For information on becoming a Sponsor or Exhibitor contact Delia Frees: delia@apachecon.com.
Platinum Sponsors
Cloudera is the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based software and services and works with customers in financial services, web, telecommunications, government and other industries. The company's products, Cloudera Enterprise and Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop, help organizations profit from all of their information. Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop is the most comprehensive Apache Hadoop-based platform in the industry. Cloudera Enterprise is the most cost-effective way to perform large-scale data storage and analysis and includes the tools, platform and support necessary to use Hadoop in a production environment. For more on Cloudera, please visit www.cloudera.com.
http://www.cloudera.com
Gold Sponsors
HP Open Source and Linux solutions are designed to solve your mission-critical IT problems today! We sell over a million Linux servers a year, delivering high performance, scalability, security, storage, and backed by our commitment to the open source community. Learn more about our market leading Linux platforms and Open Source Middleware Stacks at www.hp.com/go/linux. Also be sure to check out our new FossBazaar and Fossology initiatives which are aimed at further encouraging the adoption of Open Source in the enterprise. Our solutions are delivered and supported by over 6500 Open Source and Linux professionals across 160 countries.
http://hp.com/go/opensource
Hortonworks is focused on accelerating the development and adoption of Apache Hadoop. Together with the Apache community, we are making Hadoop more robust and easier to install, manage and use. We also provide support and training for Apache Hadoop.
http://www.hortonworks.com
As the global leader in Apache Open For Business (OFBiz), HotWax Media provides web-based enterprise resource planning (ERP), e-commerce, and business automation consulting services. From enterprise-level e-commerce to warehouse, manufacturing, and financial management, HotWax Media and OFBiz help optimize business processes. Open source is the smart choice today for businesses ranging from small-and medium-sized organizations to global Fortune 100 companies. Using Apache OFBiz, HotWax Media delivers top quality enterprise software for a fraction of the price of outdated, proprietary vendors. For more information visit
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com/index.html
Silver Sponsors
We help our customers create, deliver, and optimize compelling content and applications — improving the impact of their communications, enhancing their brands and productivity, and ultimately bringing them greater business success. Together, we're turning ordinary interactions into more valuable digital experiences every day, across media and devices, anywhere, anytime.
http://www.adobe.com/solutions/customer-experience/web-experience-management.html
FuseSource is the leader in open source integration and messaging, and offers tested, integrated and certified distributions of Apache projects. The FuseSource products are fully supported by the people who build and influence the projects to combine the speed and innovation of open source software with the reliability and expertise of commercially provided enterprise services.
http://fusesource.com/
VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere™ – customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, more than 190,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
http://www.springsource.com/
Bronze Sponsors
Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps over 500 million people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. Over the past few years, the company has developed a number of open source infrastructure technologies to support the site's growth including HipHop for PHP, Apache Cassandra, Apache Hive, and Apache Thrift as well contributed to numerous open source projects including Hadoop. Facebook engineers actively participate in various Apache projects, developing technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph.
https://developers.facebook.com/opensource/
Lucid Imagination is the commercial company for Apache Lucene/Solr enterprise search technology. We provide the planet's best search solution development platforms built on the power of Solr/Lucene open source search. LucidWorks Enterprise makes the power of Solr/Lucene open source search more accessible to the broad range of application developers and slashes the learning curve for search solution development. Unlike "black box" products, LucidWorks Enterprise allows organizations of all sizes and types to continuously tune their search to fit the ongoing needs of their users and achieve a consistently lower cost of growth.
Lucid Imagination also offers free software for developers, documentation, commercial-grade support, high-level consulting, and comprehensive training. Customers include AT&T, Sears, Ford, Verizon, Cisco, Zappos, Raytheon, The Guardian, The Smithsonian Institution, Salesforce.com, The MotleyFool, Macy's, Qualcomm, Taser, eHarmony, and many other household names around the world. Lucid Imagination is a privately held venture-funded company. The investors include Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, Walden International, and In-Q-Tel.
The Lucid Imagination founding team consists of several key contributors and committers to the Lucene project, as well as experts in enterprise search software development.
For more information, visit
http://www.lucidimagination.com/
Community Sponsors
Acunu are world experts in Big Data applications and offer products and services for Apache Cassandra and beyond.
Acunu has reinvented the storage stack for Big Data workloads and brings fundamental innovation to Apache Cassandra. The Acunu Data Platform supercharges and simplifies Apache Cassandra deployments, making them business-ready at a fraction of the cost -- it deploys out-of-the box, offers dramatically improved performance and reliability with commodity hardware or cloud based deployments, and comes with management and monitoring tools to meet enterprise operational requirements. Find out more.
Acunu is backed by leading European investors and has a unique mix of researchers and engineers from Cambridge, Oxford and Stanford Universities. Acunu has offices in San Francisco, San Antonio and London.
http://www.acunu.com
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 300 individual Members and 2,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, SpringSource, Talend, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit
http://www.apache.org/
Bazaarvoice is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that turns social media into social commerce for the world's best global brands by enabling authentic customer-powered marketing. We achieve that by first letting consumers create and share ratings, reviews, questions, answers, and stories about products and brands on client websites. We then syndicate that content across the Web and through the channel to reach shoppers wherever they are.
This customer-generated content has a tremendously positive influence on purchase decisions. It is also rich with customer intelligence, which we analyze and provide to our clients so they can make real-time, information-based decisions that affect all aspects of their business - marketing, product R&D, and operations. This strategy of putting customers at the center of your business helps you achieve measurable results across your entire enterprise.
Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Austin, Bazaarvoice has offices in Amsterdam, London, Munich, Paris, Stockholm, and Sydney.
http://www.bazaarvoice.com/
CrowdVine, founded in 2007, builds simple and powerful social software to help people connect. While we believe our products are very good, the killer feature of social software is people. That's why when you go to our features page, you'll see a list of reasons to use our software, not just a list of tools. Everything we do is aimed at making it easier for people to meet. Once they've done that, it's our job to get out of the way.
http://www.crowdvine.com/
Hippo develops the Apache licensed Hippo CMS and Hippo Portal application. Hippo is an avid believer of the Apache way of developing, and participates pro-actively in ASF Projects. Hippo's developers are stimulated to get involved in Apache in order to become committed in relevant projects, sharing knowledge with others in true Apache spirit. You can find code initiated by Hippo people in many projects, amongst others: Apache Cocoon, Apache Jetspeed and Apache Slide. Hippo is a member of the Java Community Process and its developers help define new Java specifications.
Hippo CMS is already widely used in the Netherlands and across Europe. With the acquisition of the assets of Blue Sunrise, another great company active in the Apache community, Hippo obtained a strong threshold into the USA. Hippo is now well on the way to become a household name in the US market space, and is rolling out vastly to set the global standard in open source content management and portal applications.
For more information, visit the company website at http://www.onehippo.com. or get involved in the Hippo community at http://www.hippocms.org.
http://www.onehippo.com
Jahia’s next-generation, open source CMS stems from a widely acknowledged vision of enterprise application convergence – web, search, document, social and portal – unified by the simplicity of web content management. Structured around Jahia Extended Content Management (xCM), the Jahia Studio IDE, Jahiapps social and collaboration capabilities and based on a powerful Composite Content Management platform, Jahia brings a unique modularity to the Java development arena. It is the tool of choice for building innovative user experiences for virtually any type of web application at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions. Founded in 2002 in Switzerland, Jahia has its North American headquarters in Washington DC, and offices in Canada and throughout Europe. Jahia has over 350 customers in more than 20 countries across the globe. For more information, please visit
http://www.jahia.com
At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them. We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Microsoft's open source strategy is grounded in recognition of the value of openness to working with others -- including commercial open source vendors, developers and open source communities -- to help customers and partners succeed in today's heterogeneous "world of choice." Visit http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/openness/ for more information.
Ning is the leading online platform for the world¹s organizers, activists and influencers to create social experiences that inspire action. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Ning offers an easy-to-use service that enables people to create custom branded social networks. Ning was co-founded by Chairman Marc Andreessen and is privately held. For more information, visit:
http://www.ning.com
OpenDirective emerged from Oxford University's OSS Watch to facilitate open innovation in software, and form the link between OSS Watch in the academic research sector and product development of the commercial sector. OpenDirective is committed to identifying software products and opportunities that are reaching the chasm between the early adopters and the early majority, with a focus on mobile and accessibility-enabling technologies that stem from research or are developed for internal use, and are not necessarily developed as products in themselves. By facilitating open innovation through engagement with Open Source software, OpenDirective helps make companies more innovative, capable, and cost efficient.
OpenDirective is led by Ross Gardler and Steve Lee, who, for more than ten years, have actively participated in various Open Source communities that include The Apache Software Foundation, Mozilla, GNOME and Ubuntu.
http://www.opendirective.com/
Oracle provides the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems, with more than 370,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—representing a variety of sizes and industries in more than 145 countries around the globe. Oracle's product strategy provides flexibility and choice to our customers across their IT infrastructure. Now, with Sun server, storage, operating-system, and virtualization technology, Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is integrated to work together as a single system. In addition, Oracle's open architecture and multiple operating-system options gives our customers unmatched benefits from industry-leading products, including excellent system availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership.
http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/open-source/index.html
Talend is the recognized market leader in open source data management & application integration. Talend provides fully certified and tested application integration solutions powered by popular Apache projects including Apache CXF, Apache Camel, Apache Karaf and Apache ActiveMQ. As a leading provider of Apache-powered software, Talend believes in making a strong investment in the community. Talend currently employs engineers to work on many Apache projects, including CXF, Camel, Karaf, ActiveMQ as well as Apache Santuario, Apache Hadoop, Apache ACE and others.
Talend revolutionized the world of data integration when it released the first version of Talend Open Studio in 2006. Talend's data management solution portfolio includes data integration, data quality, and master data management. Unlike proprietary, closed solutions, which can only be afforded by the largest and wealthiest organizations, Talend makes middleware solutions available to organizations of all sizes, for all integration needs.
Visit us at
http://www.talend.com
Exhibitors
AppDynamics is the leading provider of application performance management for modern application architectures in both the cloud and the data center, delivering solutions for highly distributed, dynamic, and agile environments. Companies such as Priceline, TiVo, and ZipRealty use AppDynamics to monitor, troubleshoot, diagnose, and scale production applications, and over 30,000 people have downloaded our Lite product. AppDynamics offers both Dev and Ops teams a powerful solution to reduce cost and ensure the performance and availability of their revenue-critical applications.
http://www.appdynamics.com
FuseSource is the leader in open source integration and messaging, and offers tested, integrated and certified distributions of Apache projects. The FuseSource products are fully supported by the people who build and influence the projects to combine the speed and innovation of open source software with the reliability and expertise of commercially provided enterprise services.
http://fusesource.com/
Hortonworks is focused on accelerating the development and adoption of Apache Hadoop. Together with the Apache community, we are making Hadoop more robust and easier to install, manage and use. We also provide support and training for Apache Hadoop.
http://www.hortonworks.com
Lucid Imagination is the commercial company for Apache Lucene/Solr enterprise search technology. We provide the planet's best search solution development platforms built on the power of Solr/Lucene open source search. LucidWorks Enterprise makes the power of Solr/Lucene open source search more accessible to the broad range of application developers and slashes the learning curve for search solution development. Unlike "black box" products, LucidWorks Enterprise allows organizations of all sizes and types to continuously tune their search to fit the ongoing needs of their users and achieve a consistently lower cost of growth.
Lucid Imagination also offers free software for developers, documentation, commercial-grade support, high-level consulting, and comprehensive training. Customers include AT&T, Sears, Ford, Verizon, Cisco, Zappos, Raytheon, The Guardian, The Smithsonian Institution, Salesforce.com, The MotleyFool, Macy's, Qualcomm, Taser, eHarmony, and many other household names around the world. Lucid Imagination is a privately held venture-funded company. The investors include Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, Walden International, and In-Q-Tel.
The Lucid Imagination founding team consists of several key contributors and committers to the Lucene project, as well as experts in enterprise search software development.
http://www.lucidimagination.com/
VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere™ – customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, more than 190,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
http://www.springsource.com/
Talend is the recognized market leader in open source data management & application integration. Talend provides fully certified and tested application integration solutions powered by popular Apache projects including Apache CXF, Apache Camel, Apache Karaf and Apache ActiveMQ. As a leading provider of Apache-powered software, Talend believes in making a strong investment in the community. Talend currently employs engineers to work on many Apache projects, including CXF, Camel, Karaf, ActiveMQ as well as Apache Santuario, Apache Hadoop, Apache ACE and others. Talend revolutionized the world of data integration when it released the first version of Talend Open Studio in 2006. Talend's data management solution portfolio includes data integration, data quality, and master data management. Unlike proprietary, closed solutions, which can only be afforded by the largest and wealthiest organizations, Talend makes middleware solutions available to organizations of all sizes, for all integration needs. Visit us at
http://www.talend.com
WSO2 delivers the only complete open source middleware platform. With its revolutionary componentized design, WSO2 middleware adapts to the project for a lean, targeted solution to enterprise applications. Fully cloud-native, the WSO2 middleware platform is also the only open source platform-as-a-service for private and public clouds available today. With WSO2, seamless migration and integration between servers, private clouds, and public clouds is now a reality.
http://www.wso2.com