Twitter's Aniszczyk will deliver a keynote entitled "The OSS Behind a Tweet" at the foundation's LinuxCon conference in San Diego next week.

'Social Media Firms All Rely on Linux'

Also joining the Linux Foundation next week will be Inktank, the services and support company for the open source Ceph distributed storage system, and high-performance server manufacturer Servergy.

There's no doubt Linux use is on the rise for Big Data. In a , in fact, the foundation found that nearly 72 percent of enterprise users will be adding more Linux servers in the next 12 months to support Big Data, whereas just half that number expected to add Windows servers for the same function.

"As the importance of data, especially real-time data, takes precedence both in the enterprise and in our personal lives, companies are relying on Linux to support more information, more of the time, and in more ways than ever before," the foundation concluded. "Particularly, social media firms all rely on Linux to build out hugely scalable and efficient, low-cost, low-energy server farms to support massive data and traffic."