Chip Childers

Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. is an industry standards organization that creates open manageability specifications for diverse emerging and traditional IT infrastructures including cloud, virtualization, network, servers, and storage. The non-profit company is based in Portland, OR. Member companies and alliance partners worldwide collaborate on standards to improve the interoperable management of information technologies.

The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the apache community of open-source software projects. The firm's projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license. The company founded by Brian Behlendorf in June, 1999 and is headquartered in Forest Hill, MD.

Sungard Availability Services Ltd. provides information technology consulting services. It offers business continuity and disaster recovery, managed hosting, information security consulting, business availability consulting and systems management services for application and data center outsourcing, continuity and planning software. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Wayne, PA.

CumuLogic, Inc. develops and deploys platform solutions enabling enterprises and Cloud Providers to build AWS-compatible cloud services on public, private and hybrid clouds. It enables enterprises and Cloud Providers to deploy Database-as-a-Service functionality on any infrastructure – cloud environments, VM pools and bare metal. The firm’s DBaaS software platform empowers developers and DBAs with self-service database deployment and operations, while enabling IT Ops to retain control of the underlying infrastructure for data governance and security. The company was founded by Sandeep Patni, Rajesh Ramchandani and Laura Ventura in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.