Our portfolio spans cloud-based extensions to SaaS applications and process automation technologies, enabling IT project teams and domain experts to create custom applications their business really wants. We help customers of all sizes and industries, including telecommunications, government, financial services and media/entertainment, accelerate project delivery time.

Carahsoft

Carahsoft is Red Hats Master Government GSA Dealer and Distributor providing support, training, and consulting services to federal, state, and local government agencies. As a trusted Government IT solutions provider, Carahsoft delivers Red Hat and other industry-leading open source solutions through our value-added channel of system integrators and partners.

Centrify

Centrify delivers integrated software solutions that centrally control, secure and audit access to cross-platform systems and applications by leveraging an infrastructure you already own Microsoft Active Directory. Over 3,000 organizations rely on Centrifys identity consolidation and privilege management solutions to reduce IT expenses, strengthen security and meet compliance requirements.

CloudBees

CloudBees is the only cloud company focused on servicing the complete develop-to-deploy lifecycle of Java web applications in the cloud. With CloudBees DEV@cloud and RUN@cloud services, teams do not have to worry about servers, virtual machines or IT staff. The company is also the worlds premier expert on the Jenkins/Hudson continuous integration tool.

DLT

As Red Hat’s Largest Government Reseller and Exclusive Academic Partner, DLT Solutions helps government agencies overcome real-world challenges through its best-in-class information technology products and superior services. From virtualization to cloud computing and more, DLT provides the most trusted and innovative Red Hat solutions available to federal, state, and municipal governments. www.dlt.com/redhat

EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the worlds leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technologies. We provide global customersof all sizes and across all industriesthe products, services, and solutions they need to manage data growth and get the most value from their information. EMC leads customers on the journey to the private clouda dramatically more efficient and flexible way to manage, deliver, and consume IT services for reduced costs and increased business agility. Learn more at www.EMC.com

EnterpriseDB

EnterpriseDB is the only worldwide provider of products, support and expertise based on PostgreSQL. EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus products are designed with enterprise-grade features providing massive scalability for transaction-intensive applications requiring superior performance, security, and availability. Our Oracle compatibility features reduce TCO, leverage existing skills, and run many Oracle applications unchanged.

Gluster

Gluster delivers an open source software platform that simplifies storage and management of unstructured data. Gluster Virtual Storage Appliances use a unified global namespace to virtualize disk and memory resources into a single shared pool that is centrally managed. Gluster solutions provide scale-out storage for public and private cloud environments.

IGEL Technology

IGEL Technology offers fully-managed thin clients supporting a native SPICE client for connecting to RHEV for Desktops. As the only thin client vendor offering SPICE in an end-to-end Linux-based solution, IGEL’s German engineering delivers the world’s most sophisticated thin client devices, and redefines the standard for enterprise-class thin client management.

Ksplice

Ksplice lets you apply Red Hats important monthly Linux kernel updates instantly, without the disruption of a restart. If you hate supervising reboots each month in the middle of the nights to stay up-to-date, or if your servers are woefully behind, please stop by our booth.

Likewise

Likewise builds products to integrate Linux, Unix, and Mac systems with Windows environments by authenticating users, controlling access, applying group policies, and providing single sign-on. Over 90,000 organizations currently use Likewise, including many in the Fortune 500, to lower operating costs, increase security and enhance compliance. Free download at likewise.com/download.

Omnibond

Omnibond focuses on software engineering and support for Identity/Access Management, Parallel File Systems and Computer Vision technologies. Our newest forays include commercial-grade product services for OrangeFS, the next generation of PVFS for high-performance cluster computing, and computer-vision traffic detection/monitoring for the transportation industry. We are committed to open source development.

REALTECH

REALTECH specializes in the SAP NetWeaver platform and we are one of Red Hats premier partner for SAP Migrations. Since its founding in 1994, REALTECH has managed hundreds of SAP migration, upgrade, consolidation projects, and provided many organizations with SAP Basis support services. Since 10 years, REALTECH is the only independent consulting company in SAPs Linux Lab. For more information, visit REALTECH at http://www.realtech.com/.

SOA Software

SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA and cloud services governance products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run cloud and enterprise services and PaaS applications. The worlds largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business.

ScaleOut Software

ScaleOut Softwares in-memory distributed data grid products provide scalable storage, management, and analysis of data for server farms, compute grids and cloud environments. Its flagship product, ScaleOut StateServer®, accelerates application performance and provides advanced features like global data integration, built-in map/reduce computation for fast parallel data analysis, an object browser, and much more. ScaleOut StateServer is production proven on hundreds of mission critical applications. Learn more at www.scaleoutsoftware.com.

Shadow-Soft

Shadow-Soft is a Red Hat Premier Partner dedicated to Open Source Software, Cloud Computing, and other market disruptive technologies. By harnessing the power of Open Source, SOA, and Cloud Computing, we are able to deliver real world enterprise solutions that provide exceptional value to our customers. Shadow-Soft. Embrace Open.

Terracotta

Terracottas software products provide snap-in performance and scale for enterprise applications. A recognized innovator in caching technologies, Terracotta’s latest breakthrough is BigMemory, which bypasses Java garbage collection to enable caches over 1 terabyte. BigMemory and the company’s flagship product, Enterprise Ehcache, extend the capabilities of Ehcache.

eXo

eXo offers the first and only user experience platform for Java, allowing customers to build social intranets, websites and gadgets. eXo Platform for JBoss EPP extends portal-based solutions with modern features, such as content management and collaboration. eXo co-leads the development of the GateIn portal framework project with Red Hat.

Acquia

Acquia helps organizations of all sizes build social publishing websites quickly, easily and with a lower total cost of ownership by leveraging Drupal, the open source social publishing platform that blends content and community. Our products, services and support enable companies to leverage the power, technical innovation and economic value of Drupal while simplifying the experience, removing the complexity and minimizing the risk. Please visit: http://acquia.com

Azul Systems

Azul Systems, Inc. delivers an elastic JVM and Java platform for applications that require scalability and predictable response times. Azul enables organizations to operate with fewer, more robust instances, improved capacity, and lower operating costs.

Birt Exchange by Actuate

BIRT Exchange is the most active online community for the Eclipse BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) project. The site also features an Open Marketplace, a showcase where developers and organizations can promote, distribute and sell BIRT-related software. BIRT Exchange is sponsored by Actuate, the company that initiated and co-leads the BIRT project.

Coverity

Coverity is the trusted standard for companies that have a zero tolerance policy for software failure, problems, and security breaches. Coverity’s award-winning portfolio of software integrity products enables customers to prevent software problems throughout the application lifecycle.

Emergent

Emergent is an award winning Value Added Reseller (VAR) and GSA Schedule Holder (GS-35F-0119W) providing comprehensive IT solutions including product acquisition, consulting and training services. Emergent offers complimentary technology solutions including, Red Hat, Adobe, Symantec and VeriSign, among others within the government, commercial, education and healthcare sectors.

Innovative Defense Technologies

Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT) provides Linux-based Automated Software Testing Solutions. IDT has the expertise, strategies, processes, and technology to provide an Automated Testing Solution which will accelerate test execution times, expand text coverage and text complexity, and reduce the amount of time and cost spent on software testing.

Jaspersoft

Jaspersoft provides the most flexible, cost effective and widely deployed Business Intelligence suite in the world, enabling better decision making through highly interactive, web-based reports, dashboards and analysis. Leveraging a commercial open source business model, Jaspersoft provides end-to-end BI capabilities at a fraction of the cost of other vendors. www.jaspersoft.com

Leostream

Leostream provides critical connection broker technology for delivering hosted desktops, virtual desktops, applications, and other hosted resources to end-users, simply and securely.

MoveOp

See how software products from MoveOp make it easy to migrate to Linux, including
- UNIX to Linux
- in new environments (public or private cloud, consolidated and virtualized environments)
- new architectures and releases
- other distributions to RHEL
To accelerate your arrival on Linux, visit www.moveop.com.

OC Systems

Quickly find and resolve complex performance problems. RTI, from OC Systems, delivers lightweight deep diagnostics for distributed Java applications in production and test environments. Monitor transaction performance end-to-end from client across network, web and application tiers deep dive to method level. RTI integrates with LoadRunner, Jmeter and soapUI.

R1Soft

R1Soft is the developer of Continuous Data Protection® (CDP), scalable and high-performance backup software for Windows, Linux, and virtual environments. Recognized as the leading commercial backup software in hosted services and the Cloud, R1Soft CDP currently protects more than 200,000 servers worldwide. R1Soft is a division of BBS Technologies, Inc.

Storix

Storix System Backup Administrator (SBAdmin) is the most comprehensive bare-metal restore solution for Linux and UNIX systems. SBAdmin, with Adaptable System Recovery (ASR), can perform bare-metal recovery; migrate to different hardware, or even from physical to virtual machines, using an intuitive standalone or network user interface.

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VaraLogix

VaraLogix Q automates the deployment of business critical web applications to JBoss and other environments without making a single change to the application. Q accelerates your web application deployment process – increasing efficiency, eliminating errors and lowering costs using your existing processes and tools. www.varalogix.com

Virtustream

Virtustream is an innovative cloud provisioning firm committed to delivering next generation infrastructure services to enterprise class customers. We leverage our secure high performance platform, xStream, to deliver highly available and elastic compute resources at consumption-based pricing. Virtustream owns and operates its own data centers in the U.S. and U.K.

Vizuri

Vizuri is a software design and development company with a diverse client base in the public and private sectors. We offer innovative, results-oriented business solutions from expert services through full-scale projects. We are a Premier Red Hat Business Partner, Public Sector Specialist, Preferred JBoss Certified Systems Integrator, and Authorized Reseller.

ZeroTurnaround

ZeroTurnaround is committed to making Java more productive by building innovative, cutting-edge productivity technologies that lower expenses and overhead for development teams. Simplifying both the development and production processes with unique technologies, JRebel and LiveRebel integrate directly into the JVMs, application servers and development tools of the worlds leading financial, web application, and technology firms.

10gen

10gen develops and supports MongoDB – the open source, high performance, scalable, document-oriented database. 10gen delivers technical support, professional services, and training for commercial-grade deployments of MongoDB.

Acronis

Acronis® Backup & Recovery 10 is an integrated backup, disaster recovery and deduplication solution for organizations of all sizes, optimizing business continuity at a lower TCO. It enables organizations to streamline backup and recovery processes across physical and virtual environments.

Agilysys

Agilysys Technology Solutions offers businesses a broad selection of IT solutions and services that optimize the infrastructure. Using our consulting expertise, professional services and financial programs, we help customers select the most appropriate optimization and information solutions to achieve their business goals. For more information, visit www.agilysys.com

Appcelerator

Red Hat developers can create cloud-connected mobile apps using Appcelerator¹s Titanium platform and IDE. Join the 1.5 million developers worldwide who are creating applications for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Blackberry all using a single JavaScript-based platform ­ Titanium. Download Titanium for free at www.appcelerator.com.

Authernative

Authernative provides innovative identity and access management solutions including strong authentication, secure remote & mobile access, and user credentialing. The companys products assure authenticated access to private and public cloud computing-based services. Scalable authentication security, usability, electronic mass deployment, and low TCO makes Authernative a winning choice for anytime, anywhere, any device secure access to the cloud.

BitNami

BitNami provides a library of ready-to-deploy packages of popular open source applications as native installers, virtual machine images and cloud templates. BitNamis commercial offering, BitNami Cloud Hosting, provides one-click deployment and management of popular open source applications in the cloud.

Clustercorp

Clustercorp develops and sells Rocks+, a multi-server management system for clusters and clouds. Rocks+ provides a single step install and single point of management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments and is capable of dynamically provisioning heterogeneous server types by leveraging pre-packaged Rolls and user-defined appliance types.

Cotendo

Cotendo is an innovative provider of CDN and Site Acceleration services, offering unprecedented site performance, transparency, application-level management capabilities, granular content delivery flexibility, and best-in-class content acceleration. The company has been awarded the MIT Technology Reviews 2011 TR50 award for the worlds most innovative companies. For more information visit http://www.cotendo.com.

Mellanox

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox products optimize data center performance and deliver industry-leading bandwidth, scalability, power conservation and cost-effectiveness while converging multiple legacy network technologies into one future-proof architecture.

Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and Yokneam, Israel.

Nimbula

Nimbula, the cloud operating system company, delivers a new class of cloud management software that uniquely combines the flexibility, scalability and efficiency of a public cloud with the control, security and trust of today’s most advanced data centers. Nimbula transforms under-utilized data centers into muscular, easily configurable compute capacity.

OpSource

OpSource provides cloud and managed hosting solutions that enable businesses of all sizes to accelerate growth and scale operations while controlling costs and reducing IT infrastructure support risks. More than four hundred Software-as-a-Service ISVs, cloud platform providers, carriers and enterprises rely on OpSource’s expertise, experience and agility to operate high-availability, business-critical hosting environments. For more information, please visit www.opsource.net.

OpenCrowd

OpenCrowd is user experience and technology services firm that builds custom user centric Web 2.0 applications. Collaborative dashboards & workstations, business and social communities and cloud enablement is our primary focus. Weve delivered solutions across a wide spectrum of firms ranging from IBM and premium investment banks to early start-ups.

Zend

Zend Technologies (www.zend.com) is the leading provider of software and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications running on RHEL and in the cloud. PHP runs more than one-third of the worlds Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications.

InfoQ.com

InfoQ.com (Information Queue) is an independent online community focused on change and innovation in enterprise software development, targeted primarily at the technical architect, technical team lead (senior developer), and project manager. InfoQ serves the Architecture, Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Operations and Agile communities with daily news written by domain experts, articles, video interviews, video conference presentations, and mini-books. Visit InfoQ.com for more information.

SearchEnterpriseLinux.com

SearchEnterpriseLinux.com is the Web’s best information resource for Linux admins and managers. You’ll find the latest news, tech tips, expert advice, tutorials, webcasts and more on topics including Linux administration and management, integration and interoperability between Linux, Windows and Unix, securing Linux and mixed-platform environments, and migrating to Linux.

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Virtual-Strategy Magazine

Virtual-Strategy Magazine (VSM), your leading source for virtualization news, is an online, reader-contributed, publication devoted entirely on technologies supporting the growing virtualization information technology (IT) marketplace. VSM offers regular newsletters, daily content updates, attendance at expo’s and tradeshow’s, user group summits and more. VSM is an inclusive community followed by both C-Level Executives and IT Professionals.

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Linux Pro Magazine keeps the emphasis on real-life, practical techniques and delivers in-depth technical articles on a range of topics, including reviews of new products, practical advice on tools and strategies for sys admins, programming tips, and discussions of advanced desktop techniques. Each issue includes a Linux DVD! Sign up for your $3 trial subscription now!

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