The Linux Foundation Announces 36 New Silver and 6 New Associate Members

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced the addition of 36 Silver members and six Associate members. Linux Foundation members help support development of the greatest shared technology resources in history, while accelerating their own innovation through open source leadership and participation.

"Our members are the lifeblood of The Linux Foundation, and we could not have the impact we do without the support and participation of organizations like these," said Jim Zemlin, executive director, The Linux Foundation. "Open source is intrinsically a community effort, so I am pleased to welcome so many new Silver and Associate members and look forward to ongoing collaboration with them and the broader community."

In addition to joining the Foundation, many of these new members have joined Linux Foundation projects like Automotive Grade Linux, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, EdgeX Foundry, Hyperledger, LF Networking, Open API Initiative, OpenHPC and more. For a full list of members, visit https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/.

Linux Foundation Silver members are organizations that contribute to or otherwise support open source communities and projects.

January's new Linux Foundation Silver members are:

    --  2 Twelve Solutions empowers customers with a simple, yet powerful
        end-to-end engineering lab prototyping capability.
    --  8common creates travel and expense management, employee engagement and
        real estate marketing solutions.
    --  Acumatica develops enterprise resource planning software designed to
        improve productivity of small and medium-sized businesses.
    --  ADTRAN is a leading global provider of networking and communications
        equipment.
    --  Aptira is a leading cloud services provider, specializing in hybrid and
        managed solutions, consultancy, development, training, support,
        OpenStack and ONAP.
    --  ArcBlock is a platform and an ecosystem for building and deploying
        decentralized blockchain applications.
    --  Arista Networks delivers software-driven cloud networking solutions for
        large data center storage and computing environments.
    --  Blockchain Training Alliance provides blockchain training and
        certification worldwide.
    --  Bright Computing provides software solutions for deploying and managing
        HPC and big data clusters, and OpenStack in the data center and in the
        cloud.
    --  Capsule8 offers cloud-native security for containers, microservices and
        Linux infrastructures.
    --  Cloud 66 simplifies DevOps with a service to build, deploy and manage
        apps on an organization's own servers.
    --  Data Deposit Box backs up PCs, Macs and mobile devices into one account.
    --  Dealer Market Exchange is innovating the industry's first
        business-intelligent market platform for dealerships, industry vendors,
        car manufacturers, and consumers to engage and conduct business.
    --  Enigmedia ensures IoT data ownership through data access, control and
        traceability management.
    --  Filament helps maximize the potential of connected devices to enable the
        future of IoT.
    --  Gremlin provides a full suite of tools to safely and securely run chaos
        experiments in production.
    --  Hainan eKing Technology Co. provides cloud computing and big data
        solutions to industries including government, finance, aviation and
        tourism.
    --  Indee Labs is developing microfluidic vortex shedding hardware for gene
        delivery.
    --  Inocybe Technologies accelerates the adoption of automated and
        intelligent networking for enterprises and service providers based on
        OpenDaylight and other projects like FD.io, PNDA and ONAP.
    --  Inspur is one of the largest global datacenter and cloud computing
        solutions providers in the world.
    --  IVIS provides automotive solutions for infotainment and navigation
        software.
    --  Kontron offers a combined portfolio of secure hardware, middleware and
        services for IoT and Industry 4.0 applications.
    --  Krypc enables IT leaders to accelerate their company's blockchain
        adoption in a short time.
    --  Lumina Networks offers a pure-play, open source software-defined network
        controller powered by OpenDaylight.
    --  Netscout offers cloud, application and network performance management,
        cyber security, ddos, and advanced threat products and solutions.
    --  Nexiot is built on over 10 years of research in complex systems, big
        data algorithms and ultra low-power embedded technology to offer a
        communication solution with operations and sensors fully integrated.
    --  Openmake Software builds scalable Agile DevOps solutions that solve
        continuous delivery problems.
    --  Paragon Software provides storage and file system management, data
        safety and disaster recovery for home and business users, IT
        professionals and OEM providers.
    --  PricewaterhouseCoopers focuses on audit and assurance, tax and
        consulting services to help resolve complex issues and identify
        opportunities.
    --  Private Internet Access offers fast, multi-gigabit VPN Tunnel gateways.
    --  RiseML is a deep learning platform for Kubernetes, simplifying running
        deep learning experiments on bare metal and cloud GPU clusters of any
        size.
    --  SequoiaDB is an enterprise NewSQL database for big data applications.
    --  SES Networks enables high-performance communications virtually anywhere.
    --  Tata Communications is a global provider of telecommunications solutions
        and services.
    --  Vasona Networks enables network transformation from the mobile edge for
        operators globally.
    --  VitalHub develops mission-critical blockchain, mobile and web-based
        software solutions for the mental health and long term care sectors.

Associate members of The Linux Foundation include of government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to building, sustaining and using open source technologies.

The following organizations are new Linux Foundation Associate members:

    --  Compute Canada leads the acceleration of research and innovation by
        deploying state-of-the-art advanced research computing systems, storage
        and software solutions.
    --  Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania formulates and
        implements a policy of public finance in order to ensure the country's
        macroeconomic stability and economic development..
    --  National Renewable Energy Laboratory is the only federal laboratory
        dedicated to research, development, commercialization, and deployment of
        renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
    --  Share-IT.io is Station F's Tech for Good acceleration program, driven by
        entrepreneurs convinced that technology is the most powerful vehicle for
        changing the world.
    --  Sollers College provides education, applied skills and opportunities to
        meet the growing demands of healthcare, life sciences and data sciences
        fields.
    --  Vilnius Gediminas Technical University is a public university in
        Lithuania.

With the support of its members, The Linux Foundation hosts open source projects across technologies including networking, security, cloud, blockchain and more. This collaborative development model is helping technology advance at a rapid pace in a way that benefits individuals and organizations around the world.

About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world's top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

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