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Cloud native computing uses an open source software stack to deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its own container, and dynamically orchestrating those containers to optimize resource utilization. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of cloud native software stacks including Kubernetes, Fluentd, linkerd, Prometheus, OpenTracing, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, rkt, CNI, Envoy, Jaeger, Notary, and TUF.

Logz.io is an intelligent log analytics platform that combines the popular ELK stack as a cloud service and innovative machine learning. Logz.io derives insights from machine data, user behavior and community knowledge in a scalable, production-ready platform that enables organizations to resolve issues faster and take operations to the next level.

Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) turns data into doing with the Data-to-Everything Platform. Splunk technology is designed to investigate, monitor, analyze and act on data at any scale. Our powerful platform and unique approach to data have empowered companies to improve service levels, reduce operations costs, mitigate risk, enhance DevOps collaboration and create new product and service offerings.

When cutting-edge technology meets Disney creativity, there are no limits to what can be developed. Every business within Disney is being transformed by technology as we work to accelerate disruption, solve challenges still to be imagined, and build what has never been built before. With the resources to amaze and the freedom to dream, technologists at Disney make the impossible, possible.

Arista Networks pioneered software-driven, cognitive cloud networking for large-scale datacenter and campus environments. Arista's award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds from 10 to 400 gigabits per second, redefine scalability, agility and resilience. Arista has shipped more than 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Committed to open standards, Arista is a founding member of the 25/50G consortium. Arista Networks products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a reliable network open source software to backup, archive and restore files from all major operating systems. The fork was founded 2010 out of the bacula.org project, in order to pursue development of new capabilities and sustainable ensure it’s open source character.

Today Bareos comes with a new multi-lingual and multi-tenancy web ui including restore browser, LTO hardware encryption support, bandwidth limitation, cloud storage support, a redesigned plugin interface, among other new features.

The Ceph Foundation exists to enable industry members to collaborate and pool resources to support the Ceph project community. The Foundation provides an open, collaborative, and neutral home for project stakeholders to coordinate their development and community investments in the Ceph ecosystem.

Coastline College, a multi-campus community college, is located in Orange County, CA. Situated in the heart of Orange County, the Coastline campus is an educational and cultural hub for the region. It offers certificates and degrees in Cyber Security and a host of technical academies including Cisco, Microsoft, AWS, Red Hat, Palo Alto Networks, and CompTIA. Coastline College is also the home of the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. This is the premiere Incident Response competition on the west coast.

Built on Apache Cassandra™ and designed from the ground up to run anywhere, on any cloud, in any datacenter, and in every possible combination. DataStax delivers the ultimate hybrid and multi-cloud database.

GumGum is an artificial intelligence company with a focus on computer vision. Our mission is to solve hard problems across a variety of industries by teaching machines to see and understand the world. Since 2008, the company has applied its patented capabilities to serve a variety of industries from advertising to professional sports, with more to come.

iXsystems is a pioneer in building innovative storage solutions and enterprise servers for a global marketplace based on open technology. With decades of expertise, many contributions to Open Source communities, and stewardship of leading Open Source projects, iXsystems has become the leader of innovative storage and server solutions for the global open technology market. Thousands have come to rely on iXsystems' approach to doing business.

Linode accelerates innovation by making cloud computing simple, accessible, and affordable to all. Founded in 2003, Linode helped pioneer the cloud computing industry and is today the largest independent open cloud provider in the world. Headquartered in Philadelphia's Old City, the company empowers more than a million developers, startups, and businesses across its global network of 11 data centers.

opsi is an open source client management system to manage heterogeneous environments. It enables the deployment and configuration from OS's and software on Windows and Linux computers. opsi is a powerful tool that will allow you to manage from a dozen clients, up to several thousands. Through the integrated inventory you get an overview of the hardware and software. This makes opsi the ideal tool for every system administrator. Opsi is deployed across all sectors in the fields of education, business and public administration.

PennyMac (NMLS #35953) is a top national mortgage lender, PennyMac is committed to providing its customers with a range of innovative solutions to help them purchase, refinance or simply remain in their homes. Whether they’re new to the home loan process or experienced buyers specifically seeking a competitive jumbo, FHA or VA loan, PennyMac is dedicated to offering competitive rates and superior service.

PlanetScale was founded in early 2018 to provide a massively scalable multi-cloud transactional database-as-a-service built on Vitess and Kubernetes. We also provide enterprise support, feature development and professional services to teams that want to scale with Vitess, a mature technology trusted by companies like YouTube, JD.com, Slack and many more. PlanetScale is backed by a16z and SignalFire and is based in Mountain View, CA.

ShiftLeft is a continuous application security platform, purpose-built for the modern software development life cycle. It combines next-generation static code analysis (to quickly and accurately identify vulnerabilities) with application instrumentation (to protect the application) in an automated workflow. This combination of runtime-informed code analysis and code- informed runtime protection delivers the most accurate, automated, and comprehensive application security solution.

System76 produces premium Linux computers using the latest hardware. Their computers, along with the Pop! operating system, are developed to empower science, technology, and engineering professionals to unleash their potential.

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, helps to make the world safe for exchanging digital information.  Our innovative solutions for consumers, businesses, and governments provide layered security for data centers, cloud environments, networks, and endpoints. All our products work together to seamlessly share threat intelligence and provide a connected threat defense with centralized visibility and investigation, enabling better, faster protection.

The Master of Legal Studies (M.L.S.) degree is for professional advancement through the study of law. The M.L.S. program is designed for professionals from disciplines outside of the law who wish to advance their careers and capabilities by obtaining an advanced degree and a deep understanding of the legal and regulatory issues that impact their industry or field of interest. It is ideal for non-lawyer professionals in any field – from the private, nonprofit or government sectors – who need to understand and navigate law, regulation, disputes or work with attorneys.

Wavefront is metrics monitoring-as-a-service for cloud application environments. It gathers telemetry across the entire stack into a unified metrics store with the industry’s most advanced query analytics, rendering visualizations for anomaly detection, trend analysis, and intelligent alerting. Used by DevOps teams at SaaS leaders, it scales to thousands of users. Our customers include companies like Box, Workday, Intuit, Groupon, Lyft, DoorDash, and Postmates.

Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) turns data into doing with the Data-to-Everything Platform. Splunk technology is designed to investigate, monitor, analyze and act on data at any scale. Our powerful platform and unique approach to data have empowered companies to improve service levels, reduce operations costs, mitigate risk, enhance DevOps collaboration and create new product and service offerings.

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