MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 Sponsors

Kickfire
Kickfire provides the first high-performance, plug-and-play analytic appliance for MySQL. Based on a patented SQL chip that packs the power of tens of CPUs into an exceptionally small, low-power form factor, Kickfire delivers a quantum leap in performance efficiency -- avoiding the hardware build out, power, and space costs of today's data warehouse and database offerings. Kickfire's high-user concurrency, high-volume update capability and extensive query and schema support makes it a perfect fit for the broadest range of MySQL business intelligence, reporting, and analysis applications. Kickfire appliances scale from gigabytes to terabytes and are based on Linux and commodity hardware.

Virident
Virident was founded to address the challenges of scale, power and performance in the internet data center. Through a unique and compelling series of innovations, Virident is building systems and software that will deliver breakthrough performance, improved server utilization, and cost and energy efficiency for web applications and the MySQL database tier. Virident servers will establish a new foundation building block for the data center architect and manager, simplifying scaling, decreasing complexity, and conserving capital and power - while delivering unmatched performance. Virident enables data centers to 'do more with less' in this challenging economic environment.

Infobright, Inc
Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, has pioneered the development of self-managing data warehouse software. Infobright highly scalable analytic data warehouse is 90% less work to implement and manage and costs significantly less than other data warehouse solutions. Infobright is being used by companies in online marketing, financial services, telecommunications and other industries to provide rapid access to critical business data with unmatched operational simplicity. For more information, please visit www.infobright.com.

JasperSoft
JasperSoft is the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI). With more than 7 million downloads worldwide and more than 100,000 commercial customers in 96 countries, JasperSoft offers the most widely used open source business intelligence software in the world. The JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite is comprised of an interactive report server, graphical and ad hoc report design interfaces, OLAP analysis, an ETL tool for data integration, and a Java reporting library for use with either stand-alone or embedded business intelligence applications. More information is available atwww.jaspersoft.com and www.jasperforge.org.

Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com.

Advanced Micro Devices
Advanced Micro Devices is an innovative technology company dedicated to collaborating with customers and partners to ignite the next generation of computing and graphics solutions. AMD works closely with software partners to deliver the best platforms for development and deployment of leading operating systems, applications and software.

BIRT Exchange by Actuate
BIRT Exchange is a community site that offers developers the broadest single collection of resources for the Eclipse BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) project and for integrating spreadsheets with Java. The site is sponsored by Actuate, a co-leader of the BIRT project.

Calpont
Calpont has developed an extremely high performance, linearly-scalable data warehouse storage query engine that radically simplifies scalability and out-of-the-box usability. It substantially enhances the popular MySQL data base management system for use in business intelligence, high performance computing and storage applications. The powerful combination of its tiered MPP, multi-threaded architecture, column-oriented technology and open source license model provides disruptive scalability and striking affordability. Calpont provides comparable performance, at a lower cost, to incumbent solutions and significantly lowers total cost of ownership as it scales cost effectively to hundreds of terabytes.

Canonical
Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is committed to the development, distribution and support of open source software products and communities. World-class commercial support for Ubuntu is available through Canonical's global support team and partners. Canonical works with the world's leading IT companies to deliver Ubuntu to the the world.

Continuent
Continuent, the world's leading provider of Continuous Data Availability (CDA) solutions, offers continuous database high availability and incremental performance scaling. We provide continuous uptime so you can deliver business critical database applications with high data availability and accessibility. Continuent's Tungsten stack provides a unique collection of technologies for database scale-out. The stack itself is open source. Tungsten is operating system independent and supports both commercial and open source databases including Oracle® and MySQL®.

Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
Dolphin ICS provides 3x to 10x application acceleration for users of MySQL. In as little as 30 minutes, you can install Dolphin Express in your existing environment and see improved response times and increased throughput without changing your application(s). Visit booth 414 to check out Dolphin Express for DRBD and get your own DX performance kit.

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.

HiT Software, Inc.
Since 1994, HiT Software has provided cost-effective and programming-free data integration to thousands of global enterprises. DBMoto™ performs log-based, real-time, bi-directional replication between MySQL and all major databases. Allora™ provides full-featured data transformation and mapping between MySQL and XML data. A MySQL Gold Partner, HiT Software is recognized for high-performance, small footprint and quick-to-implement software products.

IBM
IBM Power Systems servers run IBM i, AIX, and Linux operating systems that are designed to help clients reduce costs, improve service and manage risks. IBM i offers an integrated environment that includes DB2 for small to enterprise business clients. Stop by to learn more about how IBM i runs applications based on Apache, PHP, and MySQL and integrates MySQL with DB2.

iDashboards
iDashboards' enterprise class dashboard software helps companies drive their business by providing insight and access into critical data, KPIs, and metrics. With its low cost of ownership, ease of use, cutting edge technology, and real-time access to data, iDashboards has become the software of choice for data visualization worldwide.

Oracle
Innobase is the developer of InnoDB, which provides enterprise-class transactional storage for MySQL. InnoDB supports mission-critical applications with ACID-compliant transactions, row-level locking and multi-version concurrency control, along with support for referential integrity and crash recovery to protect data integrity. InnoDB is distributed and supported by MySQL, and is a standard part of the MySQL Enterprise Server. Innobase, a MySQL Enterprise Platinum partner, also develops and distributes InnoDB Hot Backup, a utility for on-line (hot) backups of running MySQL databases. Innobase is an Oracle company. For more information please visit http://www.innodb.com.

Pentaho
Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence (BI). Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform making it the world's leading, most widely deployed open source BI suite. Pentaho's commercial open source business model eliminates software license fees, providing support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription. Since inception, Pentaho has been the pioneer in commercial open source BI. Pentaho's products have been downloaded more than three million times, with production deployments ranging from small organizations to The Global 2000. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.

R1Soft
R1Soft Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) software enables disk-based data protection and recovery for servers running Windows and Linux operating systems. CDP Server protects disk volume data using synchronization over the network storing point-in-time recovery points in disk-based storage. R1Soft CDP for MySQL provides the first high-performance backup and restore product for MySQL and is the only software to offer True-Granular Restore™ for MySQL. True-Granular Restore™ allows administrators to restore down to the individual database and table level.

Schooner Information Technology
Schooner has developed state-of-the-art, high speed data access appliances that integrate advances in flash memory, multi-core processors, controllers, and interconnects. Schooner delivers high-performance appliances that are scalable, cost effective, and green. Schooner typically cuts TCO in half and enables new business opportunities based on rapid access to terabyte-scale data.

SQLstream
SQLstream makes the real-time enterprise possible, enabling business decisions when really urgent analytics are required. Using industry standard SQL, SQLstream executes queries before data reaches the warehouse. Founded by Julian Hyde, author of the open source Mondrian OLAP engine, SQLstream is a core contributor to the Eigenbase Project at http://www.eigenbase.org

Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster, the world's leading ticketing company, operates in 20 global markets, providing ticket sales through ticketmaster.com, retail outlets, and call centers. Ticketmaster serves more than 9,000 clients worldwide, providing ticketing services for leading arenas, stadiums, performing arts venues, museums, and theaters. Ticketmaster is an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI).

Zmanda, Inc.
Zmanda is the global leader in open source enterprise backup. The company's products Amanda, Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL, and Zmanda Cloud Backup make it simple and affordable to backup and recover data in an increasingly complex and heterogeneous IT environment. ZRM for MySQL is mission-critical backup solution designed specifically for MySQL databases. Businesses in more than 40 countries trust Zmanda to protect their corporate data.