Surge Speaker List
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John Allspaw VP of Technical Operations, Etsy Keynote
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Theo Schlossnagle Principal/CEO, OmniTI Keynote
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Bryan Cantrill VP of Engineering, Joyent Keynote
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Robert Treat Lead Database Architect, OmniTI Speaker
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Artur Bergman VP of Engineering and Operations, Wikia Speaker
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Gavin M. Roy CTO, MyYearbook Speaker
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Ruslan Belkin Sr. Director of Engineering, LinkedIn Speaker
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Rasmus Lerdorf Founder of PHP; Developer, WePay Speaker
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Christopher Brown VP of Engineering, Opscode Speaker
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Paul Querna Chief Architect, Cloudkick Speaker
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Neil Gunther Founder/Principal Consultant, Performance Dynamics Speaker
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Tom Cook Systems Engineer, Facebook Speaker
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Baron Schwartz VP of Consulting, Percona Speaker
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Mike Malone Infrastructure Engineer, SimpleGeo Speaker
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Cosimo Streppone Lead Developer, my.opera.com Speaker
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Tom Daly President/CTO, Dyn Inc. Speaker
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Justin Sheehy CTO, Basho Technologies Speaker
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Ronald Bradford Principal, 42SQL Speaker
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Rod Cope CTO and Founder, OpenLogic Speaker
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Joe Williams Infrastructure Engineer, Cloudant Speaker
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Benjamin Black Founder, fast_ip Speaker
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Geir Magnusson Jr VP, Platform and Architecture, Gilt Groupe Speaker
Surge 2010 Exhibitors& Sponsors
Exhibiting at Surge
Surge Exhibitors and Sponsors enjoy exposure to an audience full of decision makers and industry leaders with enormous influence, looking for innovative solutions to today's scalability problems.
Day 1 - Exhibitor Calendar Thursday - September 30th
| Time | Exhibitor Events | Location |
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| 12:00pm-1:30pm | Meet the Sponsors | Roman Room |
| 1:30pm-2:30pm | Rackspace Session | Boardroom |
| 3:30pm-4:00pm | Sponsor Coffee Break | Roman Room |
| 4:00pm-5:00pm | Neustar Session | Boardroom |
Day 2 - Exhibitor Calendar Friday - October 1st
| Time | Exhibitor Events | Location |
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| 11:00am-12:00pm | Schooner Session | Boardroom |
| 12:00pm-1:30pm | Meet the Sponsors | Roman Room |
| 2:30pm-3:30pm | Circonus Session | Boardroom |
| 3:30pm-4:00pm | Sponsor Coffee Break | Roman Room |
Successful businesses and media understand the effects of unexpected bursts of traffic. The speed and veracity of social network popularity can overwhelm websites in the blink of an eye. Surge is an exciting new event bringing together experts from around the world to share their stories and demonstrate proven concepts in Web Architectures and Scalable Designs. Exhibitors at Surge 2010 will enjoy an audience interested in products and services that help their business meet the challenges of today's Internet.
Dyn, Inc. Visit Site →
Founded in 1998 as a free service, Dyn Inc. now operates two extremely reliable, "rock solid," global DNS platforms: DynDNS.com for home/SMB users and the Dynect Platform enterprises. As a leading provider of DNS services, Dyn Inc. plays a key role in keeping the Internet's DNS infrastructure running smoothly, handling billions of queries per day and servicing over 3 million active users. With a range of solutions, from domain name and email services on DynDNS.com, to Load Balancing and Traffic Management services with the Dynect Platform, Dyn Inc. remains committed to world-class customer service and engineering excellence. Uptime is the Bottom Line.
Message Systems Visit Site →
Message Systems is the leading global provider of message management solutions for ESPs, ISPs, social networks and enterprises who manage large volumes of business-critical digital messages. Momentum™, our next-generation message management platform, helps clients achieve maximum performance without sacrificing flexibility. Bounce management, authentication and real-time reporting tools help our clients produce more effective message content, improve deliverability and avoid reputation risks. Whether sending or receiving digital messages, only Momentum can be uniquely configured to give you a distinct competitive advantage. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, Message Systems has offices and a network of partners in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Rackspace Visit Site →
Rackspace Hosting is the world's leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry. The Rackspace Cloud provides on-demand and scalable website, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support(r). Through an integrated suite of cloud solutions - Cloud Sites(tm), Cloud Files(tm) and Cloud Servers(tm) - The Rackspace Cloud enables astute developers and IT managers to trade the hassles, upfront investments and high costs for a hosting environment that scales easily when traffic fluctuates. For more information about The Rackspace Cloud, visit www.rackspacecloud.com or call 1-877-934-0409.
Neustar Visit Site →
Neustar, Inc. solves complex communications challenges and provides market-leading, innovative solutions and directory services that enable trusted communication across networks, applications, and enterprises around the world. Neustar ® UltraDNS services are used by more than 3,000 enterprises and TLD infrastructure customers worldwide, and power the resolution of nearly 20 million global Internet domains. Neustar ® Webmetrics services provide website monitoring and testing for companies that want to ensure online performance, competitive advantage, and a positive end-user experience. Visit www.neustar.biz, www.ultradns.biz and www.webmetrics.com for more information.
NorthScale Visit Site →
NorthScale's elastic data management software enables customers to dramatically lower costs while improving the scalability and performance of their interactive web applications. Membase, NorthScale's NoSQL technology, is behind some of the world's busiest web applications: it is the primary database for the popular FarmVille and Café World applications at Zynga; and it provides a shared data management platform for NHN, Korea's largest web application operator with nearly 70 million unique users. Equally at home serving small web applications, NorthScale operates the memcached service behind the Heroku Cloud Platform, where more than a thousand applications benefit from its secure multi-tenant capabilities.
Circonus Visit Site →
Circonus helps you identify the relationships in your Business and IT systems. Crafted from the ground up to overcome the pain of existing solutions, Circonus is a revolutionary take on monitoring and trending. Correlate virtually any metric with just a few clicks, and view realtime performance of your Web architectures.
O'Reilly Visit Site →
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.
Schooner Information Technology Visit Site →
Schooner MySQL and NoSQL bring the lowest total cost of ownership, best performance, smoothest scalability, and highest availability to MySQL and NoSQL users. Schooner MySQL and NoSQL are optimized to fully exploit the power and efficiency of flash memory and multi-core processors. They outperform the best hard drive-based alternatives by ten times and the best flash-based alternatives by two to three times. Delivered on commodity Linux servers for plug-and-play simplicity, Schooner MySQL and NoSQL are ideal building blocks for today's datacenter. Schooner is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California. Learn more at www.schoonerinfotech.com.
OmniTI Visit Site →
We are a global IT services company with more than 10 years of success in web design, web applications development, and managed services. Our people are expert designers, architects and engineers with significant business domain experience and a commitment to quality in execution. We are excited to deliver progressive web and database solutions, applying or building the most inventive technologies and tools into platform-agnostic business solutions.
Our strength is our people. We know the web. The books we write are required reading at some of the world’s most well-respected web technology firms. Each year, we write the articles and blogs, give the conference talks, and contribute to the Open Source projects that streamline business, generate revenue and win multiple awards for our clients.
New Relic, Inc. Visit Site →
New Relic, Inc. is the leading software-as-a-service provider of application performance management (APM) solutions that enable developers and operations teams to quickly and cost effectively monitor, troubleshoot, and tune application performance in real time. New Relic RPM is the first on-demand APM solution for web applications developed in Ruby, Java or JRuby. It is fully implemented in minutes and provides deep, 24x7 visibility and code-level diagnostics for web applications deployed on traditional, dedicated infrastructures, private and public clouds, or hybrid environments. More than 5,000 organizations use New Relic RPM to manage more than 50,000 production application instances. http://www.newrelic.com/
Square Visit Site →
Square is an application for mobile devices that allows anyone to accept payment cards and track cash. On the go, in a cafe, even at your garage sale, Square promotes viral use of your favorite form of payment, whatever it may be, for the modern world. Today the Square team is focused on bringing immediacy, transparency, and approachability to the world of payments: an inherently social interaction each of us participates in daily.
10gen Visit Site →
MongoDB -- from "humongous" -- is an open source, non-relational, document-oriented database. The goal of the MongoDB project is to bridge the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which provide rich queries and deep functionality).
Percona Visit Site →
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.
PayPI Visit Site →
PayPI integrates with payment processors to bill the customers on your behalf. Currently we support Authorize.net and Chase Paymentech, a top tier payment processor. Once you have your merchant account, PayPI acts as a transaction broker on the technical side, but not on the business side. The financial transaction (all transaction fees and money collected) remains between you and your payment processor, but all the PCI compliance challenges are off your plate and onto ours. PayPI even handles multiple merchant accounts and processors, allowing you to seamlessly use multiple payment processors.
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