The Eleventh Annual Southern California Linux Expo
February 22-24, 2013
Hilton Los Angeles International Airport

Sponsors

IBM
Platinum Sponsor

IBM and Linux can help your business expand with cost-effective hardware choices, from x86 servers to 64-bit computing, mainframes and supercomputers. There are now more than 15,000 IBM Linux customer engagements worldwide, allowing customers to reduce their computing costs with solutions ranging from webserving, ERP, consolidation and virtualization, to the world's largest supercomputers.

Gold Sponsor

Beachbody, creator of the nation’s most popular in-home fitness and weight loss solutions including P90X®, Insanity®, and Brazil Butt Lift®, among many others, is a rapidly growing fitness company.

Founded in 1998 on the simple principle of helping people achieve their goals and enjoying healthy, fulfilling lives, Beachbody offers an unprecedented opportunity to be a part of a global movement where your work is valued and measurable.

Gold Sponsor

CloudStack is open source software written in Java that is designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, scalable cloud computing platform.

Gold Sponsor

Facebook is the world's larger social network with over 900 million active users. Founded in 2004, Facebook¹s mission is to make the world more open and connected. As an employer, Facebook strives to hire the best people who want to move fast and make an impact. The company empowers people in every way it can to allow our employees to focus on what they love to do. People around the world use Facebook everyday to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what¹s going on, and to share and express what matters to them.

HP
Gold Sponsor

HP Open Source and Linux solutions are designed to solve your business-critical IT problems today. In fact, we sell over a million Linux servers a year delivering virtualization, strong security, storage, management and governance.

Gold Sponsor

Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is the world’s leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry. Based in San Antonio, Texas, the company delivers enterprise-level hosting services to businesses of all sizes and kinds. Rackspace integrates the industry's best technologies for each customer's specific need and delivers it as a service via the company's commitment to Fanatical Support®.

 

Gold Sponsor, Speaker Track Sponsor

Servers Directand Linux can help your business grow with our wide selection of low-cost server and computer hardware products. No matter where you look we will have solution to match your needs perfectly. 

Servers Direct is a leading system integrator of custom server and storage systems to some of the most sophisticated local, domestic and global enterprises in the government, higher education and private sectors.

Silver Sponsor

AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000™ is a revolutionary server that brings together compute, networking, and the SeaMicro Freedom™ supercompute fabric in a single 10 RU system. The SM15000 delivers 64 sockets of AMD’s octal core Opteron™, Intel® quad core Xeon® (“Ivy Bridge”, “Sandy Bridge”) or 256 sockets of Intel® dual core Intel® Atom™ processors. The SM15000 delivers best-in-class energy efficiency, density and bandwidth while dramatically reducing CAPEX and the OPEX associated with server deployment and management.

Silver Sponsor

Arista Networks was founded to deliver Cloud Networking Solutions for large data center and computing environments. Arista’s award-winning best-of-breed 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches redefine scalability, robustness, and price–performance.

 

At the core of Arista's platform is EOS - a ground-breaking new software architecture built on top of a Linux Kernel. Arista Networks markets its products worldwide through distribution partners, systems integrators and resellers.

Silver Sponsor, Speaker Track Sponsor

M-GO is the people-friendliest way to experience the world of movies and TV. We help you get what you want to watch on any screen. Just think of us as your Entertainment Wingman. For more information please visit us at www.mgo.com. Get M-GOing!

Silver Sponsor

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. Whether you are a fast growing web property, technology ISV or large enterprise, MySQL can cost-effectively help you deliver high performance, scalable database applications.

Silver Sponsor

The $69 ODROID-U is the revolution of Linux boards that brings 1.4GHz quad-core computing and variety of Linux flavors as open source. 1.9 by 2.0 inch tiny ODROID-U comes with 1.4GHz quad-core Exynos4412 processor, 1GB of RAM, quad-core Mali 400 graphics, micro-HDMI, two USB ports, a headphone jack and Ethernet. 

More information can be found at www.hardkernel.com 
 

Silver Sponsor

The OpenNMS Group is the corporate entity behind the award winning 100% free and open source OpenNMS enterprise grade network management application platform. They provide commercial consulting, support, training and custom development services in addition to acting as maintainers for the project

Silver Sponsor

OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement, massively scalable, and feature rich. The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects delivering various components for a cloud infrastructure solution.

Silver Sponsor

About Opscode Chef

Silver Sponsor

Founded in 1999, Pogo Linux is a robust provider of server and storage products that leads the industry in reliability and quality.

Silver Sponsor, Special Event Sponsor

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, scaling from a handful of on-premise servers to tens of thousands in the cloud. The shift to cloud-based services has dramatically altered the IT landscape as we know it. Enterprise infrastructure borders have expanded beyond the firewall and now include hosted applications and infrastructure from Amazon Web Services and other providers.

Silver Sponsor

Salt Stack, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise software applications that unify and automate complex issues across the complete IT Infrastructure.

Salt Stack fundamentally improves the way in which companies provision, configure, and manage all aspects of the IT environment by providing a platform from which they can execute commands and query data across a distributed infrastructure.

Reception Sponsor, Media Sponsor

At CFEngine, our mission is to help people manage a world of smart infrastructure. We enable CFEngine users to become agents of change and innovation, and not have to constantly fight IT bottlenecks and outages.

• Our light-weight and de-centralized architecture lets engineers build IT systems of any scale and complexity.

• Our continuous configuration ensures that IT systems do not drift and are always maintained at - or converging to - their desired state.

Reception Sponsor

We build products that we hope will make the web better—and therefore your experience on the web better. With products like Chrome and Android, we want to make it simpler and faster for people to do what they want to online. We’re also committed to the open web, so we’re involved in various projects to make it easier for developers to contribute to the online ecosystem and move the web forward. The web has evolved enormously since Google first appeared on the scene, but one thing that hasn't changed is our belief in the endless possibilities of the Internet itself.

Reception Sponsor, Special Event Sponsor

(mt) Media Temple is a web hosting and cloud services provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since 1998, we have provided businesses and consumers around the world with professional-class service to host websites, applications, virtual servers, email, and other rich Internet content. Our infrastructure serves approximately 100,000 customers and over 1 million websites in top-tier datacenters on the east and west coasts of the United States.

Reception Sponsor, Speaker Track Sponsor

Perforce powers the world's most demanding development environments. Managing any variety of digital assets, Perforce enterprise version management solutions foster collaboration on a global scale while ensuring security, IP defensibility and compliance. Perforce Git Fusion extends new capabilities to Git users, who can now create customized new repos on the fly—with no extra software to install or any changes to workflow. The complete Perforce product suite is free for up to 20 users, open source projects and educational institutions.

Reception Sponsor

Why Ticketmaster? As part of the world's largest live entertainment company, we offer a broad spectrum of unique and engaging career opportunities. Visit any of our offices or venues and you'll find a diverse mix of passionate employees, helping fans around the globe connect with the artists, teams and events they love.

Special Event Sponsor

Founded in 1995, Cars.com Santa Monica has had a rich history of innovation geared towards delivering value to online new car shoppers and the automotive industry.

Special Event Sponsor

Deliver any data, anywhere, anytime. EdgeCast is the world's fastest and most reliable content delivery network. Designed to provide the latest and smartest content delivery on the planet, EdgeCast consistently ranks among the top-performing CDNs in the industry.

EdgeCast's POPs points of presence are at the center of the world's fastest data interchanges, meaning customer content is just milliseconds away from almost every broadband user in the world. More than 4,000 of the world's busiest sites – Tumblr, Pinterest, and Wordpress, to name a few – rely on EdgeCast.

Special Event Sponsor

The Linux Professional Institute is globally supported by the IT industry, enterprise customers, community professionals, government entities and the educational community. LPI's certification program is supported by an affiliate network spanning five continents and is distributed worldwide in multiple languages at more than 5,000 testing locations. Since 1999, LPI has delivered over 350,000+ exams and 120,000+ LPIC certifications around the world.<

Reception Sponsor, Special Event Sponsor

(mt) Media Temple is a web hosting and cloud services provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since 1998, we have provided businesses and consumers around the world with professional-class service to host websites, applications, virtual servers, email, and other rich Internet content. Our infrastructure serves approximately 100,000 customers and over 1 million websites in top-tier datacenters on the east and west coasts of the United States.

Special Event Sponsor

Mozilla is a proudly non-profit organization dedicated to keeping the power of the Web in people’s hands. We’re a global community of users, contributors and developers working to innovate on your behalf. When you use Firefox, or any Mozilla product, you become a part of that community, helping us build a brighter future for the Web.

Special Event Sponsor

One Course Source, Inc. began as a courseware development company. Drawing on years of courseware design, OCS developed and distributed courseware to training sites and classrooms with the major focus primarily on Open Source technologies, including Linux, UNIX, Perl, Python and Tcl.

Silver Sponsor, Special Event Sponsor

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, scaling from a handful of on-premise servers to tens of thousands in the cloud. The shift to cloud-based services has dramatically altered the IT landscape as we know it. Enterprise infrastructure borders have expanded beyond the firewall and now include hosted applications and infrastructure from Amazon Web Services and other providers.

Special Event Sponsor

Reliam- Reliable Internet Application Management. Reliam ensures the performance of your application or website. Reliam's Internet Application Management extends beyond the services currently available from most managed hosting providers and covers the entire application stack including customer application code. Reliam is trusted by the world's most recognized brands, the top interactive agencies, and the largest internet events in the world.

Speaker Track Sponsor

Canonical is the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu project and the leading provider of support services for Ubuntu deployments in the enterprise.

Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing. Since its launch in 2004, it has become a natural choice for users of all kinds, from Fortune 500 companies to hardware makers, content providers, software developers and  individual technologists.

Silver Sponsor, Speaker Track Sponsor

M-GO is the people-friendliest way to experience the world of movies and TV. We help you get what you want to watch on any screen. Just think of us as your Entertainment Wingman. For more information please visit us at www.mgo.com. Get M-GOing!

Reception Sponsor, Speaker Track Sponsor

Perforce powers the world's most demanding development environments. Managing any variety of digital assets, Perforce enterprise version management solutions foster collaboration on a global scale while ensuring security, IP defensibility and compliance. Perforce Git Fusion extends new capabilities to Git users, who can now create customized new repos on the fly—with no extra software to install or any changes to workflow. The complete Perforce product suite is free for up to 20 users, open source projects and educational institutions.

Q
Speaker Track Sponsor

Q is an IT & Digital Connections Firm. We specialize in networking to find the top talent in the Technology industry within Applications, Digital & Web Interactive, and Infrastructure.

 

Gold Sponsor, Speaker Track Sponsor

Servers Directand Linux can help your business grow with our wide selection of low-cost server and computer hardware products. No matter where you look we will have solution to match your needs perfectly. 

Servers Direct is a leading system integrator of custom server and storage systems to some of the most sophisticated local, domestic and global enterprises in the government, higher education and private sectors.

Streaming Sponsor

Ooyala is the leader in online video management, publishing, analytics and monetization. Our integrated suite of technologies and services give content owners the power to expand audiences and the deep insights that drive increased viewer engagement and revenue from video. Ooyala serves hundreds of global media companies and consumer brands including Dell, ESPN, Fremantle Media, News International, Sephora, Telegraph Media Group, Vans, Whole Foods and Yahoo! Japan. Ooyala is actively hiring for engineering and site reliability roles in their Mountain View office.

Raffle Sponsor, Media Sponsor

DreamHost is a leading web and cloud hosting company with over 330,000 customers and 1.2 million websites, blogs, and apps hosted worldwide. The company offers a wide spectrum of web and cloud hosting solutions including Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting, Domain Name Registration, the cloud storage service, DreamObjects™, and the cloud computing service, DreamCompute™. Please visit http://www.dreamhost.com/ for more information.

Raffle Sponsor

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over two million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

Media Sponsor

Acmqueue 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.

Media Sponsor

Backbone magazine is a broad-based business magazine that focuses on technology for business executives who need to stay up to date. It provides a tangible tool to enhance productivity and agility in the changing economy of Canada. It is the only magazine in Canada with this focus that reaches a large senior business executive audience.

Reception Sponsor, Media Sponsor

At CFEngine, our mission is to help people manage a world of smart infrastructure. We enable CFEngine users to become agents of change and innovation, and not have to constantly fight IT bottlenecks and outages.

• Our light-weight and de-centralized architecture lets engineers build IT systems of any scale and complexity.

• Our continuous configuration ensures that IT systems do not drift and are always maintained at - or converging to - their desired state.

Raffle Sponsor, Media Sponsor

DreamHost is a leading web and cloud hosting company with over 330,000 customers and 1.2 million websites, blogs, and apps hosted worldwide. The company offers a wide spectrum of web and cloud hosting solutions including Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting, Domain Name Registration, the cloud storage service, DreamObjects™, and the cloud computing service, DreamCompute™. Please visit http://www.dreamhost.com/ for more information.

Linux Journal
Media Sponsor

Linux Journal, first published in 1994, is the original publication of the global Linux community, delivering to readers the advice and inspiration they need to get the most out of their Linux systems.

Media Sponsor

Available in both print and digital editions, Linux Pro Magazine (Linux Magazine outside North America) brings practical, hands-on solutions for real users who depend on Linux in their daily lives. Our readers are a new generation of Linux experts who are pushing the limits of Linux as a server, desktop, and development platform. They read Linux Pro Magazine to learn more about technologies and products for Linux.

Media Sponsor

Linuxaria is a blog published in English and Italian about Linux and anything related to Open Source. Started in 2010 as a solo project, now Linuxaria receives regular contributions, with topics that range from the latest games to extensive how-to on technical topics.

Media Sponsor

For over 35 years, the USENIX Association has been the leading community for engineers, system administrators, and scientists working on the cutting edge of the computing world.