Cloudera sponsors Scale-A-Thon

We are happy to announce that Cloudera has joined the list of sponsors of the first ever RTP Scale-A-Thon!

First Scale-A-Thon Sponsors Announced

Scale-A-Thon is an all day hackathon aimed at developers interested in working on scalability, big data and fault tolerant systems using tools like Apache Hadoop, Cassandra, Thrift, Mahout as well as non-Apache technologies.  You can read more here and register on EventBrite.

The event will be held on June 18th in Durham, NC. Sign up soon, tickets are limited to the first 35 people.

We are happy to welcome the sponsors listed below to the event.  If you are interested in sponsoring, please contact sponsor@scaleathon.com

Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology consulting for nearly a century.  Today, the firm provides professional services primarily to US government agencies in the defense, intelligence, and civil sectors, as well as to corporations, institutions, and not-for-profit organizations.  Booz Allen offers clients deep functional knowledge spanning strategy and organization, engineering and operations, technology, and analytics – which it combines with specialized expertise in clients’ mission and domain areas to help solve their toughest problems.

Booz Allen is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, employs more than 25,000 people and has annual revenues of over $5 billion.  To learn more, visit www.boozallen.com.

Today, Bronto is a leading provider of email, mobile, and social marketing to retailers and other commerce-driven companies. Over a thousand organizations use Bronto’s marketing platform – from established brick-and-mortar leaders like Party City and Gander Mountain to leading online trendsetters like Etsy and Lulu. Spanning different industries, these companies are similar in one key aspect – they choose Bronto to drive more revenue through cross-channel marketing programs.

iContact is a purpose-driven company based in Raleigh, NC, working to make email marketing and social marketing easy so that small and midsized companies and causes can grow and succeed. Founded in 2003, iContact has more than 300 employees andmore than 700,000 users of its leading email marketing software. iContact also provides the event marketing platform Ettend. As a B Corporation, iContact utilizes the 4-1s Corporate Social Responsibility Model, donating 1% of payroll, 1% of employee time to community volunteering, 1% of equity, and 1% of product to its local and global community as part of its social mission. iContact works hard to maintain a fun, creative, energetic, challenging and community-oriented company culture.

Open Software Integrators, LLC delivers professional services for Open Source Vendors. Open Source vendors sell service in the form of training, consulting, and support by subscription or incident. We deliver this service on or offsite and provide our customers with other assistance such as course development and research.