Scalability Experts Blog Scalability Experts Recognized as Winner for 2015 Microsoft Data Platform Partner of the Year Award

Dallas, Texas, United States - June 18th, 2015 - Scalability Experts today announced it has won the 2015 Microsoft Data Platform of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology."We are so very excited and honored to be awarded the 2015 Partner of the Year award again by Microsoft for our Data Platform expertise and our Iforium testing project submission. Our team of experts thrives on architecting scenarios that push SQL Server to the next level of performance using real world workloads," said Raj Gill, President and CTO of Scalability Experts. "We knew that FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft Private Cloud and SQL Server 2014 was the ideal integrated platform to push the envelope with our customer, Iforium an EGaming company." "The results, using their workloads, clearly did show that this was a premier platform for mission-critical applications."Awards were presented in several categories, with winners chosen from a set of more than 2,300 entrants from 108 different countries worldwide. Scalability Experts was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in Data Platform."This year's award winners are among the most innovative and valuable our partner ecosystem has to offer. Therefore, it came as no surprise that Scalability Experts was named among that group as this year's WINNER of the 2015 Microsoft Partner of the Year award," said Phil Sorgen, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. "We applaud Scalability Experts on this achievement and for the outstanding value it continues to provide for our mutual customers." The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognizes Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the past year.For example as part of the Iforium case study submitted, after testing up to 50,000 concurrent users Scalability Experts found 208% faster transaction response times, 250% faster page response times and very sequential linear scalability with overall 3X performance compared to our testing norms and the customers' experience. In Iforium's fast-paced industry, a few millisecond differences in response times can mean the gain or loss of millions of dollars. The SQL Server 2014 platform results exceeded Scalability Experts expectations.