Sponsors and Exhibitors

ADMIN magazine delivers complete solutions for real network problems. Learn what to do about the latest security threats. Find out about innovative applications for identity management, system monitoring, and network backup. Explore recent advances in virtualization and clustering. ADMIN brings you up close to the console for a personal look at configuring Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Unix systems on heterogeneous networks.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides businesses with a secure, reliable, low-cost, easy-to-scale, global IT infrastructure “in the cloud.” Hundreds of thousands of customers in 190 countries, rely on AWS for their infrastructure needs, from running existing enterprise applications to building new applications in the cloud. Learn more: http://aws.amazon.com.

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

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.

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused around the goal of providing a rich base platform for open source communities to build upon. We will provide a development framework for cloud providers, the hosting community, and scientific data processing, as a few examples. We work with several ‘upstream’ communities to help them layer and distribute their software more effectively on a platform they can rely on.

Any Data. Any System. Any Where. Circonus combines multiple monitoring, alerting, event processing, and analytics tools into one unified solution. Visualize any data, in any application, from any system (cloud or legacy), in real-time. Circonus scales from a single team to a worldwide organization that tracks thousands of devices reporting millions of metrics. API driven automation empowers developers and makes operational teams incredibly efficient, while analytics drive insights that improve organization-wide performance. And we do it all in real-time, at massive scale. For more information, please visit: http://www.circonus.com or email sales@circonus.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

Code42’s enterprise endpoint data protection solutions reduce the burden on IT by empowering employees. The company’s user-friendly applications — CrashPlan and SharePlan — consistently achieve the industry's highest user adoption rates. Employees can share, access and recover data from any device. Enterprises choose from managed private, public or hybrid clouds, backed by unmatched customer support

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

DevOps.com is where the world meets DevOps. It is the largest collection of original content relating to DevOps on the webs today. Featuring up to the minute news, feature stories, blogs, by lined articles and more, DevOps.com is where the thought leaders of the DevOps movement make their ideas known.

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

The Fedora Project is a partnership of free software community members from around the globe. The Fedora Project builds open source software communities and produces a Linux distribution called "Fedora."

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

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. For more information, visit www.google.com/about.html.

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!

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is the non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation that maintains the open source DNS software BIND and ISC DHCP, distributed on isc.org and through most Linux and UNIX sources. ISC offers professional support, training and consulting services related to our open source products. ISC also operates the F-root nameserver and provides secondary DNS services.

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

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/.

Nimble Storage thinks enterprises shouldn’t compromise on performance, capacity, ease of use, or price. So they developed the first storage architecture designed from the ground up to seamlessly integrate SSDs with high-capacity disks, all to give you unparalleled performance and capacity efficiency, easier backups and DR, and stress-free operations.

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future.

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 relying on OpenStack to run their businesses. OpenStack is backed by an independent Foundation and global community.

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.

Founded in 1999, Pogo is an open-source systems integrator based in Redmond, WA. Offering a wide range of servers, workstations, and network storage solutions, Pogo helps organizations of all sizes solve their technological challenges.

Founded in 1997, Pythian is a global data outsourcing and consulting company that specializes in optimizing and managing mission-critical data systems. Pythian blends the world’s leading data experts with advanced, secure service delivery processes to create the industry’s best standard of care for its clients. Learn more about Pythian and its elite data experts at http://www.pythian.com, follow @Pythian, and find Pythian on LinkedIn at http://linkd.in/pythian.

Raspberry Pi Geek is the first commercial print magazine dedicated to Raspberry Pi and the open hardware revolution. Each issue offers special projects and expert advice on configuring, programming, and hardware hacking for the Raspberry Pi, with additional coverage of other open platforms such as BeagleBone and Arduino.

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

Shadow-Soft is a next-generation systems integrator committed to helping enterprise and government customers move beyond yesterday's solutions to standardized, open platforms that are optimized for physical, virtual, and cloud deployments. Unlike the other guys, Shadow-Soft fully embraces all that Open Source systems integration has to offer – total technology freedom, innovation and less cost. With offices in Atlanta and Washington DC, our industry-certified Linux, middleware, and cloud consultants free clients from costly, inflexible proprietary software while also providing the engineering expertise to implement complex hardware systems, including servers, storage and networking technologies. We're experts at migrating applications, modernizing and optimizing infrastructure, and enhancing manageability through orchestration and automation. To learn more, visit www.shadow-soft.com.

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.

System Backup Administrator (SBAdmin) for Linux, AIX and Solaris provides complete backup management and flexible system recovery, supporting various filesystem types, LVM and software RAID.

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.