Open Source Lab - Platinum

Schooner Information Technology

jeff — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:29:09 +0000

Schooner Information Technology has pioneered a new generation of data access appliances specifically designed for information-intensive Web 2.0 and cloud computing data centers.

In support of the open source community, Schooner has donated its flagship appliances for Memcached and MySQL Enterprise™ with InnoDB to the OSU Open Source Lab. By combining the most advanced technologies currently available, including highly parallel flash controllers, high-throughput networking and Intel’s innovative multi-thread Nehalem processor with a proprietary software optimization environment, Schooner is revolutionizing storage for information intensive companies using Memcached and MySQL. The result is Schooner’s highly integrated hardware and software solutions for Memcached and MySQL, offering breakthrough performance, scalability and reliability while substantially decreasing overall power consumption.

TDS Telecom

jeff — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:27:16 +0000

TDS Telecom

TDS Telecom is a major telephone and Internet services provider. TDS Telecom has made a large donation of bandwidth to the Open Source Lab, helping millions of people review or download free software every day.

For a five-year period, the OSL will receive 2 gigabits of bandwidth − a volume of Internet connectivity that is more than five times higher than the total used by the rest of the university. In addition, OSU servers will be hosted in a TDS data center. The bandwidth provided gives the OSL the ability to host FTP servers in both New York, N.Y., and Chicago, Ill., where files for many open source projects are mirrored for download from the main FTP server hosted in Corvallis, Ore.

Google

jeff — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:21:57 +0000

Google

Google is one of the world's leading search engines and is quickly becoming a leader in the web services industry. According to their website, "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." The OSL shares in this mission by organizing the resources of the open source community, making it easier for developers to focus on writing code.

Google sponsors the OSL through financial grants. This funding helps the OSL provide the community with physical hosting and bandwidth, and covers the cost of "smart-hands" support. Google is a big supporter of the open source movement, producing open code of their own (see code.google.com), and sponsoring the Summer of Code program. Each year Google puts millions of dollars toward open source research and development through this program.