Exhibitors

Started by Christopher Waid, founder and CEO, ThinkPenguin.com, has a mission. To bring choice to the masses. We believe GNU/Linux is the easiest desktop operating system in history. What it has lacked is quality end-user support. 

We offer a number of unique free software products and services to ease transitioning as well as the end-user support to back it up. We produce a software component which actively assists users in locating compatible services, software, and support.

Ubuntu is a free operating system based on Debian, a popular Linux distribution. Its name comes from the Zulu word "ubuntu", loosely translated as "humanity", describing the ubuntu philosophy: "I am who I am because of those around me," a positive aspect of community.

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.

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.

VideoLAN is a project that develops software for playing video and other media formats across a local area network (LAN). It originally developed two programs for media streaming, VideoLAN Client (VLC) and VideoLAN Server (VLS), but most of the features of VLS have been incorporated into VLC, with the result renamed VLC media player.

The project began as a student endeavor at École Centrale Paris (France), but after releasing the software under the free software/open source GNU General Public License, the project is now multinational with a development team spanning 20 nations.

VividCortex has developed a suite of unique technologies that significantly eases the pain of database management for the entire IT department. Unlike traditional monitoring, we measure and analyze the system’s work and resource consumption. This leads directly to better performance for IT as a whole, at reduced cost and effort

Zenoss is a leading provider of management software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructures. Zenoss Service Dynamics is a single product that delivers end-to-end service assurance for real-world, hybrid IT that spans physical, virtual and cloud-based infrastructure. 

The key functions that make up Zenoss Service Dynamics include Impact & Event Management, Analytics & Optimization, and Resource Management.

Booth Number: 89