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Click & Pledge Selects Coyote Point New Equalizer E650GX to Support Political Campaign Donations

Posted on: Monday, 30 March 2009, 07:30 CDT

Click & Pledge Administrative Systems and System Performance Increased 30-40 Percent with Coyote Point's Load Balancing/Application Acceleration Appliance

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Coyote Point Systems, Inc. (http://www.coyotepoint.com/about.php), the leading provider of application acceleration and load balancing solutions for mid-market companies, today announced that Click & Pledge, provider of online fundraising software for nonprofit organizations, has chosen the Equalizer E650GX (http://www.coyotepoint.com/products/e650.php) for its application acceleration and high speed processing of secure Web traffic to support thousands of daily credit card transactions. Click & Pledge gains an average of 150 new customers per month, adding thousands of incremental financial transactions. With the Equalizer E650GX, Click & Pledge was able to confidently support the heavy traffic loads generated by the presidential campaign cycle, ongoing calendar campaigns and the company's expected doubled size in growth, all while maintaining the mission critical 24/7 uptime.

"Our transaction volume has gone up dramatically. We've been doubling in size each year and expect to triple our size in 2009. With this volume, we can't just keep throwing hardware at it; we have to proactively manage it," said Kamran Razvan, chief executive officer of Click & Pledge. "We currently serve over 9,000 customers in over 45 countries - we now have to worry about 20,000 to stay ahead of the curve. We may change our servers every three years, however, we don't expect to have to change load balancers. We evaluated Cisco and F5 and unanimously decided on Coyote Point, as it offered the best price and performance. Cisco was double the price, and F5 costs more. Just because something is expensive doesn't make it better than what you can afford. You have to choose wisely. Networking equipment is like your doctor, you don't want to see them." As pioneers in the delivery of SaaS solutions, Click & Pledge enables any size organization to access sophisticated software tools for more efficient and effective online fundraising. The company anticipated heavy traffic loads in its online fundraising efforts for the 2008 political campaign cycle and started testing Coyote Points E650GX 7-8 months in advance. As a global company, Click & Pledge is required to maintain uptime 24/7 - they can't afford to go down. Some customers operate in the early morning, and some at midnight. In addition, maintenance needs to be done during business hours, so load balancers play a key role in offloading traffic to available servers. As the election nears, political campaigns increase traffic and transaction volume dramatically. Click & Pledge went through the entire election cycle without a hitch.

In addition to the presidential campaign, Click & Pledge handles a wide variety of fund-raising campaigns throughout the year. For example, the company might receive calls from a congressional or local campaign director saying that their candidate is going to be on 60 Minutes, and will the Click & Pledge Web site be able to handle the load. Click & Pledge is using the HTTP compression and SSL accelerator capabilities for secure and efficient processing of its Web traffic. Because the E650GX contains a Gigabit switch, it reduces the amount of hardware that Click & Pledge needs to deploy. Click & Pledge plans to use the E650GX's virtualization optimization capabilities this year to reduce hardware and power consumption.

"Click & Pledge may only have 10 employees, however, they serve thousands of customers worldwide accessing its site at the same time during peak donation periods," said Bill Kish, CEO and CTO of Coyote Point. "These customers have high expectations of 24/7 up time and like most technology today, they just expect it to work. The popularity of Web 2.0 technologies has led to demand for a Web browser that looks and acts like a desktop, all which requires a lot of bandwidth management. With Coyote Point, they have the tools to operate seamlessly like a big company and continue to keep current and future customers satisfied."

The Coyote Point Equalizer GX family (http://www.coyotepoint.com/products/) is an extremely powerful yet affordable enterprise-class load balancing and application acceleration appliances for the mid-market. Announced earlier this year, the GX family is built on new hardware and software architectures, and provides up to 400 percent performance gains when compared to its predecessor. The more efficient hardware offers reduced power consumption support greener datacenters while the improved reliability and updated components offer extended performance and extended life. The newest version of Coyote Point's EQ/OS software platform allows IT managers to reduce infrastructure expenditures, while always ensuring 100 percent availability and increased performance of applications across the entire company.

About Coyote Point

Coyote Point Systems Inc. the original load balancing technology pioneer is a recognized leader in delivering affordable solutions for high application availability and accelerated application performance. In 2009, Coyote Point delivered the Equalizer GX the eighth generation of its award-winning Equalizer Series platform. Equalizer load balancing and acceleration systems provide the industry's foremost combination of performance, affordability and ease of use. Thousands of customers worldwide have deployed Equalizer Series systems to ensure non-stop operations, accelerated delivery and on-demand scalability of business-critical applications and Web sites. Coyote Point is headquartered in San Jose, CA and works with leading channel partners in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. The company can be reached at 1-877-367-2696 or http://www.coyotepoint.com.

SOURCE Coyote Point Systems Inc.

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