eXludus Attains Principal Partner Status in Sun Partner Advantage Program

eXludus Technologies announced today that it is a Principal Partner in the Sun Partner Advantage Program, for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). eXludus Technologies qualified for this level by meeting Sun's stringent criteria for excellence as a supplier of data provisioning solutions for cluster and Grid computing applications, and by committing to tight strategic and technical alignment with Sun. By achieving Principal Partner status, eXludus Technologies joins the growing community of ISVs that are developing applications for or porting applications to the Sun platform. The benefits to Sun customers include access to a broader range of pre-tested, optimized solutions; investment protection and reduced total cost of ownership through collaborative engineering between Sun and its partners; and a higher level of predictability and support as Sun rolls out its latest technologies and software upgrades. Specifically, eXludus Technologies has ported its RepliCator parallel file serving software to the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). RepliCator eliminates performance bottlenecks inherent in traditional data transfer mechanisms. Leveraging the extreme performance of the highly scalable and optimized networking stack introduced by the Solaris 10 OS, RepliCator boosts the performance of any networking and file serving infrastructure and interacts directly with popular workload management systems with minimal integration effort. “Sun continues to be one of the leading innovators in our industry and the platform of choice for many of our customers,” said Stephen Perrenod, eXludus Technologies' vice president, worldwide sales and marketing. “Sun's collaborative business model works well for our company and our customers, and now as a Principal Partner in the Sun Partner Advantage Program we're in a stronger position to leverage Sun's technical resources and expertise to serve our customers.” "We are very pleased that eXludus Technologies has attained Principal Partner status in the Partner Advantage program,” said Kim Jones, Vice President, Global Education, Government and Health Sciences for Sun Microsystems. “Their highly innovative parallel file serving software solution dramatically accelerates I/O for clusters and Grids. Deployment of their technology has resulted in very substantial application throughput increases for customers utilizing Sun Grid solutions. eXludus has demonstrated its commitment to the Solaris 10 Operating system with ports supporting both x64 and SPARC architectures." With the Solaris 10 OS, eXludus Technologies customers have access to the popular features that are unique to this operating system, such as Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), Predictive Self-Healing, Solaris Containers and Solaris ZFS. These sophisticated features of the Solaris 10 OS provide eXludus Technologies customers with increased network security, optimal performance and less overall server downtime. For more information about RepliCator, see its Web site or contact at sales@exludus.com.