Sponsors

IBM

See how hardware and software solutions from IBM and Red Hat provide solutions for a Smarter Planet. Providing the advantages of Linux, comprehensive services, technology leadership and global reach, the IBM and Red Hat alliance gives you the confidence and ability to deploy a resilient infrastructure throughout your enterprise. The entire IBM Systems product line is enabled for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, making it easy for your business to take advantage of the power of open standards.

HP

As a world-leading information technology company, HP applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. Our focus is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work through technology products and services, form the individual consumer to the largest enterprise.

More information can be found at www.hp.com

Intel

Intel transforms the enterprise through innovation. Solve your most business critical IT challenges with powerful and reliable servers featuring the Intel® Xeon® processor E7. This top of the line processor delivers performance that optimizes your most data demanding workloads and also comes with scalability, memory, and I/O capacity that allows you additional flexibility. You can proactively protect your business critical assets with features that automatically manage hardware errors and guard against malicious software attacks.

Breakthrough Capability for Mission-Critical Computing

EnterpriseDB

EnterpriseDB is the only worldwide provider of products, support and expertise based on PostgreSQL. EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus products are designed with enterprise-grade features providing massive scalability for transaction-intensive applications requiring superior performance, security, and availability. Our Oracle compatibility features reduce TCO, leverage existing skills, and run many Oracle applications unchanged.

IGEL Technology

IGEL Technology offers fully-managed thin clients supporting a native SPICE client for connecting to RHEV for Desktops. As the only thin client vendor offering SPICE in an end-to-end Linux-based solution, IGEL’s German engineering delivers the world’s most sophisticated thin client devices, and redefines the standard for enterprise-class thin client management.

Interactive Ideas

Interactive Ideas is a leading value-added distributor of Software and Technology products, establishing itself in the competitive IT industry by providing excellent customer service, proactively working with its partners and being able to identify emerging technologies. The company provides value-added business and technical services that support our customers and vendors in achieving growth.

Selling only through our reseller channel, Interactive have achieved over 40% revenue growth in each year for the past 4 years. As a long time partner of Red Hat, Interactive Ideas are highly skilled and experienced in their solutions with a specialist Red Hat product manager and renewals expect in-house complementing our team of account managers and marketing personnel. Our pro-active approach to winning new business and supporting our customers means we regularly work with customers on demand generation and revenue growth activities.

Over the last year Interactive have been expanding the eco-system of software vendors we distribute that compliment Red Hat and Open Source to provide solutions for our resellers to take to market. With companies like EnterpriseDB, SEP, Acronis, Seanodes and SolarWinds all now forming part of our "Open Source" stack or "Linux Solutions".

Magirus

The Magirus group is a leading European supplier of IT solutions. The company’s distribution business is focussed on addressing current trends in the IT sector, enabling business partners to take new technologies to market successfully.

MoveOp

MoveOp is a division of NEON Enterprise Software based in Austin, Texas. MoveOp develops and markets server migration automation software that automates key processes involved with migrations of data center servers and applications from one operating system (OS) platform to another.
MoveOp's current product, Migration Readiness Master, helps IT organizations reduce time, cost and complexity of migrations of AIX, Solaris and Linux platforms to blade, rack or virtual servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux. MRM specifically automates the collection, inventory and analysis of the source-platform server and application information required for successful migrations. MRM's analysis and reporting helps companies thoroughly understand any risks while identifying the best platform to migrate to.

Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help our customers – from consumers and small businesses to the largest global organizations – secure and manage their information-driven world against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently. Our software and services protect completely, in ways that can be easily managed and with controls that can be enforced automatically – enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored.

Waratek

Waratek’s Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers (RAIS) technology enables Java clusters to operate as a single, fault-tolerant virtual machine.  Existing Java applications developed for clusters can be re-deployed on RAIS systems without any changes required.  A RAIS Virtual Machine’s low operational costs, resilience, and scalability characteristics are comparable to far larger systems.

Acronis

Acronis is a leading provider of easy-to-use backup, recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments.
Its patented disk imaging technology enables corporations, SMBs and consumers to protect their digital assets. With Acronis' disaster recovery, deployment and migration software, users protect their digital information, maintain business continuity and reduce downtime.

Alfresco

Alfresco is the open platform for social content management – combining the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. Alfresco’s flexible, standards-based architecture provides document management, web content management, records management and social collaboration to over 1,500 enterprise customers in over 40 countries. Alfresco was founded by content management and enterprise software veterans – including the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell. As the most popular open source alternative for Enterprise Content Management, Alfresco has been downloaded more than 3 million times.

Arkeia

Arkeia Software delivers fast, easy-to-use, and affordable solutions for data backup and disaster recovery. Arkeia shipped the industry’s first network backup solution for Linux in 1999 and has recently introduced a breakthrough deduplication technology into its latest major release. Arkeia protects over 200 physical platforms, including the largest support for Linux but also Windows, UNIX, BSD, Mac OS X and Netware. Arkeia protects all major virtual platforms including vSphere, Hyper-V, XenServer and RHEV.
The award-winning Arkeia Network Backup Suite is designed for mid-sized organizations ideal for the consolidation of disparate backup products. Arkeia is the only backup vendor that delivers its backup servers as software and both virtual and hardware appliances, backing up data to disk, tape, and the cloud. We provide bare-metal disaster recovery, LAN/WAN replication of backup sets, and numerous hot backup agents for applications and databases. Arkeia’s source-side progressive deduplication technology reduces storage requirements and accelerates backups, especially of virtual environments. Arkeia is headquartered in San Diego, California

Bacula

Bacula Systems provides the highest quality support, training and professional services for the Bacula open-source backup and recovery software platform. Bacula Enterprise Edition is the leading enterprise backup solution that is 100% open source, free of license costs, adheres strictly to open standards, and is certified on the RHEL platform.
First released in 2002, and now with over 1.5 million downloads, Bacula has eliminated the high cost and vendor lock-in of proprietary backup software for thousands of enterprises, government agencies and educational institutions around the globe. Headquartered in Switzerland, Bacula Systems was founded by the developers of Bacula in response to growing demand for professional support and services to match the quality of the open source Bacula software.

Nimbula

Nimbula, Inc, the Cloud Operating System company, was founded by the team that developed the industry-leading Amazon EC2 public cloud service. Nimbula delivers a new class of cloud infrastructure and services system that uniquely combines the flexibility, scalability and operational efficiencies of the public cloud with the control, security and trust of today's most advanced data centers. Nimbula is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has a development team in South Africa.

SEP AG

SEP is a leading pioneer in network-wide and cross platform data availability software. Since 1992 SEP has developed industry-leading technology for data security and has integrated this into one of the fastest and most reliable data backup solutions available today. It is ideal for both - large enterprises and small to medium sized businesses.

Zarafa

Zarafa is the leading European provider of open source groupware and collaboration software. The company is headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands. Zarafa’s offices in Stuttgart, Hannover and Belo Horizonte (Brazil) provide local sales and support to more than 150 partners and thousands of customers worldwide.
Our core product is the Zarafa Collaboration Platform (ZCP), the European open and compatible groupware platform that can be used as a drop-in Microsoft Exchange replacement for email, calendaring, collaboration and tasks. Zarafa is acclaimed for its unrivalled expertise in calendar and mobile compatibility.