Santa Clara, California - (The
Hosting News) - May 3, 2007 - Sun Microsystems,
Inc., will offer web deployment hosting services, based
upon the Solaris 10 Operating System, and Sun systems
and storage, through a partnership with Joyent and
NaviSite.
The new offer is available for eligible
U.S. based members of the Sun Startup Essentials
program, designed to helps early-stage companies get to
market more quickly on Sun's enterprise- class
technologies at a cost that fits their needs to conserve
cash.
Juan Carlos Soto, Vice President of
Marketing at Sun Microsystems remarked, ''Sun is working
closely with Joyent and NaviSite to help build a highly
scalable hosting infrastructure for startups and
established companies. We are pleased that Joyent and
NaviSite have chosen Solaris 10 and the Sun platform for
hosting Web 2.0 applications and that they are working
with Sun to provide affordable hosting plans that are
flexible and easily scalable, helping startups to grow
their business.''
The hosting requirements of
Web 2.0 and Internet Services startups typically differ
from those of traditionally established companies, due
to their increased need to grow and expand services with
fluctuating customer demands. Sun is working closely
with Joyent and NaviSite to help address these
requirements and is now able to offer these emerging
companies all the advantages of the extremely flexible
and scalable Solaris 10 OS based
infrastructure.
Joyent and NaviSite are using
Solaris Container virtualization technology, part of the
Solaris 10 OS, the most advanced OS on the planet, to
deliver the secure and high-performance infrastructure
to help deploy next-generation web applications that can
scale based on demand. Sun's partners also provide
value-add services to manage and monitor their hosted
environments. With highly flexible hosting offerings,
customers can choose to start with a small capacity and
grow flexibly as their business and community
grows.
David Young, CEO at Joyent added, ''Joyent
has been working with more than 200 startup customers,
such as Twitter and Magnetk, to help deliver
next-generation web services. The virtualization
capabilities and high performance of the Solaris OS and
Sun systems make for an ideal environment to meet the
hosting requirements of our customers.''
James
Fanella, Senior Vice President of Strategic Business
Development at NaviSite offered, ''With more than 10
years of experience and 14 datacenters, NaviSite has
been providing customers with hosting, application and
content delivery services based on a flexible, scalable
and, most of all, secure infrastructure backed by
Service Level Agreements. With Web hosting options based
on Solaris Container technology, startup organizations
can take advantage of solutions that easily grow in
lock-step with their business.''
Initially
launched in November 2006, the Sun Startup Essentials
program helps eligible U.S. based startup companies get
to market faster while conserving cash. The program
offers its members a range of discounted Sun products
and services, including its award-winning Sun Fire x64
servers and Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads
technology, and Sun's select StorageTek line of
products, including modular disk arrays, NAS and tape
storage products.
In addition to offering
products and services to eligible U.S. based members,
Sun also is offering free technical advice via email and
access to free software such as Apache, MySQL and Perl
(AMP) optimized to run on the Solaris 10 OS. As of
today, program members can also select the Web hosting
infrastructure from Sun partners based on Sun
technologies along with services they need, in case they
choose not to build and operate the infrastructure
themselves.
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