Sponsors

Gold Sponsor

Arista Networks was founded to deliver software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center and computing environments. Arista’s award-winning 10/40/100GbE switches redefine scalability, robustness, and price-performance, with over 3,000 customers and more than three million cloud networking ports deployed worldwide. At the core of Arista’s platform is EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista Networks products are available worldwide through distribution partners, systems integrators and resellers.

Gold Sponsor, 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.

HP
Gold Sponsor

Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Technology innovation that fosters business transformation. We are in the acceleration business. We help customers use technology to slash the time it takes to turn ideas into value. In turn, they transform industries, markets and lives.

Some of our customers run traditional IT environments. Most are transitioning to a secure, cloud-enabled, mobile-friendly infrastructure. Many rely on a combination of both. Wherever they are in that journey, we provide the technology and solutions to help them succeed.

IBM
Gold Sponsor

IBM Linux solutions are committed to providing leadership solutions to help address real business needs at a lower cost of ownership. IBM provides unique value with our extensive platform support, enabling our clients to choose the hardware best suited to their workloads, while benefiting from a consistent Linux operating environment. IBM Linux solutions brings open innovation to all IBM server and storage system platforms, freeing datacenters from vendor lock-in with choice and flexibility to scale your business on the fastest growing operating system in the world.

Gold 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.

Gold 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.

Gold Sponsor

The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by SUSE. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, openSUSE.org provides free, easy access to the world's most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE. The openSUSE project gives Linux developers and enthusiasts everything they need to get started with Linux.

Gold Sponsor, Special Event Sponsor

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and a component of the S&P 500, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware.

Gold Sponsor

Silicon Mechanics is an industry-leading provider of server, storage, and high-performance computing solutions. Deploying the latest innovations in hardware and software technology, we work in collaboration with our customers to design and build the most efficient, cost-effective technology solution for their needs. Our guiding principle, "Expert included," is our promise that reflects our passion for complete customer satisfaction, from server and component selection to superior installation and ongoing technical support.

 

Gold Sponsor

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.

Gold Sponsor

Every second, of every day, TeleSign protects the world's largest Internet and Cloud properties by establishing and verifying Mobile Identity.

 

TeleSign's Mobile Identity platform gives digital businesses the ability to connect a unique identity with every account to verify new registrations and authenticate existing users. TeleSign created Mobile Identity to help businesses preserve their ecosystem by detecting a suspicious user before account creation, and to better protect their existing user base from account compromise.

 

Silver Sponsor, Special Event Sponsor

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

Silver Sponsor

Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Operations and Development teams who write and run applications at scale on cloud or on-premise hardware, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.

Silver Sponsor, Special Event Sponsor

Elasticsearch is on a mission to make massive amounts of data usable for businesses everywhere by delivering the world’s most advanced search and analytics engine Elasticsearch is on a mission to make massive amounts of data usable for businesses everywhere by delivering the world’s most advanced search and analytics engine available. With a laser focus on achieving the best user experience imaginable, the Elasticsearch ELK stack - comprised of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana - has become one of the most popular and rapidly growing open source solutions in the market.

Silver Sponsor

GitHub is the best place to build software together. Over 7 million people use GitHub to share code and build amazing things with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. With the collaborative features of GitHub.com, our desktop and mobile apps, and GitHub Enterprise, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write better code, faster. Originally founded by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into the largest code host in the world.

Silver Sponsor

Key Information Systems (KeyInfo) is a leading regional systems integrator, with world-class compute, storage, networking solutions and professional services for the most advanced software-defined data centers. 

These competencies are tightly complimented by a full suite of data center capabilities including private and hybrid cloud offerings, connectivity services, colocation facilities and managed services. 

For more information visit our website at www.keyinfo.com.

Silver Sponsor, Reception Sponsor

Linode delivers its cloud services from six data centers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia to some of the most innovative companies in the world, such as The Onion and Creative Commons. The company’s proven IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) platform enables customers to fully customize their environment and leverage the improved performance, scalability, and reliability in the most cost-effective way possible. For more information, visit http://www.linode.com/.

Silver Sponsor, Special Event 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

NGINX powers applications and content for the modern Internet experience. The company offers award-winning and industry-leading high performance web application technology that delivers the scalability, speed, and security to more than 130 million sites on the Internet, ensuring a seamless web user experience. Companies rely on NGINX technologies for load balancing, content caching, media streaming, web serving, and more.

Silver Sponsor

Citrix supports the open source community via developer support and evangelism. Citrix has 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 open.citrix.com.

Silver Sponsor

Founded in 1999, Pogo Linux, Inc. is an open-source systems integrator headquartered in Redmond, WA. With a multi-OS focus and in-house technical expertise, we offer a comprehensive range of servers, workstations, and network storage solutions for the technology needs of IT departments in organizations of all sizes

Silver 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®.

Silver Sponsor

SaltStack systems management software delivers fast and scalable automation of any cloud, complex data center infrastructure or application stack. SaltStack is used to manage complex IT infrastructure using event-driven, predictive automation and to orchestrate and control physical and virtual machines while providing application configuration for Web-scale environments.

Silver Sponsor

VictorOps is the world’s first collaborative platform designed especially for DevOps teams that combines the power of people and data to solve IT problems as they arise.

The VictorOps platform seamlessly orchestrates team situational awareness, incident creation, escalation, notification, and remediation with team members regardless of physical location or time of day.

Reception Sponsor

Since 1997 DreamHost has helped entrepreneurs and developers the world over bring their dreams to life on the Internet. From domain registrations to web hosting and even powerful cloud storage and computing services, more than 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. Packed with unbelievable value, DreamHost is the best place to launch a blog, website, or web application into the stratosphere. Learn more at http://DreamHost.com.

Gold Sponsor, 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.

Silver Sponsor, Reception Sponsor

Linode delivers its cloud services from six data centers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia to some of the most innovative companies in the world, such as The Onion and Creative Commons. The company’s proven IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) platform enables customers to fully customize their environment and leverage the improved performance, scalability, and reliability in the most cost-effective way possible. For more information, visit http://www.linode.com/.

Special Event Sponsor

For more information visit: www.acelio.com and follow us on Twitter: @AcelioInc

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.

We began as NewCars.com, operating our namesake website and developing our own proprietary technology for search engine marketing. Due to our success in online automotive lead generation, Cars.com acquired us in 2005. Today, our Santa Monica division operates two consumer websites -- NewCars.com and CarPriceSecrets.com -- and manages search engine marketing for those sites as well as Cars.com itself.

Silver Sponsor, Special Event Sponsor

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

Special Event Sponsor

Cisco is the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected. www.cisco.com

Special Event Sponsor

DigitalOcean is the world’s fastest growing cloud hosting provider built for developers. Our mission is simple: we’re passionate about making
complex infrastructure simple and delighting our customers with a seamless experience that brings them joy. New users can easily deploy a blazing fast
cloud server in 55 seconds with an intuitive control panel interface, which can be replicated on a larger scale with the company’s straightforward API.

Special Event Sponsor

dtk.io is a hosted service that includes a set of tools for developing & delivering puppet/chef backed services. It includes an orchestration engine tightly couple with puppet & chef workflows, your own private service catalog/forge and collaborative features to greatly boost the sharing and re-use of configuration management resources across teams and disciplines.

Silver Sponsor, Special Event Sponsor

Elasticsearch is on a mission to make massive amounts of data usable for businesses everywhere by delivering the world’s most advanced search and analytics engine Elasticsearch is on a mission to make massive amounts of data usable for businesses everywhere by delivering the world’s most advanced search and analytics engine available. With a laser focus on achieving the best user experience imaginable, the Elasticsearch ELK stack - comprised of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana - has become one of the most popular and rapidly growing open source solutions in the market.

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.

Special Event Sponsor

Try Microsoft Azure with Linux for free by signing up online http://aka.ms/tryAzureForFree

Silver Sponsor, Special Event 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.

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.

After years of successful courseware development, One Course Source branched out to provide other products and services related to training. OCS's courseware development experience has lead to the creation of a new series of classes designed to assist students in obtaining their Linux certifications.

Special Event Sponsor

Puppet Enterprise is IT automation software that helps system administrators manage infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to patch management and compliance. Using Puppet Enterprise, system administrators can easily automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage change, scaling from tens of servers to thousands, whether on-premise or in the cloud. Contact us: sales@puppetlabs.com or 1-877-575-9775.

Gold Sponsor, Special Event Sponsor

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and a component of the S&P 500, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware.

Special Event Sponsor

Built from the ground up with DevOps in mind, StackStorm provides Automation as a Service to businesses with 100% open-source, Apache 2.0 software. We allow users to define and share – as code – their operational patterns from events and triggers to actions taken in response. We empower our customers to manage integration and automation of their environments, such as tying together continuous integration (CI), continuous deployments (CD), ongoing troubleshooting and remediation, and more.

Special Event Sponsor

Digital Media Services provides enterprises with a suite of advanced video solutions and products, enabling them to satisfy consumer demand for premium digital media. Our flexible and robust video solutions are customizable and can be seamlessly integrated for video on demand, linear channels and live events.

Speaker Track Sponsor

ActiveState empowers innovation from code to cloud smarter, safer, and faster. ActiveState's cutting-edge solutions give developers and enterprises the power and flexibility to develop in Python, Java, Ruby, Perl, Node.js, PHP, Tcl, and more. Built with and on top of various open source packages including Cloud Foundry and Docker, Stackato is ActiveState's groundbreaking application platform for creating a private platform as a service (PaaS), and is the cost-effective, secure, and portable way to develop and deploy apps to the cloud.

Speaker Track Sponsor

MaxCDN is a next-generation content delivery network based in Los Angeles. The whole team is obsessed with speed, automation, real time reports and implementation.

At MaxCDN, the mission is simple: Provide the best possible CDN experience for today's DevOps teams and the users they serve.

If you want to put some bandwidth through their CDN, head over to maxcdn.com for a free trial.

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.

 

Speaker Track Sponsor

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

Speaker Track Sponsor

Relentlessly protect the world's information. Make a difference at Symantec. Across the globe, we are an 'essential' partner to both consumers and businesses of all sizes. We combine our talents, our brains, and our creative energy to reinforce our place as a world-class technical community.

Media Sponsor

Known for being both smart and scrappy, for five years FOSS Force has taken the pulse of Linux and FOSS and served up daily reports from the front lines of the tech wars. 

Media Sponsor

The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3), US based, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and building the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide. The Foundation gratefully accepts donations from individuals and businesses, using them to fund and manage projects, sponsor FreeBSD events, Developer Summits and provide travel grants to FreeBSD developers. In addition, the Foundation represents the FreeBSD Project in executing contracts, license agreements, copyrights, trademarks, and other legal arrangements which require a recognized legal entity.

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

Opensource.com is an online publication focused on how open source is applied to different areas including business, education, government, health, law and other disciplines of life.

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.