Taleo Corporation announced that they were named a recipient of the 2006 CIO 100 award. Presented by IDG's CIO magazine, the annual award program recognizes organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology (IT). Taleo's migration of its core data IT infrastructure from UNIX to Linux and resulting improvements in business performance were recognized by CIO magazine.

According to Abbie Lundberg, Editor in Chief of CIO magazine, "Year after year, the CIO 100 award recipients serve as industry role models for business and IT excellence. This year's winners are particularly remarkable for their ability to translate IT innovation into business value and solid ROI."

The backbone of Taleo's anytime, anywhere service is the data center infrastructure. Hundreds of Taleo customers worldwide with more than 588,000 corporate users rely on it for secure protection and the highest possible availability of their talent data, at access speeds that are the best in the industry. In order to continue delivering optimal on demand performance and record customer uptime while undergoing significant growth and controlling IT costs, Taleo migrated its IT infrastructure from UNIX to Linux.

Key to the deployment and success of this project was Taleo's decision to use PolyServe's Database Utility shared data clustering software. Since the completion of this project, Taleo customer transaction load grew by 147 percent, while maintaining 99.9 percent availability, helping to contribute to its recent independently reported 97 percent customer satisfaction rate. Taleo can also drive over 25 percent more transactions per server than before, adding to increased performance levels.

Taleo Executive Vice President of Product and Technology and CTO Brad Benson said, "In 1999, Taleo pioneered the idea that the software on demand delivery model was not just for small and mid-sized organizations, but would be beneficial and highly adopted among large, global organizations. Similarly here, we once again combined our foresight and innovation and migrated our data centers from UNIX to Linux-a bold move at a time when Linux was not yet widely adopted."

He continued, "With Linux and PolyServe, our customers enjoy better performance, stability, and availability than ever before at less cost. We've been able to drive up transactions while boosting system availability levels to better than 99.9 percent. The net result is a customer satisfaction rating of 97 percent - proof that our IT infrastructure is meeting the demands of our growing customer base. We are proud to be recognized for this accomplishment and our continued innovation by CIO magazine."