Sponsors

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.

Microsoft’s commitment to openness and collaboration is ingrained in our day-to-day approach to doing business alongside industry partners around the world, including open source communities. On Azure, you have the choice of a wide range of Linux distributions, DevOps tools like Chef, Puppet and Kubernetes and integration with Docker containers. Developers can use their language of choice including Java, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby. Questions? We’d love to hear from you – send us mail at opensource@microsoft.com.

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

AuriQ is a leading provider of innovative analytic solutions that address the need for enterprises to have a 360 degree view of the performance and health of their online business. From complex digital marketing analytics, network performance analytics, big data processing and predictive analytics, our products help enterprises, datacenters, and e-businesses succeed by increasing revenue and reducing operation costs. More than 400 global enterprises, including many Fortune 500, have chosen AuriQ solutions to power their business.

We are Chef -- the leader in high-velocity IT automation. We give you a model for automating IT infrastructure and applications that drive self-reliance across your development and operations teams. We are the Chef community. We are tens of thousands strong. We are helping your businesses become faster, safer, and more flexible, so you win in today's 24x7 digital economy. Join our movement today. www.chef.io

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for large-scale application infrastructure. Combining metrics from servers, databases, and applications, Datadog delivers sophisticated, actionable alerts, and provides real-time visibility of your entire infrastructure. Datadog includes 120+ vendor-supported, prebuilt integrations and monitors hundreds of thousands of hosts.

Docker, Inc. is the company behind the Docker open source platform and the chief sponsor of the Docker ecosystem. Docker is an open platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship and run distributed applications. With Docker, IT organizations shrink application delivery from months to minutes, frictionlessly move workloads between data centers and the cloud and achieve up to 20X greater efficiency in their use of computing resources.

Founded in 2012 by the people behind the Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene open source projects, Elastic provides real-time insights and makes massive amounts of structured and unstructured data usable for developers and enterprises. By focusing on scalability, ease-of-use, and ease-of-integration, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana power many of the world’s leading mobile, social, consumer and business applications. Since its initial release, the open source stack has achieved more than 20 million cumulative downloads.

InMotion Hosting is a worldwide leader in web hosting, and has a long track record of commitment to Linux, open-source software, and the community of developers, engineers, and infrastructure specialists that make those platforms fantastic. Whether it's a simple shared server, or a powerful dedicated cluster, InMotion Hosting is proud to run ever one of our servers -- hundreds of thousands of websites -- on Linux platforms. We deliver scalability, ironclad security, cutting edge technology, and eminently reliable uptimes for our customers.

High Quality, affordable training for Linux and Cloud services for Teams & Individuals of all skill levels.

Moogsoft provides a new class of monitoring tools for the agile era of IT and software. Applying real-time machine learning on operational data across all domains in your application and IT environment, we reduce the impact of production incidents and outages. Our solutions are used by leading digital enterprises and cloud service providers who need to increase service quality and reduce costs.

Nagios is the Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring providing monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components including applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, systems metrics, and network infrastructure. Nagios is the most powerful and trusted IT infrastructure monitoring solution in the known universe.

OpenX is a global leader in digital and mobile advertising technology. We create highly efficient, high quality programmatic advertising markets that deliver optimal value to buyers and sellers and evolve rapidly to support the growth of the digital economy across screens and formats. - See more at: http://openx.com/about/

Puppet Labs, Inc. is the leader in IT automation. Puppet Labs software provides system administrators the operational agility, efficiency and insight they need to proactively manage dynamic infrastructure, scaling from tens of servers to thousands, both on premise and in the cloud. Thousands of the world's leading organizations use Puppet Labs software to configure and manage their IT infrastructure, including Bank of America, Cisco, NYSE, Salesforce.com and WebEx.

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.

Rubicon Project (NYSE: RUBI) has engineered the Advertising Automation Cloud, one of the largest real-time cloud and Big Data computing systems. The Company's mission is to automate the buying and selling of advertising by offering innovative products to connect buyers and sellers globally. For more information, visit www.RubiconProject.com

SUSE®, a pioneer in open source software, provides reliable, interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility. More than 20 years of engineering excellence, exceptional service and an unrivaled partner ecosystem power the products and support that help our customers manage complexity, reduce cost and confidently deliver mission-critical services. The lasting relationships we build allow us to adapt and deliver the smarter innovation they need to succeed—today and tomorrow.

At Disney, we‘re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. We do this through utilizing and developing cutting-edge technology and pushing the envelope to bring stories to life through our movies, products, interactive games, parks and resorts, and media networks. As the global leader in high-quality family entertainment we deliver unparalleled creative content and experiences to audiences and guests around the world.

Metrics are rapidly overtaking log-based approaches as the most powerful way to manage and understand the overall health and functioning of a service platform. One of the key use cases in the world of metrics is anomaly detection -- understanding what systems, applications, and services are acting in an unusual manner across (potentially) millions of independent data streams, all within an operationally useful time window. Wavefront is the platform that enables true unified real-time analytics and anomaly detection at scale.

Supplyframe - The world’s most comprehensive and influential marketing channel for the global electronics industry. Supplyframe captures and organizes the rapidly growing world of engineering knowledge—our tools make research efficient; our tools make sense of it all. Bringing passion and experience together. Open hardware. Open community. Find out more at Supplyframe.com.

We are Chef -- the leader in high-velocity IT automation. We give you a model for automating IT infrastructure and applications that drive self-reliance across your development and operations teams. We are the Chef community. We are tens of thousands strong. We are helping your businesses become faster, safer, and more flexible, so you win in today's 24x7 digital economy. Join our movement today. www.chef.io

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.

Puppet Labs, Inc. is the leader in IT automation. Puppet Labs software provides system administrators the operational agility, efficiency and insight they need to proactively manage dynamic infrastructure, scaling from tens of servers to thousands, both on premise and in the cloud. Thousands of the world's leading organizations use Puppet Labs software to configure and manage their IT infrastructure, including Bank of America, Cisco, NYSE, Salesforce.com and WebEx.

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows. It is fully ACID compliant, has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages).

Launched in 2014, DevOps.com has quickly established itself as an indispensable resource for DevOps education and community building. We make it our mission to cover all aspects of DevOps—philosophy, tools, business impact, best practices and more.  DevOps.com is comprised of thought leaders who understand both DevOps and how to create compelling, informative content. The team behind DevOps.com has real-world experience in technology, cloud, online media, DevOps, IT and startups.

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.

The League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) is a nonprofit corporation with members throughout the world. Our mission is to advance the practice of system administration; to support, recognize, educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to serve the public through education and outreach on system administration issues.

The vision for this group is to meet, network, learn and share ideas to build a community of people from all backgrounds, entrepreneurs, business strategists, accountants, legal attorneys, contractors, marketers, fundraisers, directors, producers, journalists, artists, coders, bloggers, tweeters and creative thinkers that are interested in advancements in web/mobile computing and whether it be video games, serious apps, or a nice to have type of apps. From novices to experts or people who just want to be part of the next wave. I welcome anyone who is passionate about what they do.