Velocity 2011 Sponsors

Keynote Systems
Keynote is the global leader in Internet and mobile cloud monitoring. We provide companies with solutions for continuously improving the online experience. Our testing, monitoring and measurement products and services are used by a variety of enterprises such as online portals, e-commerce sites, B2B sites, mobile operators and mobile infrastructure providers. With Keynote, companies know precisely how their Web sites, content, and applications perform on actual browsers, networks, and mobile devices.

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.

Google
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.

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 DNS resolution of more than 30 million domains globally (www.ultradns.com).

Betfair
Betfair is one of the world's largest online sports betting providers. In 2000, it pioneered the concept of peer-to-peer betting, enabling customers to wager against one another, at odds they set themselves. Its revolutionary Betting Exchange is built upon cutting-edge technology that processes over five million transactions a day - more than all European stock exchanges combined. Betfair employs 600 IT engineers tasked with developing its proprietary technology - the driving force of the business.

Cotendo
Cotendo is an innovative provider of CDN and Site Acceleration services, offering unprecedented site performance, transparency, application-level management capabilities, granular content delivery flexibility, and best-in-class content acceleration to Fortune 500 enterprises, Tier 1 telecommunications providers, eCommerce sites, gaming companies, financial services, and social and advertising networks. Cotendo has been awarded the MIT Technology Review's 2011 TR50 award for the world's most innovative companies. For more information visit http://www.cotendo.com.

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. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.

Akamai
Akamai® provides market-leading, cloud-based services for optimizing Web and mobile content and applications, online HD video, and secure e-commerce. Combining highly-distributed, energy-efficient computing with intelligent software, Akamai's global platform is transforming the cloud into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, transact and collaborate. To learn more please visit www.akamai.com and follow @Akamai on Twitter.

Apica
Apica is a leading cloud testing and performance monitoring provider. Apica WebExcellence Suite is a proven platform for testing, monitoring and optimizing cloud-based and mobile applications. Over 250 customers worldwide use Apica for the highest possible performance standards in the cloud. Apica WebExcellence Suite includes Apica LoadTest, Apica WebPerformance, and Apica WebOverload.

dynaTrace
dynaTrace has emerged as the new leader in application performance management. Our next generation technology provides the only continuous, transaction-pure system that supports the entire application lifecycle. Hundreds of large and mid-sized companies rely on dynaTrace to gain greater business value from their application investments.

Equinix
Equinix connects businesses around the world through a global platform of high performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems and the broadest choice of networks. More than 3,275 companies connect to more than 625 networks and rely on Platform Equinix to grow their business across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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.

New Relic
New Relic is the leading SaaS provider of application performance solutions that enable developers to monitor and troubleshoot web app application performance for apps in the cloud or datacenter. More than 9,000 organizations use New Relic, including customers 37signals, AT&T, Intuit, Comcast, Zynga, and Groupon.

Opscode
Opscode helps companies develop fully automated server infrastructures that scale easily and predictably; can be quickly rebuilt in any environment, saving developers and systems engineers time and money. Our team of web infrastructure experts are responsible for building and operating some of the world's largest websites and cloud computing platforms.

Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing leader. Our real-time, multitenant Force.com platform has revolutionized how 92,300+ customers worldwide collaborate and communicate. Performance Engineering maintains high-performing, scalable, and reliable cloud platforms through, deep architecture expertise, automation, and advanced simulation tools. See why we're one of the "Best Places to Work" (FORTUNE).

Yahoo! Inc.
Yahoo! is the premier digital media company, creating deeply personal digital experiences that keep more than half a billion people connected to what matters most, across devices and around the globe. Yahoo!'s unique combination of Science + Art + Scale connects advertisers to their consumers. Visitpressroom.yahoo.com or yodel.yahoo.com.

AppDynamics
AppDynamics is the leading provider of application management in the cloud and the data center, delivering solutions for highly demanding distributed, dynamic, and agile environments. Our customers use us to monitor, troubleshoot, diagnose, and scale their production applications, and over 20,000 people have downloaded our free java solution at http://www.appdynamics.com/free

Aptimize
Aptimize is the world leader in automated website performance tuning, with software that dynamically accelerates websites without code changes or extra hardware. The world's largest companies trust Aptimize to improve the effectiveness of their websites and intranets, with faster load times, lower data costs and reduced expenditure on server infrastructure.

Blaze
Blaze is an online service that decreases website page load times by optimizing Front End Performance. Blaze's automated optimization combined with our Content Delivery Network will maximize the potential performance of your site.

CDNetworks
CDNetworks enables mission critical e-business in the world's most challenging markets. CDNetworks' unique position as the only multinational CDN with expertise and infrastructure in China, and other emerging markets, makes us a trusted technology and business advisor to more than 1,200 companies worldwide. www.cdnetworks.com.

Cedexis
Cedexis brings unprecedented visibility and control over Cloud performance through our community-based monitoring & analysis solution, Cedexis Radar, and our revolutionary global traffic management platform, Cedexis Openmix. Over 130 companies, including some of the world's largest consumer brands, trust Cedexis to optimize their multi-platform strategies. Learn more at www.cedexis.com.

Citrix Systems
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand service. Founded in 1989, Citrix combines virtualization, networking, and cloud computing technologies into a full portfolio of products that enable virtual workstyles for users and virtual datacenters for IT.

Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, provides software, experts and best practices to ensure the world's most important technologies work well and deliver value. Compuware customers include 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites. Learn more: compuware.com.

Dyn Inc.
Dyn provides rock-solid Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for everyone from the home user to the largest Web enterprise. Specializing in managed DNS and email delivery, Dyn keeps businesses and websites up and running at peak performance. Visit www.dyn.com.

F5 Networks
F5 Networks is a global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), ensuring the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications. F5's flexible architectural framework enables community-driven innovation that helps organizations enhance IT agility and dynamically deliver services that generate true business value.

Heroku
Heroku is a cloud application platform for Ruby - a new way of building and deploying web apps. Developers can put 100% focus on code, not servers, deployment, operations or scaling. We're passionate and active supporters of Ruby technologies and cloud architecture. Tens of thousands of developers have deployed hundreds of thousands of apps to Heroku.

Percona
Percona makes MySQL more valuable to customers and users by advancing the performance of the database, and by teaching clients how to achieve high performance and scalability with MySQL. Our flagship product is Percona Server with XtraDB, an enhanced, open-source variant of the MySQL database with an improved version of the InnoDB storage engine. Our founders wrote the book High Performance MySQL and are world-famous MySQL experts. We provide consulting, support, training, and development services for MySQL.

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.

Schooner Information Technology
Schooner MySQL and Schooner Membrain are software products which turn standard x86 servers and flash memory into MySQL database or NoSQL data store super-servers. Schooner brings the datacenter scaling without the sprawl, minimal downtime, and optimal performance. Schooner maximizes datacenter efficiency by slashing the need for servers and the power, pipe, and people to run them. Datacenters scale smart with Schooner to handle way bigger loads with way fewer nodes.

SiteSpect
SiteSpect provides the industry's only non-intrusive multivariate testing and behavioral targeting solution, enabling web marketers to optimize their websites across any browser, including any mobile device. With SiteSpect, marketers enjoy unsurpassed speed and flexibility for optimizing all aspects of their site, without the need for ongoing IT involvement.

Splunk
Splunk is the creator of the world's first search engine for fast moving IT data. From one place you can navigate across logs and other types of IT data from any service, application or device regardless of format or source. Now diagnosing and resolving problems is faster and more precise.

Strangeloop
Strangeloop offers a unique family of solutions that accelerate websites and web-based applications for companies like Travelocity, Petco, and Visa. The Strangeloop Site Optimizer offers a powerful set of features that work together to provide roundtrip reduction, rapid rendering, and dynamic browser caching, as well as a host of other automated optimization techniques. Site Optimizer makes Strangeloop's web acceleration capabilities available to companies in different environments: as a hardware appliance, as a virtual appliance, and as a service via the cloud. Strangeloop customers report that implementing Site Optimizer has resulted in 13% increases in online revenue, 10% increases in organic search traffic, and ROI within weeks.

WatchMouse
WatchMouse is a global leader in self-service website and application performance monitoring. WatchMouse products test the behavior, performance and availability of websites, web services and applications utilizing an infrastructure that includes real browsers and a global network of over 50 remote monitoring stations in over 30 countries. Learn more: http://www.watchmouse.com.

Zeus Technology
Zeus software enables our customers to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services in Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments. Implementing a Zeus solution allows organizations to visualize and manipulate the flow of traffic to web-enabled applications, ensuring a consistently robust web infrastructure and providing the competitive advantage online businesses need.

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 DNS resolution of more than 30 million domains globally (www.ultradns.com).