LISA17 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.

The AuriStor File System is a high-security multi-platform file system that provides a global namespace with zero configuration automatic mounting, local disk caching, guaranteed cache consistency, logical volume management, automated data replication, transparently available redundant data, and superior performance over WAN links. AuriStorFS is the software defined storage solution for organizations requiring managed access to their unstructured data inside the castle, from within the DMZ and from public clouds.

Berkeley Communications (BerkCom) designs and delivers highly available, scalable, and secure solutions for data storage, high-performance computing environments, networking, mobile, and cloud infrastructures. We offer many unique services: US-based technical support; global installations and professional services; stock of new and EOL products; highest trade-in values on decommissioned systems & more.

Bloomberg technology drives the world’s financial markets. Nearly 5,000 technologists define, architect, build and deploy complete systems to fulfill the needs of leading financial market participants globally. This includes communications platforms, real-time data, analytics, trading solutions, news and other critical information.

Cloudian turns information into insight with an infinitely scalable platform that consolidates, manages and protects enterprise data. Cloudian Enterprise Object Storage brings cloud technology and economics to the data center with uncompromising data durability, intuitive management tools and the industry’s most compatible S3 API. Cloudian and its ecosystem partners help Global 1000 customers simplify unstructured data management today, while preparing for the data demands of AI and machine learning tomorrow. Join us on LinkedIn, follow us on Twitter (@CloudianStorage) and Facebook, or visit us at www.cloudian.com.

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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.

Edgewise Networks provides Trusted Application Networking for the cloud and data center, protecting where firewalls fail. Edgewise prevents progression of network-borne threats by allowing only trusted applications to communicate over approved network paths. Using machine learning, Edgewise recommends policies to eliminate 98% of network attack surface and protect the rest.

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.

Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust the Fastly edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand. Founded in 2011, Fastly powers online destinations including Airbnb, GitHub, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, The New York Times and Ticketmaster. Learn more at Fastly.com and follow us on Twitter @fastly

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 Google.com/about.

By leveraging decades of expertise in hardware design, its contributions to many Open Source software communities, and corporate stewardship of leading Open Source projects (FreeNAS and TrueOS), iXsystems has become an industry leader in building innovative storage solutions and superior enterprise servers for a global marketplace that relies on open technology. Thousands of companies, universities, and government organizations have come to rely on iXsystems' storage, servers, and consultative approach to doing business. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley since its founding in 1996, the dedication to white-glove customer service, industry-leading support, and transparent technological contributions has never wavered and continues to help lay the foundation for a new era powered by open technology.

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) helps those in Linux and Open Source grow their career opportunities by providing professional resources & skills certifications. Visit www.lpi.org to learn more.

Loom Systems disrupts log monitoring by providing an AI-driven end-to-end solution that predicts and prevents problems for any IT environment.

Micron is a global leader in semiconductor systems. Our portfolio of memory technologies, including DRAM and Flash, is the basis for solid state drives, modules and other storage solutions. We enable customers to be in command of their business and protect their most critical asset—data.

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.

Opengear delivers resilient, intelligent solutions for managing critical IT and communications infrastructure via Smart Out-of-band technology. Opengear console servers and centralized management software allow you to access your network devices from anywhere at any time, providing secure, reliable business continuity, backed with failover to cellular capability. The company is headquartered in New Jersey, with a manufacturing facility in Utah, R&D operations in Silicon Valley and Australia.

Qumulo is the leader in universal-scale file storage. Qumulo File Fabric (QF2) gives data-intensive businesses the freedom to store, manage and access file-based data in the data center and on the cloud, at petabyte and global scale. Founded in 2012 by the inventors of scale-out NAS, Qumulo serves the modern file storage and management needs of Global 2000 customers. For more information, visit www.qumulo.com.

Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.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.

Starfish is a metadata and rules management framework for large-scale file systems. It supports billions of file and petabytes of capacity. Starfish provides vital insights into your file systems while automating the life cycle of research data from creation through archiving and re-use.

Stratoscale provides an AWS Region on Premise via a software-defined cloud infrastructure solution, empowering IT to transform any hardware into an application-centric and services-driven hybrid cloud.

Teradactyl LLC is a storage company providing software and hardware backup and archive solutions for medium to large institutions. Teradactyl specializes in complex heterogeneous computing environments that include specialty file systems for high performance computing and wide area networks. The True incremental Backup System (TiBS) is designed specifically for unstructured data sets. Advanced synthetic backup consolidation transfers only new and changed data from the clients to the backup servers. All lower level backup volumes including new full backups are produced on the servers without the need for network interaction. Teradactyl is located in Albuquerque ,NM. See www.teradactyl.com for more information.

Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 47,000 ProPartners and more than 242,000 customers worldwide. Veeam's global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com.

Virtual Instruments is the leader in application-centric infrastructure performance management. It provides comprehensive infrastructure instrumentation and performance analytics for enterprise data centers. The company’s solutions give IT teams deep workload visibility and actionable insights into their end-to-end systems across the hybrid data center. Virtual Instruments has over 500 customers.