Aug 6, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO – OpenDNS, the award-winning DNS provider that makes the Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable, today announced Sunsweet Growers Inc. has switched to OpenDNS from the DNS service it previously got from its Internet Service Provider (ISP). Sunsweet Growers is the world's largest handler of dried tree fruits including cranberries, apricots and plums and employs more than 1,700 during the crop harvest. OpenDNS is the world’s largest, fastest-growing DNS service.
Sunsweet Growers’ network administrators chose to switch to OpenDNS to speed Internet connectivity, block access to unsafe or otherwise inappropriate content and easily manage DNS. Sunsweet Growers uses OpenDNS as its primary provider for all public DNS queries and takes advantage of the option to manage a custom image and message for user errors, correct typos, block adult and phishing sites and collect statistical information to gain insight into opportunities to improve network performance.
“OpenDNS allows us to easily block unwanted sites and provide a safer, more productive environment,” said Terrell Johnson, Network Administrator for Sunsweet Growers. “It has a smart interface that provides granularity of control across multiple connections, and the statistics are easy to use and provide insight into our DNS traffic.”
Sunsweet Growers is using all OpenDNS features, including corporate branding of the OpenDNS Guide, or the page seen when someone on its network attempts to visit a Web site that doesn’t exist or is otherwise not resolving.
“Sunsweet-specific messages provide helpful instructions, which reduce the number of unnecessary support calls,” said Johnson. “Sunsweet leverages the Internet to streamline business processes and requires more than simple address resolution from our DNS provider. Sunsweet switched to OpenDNS to provide a safer, faster and smarter business internet solution.”
About Sunsweet Growers
Sunsweet Growers Inc. is the world's largest handler of dried tree fruits including cranberries, apricots and plums. A grower-owned marketing cooperative representing more than one-third of the dried plum market worldwide, Sunsweet processes more than 50,000 tons of dried plums a year. Sunsweet processes and markets the dried fruit production of more than 400 grower-members with orchard holdings primarily in California's Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. Sunsweet's Yuba City, Calif. headquarters is home to the world's largest dried fruit processing plant. Each day, an average of 40,000 cases of Sunsweet products are sealed and marked for worldwide distribution.
About OpenDNS
OpenDNS makes the Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable. Based in San Francisco, the company operates a large distributed network that powers a new kind of recursive DNS (Domain Name System) service that provides all Internet users increased security, reliability and performance. OpenDNS is thoroughly committed to building and operating the best DNS platform in the world and to improving the Internet. For more information about OpenDNS, please visit: www.opendns.com