[September 15, 2014]

OmniTI Announces Final Program for Surge 2014: The Scalability & Performance Conference September 24-26 in Washington DC

OmniTI, a provider of web infrastructures and applications for companies that require scalable, high-performance, mission critical solutions today announced the final program up for its Surge 2014: The Scalability and Performance Conference which will be held September 24-26, 2014 at the Gaylord National Harbor, just outside of Washington DC. (See video clips of what attendees had to say about the 2013 Surge conference.)

The company also announced that it is hosting illumos Day immediately following the conference on September 27. illumos Day is designed for contributors, users, and those with a healthy sense of curiosity, to collaborate for a series of sessions related to illumos technologies and how illumos is pushing the capabilities of internet services. Originally based on Sun's Open Solaris technology platform, illumos is an Open Source (News - Alert), community project to develop a reliable and scalable Unix based operating system. For more information on illumos or on how to register for illumos Day, please see visit the illumos conference web page.

Surge will feature keynote speaker Jason Hoffman (News - Alert), VP, head of product line, Ericsson Cloud Software, who will speak to the conference on scaling through acquisition

Other speakers and their session topics include:

• Camille Fournier, CTO, Rent the Runway, "Reverse Logistics at Rent the Runway."
• Brendan Gregg, senior performance architect, Netflix "From Clouds to Roots, Scaling Infrastructure."
• Brian Akins, senior principal architect, OmniTI, "Scaling for Planned Events: Theory, Practice, and Aftermath."
• Caitie McCaffrey, software engineer, HBO "Halo 4: High Demand with Low Latency and High Availability."
• Omer Shapira, engineering manager, LinkedIn (News - Alert) "Going Over the SPDY Limit."
• Paul Wright, software engineer, Etsy (News - Alert) "What Etsy Learned Building a Distributed Tracing System."

"We are excited to have a premier line up of speakers dedicated to sharing their knowledge to those interested in scalability and performance issues," said Robert Treat, CEO of OmniTI, the organizers of Surge. "The addition of illumos Day and free Chef training makes it even more of a worthwhile and valuable forum, where attendees can learn firsthand insights and best practices from today's brightest minds focused on Web Operations."

Full program details, including a link to register, can be found at http://surge.omniti.com/2014.

About OmniTI

For companies experiencing issues associated with growth and scalability of their customer-facing websites, OmniTI is the leading Web Scalability and Performance provider using a cross-disciplinary approach to achieve unparalleled levels of web and database performance. We enable revenue growth, outstanding customer experience, underlying infrastructure reliability and faster time-to-market.

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