Sponsors & Co-Presenters

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

O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying 'faint signals' from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

Greenplum, a Division of EMC
Greenplum, a division of EMC, is driving the future of Big Data analytics with breakthrough products that harness the skills of data science teams to help global organizations realize the full promise of business agility and become data-driven, predictive enterprises. The division's products include Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform, Greenplum Data Computing Appliance, Greenplum Analytics Lab, Greenplum Database, Greenplum HD and Greenplum Chorus. They embody the power of open systems, cloud computing, virtualization and social collaboration-enabling global organizations to gain greater insight and value from their data than ever before possible.

MapR Technologies
MapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop, making managing and analyzing Big Data a reality for more business users. The award-winning MapR Distribution brings unprecedented dependability, speed and ease-of-use to Hadoop. Combined with data protection and business continuity, MapR enables customers to harness the power of Big Data analytics. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA. To download the latest MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop, please visit http://www.mapr.com/products/download.

Informatica
Informatica is the world's number one independent provider of data integration software. Thousands of organizations around the world rely on Informatica for maximizing return on data to drive their top business imperatives and fully leverage their information assets residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across social networks.

Platfora
Platfora is the first company to harness the potential of Hadoop so that any business user can explore, interact with, and derive insight from massive data sets, and all via an intuitive and richly interactive web interface. The company is based in San Mateo, CA, and its investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Sutter Hill Ventures and In-Q-Tel. For more information visit http://www.platfora.com.

SAP
SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device, SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. We do this by extending the availability of software across on-premise installations, on-demand deployments, and mobile devices. We believe that the power of our people, products, and partners unleashes growth and creates significant new value for our customers, SAP, and, ultimately, entire industries and the economy at large. Our mission is to help companies of all sizes and industries to run better. Our vision is to help the world run better. www.sap.com

SAS Institute
Want to gain insights from big data in shorter reporting windows - while your competitors are still running their analyses? That's the promise of high-performance analytics (HPA). No matter how big the data demands, nor how complex the analysis requirements, HPA helps organizations transform relevant, pertinent data into business value much faster than traditional computing methods. The leader in business analytics software and services, SAS provides scalable, flexible HPA via several distributed processing options - in-memory, in-database and grid computing - that enable organizations to produce precise, transformative results. Learn more at www.sas.com/hpa.

Intel
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, delivers hardware and software technologies to continually advance how people work and live. For over two decades, Intel's contributions to open-source projects-from one end of the solution stack to the other-have helped ensure that a breadth of solutions run exceptionally well on Intel® architecture. As a result, open-source-based solutions, running on Intel® architecture, help unlock business opportunities, power businesses, connect people, and enhance lives. Open source is bringing amazing experiences to life-and Intel is helping power these experiences as a Sponsor of Tomorrow.

Microsoft
Microsoft's Big Data solution allows organizations to unlock insights from structured, unstructured and streaming data. Whether you deploy Hadoop on Windows Server or through Windows Azure to scale on demand, you'll gain the simplicity and manageability of Windows. Analyze this data with familiar tools such as Excel and SharePoint using our Hive ODBC drivers and add-ins. Simplify Hadoop programming with our JavaScript library. Access a wide variety of curated data through Windows Azure Marketplace use tools like SQL Server Integration Services to cleanse the data. Learn more at microsoft.com/bigdata

Digital Reasoning
Digital Reasoning 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.

IBM
Your future is full of big data, and IBM can take you there. As you expand capabilities to address your exploding data volume, variety and velocity, IBM's big data platform provides a foundation for operational intelligence, customer insight and strategic advantage. The platform provides Hadoop-based analytics, stream computing, data warehousing and information integration and governance that can start where ever you are today, and help you evolve to address the complex problems of tomorrow. In addition, IBM's platform computing systems provides high performance, dense and power efficient computing, storage and networking that will grow and adapt with you.

Pentaho
Pentaho is building the future of business analytics. Pentaho's open source heritage drives our continued innovation in a modern, integrated, embeddable platform built for accessing all data sources. With support for all of the leading Hadoop distributions, NoSQL databases and high performance analytic databases, Pentaho provides the broadest support for big data analytics, as well as integration and orchestration of big data and traditional sources. 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.

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.

Splunk
Splunk® Inc. provides the engine for machine data™. Splunk software collects, indexes and harnesses the machine-generated big data coming from the websites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices that power business. Splunk software enables organizations to monitor, search, analyze, visualize and act on massive streams of real-time and historical machine data. More than 4,400 enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers in more than 80 countries use Splunk Enterprise to gain operational intelligence that deepens business and customer understanding, improves service and uptime, reduces cost and mitigates cyber-security risk. To learn more please visit www.splunk.com/company.

Alteryx
Alteryx provides indispensable analytic solutions for enterprise companies making critical decisions about how to expand and grow. Our product, Alteryx Strategic Analytics, is a desktop-to-cloud Agile BI and analytics solution designed for Data Artisans and business leaders that brings together the market knowledge, location insight, and business intelligence today's organizations require. For more than a decade, Alteryx has enabled strategic planning executives to identify and seize market opportunities, outsmart their competitors, and drive more revenue. Customers like Experian Marketing Services and McDonald's rely on Alteryx daily for their most important decisions. Headquartered in Irvine, California, and with key offices in Boulder and in Silicon Valley, CA, Alteryx empowers 250+ customers and 200,000+ users worldwide. Get inspired today at www.alteryx.com or call 1-888-836-4274.

Autonomy, an HP Company
Autonomy, an HP company, is a market-leading software company that helps organizations understand the meaning in information. A pioneer in its industry, Autonomy's unique meaning-based technology makes sense of and processes unstructured 'human information,' drawing real business value from that meaning.

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.

Cleversafe
Cleversafe has created a breakthrough technology that solves petabyte and beyond big data storage problems. This solution drives up to 90% of the storage costs out of the business while enabling secure and reliable global access and collaboration. Cleversafe is combining the power of Cleversafe's Dispersed Storage® System with Hadoop MapReduce on the same platform. This solution replaces the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) which relies on 3 copies to protect data thereby significantly improving reliability and allowing analytics at a scale previously unattainable. Many of the world's largest data repositories rely on Cleversafe for limitless data storage.

Kognitio
Kognitio is driving the convergence of Big Data, in-memory analytics and cloud computing. Having delivered the first in-memory analytical platform in 1989, it was designed from the ground up to provide the highest amount of scalable compute power to allow rapid execution of complex analytical queries without the administrative overhead of manipulating data. Kognitio software runs on industry-standard x86 servers, or as an appliance, or in Kognitio Cloud, a ready-to-use analytical platform. Kognitio Cloud is a secure, private or public cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), leveraging the cloud computing model to make the Kognitio Analytical Platform available on a subscription basis. www.kognitio.com

NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Customers choose our solutions in Big Data Cloud, virtualization, business applications, and data protection. NetApp with its best-of-breed partnerships delivers analytical solutions, including Hadoop, that provide highly reliable, ready to deploy solutions allowing companies to gain insights from their data and get to revenue faster. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.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.

Hortonworks
Hortonworks is a leading commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, the preeminent open source platform for storing, managing and analyzing big data. Our distribution, Hortonworks Data Platform powered by Apache Hadoop, provides an open and stable foundation for enterprises and a growing ecosystem to build and deploy big data solutions. Hortonworks is the trusted source for information on Hadoop, and together with the Apache community, Hortonworks is making Hadoop more robust and easier to install, manage and use. Hortonworks provides unmatched technical support, training and certification programs for enterprises, systems integrators, and technology vendors. For more information, visit www.hortonworks.com.

Versant
Versant Corporation (Nasdaq:VSNT) is an industry leader in building specialized NoSQL data management systems to enable the real-time enterprise. Using the Versant Database Engine, enterprises can handle complex information in environments that demand high performance, concurrency, and availability, significantly cut hardware and administration costs, speed and simplify development, and deliver products with a strong competitive edge. Versant's solutions are deployed in over 150,000 installations across a wide array of industries, including telecommunications, energy, financial services, transportation, manufacturing, and defense. For more than 20 years, Versant has been a trusted partner of Global 2000 companies such as Ericsson, Verizon, Siemens, and Financial Times, as well as the U.S. Government.

Actian
Actian Corporation enables organizations to transform big data into business value with data management solutions to transact, analyze, and take automated action across their business operations. Actian helps 10,000 customers worldwide take action on their big data with Action Apps, Vectorwise and Ingres. Vectorwise has pioneere, high-performance Hadoop analytics with leading social media companies such as Badoo, IsCool and NK. The Actian Hadoop Data Connector provides a rapidly implemented, robust and scalable solution that saves time and eliminates the risk of relying on custom integration code to support mission critical big data analytic applications.

Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services offers a collection of tools for storing, querying and collaborating around datasets at any scale. The AWS Cloud features pay as you go access to production grade, high scale services for working with data, including NoSQL database services such as DynamoDB, managed Hadoop analytics platforms with Elastic MapReduce, and highly durable storage. Get started with the free tier; sign up at: http://aws.amazon.com/big-data

AMD
AMD (NYSE: AMD) is a semiconductor design innovator leading the next era of vivid digital experiences with its ground-breaking AMD Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) that power a wide range of computing devices. AMD's server computing products are focused on driving industry-leading cloud computing and virtualization environments. AMD's superior graphics technologies are found in a variety of solutions ranging from game consoles, PCs to supercomputers. For more information, visit http://www.amd.com.

Arista Networks
Arista Networks was founded to deliver networking solutions for large data center and HPC environments and delivers a portfolio of Gigabit and 10GBE switches that redefine network architectures, brings extensibility to networking and dramatically changes the price/performance of data center networks. At the core of Arista's platform is the Extensible Operating System (EOS™), a ground-breaking network operating system with single-image consistency across hardware platforms, and modern core architecture enabling in-service upgrades and application extensibility.

Birst
Birst™ is the leader in agile business analytics. It offers a single place to manage all of your organization's business analytics and the agility to answer questions spanning departments, data sources, and deployments-across both public and private clouds. Birst gives users the fastest way to answer their most pressing business questions, and, the ones they didn't know to ask. At one-third the cost, time, and staff of traditional big BI, Birst brings the benefits of analytics and fact-based decision-making to a much broader audience. For more information, visit www.birst.com.

Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology consulting for nearly a century. Today, the firm provides services primarily to the US government in defense, intelligence, and civil markets, and to major corporations, institutions, and not-for-profit organizations. Booz Allen offers clients deep functional knowledge spanning strategy and organization, engineering and operations, technology, and analytics-which it combines with specialized expertise in clients' mission and domain areas to help solve their toughest problems. Booz Allen is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, employs more than 25,000 people, and had revenue of $5.59 billion for the 12 months ended March 31, 2011. To learn more, visit www.boozallen.com. (NYSE: BAH)

Calpont
Calpont is the provider of InfiniDB - the simple, scalable platform for Big Data analytics. InfiniDB is an MPP, column-oriented data technology designed from inception for massive scale, high performance analytics and ad-hoc data discovery. Known for rapid implementation, unmatched simplicity and extraordinary value, InfiniDB is a proven solution for software, online digital media, telecom, and other data intensive businesses. InfiniDB's unique two-tier architecture optimizes query processing to all CPUs and accesses only the data required for analysis. Complex analyses that used to take hours now take minutes or seconds, consistently. Unlike MapReduce, NoSQL and row RDBMS offerings, InfiniDB is ready for large scale analytic workloads out-of-box - requiring no indexes, materialized views, manual tuning or manual partitioning.

Central Intelligence Agency
Why work for a company when you can serve your nation? The Central Intelligence Agency is the premier agency responsible for providing global intelligence on the ever-changing political, social, economic, technological and military environment. Here, your paramount goal and mission will be to protect the national security of the United States. Virtually any job you can imagine is available at the CIA - plus, some you can't even imagine.

Cignex Datamatics
CIGNEX Datamatics Inc. (a subsidiary of Datamatics Global Services Ltd.) is the global leader in Commercial Open Source Enterprise solutions and offers advisory consulting, development and implementation services for Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH). Since 2000, CIGNEX Datamatics has implemented over 250 Open Source enterprise solutions addressing enterprise requirements from Portals, Content to Big Data solutions. www.cignex.com

Cirro
In the world of distributed data, cloud computing, and Big Data there is a need to access any data, anywhere, at any time with minimal technical support. Cirro is disrupting traditional data analytic approaches by empowering non-technical analysts to perform complex analysis on big data and traditional data sources with the simplicity of Excel or other in-house business intelligence tools without the complexity of dealing with multiple environments and languages. Users are free to 'ask questions about their data' with unparalleled access to any data regardless of the platform or environment for faster, more-informed data exploration and decision-making.

Cloudwick Technologies
Cloudwick Technologies is a Silicon Valley startup that provides Hadoop implementation services for the enterprises - Hadoop Infrastructure services and Hadoop Data Integration Services. Hadoop Platform Infrastructure services will enable organization to deploy Hadoop solutions rapidly. This service is provided within enterprise, in cloud or Cloudwick hosted dedicated Hadoop infrastructure. Hadoop Data integration services will integrate Hadoop with existing data sources within organization - pull data out of weblogs or integrate with Mysql, Oracle, Netezza, Teradata or other enterprise data sources. Cloudwick also provide ongoing monitoring of Hadoop infrastructure via dev-ops monitoring services.

Continuuity
Continuuity is a stealth mode Bigdata startup, focused on enabling the next wave of Bigdata application development. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA, and its investors include Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners and the Data Collective. For more information visit http://www.continuuity.com

Convey Computer
Based in Texas, Convey Computer breaks power, performance, and programmability barriers with hybrid-core computing-a system that marries the low cost and simple programming model of a commodity system with the performance of a customized hardware architecture. More information can be found at www.conveycomputer.com

Coraid
Ethernet SAN Delivers High Performance, Scale-out Storage for Virtualization and Cloud Coraid® EtherDrive® solutions provide enterprises of all sizes with flexible, high-performance Ethernet SAN storage. Coraid uniquely delivers the fundamental building blocks for scaling out storage projects for virtualization, high-performance computing, and cloud storage. Coraid solutions are trusted by companies in sectors including manufacturing, life sciences, software, healthcare, education, financial services, military, and hosting. For more information contact Coraid at 1.877.548.7200, visit us on the web at www.coraid.com or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/Coraid. Coraid--Redefining Storage Economics

Couchbase
Couchbase is the NoSQL database leader, with production deployments at AOL, Deutsche Post, NTT Docomo, Orbitz, Salesforce.com, Turner Broadcasting Systems, Vimeo, Zynga and hundreds of other household names worldwide. Couchbase Server is the simple, fast, elastic NoSQL database that delivers a more scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective approach to data management than relational database technology. It is particularly well suited for web applications deployed on virtualized or cloud infrastructures, and for applications requiring real-time data synchronization between mobile devices and the cloud. Couchbase is a privately held company funded by Accel Partners, Ignition Partners, Mayfield Fund and North Bridge Venture Partners.

Datameer
Datameer offers the first data analytics application built natively on Hadoop that helps end users access, analyze and visualize data of any type, size, or source. Founded by Hadoop veterans in 2009, Datameer provides unparalleled access to data with minimal IT resources. Datameer scales from a laptop to thousands of nodes and is available for all major Hadoop distributions including Apache, Cloudera, EMC, Hortonworks, IBM, MapR, Yahoo!, Amazon and Microsoft Azure.

Dell
Dell Inc. listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. Our cloud and big data solutions integrate best-in-class software, hardware and services, and enable IT efficiency, organizational effectiveness and innovation. www.Dell.com/Hadoop, www.Dell.com/PowerEdgeC

Feedzai
FeedZai creates software solutions that uncover and manage business anomalies in real-time so that companies can grow revenues from positive anomalies, and control costs and risks by managing negative anomalies. FeedZai's fraud prevention application delivers the industry's best sub-second fraud blocking with the lowest percent false positives. FeedZai's business monitoring application delivers alerts that predict future anomalies in networks and applications for proactive control. Customers include Coca-Cola, Logica, Vodafone, Ericsson, SIBs Payment Solutions, Horizon Wind Energy, and Servebase Credit Card Solutions. FeedZai is headquartered in Redwood City, CA. www.feedzai.com

GridGain
GridGain develops software for companies who see real time big data as a strategic asset and who need live data business analytics and processing. Our product is a Java-based open source middleware platform that provides in-memory processing by integrating compute and in-memory data grid technologies that can scale up from a single server to thousands of machines. Unlike complex, decade-old SQL, ERP or Hadoop ETL systems which use dead data for batch offline processing, our platform allows companies to harness live data for smarter, low latency real time transactional processing and analytics.

Hadapt
Hadapt has developed the industry's only Big Data analytic platform natively integrating SQL with Apache Hadoop. The unification of these traditionally segregated platforms enables customers to analyze all of their data (structured, semi-structured and unstructured) in a single platform-no connectors, complexities or rigid structure. The company's core technology began as research in the Yale Computer Science department under co-founders Dr. Daniel Abadi and Ph.D student Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski. In 2011, led by co-founder and CEO Justin Borgman, Hadapt raised $9.5MM Series A round of funding from Bessemer Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

HP
HP, the world's largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses. HP applies new thinking and ideas to create simple, valuable and trusted experiences through a comprehensive portfolio of hardware, software and services. To complement big data solutions from Vertica and Autonomy, HP has partnered with the leading Hadoop technology vendors to provide the most comprehensive, tested and certified Hadoop platforms on the market today. At HP we work to make what you do matter even more.

HStreaming
HStreaming transforms any Hadoop distribution into a continuous real-time analytics platform with latencies in milliseconds. The system allows customers to analyze structured and unstructured data streams as they get generated in order to find insights, visualize, and react to data in real time. The platform scales to petabytes of new data per day. For a free trial, download HStreaming Community Edition.

Impetus
Impetus Technologies is a leading provider of Big Data solutions for the Fortune 5000. We help customers effectively manage the "3-Vs" of Big Data and gain new business insights across their enterprises. Impetus has experience extending across the big data ecosystem including Hadoop, NoSQL, NewSQL, MPP databases, machine learning and visualization; and across multiple verticals including finance, media, telecom, retail, healthcare, and manufacturing. Impetus offers a quick start program, architecture advisory services, proof of concept, and implementation expertise.

Karmasphere
Karmasphere, the leader in Big Data Intelligence, equips companies to unlock the power of Big Data in Hadoop, opening up a whole new world of possibilities to add value to their businesses. Karmasphere makes unparalleled collaboration possible for Big Data Analytics teams so they can discover and share new patterns, relationships, drivers and insights for any multi-structured data in a variety of Hadoop distributions including: Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, Cloudera, HortonWorks, IBM, and MapR Technologies.

LucidWorks
LucidWorks is the trusted name in Search, Discovery and Analytics, delivering the only enterprise-grade embedded search solutions built on Apache Lucene/Solr open source search. The LucidWorks Product Suite consists of two development platforms - LucidWorks Search and LucidWorks Big Data. LucidWorks Search delivers unmatched scalability to billions of documents, with sub-second query and faceting response time. LucidWorks Big Data tightly integrates key Apache projects needed to build and deploy applications needing access to multi-structured data. Leveraging the scalable power of Apache projects such as Lucene/Solr, Hadoop, Mahout and Zookeeper enables organizations to meet Big Data requirements: Volume, Variety and Velocity.

Open BI
OpenBI is an innovative professional services firm committed to helping customers extract value from their growing data assets. Our transformative services combine architecture and implementation expertise in big data, advanced analytics and business intelligence. Clients benefit from OpenBI's real-world expertise in the Hadoop ecosystem, NoSQL, and high performance analytic databases. The OpenBI team delivers open-architected data integration and BI technology solutions from vendors Pentaho and Talend. We also assist data scientists with agile intelligence and advanced analytics platforms such as Tableau and R. OpenBI customers see us as innovative and pragmatic - delivering top-tier intelligence solutions efficiently and economically.

Oracle
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. We offer the broadest and most integrated portfolio of big data and business analytics products to help you acquire and organize diverse data types and analyze them alongside your existing data to make the most informed decisions. With Oracle's big data platform, you can cost-effectively jump-start your big data projects; simplify Hadoop programming and integration; empower business users to easily explore new information and improve the performance and lower the TCO of business analytics.

OrangeFS
As an advocate for open source development, we are providing development and marketing resources toward OrangeFS, the next generation of PVFS for high performance cluster computing. This commitment includes commercial-grade product services for present and future customers who are leveraging OrangeFS in applications for high-performance and enterprise computing.

ParAccel
ParAccel accelerates analytics and helps companies accelerate, innovate, and compete. The ParAccel Analytic Platform combines an analytic database with advanced extensibility and integration technology to deliver big analytics anytime, anywhere. Fortune 1000 customers are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most prolific, most powerful, most expansive analytic platform.

Penguin Computing
For well over a decade Penguin Computing has been delivering integrated, Linux based solutions for the enterprise and HPC space. With Linux expertise that is unmatched in the industry Penguin Computing offers an end-to-end portfolio of products that range from Linux servers and workstations to integrated, turn-key HPC clusters and cluster management software. For customers with special hardware requirements Penguin Computing provides customized 'build to order' server solutions. Complementing Penguin Computing's hardware and software solutions is Penguin Computing on Demand (POD), a public HPC cloud that provides virtual supercomputing capabilities on-demand on a pay-as-you-go basis. Penguin is the one-stop shop for HPC and enterprise customers providing solutions for all user profiles: Be it an individual user who requires a high powered workstation, an enterprise looking for a server platform optimized for low power consumption or an organization that needs supercomputing capabilities on-site, 'in the cloud' or in a hybrid model that combines both approaches.

Pervasive Software
Pervasive Software and its Big Data products deliver strategic advantages to businesses by providing extreme performance capabilities at an economical price point to customers around the globe. Specializing in applications spanning claims processing, risk analysis, fraud detection, data mining, predictive analytics, sales optimization and marketing analytics, Pervasive offers solutions that can quickly crunch through big data and scale to meet any business need throughout a company's continued growth cycle. With a single, unified platform for end-to-end data access, transformation, analytics, visualization and reports on both Hadoop and high-performance servers. Pervasive Big Data ensures that data scientists and business analysts derive rapid insight from terabytes of data on commodity hardware. For additional information, go to bigdata.pervasive.com.

Qubole
Qubole delivers the next-generation big data platform for analyzing and processing data sets via the cloud. Having conceived and built the petabyte scale "big data" platform at Facebook, Qubole co-founders are bringing their learning from that experience to provide similar infrastructure and tools on the cloud. Qubole big data platform-as-a-service is targeted towards data analysts, data scientists and ETL engineers. With Qubole, users can quickly inspect their data, author and execute queries and convert queries into scheduled jobs. The current Qubole platform is built on an optimized version of Apache Hadoop and Hive, which allows users to work with massive sets of structured and unstructured (big) data in the cloud.

Quest Software
Quest Software simplifies and reduces the cost of managing IT for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Our innovative solutions make solving the toughest IT management problems easier, enabling customers to save time and money across physical, virtual and cloud environments. For more information about Quest solutions for application management, database management, Windows management, virtualization management, and IT management, go to www.quest.com.

Rainstor
RainStor's database enables the world's largest companies to keep and access limitless amounts of data for as long as they want at the lowest cost. It features the highest level of compression on the market, together with high performance on-demand query and simplified management. RainStor runs natively on a variety of architectures and infrastructure including Hadoop and the Cloud. With over 100 blue chip customers, RainStor goes to market directly and through strategic partners including AdaptiveMobile, Anritsu, Dell, HP, Teradata among others. For more info, www.rainstor.com or @rainstor

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 enterprise deployment, 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 StateServer® 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.

Simba Technologies Inc.
Simba is the world expert in data access and analytics. Simba's products power business intelligence-connecting front-end applications with back-end data sources. Microsoft and Simba developed ODBC in 1992. SimbaEngine SDK is the foundation for developing ODBC 3.52 and JDBC 4.0 drivers for any data source. Simba ODBC 3.52 Drivers for Hadoop/Hive, Cassandra, MongoDB and SalesForce connect products like Excel, MicroStrategy and Tableau to cloud and Big Data sources. No other Big Data ODBC drivers are as advanced or BI ready. Simba's data access and analytics solutions are chosen by ISVs such as MapR, Microsoft, SAP and Teradata. | www.simba.com

SiSense
SiSense Prism is a Big Data Analytics Solution that provides the benefits of In-Memory without its disadvantages. SiSense In-Memory Columnar Datastore analyzes 100 times more data at 10 times the speed of comparable solutions. No need to set up complex data warehouse systems or OLAP cubes. No need for programming either, regardless where data comes from or how big it is. Download a free trial version of the software at http://www.sisense.com/prism-free-trial

SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
Spanning 13 data centers in the United States, Asia and Europe and a globalfootprint of network points of presence, SoftLayer operates a global cloud infrastructure platform built for Internet scale. With 100,000 servers under management, SoftLayer's modular architecture provides unparalleled performance and control, with a full-featured API and sophisticated automation controlling a flexible platform that seamlessly spans physical and virtual devices for secure, low-latency communications. SoftLayer is the largest privately held Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider in the world with a portfolio of 25,000 leading-edge customers from Web startups to global enterprises.

StackIQ
StackIQ offers a complete Hadoop solution featuring the most powerful, automated deployment and management capabilities available. We make it easy to implement Hadoop clusters of any size - from bare-metal to the applications layer - quickly and consistently. Our cluster manager provides consistent, reliable management of the Hadoop cluster through its integrated, database-driven design. What's more, StackIQ's modular architecture lets you customize your cluster environment, tailoring it to fit your unique software requirements.

Supermicro
Supermicro, the leader in server technology innovation and green computing, provides customers around the world with application-optimized server, workstation, blade, storage and GPU systems. Based on its advanced Server Building Block Solutions, Supermicro offers the most optimized selection for IT, datacenter and HPC deployments. The company's system architecture innovations include Twin server, double-sided storage and SuperBlade product families. Offering the most comprehensive product lines in the industry, Supermicro delivers energy-efficient solutions with unmatched performance and value. Founded in 1993, Supermicro is headquartered in Silicon Valley with worldwide operations and manufacturing centers in Europe and Asia. For more information, visit http://www.supermicro.com/hadoop .

Syncsort
Syncsort is a leading provider of high0performance data integration and sort solutions ideally suited for today's complex big data environments. For more than a decade, Syncsort DMExpress® software has delivered fast, efficient, simple and cost-effective solutions for integrating, optimizing and migrating data in thousands of applications around the world. www.syncsort.com/dmexpress

Tableau Software
Tableau Software helps people see and understand data. Tableau's award-winning software delivers fast analytics, visualization and rapid-fire business intelligence on data of any size, format, or subject. The result? Anyone can get answers from data quickly, with no programming required. From executive dashboards to ad-hoc reports, Tableau lets you share mobile and browser-based, interactive analytics in a few clicks. More than 9,000 organizations, including some of the world's largest enterprises, rely on Tableau Software. 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

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.

Think Big Analytics, Inc.
Think Big is the leading professional services firm that's purpose built for Big Data. Our experts work with premium customers to create sustained competitive advantage from data science applications built on Hadoop and real-time Big Data technologies. Think Big is different because we focus exclusively on Big Data. We bring experts who work with your team to do it right the first time, mastering the complexity of distributed data processing and machine learning to create stunning results. Our nimble process emphasizes collaboration with your team to deploy early and improve rapidly from live results in production.

Yahoo!
Yahoo! is focused on creating deeply personal digital experiences that keep more than half a billion people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the globe. Yahoo!'s unique combination of Science + Art + Scale connects advertisers to the consumers who build their businesses. Today, Yahoo! stands out as one of the most visited and most trusted Internet destinations, and is home to the No. 1 sites for finance, sports, news, entertainment news, and more. Our business focuses on creating a content, communications, and community platform that delivers rich consumer experiences and advertising solutions across the screens of people's lives. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Alpine Data Labs
Alpine Data Labs is the leader in predictive analytics for big data. Alpine's products combine intuitive interfaces and native analytic processing in Hadoop to deliver a predictive analytics solution that harnesses the power of Hadoop and other big data platforms while remaining easy to use for experts and novices alike.

GoodData
GoodData is a leading BizData Monetization company, empowering more than 6,000 global businesses to monetize big data. GoodData's BizData Monetization Solutions enable customers to turn BizData, Big Data relevant to business, into new sources of revenue, increased profit margins and greater competitive advantage. GoodData solutions include an end-to-end, cloud-based analytics platform and GoodData Bashes, vertical and functional data analytics solutions that integrate best practices and data analysis in a powerful and visually stunning UX.

Palantir Technologies
Palantir Technologies develops software used by leading government and private sector organizations to integrate and then gain insight from their enterprise data. The company has offices in Palo Alto, CA, McLean, VA, and New York, NY.

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Publishers
Big Data is the first and only peer-reviewed journal to connect industry, academia, and government, to serve a world where the pace from research to implementation is ever accelerating. Spearheaded by Editor-in-Chief, Edd Dumbill, Principal Analyst & Program Chair at O'Reilly Media, and a respected team of data experts, Big Data will be the go-to platform for advances in big data technologies, discussions of unique and innovative big data problems and ideas, as well as the sharing and dissemination of world-class knowledge. Big Data will publish as open access to ensure content is made widely available to a global audience. www.liebertpub.com/big