Velocity 2009 Exhibitors

Amazon
At Amazon, we believe that every day is still Day One. A day to take a first step. A day to look forward to new challenges. And today is that day for you. It's your day to be a part of something great. Your day to make your ideas come to life. And your day to join a company that redefines itself every day. That's the energy and excitement behind Amazon.

Aptimize
Aptimize's software products instantly accelerate web site and intranet speeds by optimizing web pages in real time. Page load times are reduced by 33%-75% with no code changes, no extra hardware. Proven for SharePoint, ASP.NET and now Apache-based sites, Aptimize helps businesses connect faster with customers.

ControlTier
ControlTier is a professional services and open source tools development group that helps software-as-a-service, e-commerce, and financial services companies improve the efficiency, reliability, and agility of their web operations. ControlTier specializes in Fully Automated Provisioning, Continuous Deployment, and Metrics-Driven Management solutions.

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. EFF believes protecting innovation is central to advancing our freedom and has fought to clear the way for encryption, file-sharing software, open source HDTV tools, and much more.

Engine Yard
Engine Yard provides a deployment and management solution that integrates the new generation of software frameworks with cloud computing infrastructure. With Engine Yard, Ruby and Rails software development teams get applications to market more quickly, more reliably and more predictably, leveraging years of experience with the world's largest Rails sites.

Facebook
Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Facebook is a part of millions of people's lives and half of the users return daily. Facebook is a privately-held company and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.

Gear6
Gear6 is the leading provider of scalable Memcached caching solutions that enable superior site, application and database scalability while reducing overall costs. Gear6 delivers the speed required by dynamic web applications to quickly serve millions of users. Our customers are leaders in media, social networking, and content aggregation. For more information, please visit www.gear6.com/webcache.

Google
Google is a proud user and supporter of open source software and development methodologies. Google contributes back to the Open Source community in many ways, including source code, project hosting on Google Code, projects for students including Google Summer of Code and the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, and support for a wide variety of projects, LUGS, and events around the world. Learn more at code.google.com/opensource/

Keynote Systems
Keynote is the leading provider of on-demand test and measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience. Connected companies will know precisely how their Web sites, content, and applications will perform on actual browsers, networks, and mobile devices long before their customers and business are impacted.

NeuStar
NeuStar's managed services support companies that rely on the Internet for critical processes and applications. Webmetrics web performance monitoring and load testing services ensure online performance, competitive advantage, and a positive end-user experience (www.webmetrics.com). UltraDNS services power the resolution of more than 30 million domains globally (www.ultradns.com).

O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, 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 spurring their adoption by amplifying faint signals from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

OPNET
OPNET Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of solutions for managing applications and networks. OPNET’s application performance management solutions leverage best-in-class analytics for end-user experience and application component monitoring, advanced application troubleshooting, and pre-deployment assessment and planning. OPNET solutions have been operationally proven in thousands of customer environments worldwide.

Rackspace Cloud
The Rackspace Cloud provides scalable web, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support. Through an integrated suite of products - Cloud Sites, Cloud Servers and Cloud Files - The Rackspace Cloud enables users to trade the hassles of hardware for a worry-free hosting environment. Learn more at rackspacecoud.com.

RightScale
RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management offers a fully automated management platform that delivers the scalable, cost-effective, on-demand power of cloud computing, while providing complete IT control and transparency. To date, thousands of deployments and over 250,000 servers have been launched on the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. RightScale is committed to delivering the power of cloud computing to any organization by making it easy to deploy and manage mission critical applications, regardless of deployment size, complexity or cloud platform used.

Schooner Information Technology
Schooner Information Technology has pioneered a new generation of data access appliances specifically architected for Web 2.0 and cloud computing datacenters. Schooner appliances provide 8x performance improvements over traditional servers, with 1/8th the power and space requirements, 60% lower TCO, and 100% compatibility with existing Memcached and MySQL Enterprise™ deployments.

Sonoa Systems
Sonoa provides analytics, management and governance solutions for APIs, feeds, and cloud services. Sonoa customers include over 40 leading enterprise, SaaS, and media companies.

SpringSource
SpringSource provides a complete suite of software products that accelerate the entire build, run, manage enterprise Java application lifecycle. SpringSource employs the open source leaders who created and drive innovation for Spring, along with the Java and web thought leaders within the Apache Tomcat, Hyperic, Groovy and Grails open source communities.

Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems has held open systems to be the cornerstone of its business philosophy since the beginning. From desktops to supercomputers, and from development tools to productivity suites, Sun is dedicated to delivering hardware and software based on open industry standards. Today, through shared technology innovation, Sun's continued commitment to Open Source is reflected in its leadership and key contributions to the many projects including Java, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org, OpenSPARC, GNOME, Grid Engine, Jini, JXTA, NetBeans, and Mozilla.