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Gilt Groupe provides access, by invitation only, to Men’s, Women’s and Children’s coveted fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. Each sale lasts 36 hours and features hand selected styles from a single designer.

“By deploying our infrastructure on Joyent, Gilt Groupe spends less than one percent of revenue on its total infrastructure investment. This is more than 70 percent better than the average company.”

Mike Bryzek, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Gilt Groupe.

Linkedin’s mission is to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. Linkedin believes that in a global connected economy, your success as a professional and your competitiveness as a company depends upon faster access to insight and resources you can trust.

Linkedin leverages Joyent infrastructure to operate several Linkedin subdomains including mobile.linkedin.com. Linkedin has also used the Joyent Cloud to scale one of its applications to over a billion page views per month, in a very short period of time.

Watercooler is a leading developer of social games on Facebook and other social networks. The company was founded to connect millions of sports and TV fans through its extensive network of online fan communities, and has extended that social product expertise to create innovative and engaging social games. Watercooler makes games for all types of consumers from sports fans, to adventure seekers to trivia fanatics and more.

“Social networking based games can be a real headache to scale from an infrastructure point of view. The Joyent Cloud has virtually eliminated this problem for us.”

John Higgins, Director, Web Operations, Watercooler, Inc.