Sponsors for Strata Conference

EMC
EMC provides Big Data solutions that transform your business. EMC helps you gain unprecedented value through real-time connectivity and analysis of large data sets that live inside your organization and the Internet. EMC's Big Data solutions are architected for storage elasticity and seemingly infinite scale. It combines a unified analytics platform from Greenplum, a division of EMC, to access and collaborate on both structured and unstructured data, with an actionable engine that delivers knowledge in the context of decision-making. The result: a data-driven, predictive enterprise that gains greater insight and value from data. To learn more, go to www.emc.com/bigdata

Microsoft
Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that helps people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft SQL Server is a comprehensive database server and information platform offering a complete set of enterprise-ready technologies and tools that help people derive the most value from information at the lowest total-cost-of-ownership. Enjoy high levels of performance, availability, and security; employ more productive management and development tools; and deliver pervasive insight with self-service business intelligence (BI). SQL Server 2012 launches in the first half of 2012 and represents the next wave of SQL Server investments that will extend organizations beyond the database with a cloud-ready information platform that delivers mission-critical confidence, breakthrough insight, and cloud on your terms; find out more at microsoft.com/sql.

HPCC Systems™ from LexisNexis® Risk Solutions
HPCC Systems™ from LexisNexis® Risk Solutions offers a proven, data-intensive supercomputing platform designed for the enterprise to process and solve Big Data analytical problems. As a superior alternative to Hadoop and legacy technology, HPCC Systems offers a consistent data-centric programming language, two processing platforms and a single, complete end-to-end architecture for efficient processing. Customers, such as financial institutions, insurance carriers, insurance companies, law enforcement agencies, federal government and other enterprise-class organizations leverage the HPCC Systems technology through LexisNexis® products and services. For more information, visit HPCC Systems at http://hpccsystems.com.

MarkLogic
MarkLogic leads the advancement of Big Data with the first operational database technology for mission-critical Big Data Applications. Customers trust MarkLogic to drive revenue and growth through Big Data Applications enabled by MarkLogic products, services, and partners. MarkLogic is a fast growing enterprise software company and ushers in a new era of Big Data by powering more than 500 of the world's most critical Big Data Applications in the public sector and Global 1000. Organizations around the world get to better decisions faster with MarkLogic. MarkLogic is headquartered in Silicon Valley with field offices in Austin, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, New York, and Washington D.C. For more information, please visit www.marklogic.com.

Shared Learning Collaborative
The Shared Learning Collaborative is working to make personalized learning a reality for every U.S. student by improving the usefulness, variety and affordability of education technology. The SLC aims to accelerate the progress of public schools toward personalized learning by creating a set of shared technology services that will work better and cost less per state than what can be accomplished by each state working individually. The SLC technology will support the Common Core State Standards and help states and districts provide teachers with the instructional data and tools they need to make personalized learning the norm in every classroom.

Cloudera
Cloudera, the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services, enables data driven enterprises to easily derive business value from all their data. Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH), available for free at www.cloudera.com/downloads, is the most comprehensive, tested, stable and widely deployed distribution of Hadoop. For the fastest path to reliably using this completely open source technology in production for Big Data analytics and answering previously un-addressable big questions, organizations can subscribe to Cloudera Enterprise, comprised of Cloudera Support and a portfolio of software including Cloudera Management Suite. Cloudera also offers consulting services, training and certification on Apache technologies. www.cloudera.com

Digital Reasoning Systems
Digital Reasoning Systems solves the problem of information overload by providing the tools people need to understand relationships between entities in vast amounts of unstructured and structured data. Our flagship product, Synthesys™, delivers data analytic solutions based on our distinctive mathematical approach to understanding natural language. With tight integration of Hadoop and Cassandra, Synthesys™ brings unstructured data analytics to unprecedented scalability. The power of Synthesys™ is not only the ability to leverage an organization's existing knowledge base, but also to reveal critical hidden information and relationships that may not have been apparent during manual or other automated analytic efforts.

Pentaho
Pentaho is the business analytics company providing power for technologists and rapid insight for users. Powerful analytics are made easy with Pentaho's cost-effective full suite of capabilities for data access, integration, discovery, analysis, visualization and mining. For more information visit pentaho.com (http://www.pentaho.com/big-data/) or call +1 866-660-7555.

Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace® Hosting is the world's leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack™, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. In 2010, Rackspace was recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company and listed on the InformationWeek 500 as one of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. The company was also positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the "2010 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting." For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.

Teradata Aster
The Teradata Aster MapReduce Platform is the market-leading big data analytics solution. This analytic platform embeds MapReduce analytic processing for deeper insights on new data sources and multi-structured data types to deliver analytic capabilities with breakthrough performance and scalability. Teradata's solution utilizes Aster's patented SQL-MapReduce® to parallelize the processing of data and applications and deliver rich analytic insights at scale. Companies including Barnes & Noble, Intuit, LinkedIn, and Akamai use Teradata Aster to deliver applications such as digital marketing optimization, social network and relationship analysis, and fraud detection. For more information, visit www.asterdata.com or for more about Teradata, visit teradata.com.

VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2010 revenues of $2.9 billion, VMware has more than 300,000 customers and 25,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

IBM
Big data combined with advanced analytics are reshaping the world today and creating a smarter tomorrow. IBM provides the broadest and most comprehensive portfolio of data warehousing, information management and business analytic software, hardware and solutions to help customers maximize the value of their information assets and discover new insights to make better and faster decisions and optimize their business outcomes. IBM is able to help companies assess the role that an enterprise-class Big Data platform can play within the broader context of their information supply chain, with the enterprise-level integration to ensure client success. To learn more about IBM's Big Data platform stop by booth #608.

NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver both outstanding cost efficiency and business performance breakthroughs. Our dedication to the principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today. Customers around the world choose us for our "go beyond" approach and broad portfolio of solutions for server-to-storage virtualization, business applications, data protection, and more. Our solutions and virtualized storage technologies can provide nonstop availability of critical business data and speed product development, so organizations can deploy new capabilities with confidence. Discover our passion for helping organizations around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.

Oracle
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

1010data
1010data is the first interactive cloud-based platform for Big Data analytics. The company's namesake service provides the most powerful, usable and scalable solution available today for investigative and predictive analytics. It does this by combining ultra-fast database technology with a rich and sophisticated array of built-in analytical functions and an intuitive worksheet user interface, and delivers them as a managed service that offers the fastest time to insight. 1010data is used by hedge funds, global banks, large securities exchanges, top retailers, leading consumer packaged goods companies, and many others industry leaders to manage, manipulate and monetize trillions of business data records every day.

10gen
10gen sponsors the open source project MongoDB, and provides commercial support, consulting, and training for MongoDB. MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, document-oriented database. MongoDB bridges the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which provide rich queries and deep functionality).

Acxiom
A global leader in interactive marketing services, Acxiom connects clients with their customers through deep consumer insight that enables profitable business decisions. We incorporate decades of experience in consumer data and analytics, information technology, data integration, and consulting solutions for effective marketing across digital, Internet, email, mobile and direct mail channels. Headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, Acxiom serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific.

Amazon Web Services
Built upon the same world-class technology that powers Amazon.com, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides businesses with a secure, reliable, easy-to-scale, low-cost computing platform "in the cloud". Companies of all sizes, from all around the globe use AWS to build applications, store data, manage business processes, and more. Learn more at: http://aws.amazon.com.

Calpont
Calpont Corporation is a software provider of scalable, high-performance analytic databases that enable fast, deep analyses of massive data sets. Calpont InfiniDB® Enterprise is the emerging choice for demanding data warehouse, business intelligence, and analytics deployments. InfiniDB combines the query performance of a pure columnar design with the scalability of a fully parallelized map-reduction architecture. Known for its rapid implementation time, operational simplicity and extraordinary value, InfiniDB is a proven solution for data-intensive businesses that must minimize decision latency, including those in software, online media and commerce, social media, telecommunications and mobile applications.

Cisco
Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. As an innovator in the communications and information technology industry, Cisco and our valued partners sell Cisco hardware, software, and services to businesses of all sizes, governments, service providers, and consumers. Learn more at www.cisco.com.

Couchbase
Couchbase is the NoSQL database market share leader, with production deployments at AOL, NTT Docomo, Salesforce.com, Turner Broadcasting Systems, Vimeo, Zynga and hundreds of other organizations worldwide. Couchbase NoSQL database technology enables a more flexible, scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective approach to data management than relational database solutions and is particularly well suited for web applications deployed on virtualized or cloud infrastructures, and mobile applications requiring real-time data synchronization between devices and the cloud.

Cray
As a global leader in supercomputing, Cray Inc. provides innovative computing platforms that produce superior sustained performance on critical applications, and the scalability to handle extremely large computational problems. Cray is extending this supercomputer-class performance to big data, taking real-time analysis to new heights. Visit Cray booth 211 at STRATA 2012 to learn more.

Datameer
Datameer offers the first data analytics solution built on Hadoop that helps business users access, analyze and use massive amounts ofdata. Founded by Hadoop veterans in 2009, the company's breakthrough product, Datameer Analytics Solution (DAS), provides unparalleled access to data with minimal IT resources. DAS scales to 4,000 servers and petabytes of data and is available for all major Hadoop distributions including Apache, Cloudera, EMC, Hortonworks, IBM, MapR, and Yahoo! and Amazon. Datameer is based in San Mateo, Calif.

DataSift
You're thinking - not yet another big data provider, right? We're all about a cloud-platform for social data and social insights. Our platform gulps down the twitter firehose and other social data sources to help you filter, augment and create data feeds and insights for your apps or business. We enrich social data so you know the sentiment, influence, geolocation, etc of conversations. And we're about to launch historical twitter data so you can do trend analysis. Best of all we have super-fast developer APIs and transparent pricing so you can get started today. Drop by for a demo and signup!

DataStax
DataStax offers products and services based on the popular open-source database, Apache Cassandra™ that solve today's most challenging big data problems. DataStax Enterprise (DSE) combines the performance of Cassandra with analytics powered by Apache Hadoop™, creating a smartly integrated, data-centric platform. With DSE, real-time and analytic workloads never conflict, giving you maximum performance with the added benefit of only managing a single database. The company has well over 100 customers, including leaders such as Netflix, Cisco, Rackspace and Constant Contact, and spanning verticals including web, financial services, telecommunications, logistics and government. DataStax is backed by industry leading investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Crosslink Capital and is based in San Mateo, CA.

Esri
Esri's geographic information systems and data gives you the power to think and plan geographically. GIS is used in more than 350,000 organizations worldwide. It helps cities, governments, universities, and Fortune 500 companies save money, lives, and our environment. Whether discovering new markets, streamlining supply chains, efficiently managing assets, or setting alternative energy projects, these organizations use GIS to collect, and analyze geographic information, which helps them discover relationships, patterns, and trends. They solve problems and make better decisions because they are looking at their data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared.

Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that helps over 500 million people around the world communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The site has been built on common open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP and 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, Cassandra, Hive, Scribe, and Thrift. Facebook engineers actively contribute and participate in various open source projects especially around the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, developing technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph.

Feedzai
FeedZai Pulse™: Real-Time, Big Data, Made Easy! is a revolutionary next-generation business intelligence platform that combines the power of its real-time data processing engine (Pulse™) with the scalability of big data processing solutions resulting in the seamless integration of real-time data processing with offline data processing tools such as Cassandra™ or Hadoop™. Launched in May 2011, in just 9 months, FeedZai Pulse attracted clients from 4 continents and processes data from over 90 countries at rates of up to tens of thousands messages per second, each of them compared against months of continuously updated historical data. FeedZai was named a Cool Vendor by Gartner in 2011.

Hadapt
The Hadapt Adaptive Analytic Platform™ is the first big data platform to combine the benefits of Apache Hadoop and relational DBMS technology into a single system for applications that rely on multi-structured data analytics. Hadapt was designed for the cloud, and is optimized for virtualized environments. In addition to providing the full power of MapReduce, Hadapt offers enhanced SQL support and the ability to work with all of your data within one platform.

Hortonworks
Hortonworks was formed in July 2011 by Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital in order to promote the development and adoption of Apache Hadoop, the leading open source platform for storing, managing and analyzing large volumes of data. Together with the Apache community, Hortonworks is making Hadoop more robust and easier to install, manage and use. The company and its founders are leaders in designing and delivering current and future generations of Apache Hadoop and leverage their expertise to provide unmatched technical support, training and certification programs for enterprises, systems integrators and technology vendors, including ISVs, OEMs and service providers.

Impetus
Impetus is the R&D and development partner for some of the world's leading technology enabled companies. With a focused Big Data Practice, Impetus offers IP-enabled services for vendor-neutral architecture, design and implementation of Enterprise-ready Big Data Analytics solutions. Impetus has helped Fortune 100 companies derive intelligence from large unstructured and hybrid data-sets using technologies like Hadoop (Cloudera, MapR), NoSQL and MPP databases by employing methods like real-time analytics, sentiment analysis, predictive analytics and machine-learning. Impetus Big Data experts regularly make open-source contributions and frequently share best practices and case studies in conferences and webcasts.

Jaspersoft
Jaspersoft provides the most flexible, cost effective and widely deployed Business Intelligence suite in the world, enabling better decision making through highly interactive, web-based reports, dashboards and analysis. Leveraging a commercial open source business model, Jaspersoft provides end-to-end BI capabilities at a fraction of the cost of other vendors. The BI suite includes pixel-perfect enterprise reporting, ad hoc query, dashboards, OLAP and in-memory analysis, and data integration. Jaspersoft is the only BI vendor that enables companies to adapt to the new, virtualized world by providing a complete spectrum of on-premise, multi-tenant SaaS and cloud-based deployment options for both embedded and standalone business intelligence.

Karmasphere
Karmasphere, a Big Data Analytics company, unlocks the power of Apache Hadoop for developers and analysts in the enterprise. In a world where data is vital to businesses, companies come to Karmasphere to bring new services to market and accelerate revenues. Karmasphere offers a Big Data Analytics solution to mine and explore unstructured data produced by web, mobile, sensor and social media together with traditional structured data. Our product suite builds on the Karmasphere Big Data Analytics Platform™ offering independence across Hadoop environments, one-click deployment across any cloud or cluster, use of standard programming and query languages and a graphical user interface, to maximize productivity for greater discovery, insight and action.

Lucid Imagination
Lucid Imagination is the commercial company exclusively dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr open source enterprise search technology. It provides search solution development platforms built on the power of Lucene/Solr open source search via enterprise-grade subscriptions. The company's LucidWorks Search Platform 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, the LucidWorks Search Platform 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.

MapR Technologies
MapR Technologies provides the industry's most differentiated distribution for Apache Hadoop. MapR's technological advances make Hadoop easier to use with direct access NFS, more dependable with full HA, snapshots and mirrors, and faster with two to five times better performance than other distributions. MapR's complete distribution is 100% API compatible with Apache Hadoop (MapReduce, HDFS and HBase). MapR fully tests and supports the complete distribution, combining MapR's intellectual property with the best from the community, including the latest patches. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Please visit www.mapr.com.

Pervasive
Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW) helps companies get the most out of their data investments through agile, embeddable software including on-premises and cloud-based services for data management, data integration, B2B exchange and analytics. Pervasive DataRush™ is an embeddable high-performance software platform for Big Data analytics and preparation applications such as claims processing, risk analysis, fraud detection, data mining, predictive analytics, sales optimization and marketing analytics. Pervasive Innovation Labs invests in exploring and creating cutting-edge solutions for the toughest data analysis and data delivery challenges. For more than two decades, Pervasive products have delivered value to tens of thousands of customers worldwide.

Platform Computing
Platform Computing, an IBM Company, is a leader in cluster, grid, and cloud management software - serving more than 2,000 of the world's most demanding organizations. For 19 years, its workload and resource management solutions have delivered optimized IT infrastructures, ease of management, and lower costs for enterprise, HPC, and technical computing clients. Visit www.platform.com. Twitter: @Platform_Tweets.. For more information about IBM Technical Computing: http://www.ibm.com/deepcomputing .

Revolution Analytics
Revolution Analytics delivers advanced analytics software at half the cost of existing solutions. By building on open source R-the world's most powerful statistics software-with innovations in big data analysis, integration and user experience, Revolution Analytics meets the demands and requirements of modern data-driven businesses. Leading organizations including Merck, Bank of America and Mu Sigma rely on Revolution R Enterprise for their data analysis, development and mission-critical production needs. Revolution Analytics is committed to fostering the growth of the R community, and offers free licenses of Revolution R Enterprise to academia.

Scaleout Software
ScaleOut Software offers distributed in-memory data grid (IMDG) middleware for scaling application performance and accelerating computation. ScaleOut StateServerR removes performance bottlenecks and gives applications scalable access to data in cloud and on-premise environments. Global data integration (GDI) enables automatic data migration to and from the cloud, and provides synchronization across multiple remote data grids so they can be viewed as a single virtual IMDG. Parallel query and a built-in map/reduce engine meet the needs of enterprise application users to rapidly analyze data for fast decision making. Best of all, its ease of use makes the powerful capabilities intuitive to use.

Skytree, Inc.
Skytree is a big data analytics company that enables organizations to perform machine learning and other advanced analytics methods on massive amounts of data. The first-of-a-kind Skytree machine learning server delivers unsurpassed performance over existing solutions, is easy to deploy and can provide close to real-time response times. Skytree is based in Silicon Valley and the team has two decades of state of the art scalable machine learning experience, providing guidance to some of the worlds most demanding and data intensive environments such as the Large Hadron Collider, NASA, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Splunk
Splunk is a massively scalable software engine used to collect, index, monitor and analyze machine data. Unstructured and dynamic, machine data represents the fastest growing and most complex segment of data today. Machine data provides a definitive record of transactions, customer behavior, security threats, system health, fraudulent activity and more. Only Splunk lets you capture and analyze real-time and historical machine data from one place, so you can unlock its value. Over 2,900 customers in 70 countries use Splunk to improve service, reduce costs, mitigate risks and gain new levels of operational visibility and intelligence for IT and the business.

Tableau Software
Meet the new face of business intelligence: Tableau Software. We're a new kind of BI - rapid fire BI - and we're challenging the market leaders. Our mission is simple: help people see and understand their data. Our award-winning products integrate data exploration and visualization to make analytics fast, easy and fun. We understand the needs of businesspeople, non-technical and technical alike, when it comes to retrieving and analyzing large volumes of data. As a result, Tableau has already attracted over 65,000 licensed users in companies from one-person businesses to the world's largest organizations. Learn more at www.tableausoftware.com.

Talend
Talend is the recognized leader in open source integration solutions, providing a holistic integration platform that addresses data, application and process integration through a unified technology stack and supports organizations in their shift toward the Cloud and Big Data. Talend's solutions portfolio includes data integration (operational data integration and ETL for Business Intelligence), data quality, master data management (MDM), enterprise service bus (ESB) and business process management (BPM). 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 www.talend.com