ACM Queue is a Web site that 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. ACM Queue's core content includes in-depth articles and insightful columns written by accomplished software engineers, as well as interviews with legends (and future legends) in the field. Planet Queue, an aggregation of blogs by queue authors commenting on articles of interest to them in the ACM Digital Library collection, complements the site's core content. When Planet Queue bloggers critique articles from the digital library, the articles are unlocked, making the full text available to queue website users. The site also includes a growing archive of podcasts and video presentations that offer insights from leaders in the software engineering field.

Akamai® (NASDAQ: AKAM) provides market-leading, cloud-based services for optimizing Web and mobile content and applications, online HD video, and secure e-commerce. Combining highly-distributed, energy-efficient computing with intelligent software, Akamai's global platform is transforming the cloud into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, transact and collaborate. To learn how the world's leading enterprises are optimizing their business in the cloud, please visit www.akamai.com and follow @Akamai on Twitter.

AnsibleWorks is the company behind Ansible, the radically simple IT automation solution. Ansible reduces complexity in managing application deployments, OS configurations, and all kinds of IT orchestration tasks.  AnsibleWorks provides an Enterprise-ready management platform to IT organizations around Ansible, including our AWX management product and also offers support and consulting services. 

The Assimilation Project provides integrated IT discovery and monitoring aimed at risk management and mitigation. Discovery finds systems, services, dependencies, including services you aren’t monitoring and systems you’ve forgotten about. About 30% of all outside security breaches come through forgotten systems. Discovery is continuous and has zero-network-footprint. Monitoring is extremely scalable due to a radically distributed architecture. Discovery informs monitoring - simplifying configuration and maintenance. The Assimilation Project software provides extremely scalable easy-to-configure monitoring, and creates a continually up to date, detailed configuration management database based on the Neo4j graph database. 

Berkeley CommunicationsTM 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 specializes in storage networking, data protection, and digital archiving technologies. For nearly twenty years, we have helped our clients identify their needs, devise long-term storage management strategies, and compare technologies from different hardware and software manufacturers. Recommending customized solutions often comes at no cost to our customer. 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, the most vital of government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Allow us to apply our creativity to design a solution that meets your budget and exceeds your expectations.

CFEngine is the industry leader in automation of large-scale, software defined IT-infrastructure, helping organizations improve the agility and resilience of their IT operations. CFEngine has users in more than 100 countries, including many of the world’s largest financial organizations, as well as companies like eBay, Cisco, AT&T, Chevron and LinkedIn. http://www.cfengine.com

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, OpenDaylight, Xen Project and XenServer. We also conduct educational activities via the Build A Cloud events held all over the world. For more information, please visit: http://open.citrix.com

Code 42 Software has been protecting the world's information since 2001. Its enterprise backup solution, CrashPlan PROe, provides people-friendly, enterprise and university-tough backup. Engineered with laptops in mind, it's continuous backup that won't slow you down, and its self-service restores free up IT. Visit www.crashplanproe.com to learn more!

Copublished with the American Institute of Physics, CiSE features the latest computational science and engineering research in an accessible format along with departments covering news and analysis, CSE in education, and emerging technologies.

DMTF standards enable effective management of IT environments.  The organization is comprised of industry-leading member companies that collaborate on the development, validation and promotion of infrastructure management standards. DMTF management standards are critical to enabling interoperability among multi-vendor systems, tools and solutions within the enterprise. For more information, visit http://www.dmtf.org.

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. http://www.eff.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.

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.

Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the ways people connect with information. Google's innovations in web search and advertising have made its website a top internet property and its brand one of the most recognized in the world.

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!

Security & Privacy magazine, published by the IEEE Computer Society, addresses a broad range of topics related to securing information and computing resources. Its primary goal is to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Published six times a year, the magazine provides a combination of research articles, case studies, tutorials, and regular departments and columnists for the information security industry. For more information, please go to http://www.computer.org/security/. The IEEE Computer Society is part of IEEE, the largest technical professional organization in the world with 385,000 members.

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. 

IT Professional offers solid, peer-reviewed information about today's strategic technology issues. To meet the challenges of running reliable, flexible enterprises, IT managers and technical leads rely on IT Pro for state-of-the-art solutions.

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.

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.

LXer Linux News is a fully independent news and opinion site, established in January 2004. People turn to LXer for its constantly updated 24/7 news feed and comments. Over 400,000 unique users from over 165 countries visit LXer Linux News each month, and LXer is syndicated by Google and dozens of other community sites. CIOs, CTOs, government officials, as well as programmers, system administrators and end users make up a very active community. 

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/.

Nebula helps companies build out a private IaaS cloud that runs on certified industry-standard x86 servers (Nebula Cloud Nodes) The heart of the solution is the Nebula Cloud Controller, an appliance-based deployment that can manage up to 20 nodes. The cloud controller (2U appliance) plugs into your servers and you have an on-premise, secure private cloud up and running in less than a day.

Imation is a global data storage and information security company. Imation’s Nexsan portfolio features solid-state optimized unified hybrid storage systems, secure automated archive solutions and high-density enterprise storage arrays.

Nutanix is the recognized leader in the fast-growing Virtual Computing Platform market. The Nutanix solution converges compute and storage resources into a single appliance, delivering a powerful, modular building block for virtual datacenters. It incorporates the same advanced, distributed software that powers leading public cloud providers, such as Google, Facebook and Amazon - but is tailored for mainstream enterprises and government agencies. The Nutanix solution enables easy deployment of any virtual workload, including large-scale virtual desktop initiatives (VDI), development/test apps, private clouds, big data (Hadoop) projects and more. Nutanix customers can radically simplify and seamlessly scale out their datacenter infrastructures with cost-efficient appliances that can be deployed in under 30 minutes for rapid time to value.

OrangeFS is the next evolution in Parallel Virtual File Systems, designed for High Performance Computing (HPC), Big Data and Data Intensive Applications. OrangeFS continues to embrace these high-end computing needs while addressing new directions in stability, diverse client access methods and now Cloud Storage

Opengear is a leading provider of enterprise grade console servers, cellular routers and remote management solutions that enable our customers to easily tame IT complexity. Our commitment to simplify remote infrastructure management enables our products to deliver what IT professionals really need and want with unquestionable security and value.

OpenStack is open source software for building public and private clouds. OpenStack powers some of the most widely-used SaaS and eCommerce sites, the world’s largest public clouds and Global 1000 enterprises alike, each of which rely on OpenStack to run their businesses. The OpenStack cloud platform controls pools of IT resources at massive scale. OpenStack is backed by an independent Foundation and global community with 10,000+ members. Join the movement by visiting www.OpenStack.org.

Palantir Technologies builds software platforms that help human experts perform powerful, collaborative analysis of data at scale. Palantir's software is deployed at public institutions, private enterprises, and in the non-profit sector to address the challenges of responsibly making sense of complex, diverse data.

Puppet Labs' IT automation software enables sysadmins at companies of any size to deliver the operational agility and efficiency of cloud computing at enterprise-class service levels. Using our software, sysadmins can easily automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy applications, and proactively manage change, scaling from 10s of servers to 1000s, on-premise or in the cloud.

Qualstar's XLS Enterprise Libraries scale from 250 terabytes to over 35 petabytes. Unique Compass Architecture™ reduces wear and power consumption, yielding greater reliability and lower operating costs. The new RLS-8500 Rack Mount Libraries offer capacities exceeding 340 terabytes and house up to five LTO 5 drives in compact 10U chassis.

SaltStack takes a new approach to infrastructure automation and application configuration management by providing the enterprise IT and DevOps teams with software easy enough to get running in minutes, scalable enough to manage tens of thousands of servers, and fast enough to control it all in milliseconds. SaltStack software is data center automation for cloud orchestration, system and configuration management and much more. SaltStack is used by substantial cloud and Web-scale organizations and is one of the biggest, most-active open source projects in the world..

SCALE 12X: The Southern California Linux Expo announces SCALE 12X, to be held Feb. 21-23, 2014, at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel. SCALE 12X features over 90 speakers and around 100 booths on the exhibit floor, all relevant to Free/Open Source Software. For details, visit http://www.socallinuxexpo.org.

Skybot Scheduler is a powerful, affordable, and flexible enterprise job scheduler for Windows, UNIX, and Linux. Build a cross platform, event-driven schedule quickly and easily, Skybot handles the complex dependencies and notifications for you. Interfaces include: Oracle E-Business Suite®, SAP NetWeaver®, Informatica PowerCenter®, MS SQL Server®, Cron, and Robot/SCHEDULE.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit global organization of over 400 member companies spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA’s 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. To this end, 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 www.snia.org.

Strategic Hardware works with clients across the country helping them design and deploy integrated, robust data storage solutions. Partnering with Hitachi Data Systems, we offer unbeatable experience and technologies to help solve your Big Data requirements and Large Deployments. Talk with our team today and see how ours can help yours go forward!

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.

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. 

VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity and enable more flexible, agile service delivery. Leveraging VMware vSphere™, the most widely deployed foundation for cloud computing, VMware accelerates the transition to a cloud computing approach while preserving existing investments and improving security and control. With VMware vCloud™ solutions and services, VMware enables private, public and hybrid cloud deployment models that ensure application mobility and portability. With more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware helps organizations of all sizes lower costs, preserve freedom of choice and energize business through IT while saving energy—financial, human and the Earth's.

XenServer is a turnkey open source virtualization solution that provides out-of-the box virtualization and cloud computing. XenServer includes the Xen Hypervisor, the enterprise ready XAPI toolstack and integrations for cloud, storage and networking solutions.  

- VM lifecycle: live snapshots, checkpoint, migration

- Built-in support and templates for Windows and Linux guests

- Storage XenMotion(r) live Migration (cross-pool migration, VDI migration)