January 14, 2008; 06:57 AM SANTA CLARA, CA December 11, 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced that cutting-edge Web 2.0 companies
continue to turn to Sun and its Sun Startup Essentials
program for advanced server, software and storage technologies to run
their businesses. For startup innovators such as FortiusOne, Postful,
Inc., and SearchForce, Sun's Startup Essentials program provides
discounted access to the company's award-winning technologies including
the Solaris Operating System (OS), Sun Fire x64 servers, Sun Fire SPARC servers with CoolThreads technology and Sun's storage products.
Since its inception in 2006, 1,200+ early-stage and Web 2.0 companies
have applied to the Sun Startup Essentials program and approved
startups are eligible to receive program member benefits that improve
their time to market, maximize IT efficiencies and cut costs.
FortiusOne
FortiusOne provides next-generation intelligent mapping solutions that
make the exploding world of geographic data widely accessible via the
Internet. The company's intelligent mapping Web services require huge
amounts of computational power and storage capacity. To meet the needs
of its growing business, FortiusOne had to strike a balance between
costs and the need for a scalable and high-performance infrastructure.
After reviewing alternative options, the company chose Sun's Startup
Essentials program enabling them to purchase Sun's highly scalable
server and storage technologies at discounted prices.
"We are at the forefront of the next-generation Web, where massive
amounts of structured and unstructured data and powerful Web computing
technologies are converging," said Sean Gorman, CEO of FortiusOne. "The
technological breakthroughs implemented in our GeoCommons Web service
platform required a very scalable and high-performance infrastructure.
Sun met our needs with cost-effective solutions across our product
lines."
Postful, Inc. Taking web-based collaboration to a
new level, Los-Angeles-based startup Postful, Inc. provides customers
with an integrated print and mail utility service for the Web. The
company offers small firms and mobile workers the resources of a large
corporate mail room. It also provides a service where e-mails are sent
via traditional mail benefiting the 65 million Americans who are not
online. The company previously hosted its service on a virtual private
server (VPS) and then migrated to its own Linux-based servers, but
required more reliability. After conducting an extensive search for
alternatives, Postful chose the Sun Startup Essentials program which
provided access to free software and enterprise grade-IT products at
low prices and discounted Web hosting. As a result of choosing the
Solaris 10 OS and the Sun Fire x64 servers, Postful has noted a fifty
percent reduction in the amount of developer time spent maintaining
servers and a forty five percent reduction in hosting costs.
"The Sun Startup Essentials program was my first direct contact with
Sun and I am deeply impressed," said Justin Garten, Founder, Postful.
"The switch to Sun has proved its worth many times. We can clearly see
the advantages of Solaris over Linux. Additionally, the stability,
tools and flexibility of Solaris are hugely valuable. As a result of
using Sun, Postful has seen a thirty percent increase in performance
and an eighty percent reduction in power and cooling costs. These are
big savings that really impact the bottom line and our ability to offer
customers a reliable and cost effective service."
SearchForce SearchForce, a Web services software
provider, offers agencies and advertisers a single united interface for
search engine marketing and portfolio management. Advertising agencies
with a vested interest in the search engine performance of millions of
keywords benefit significantly from SearchForce's highly scalable
platform, targeted at maximizing return on investment on pay-per-click
marketing initiatives. After comparing the Solaris 10 OS on the Sun
Fire x64 servers with other vendor offerings, SearchForce found that
Sun's technologies offered better throughput numbers and a seventy
percent decrease in power consumption. Based on this information,
SearchForce made the decision to move away from Dell servers powered by
Red Hat Linux ES4 and leveraged Sun's Startup Essentials program to
conduct a complete datacenter refresh. As a result of using Sun
servers, the Solaris 10 OS and Sun StorageTek arrays, SearchForce has
tripled throughput and enhanced its storage environment.
"By choosing Sun, we have cut costs and improved our performance,
especially in the area of response time," said David Simon, Chairman,
SearchForce. "Sun's Startup Essentials program was extremely helpful
and enabled us to implement a full datacenter refresh in a cost
effective and timely manner. We were particularly impressed to find
that Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology can handle two to
three times the load of our former machines while consuming about one
quarter of the electricity used."
Sun Startup Essentials Program
In addition to offering deeply discounted servers, storage and
services to Web 2.0 and early-stage companies, the Sun Startup
Essentials program also offers free technical advice via email and
access to free software, such as Apache, MySQL and Perl (AMP), Ruby on
Rails optimized to run on the Solaris 10 OS. The program also offers
eligible companies the option of reduced price Web hosting services
through Sun partners including Joyent, Layered Technologies and
NaviSite. For more information or to join the program, please visit
http://www.sun.com/startup.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the
Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can
be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
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