Sponsors
Premier Sponsor
IBM
Learn about IBM’s ongoing innovations and contributions to Linux by attending the IBM keynote, booth and speaking sessions to hear industry leaders discuss how hardware & software solutions from IBM & Red Hat provide solutions for a Smarter Planet. The entire IBM product line is enabled for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, making it easy for your business to reduce complexity, lower costs and take advantage of the power of open standards. Technology from IBM PureSystems™, IBM System x™, IBM PowerLinux™, IBM System z™ and IBM BladeCenter® will be profiled, demonstrating the latest IBM solutions for Cloud computing, open virtualization, and systems management.
Platinum Sponsor
Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 246,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011.
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
Intel
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, delivers hardware and software technologies to continually advance how people work and live. For over two decades, Intel’s contributions to open-source projects—from one end of the solution stack to the other—have helped ensure that a breadth of solutions run exceptionally well on Intel® architecture. As a result, open-source-based solutions, running on Intel® architecture, help unlock business opportunities, power businesses, connect people, and enhance lives. Open source is bringing amazing experiences to life—and Intel is helping power these experiences, as a sponsor of tomorrow.
SAP
SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device, SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. We do this by extending the availability of software across on-premise installations, on-demand deployments, and mobile devices.
We believe that the power of our people, products, and partners unleashes growth and creates significant new value for our customers, SAP, and, ultimately, entire industries and the economy at large.
Our mission is to help companies of all sizes and industries to run better. Our vision is to help the world run better.
Gold Sponsors
Cisco
Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. As an innovator in the communications and information technology industry, Cisco and our valued partners sell Cisco hardware, software, and services to businesses of all sizes, governments, service providers, and consumers. Learn more at www.cisco.com.
Silver Sponsors
AMD
AMD (NYSE: AMD) is a semiconductor design innovator leading the next era of vivid digital experiences with its groundbreaking AMD Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) that power a wide range of computing devices. AMD’s server computing products are focused on driving industry-leading cloud computing and virtualization environments.
Acronis
Acronis is a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. Its patented disk imaging technology enables corporations, SMBs and consumers to protect their digital assets. With Acronis’ disaster recovery, deployment and migration software, users protect their digital information, maintain business continuity and reduce downtime. Acronis software is sold in more than 90 countries and available in up to 14 languages.
Amazon Web Services
Built upon the same world-class technology that powers Amazon.com, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides businesses with a secure, reliable, easy-to-scale, low-cost computing platform “in the cloud.” Companies of all sizes, from all around the globe use AWS to build applications, store data, manage business processes, and more. Learn more: http://aws.amazon.com.
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 troubleshooting solution at appdynamics.com/free
Fusion-io
Fusion-io is a pioneer of a new storage memory platform that significantly improves the processing capabilities within a data center by moving process-critical, or active data closer to the CPU where it is processed. Called shared data decentralization, this significantly reduces latency while increasing data center efficiency. Fusion’s integrated hardware and software solutions leverage non-volatile memory for enterprise-grade performance, reliability, availability and manageability.
ManageIQ
ManageIQ™ is a leading provider of enterprise cloud management and automation solutions that enable organizations to accelerate service delivery and to deploy, manage and optimize clouds, virtualized infrastructures and virtual desktops. Our solutions, built on a unique patented Adaptive Management Platform™, deliver unified monitoring, management and automation across enterprise clouds and globally distributed datacenters.
NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate performance breakthroughs. Our dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today. Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of solutions for server-to-storage virtualization, business applications, data protection, and more.
Open Source Architect
|opensourcearchitect| is a global IT Consulting and Training company specializing in the strategy, architecture, development, configuration, deployment and administration of open source technologies. Leader of some of the largest strategic and virtualization JBoss implementations in the world, our specializations include Red Hat Middleware, VMWare vFabric and SpringSource technologies and the Hadoop Framework, in addition to other open source projects.
Rackspace
Rackspace® Hosting is the service leader in cloud computing and 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. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Radware
Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), is a global leader of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers. Its award-winning solutions portfolio delivers full resilience for business-critical applications, maximum IT efficiency, and complete business agility. Radware’s solutions empower more than 10,000 enterprise and carrier customers worldwide to adapt to market challenges quickly, maintain business continuity and achieve maximum productivity while keeping costs down. For more information, please visit www.radware.com.
SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, Cloud and API Management products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run enterprise services and Open APIs. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software products to accelerate their adoption of SOA and transform their businesses.
Schooner
Schooner Information Technology delivers cost-effective, enterprise-grade database software that frees customers from the traditional tradeoffs between availability, performance and total cost of ownership (TCO). Schooner’s proven, cost-effective offerings include SchoonerSQL, which is 100% compatible with MySQL for easy adoption, and the complementary Membrain data store and software cache. Based in Sunnyvale, California, Schooner is privately funded and supports a variety of customers across technology, entertainment, financial services and telecommunications industries.
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.
Bronze Sponsors
August Schell
August Schell provides consulting expertise in Data Center Automation and Virtualization to organizations involved in Defense and National Security.
August Schell engineers are the authors of SmartCloud, a cloud management platform that allows rapid definition of a private cloud through simultaneous support of existing provisioning, virtualization, and server management technologies.
CITYTECH
CITYTECH, Inc., a Red Hat Middleware Partner of the Year, is a global IT consulting firm specializing in web experience management, cloud-based managed services, enterprise applications, mobile applications and cloud enablement. We provide enterprise integration, mobile, and cloud-based managed services. CITYTECH helps businesses align technology, digital strategy, and process improvement.
Carahsoft
Carahsoft Technology Corp. is the trusted Government IT solutions provider, delivering industry-leading open source solutions to federal, state, and local government agencies. Carahsoft’s Open Source practice provides unique value and leadership in the open source community. Our team is dedicated to helping you choose the solutions that meet your needs.
Centrify
Centrify delivers integrated software and cloud-based solutions that centrally control, secure and audit access to cross-platform systems, mobile devices and applications by leveraging the infrastructure organizations already own — Microsoft Active Directory. More than 4000 organizations rely on Centrify’s solutions to reduce IT expenses, strengthen security and meet compliance requirements.
Cloudbees
CloudBees is transforming the way Java applications are built and deployed to meet the fast-cycle needs of any business. Our Platform as a Service (PaaS) is focused on simplifying and accelerating the entire application lifecycle, making it easier and faster than ever to build, run and manage scalable Java applications.
DLT Solutions
DLT Solutions, Red Hat’s Largest Government Reseller and Exclusive Academic Partner, 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.
EnterpriseDB
EnterpriseDB provides enterprise-class PostgreSQL products and services to help IT organizations be successful with the world’s most advanced open source database. The company’s Postgres Plus products are ideally suited for transaction-intensive applications requiring superior performance, massive scalability and compatibility with proprietary database products to reduce overall database costs.
Eucalyptus Systems
Eucalyptus Systems provides IT organizations and technology businesses with the most widely deployed cloud software platform for on--premise Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Eucalyptus is built as an open source cloud product, uniquely suited for enterprise–class private cloud or hybrid cloud computing. The platform supports industry--standard Amazon Web Services cloud APIs.
Igel Technology
IGEL Technology is the world’s only thin client vendor to offer fully-managed, Linux-based thin clients with native support for SPICE and RHEV-D 3.0. All devices come with IGEL’s powerful management software, so customers can deploy large-scale VDI systems with simplified management and a superior end-user experience. Learn more at www.igel.com.
Layer 7
Layer 7 Technologies helps enterprises secure and govern interactions that span the Internet, Cloud and mobile devices. Through its award-winning line of SOA Gateways, Cloud Brokers and API Proxies, Layer 7 provides the ability to control identity, data security, SLA and visibility requirements for sharing application data and functionality.
Liquidware Labs
Founded in 2009, Liquidware Labs™ is the leader in desktop transformation solutions for next-generation physical and virtual desktops. The company’s Stratusphere™ and ProfileUnity™ solutions have been providing a complete methodology and software that enables organizations to cost-effectively assess, design, migrate, and validate the user experience for next-generation desktop infrastructure.
Mainline Information Systems
Mainline Information Systems® is Red Hat’s 2009 Partner of the Year and is a comprehensive technology solutions provider, with offerings that encompass servers, storage, software, applications solutions, and services. From the statement of work to implementation and support services, Mainline helps transform core business processes for long-term success. www.mainline.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. For additional information visit www.mellanox.com
Nimsoft
Nimsoft provides integrated, modern IT management solutions for enterprise and service provider customers globally. Nimsoft Unified Manager is an industry-leading solution which helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments. Nimsoft integrates with existing solutions at any point from the data center to the cloud.
Omnibond
Omnibond is a technology development company currently focused on software engineering and support for networked Identity/Access Management, HPC Parallel Virtual File Systems, and Computer Vision technologies. Our newest forays include commercial-grade product services for OrangeFS, the next generation of PVFS for high-performance computing. We are committed to open source development.
Open Virtualization Alliance
Comprised of leading virtualization, datacenter, and cloud solution providers, the Open Virtualization Alliance’s goal is to help:
* Increase overall awareness and understanding of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).
* Foster the adoption of KVM as an open virtualization alternative to proprietary solutions.
* Accelerate the emergence of an ecosystem of third-party solutions around KVM.
* Encourage interoperability, promote best practices, and highlight examples of customer successes.
Learn More: www.openvirtualizationalliance.org
SIOS
For over a decade, SIOS Technology has been protecting mission-critical Linux applications and data for enterprises across all industries and geographies. SIOS’ innovative high availability and data replication software solutions deliver superior application uptime and data protection at a lower TCO, whether deployed in physical, virtual or hybrid environments.
Secure-24
Secure-24 is a hosting and cloud leader, providing secure, high-performance and transformative computing environments. Secure-24 operates, manages, and maintains complex IT landscapes for firms that operate globally. Customers benefit from full technical support for secure operation of their business critical applications, helping them to mitigate risk and lower costs.
ShadowSoft
Shadow-Soft is a Red Hat & JBoss Premier Partner & Public Sector Specialist dedicated to Open Source Software and other market disruptive technologies. Our team is comprised of Open Source industry elite focusing on helping customers drive innovation and reduce technology costs by migrating from proprietary to Open Source solutions.
Tonian Systems
Tonian Systems is bringing pNFS to the Enterprise. We believe open standards and interoperability will change the way storage is aggregated, managed and provisioned. Tonian is the primary maintainer of the Linux pNFS project.
VKernel
VKernel, a division of Quest Software (NASDAQ: QSFT), is the number one provider of virtualization management products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments. VKernel’s powerful, easy-to-use and affordable products simplify the complex and critical tasks of planning, monitoring and predicting capacity utilization and bottlenecks.
Vizuri
Vizuri is a software design and development company specializing in Open Source solutions. As a Premier Red Hat Partner, our solutions have won industry acclaim garnering four Red Hat Innovation Awards. We’re experts in the JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms and Red Hat technologies, holding advanced certifications in JBoss and Virtualization.
Waratek
Waratek produces Java virtualization software that gives clusters of x86 servers similar performance, reliability, scalability, and manageability characteristics to high-end business-critical servers but at a fraction of the cost. Waratek’s redundant array of independent servers (RAIS) architecture provides equivalent benefits for server devices as RAID provides for disk devices.
Zeroturnaround
ZeroTurnaround has won 4 awards in the last 12 months by changing the way the world develops, tests and runs Java applications. Over 20,000 engineers use JRebel to eliminate long restarts during development, and LiveRebel makes instant rollouts/rollbacks, without losing user sessions, a reality for live applications.
General Sponsors
10gen
10gen develops MongoDB, and offers production support, training, and consulting for the open source database.
Alphinat
Alphinat’s SmartGuide® is a rapid application deployment platform for Cloud and mobile.
The goal of SmartGuide is to overcome the major development roadblocks in the IT web, mobile and Cloud projects that need to deliver better customer-centric interactions while fully leveraging an organization’s existing IT investments.
Appcelerator
Appcelerator is the leading mobile platform for more than 300,000 developers worldwide. Appcelerator’s award-winning Titanium Platform leverages over 5,000 APIs to create native iOS, Android, Blackberry and HTML5 mobile web apps. Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS) provides instant social, location, communication and content features for user-centric mobility. Visit www.appcelerator.com.
Aspera
Aspera is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the world’s big data at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions. More than 1,500 organizations across a variety of industries on six continents rely on Aspera software for the business-critical transport of their digital assets.
Autonomic Resources
Autonomic Resources is a service integration firm and cloud provider serving the U.S. federal government. Core capabilities include the implementation of strategic technologies including data center automation, cloud computing, open source adoption, information assurance and compliance, advanced network infrastructure, and software development services. Headquartered in Cary, N.C., Autonomic is also a US SBA certified 8(a) SDB.
Azul Systems
Azul Systems Zing is the best JVM for RHEL and JBoss deployments. Optimized for Linux on x86-64, Zing provides the best memory management in the industry and is the only JVM that supports predictable, highly consistent execution for applications that require large in-memory data sets, high throughput or low latency.
Bacula Systems
Bacula Enterprise the leading provider of Open Source Network Backup and Restore solutions with plugins for NDMP, VMware, Bare Metal Recovery, deduplication, Microsoft Exchange, MS SQL Server, Cloud and more! Check out our services offering including support, consulting and training.
Calxeda
Calxeda’s innovative Server-on-a-Chip platform is a scalable infrastructure that consumes as little as one-tenth the power and space of today’s servers. Ideal for Web 2.0, cloud, and data-intensive applications, Calxeda enables workload-optimized solutions to address the challenges of hyperscale computing.
CodeWeavers
CodeWeavers is the maker of CrossOver: the easiest, most affordable Windows compatibility solution for Linux. CrossOver allows users to run Windows software applications and games on their Linux PC without needing a Windows license.
EZuce
eZuce provides communications that leverage open-standards, are enterprise-grade, and socially-enabled. Our openUC solutions improve productivity and lower costs by communications- enabling and integrating business applications. We enable Cloud offerings; support CaaS, along with BYOD. We deliver ease of use for the IT team, system flexibility and scalability, while reducing costs.
Emergent
Emergent is an award winning Value Added Reseller (VAR) and GSA Schedule Holder (GS-35F-0119W) providing comprehensive IT solutions including solution architecture, product acquisition, consulting and training services.
GC Micro
GC Micro is one of the most award winning suppliers of IT hardware and software, with over 26 years of experience working with corporate and government customers. We carry over 95% of the hardware and software available on the market and ship daily from 14 warehouses in 4 time zones.
GT Software
For 30 years, GT Software has helped organizations optimize mainframe investments by delivering cost-effective enterprise modernization solutions. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, GT Software is a privately held, global company that is currently represented in the U.S., Canada, Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa and South America. Visit www.gtsoftware.com for more information.
Government Acquisitions
Government Acquisitions, Inc. is an IT solutions provider and trusted advisor to the Federal Government, focused on “Optimizing the Data Center” through consolidation, virtualization, information assurance, information automation, and client services.
Hortonworks
Hortonworks is the leading commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop. The Hortonworks Data Platform provides an open and stable foundation for enterprises and a growing ecosystem to build and deploy big data solutions. Hortonworks provides unmatched technical support, training and certification programs for enterprises, systems integrators, and technology vendors.
Hyve Solutions
Hyve Solutions, a division of SYNNEX Corporation, is the leader in providing customers with 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 in your Data Center.
Innovative Defense Technologies
IDT provides Automated Testing Solutions for large complex software systems. We specialize in solutions tailored to customer’s specific needs. Using our Automated Test and Re-Test technology, we are able to provide solutions supporting the entire lifecycle from software component testing, system integration, system testing, and the analysis of results.
JW Electronics
JWE is a SAN storage designer and manufacturer specializing in AoE (ATA over Ethernet) technologies for small or medium sized businesses and professionals. AoE is also an innovative and low cost alternative to deploy a SAN architecture for a cloud platform within virtualized computing environments.
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.
LINBIT
LINBIT is the OSS market leader in high availability, disaster recovery, and continuity solutions. LINBIT has offices in Europe and North America providing 24×7 worldwide support, training, development and consulting. LINBIT’s DRBD is the industry standard for high availability and redundancy for mission critical systems.
OC Systems
OC Systems provides software instrumentation and performance monitoring tools and consulting services that help organizations gain greater visibility into large, complex applications. Founded 1983, OCS is employee-owned, based in Fairfax, VA.
OwnCloud
The company behind the ownCloud project – the most downloaded OSS for data and file sync and share. You can host your own, on premises or remote, cloud storage while maintaining regulatory and compliance needs. Ease-of-use of Dropbox with a secure offering – fully open source.
ScaleMP
The innovative Versatile SMP™ (vSMP) architecture aggregates multiple x86 systems into a single virtual x86 system, delivering an industry-standard, high-end symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) computer. Using software to replace expensive custom hardware and components, ScaleMP offers a new, revolutionary computing paradigm.
Sirius
Sirius helps organizations solve complex business challenges so they can meet their business objectives. We’ve built a nationwide consulting, sales and services organization that provides technologies from across the full spectrum of information technology, including hardware, software, storage, networking, security and voice. Then we back it up with post-sale support.
Software by Design
Software by Design utilizes the JBoss product stack to create a data access strategy for all enterprise wide applications within an organization by adopting common business rules and metadata model.
Solarflare
Solarflare develops network interface software and hardware to transform the way applications use networks, providing industry-leading application acceleration for the most demanding scale-out compute environments. Solarflare offers two families of high-performance, low-latency 10GbE server adapters that are available from leading VARs and distributors.
Storix
Storix System Backup Administrator (SBAdmin) is the most comprehensive and flexible bare-metal restore solution for Linux and UNIX systems. With SBAdmin, customers can restore entire systems to the same or dissimilar hardware, making it possible to perform such tasks as: hardware migrations, P2V, cloning and provisioning.
Supermicro
Supermicro® is the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology. Our Building Block Solutions® power data centers worldwide with the widest portfolio of x86 servers in the industry. We provide enterprise-ready compute and storage solutions for the most cost effective and application optimized scale-out deployments.
Varalogix
VaraLogix Q provides Enterprise Application Deployment Automation with release process automation, application management, configuration management, a dynamic release repository – in one solution. JBoss users get correct deployment to any environment and any scale – physical, virtual and cloud for shorter deployment times, visibility, control and lower operational cost. www.varalogix.com.
Virtual Bridges
Virtual Bridges VERDE is a 100% Linux-based desktop virtualization solution leveraging the KVM hypervisor. It is purpose-built and designed to meet the needs of both Linux and Windows administrators. Whether online, offline or remote, VERDE allows users to enjoy superior scalability, performance and security, all at a lower price.
Virtustream
Virtustream is a leading enterprise-class cloud solution provider, specializing in moving complex IT to the cloud. Virtustream offers xStream, a secure, high performance enterprise-class solution for private, virtual private, public and hybrid clouds – available as software or managed service. Virtustream also offers professional services to design, migrate, and manage clouds.
XebiaLabs
XebiaLabs is the leading provider of enterprise-class application release automation solutions. XebiaLabs’ flagship product, Deployit, automates Java EE deployments in an enterprise environment, allowing organizations to manage any IT environment by predictably executing and automating their Java application deployments. With Deployit, JBoss users gain accelerated time to market, greater visibility and lower operational cost.
Zenoss
Zenoss is a leading provider of management software for physical, virtual and cloud-based IT infrastructures. Over 35,000 organizations worldwide have deployed Zenoss to manage their networks, servers, virtual devices, storage and cloud infrastructure, gaining complete visibility and predictability into their IT operations. Customers include Rackspace, VMware, LinkedIn, Hosting.com and SunGard.
Zettaset
Zettaset’s big data management software solution delivers a hardened, secure and highly available version of Hadoop. The company’s big data platform is an enterprise class, high-performance solution with zero points of failure that seamlessly manages itself. Zettaset offers greater stability within Hadoop while making big data accessible to the enterprise.
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