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Open Networking Summit Announces Best of Show Award Winners and 2018 Dates and LocationSAN FRANCISCO, April 26, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, announces the winners of the Best of Show awards at Open Networking Summit (ONS), which took place April 3-6, 2017 in Santa Clara, CA. Additionally, ONS 2018 will take place March 27–29, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA. ONS is the premier open networking event, covering the full scope of topics across enterprise, cloud and service providers. The 2017 event saw more than 10% attendee growth, and included 75 tutorials, workshops and sessions led by networking innovators, in addition to a Solutions Showcase, exhibit hall and social activities. Feedback from ONS 2017 attendees was overwhelmingly positive, with quotes including, "Great ONS event—best ever!", "This was my third ONS and quite likely the one I enjoyed the most," and "If you insist on bigger and better next year, have onsite medical staff to revive the victims of exhaustion." 2017 was the first time ONS included Best of Show awards. Finalists for each award were selected by a panel of industry experts and analysts, and conference attendees then voted by email following the event to select the winners. The recipients of the 2017 ONS Best of Show awards are:
ONS 2018 will take place at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. The move from Silicon Valley, ONS' traditional home, for 2018 reflects the wide reach of open networking. By taking place in a different geographic location, ONS will bring in new verticals and demonstrate different use cases for open networking technologies. Open Networking Summit was made possible by Diamond Sponsor Intel, Platinum Sponsors Amdocs and Huawei, Gold Premium Sponsors Dell EMC and Ericsson, and Gold Sponsors Cisco and ZTE. View all the sponsors. About The Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page:https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Media Contacts To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/open-networking-summit-announces-best-of-show-award-winners-and-2018-dates-and-location-300446161.html SOURCE The Linux Foundation |