King’s College Hospital Rejuvenates Legacy Application With Rapid Deployment of QuickTransit(R) for Solaris(TM)/SPARC(R)-to-Linux(R)/X86-64
Transitive(R) Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system pairs, today announced that King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has deployed Transitive’s innovative QuickTransit(R) for Solaris(TM)/SPARC(R)-to-Linux(R)/x86-64 solution to extend the useful life of its Trust Integration Engine application, which is used to manage patient records.
“eGate is the core of systems integration at King’s College Hospital. Running on 166MHz SPARC-based hardware with increasing user demands, eGate was struggling with 100 percent CPU load,” said Gary McAllister, integration technical lead at King’s College Hospital. “Using QuickTransit, we are now hosting eGate on a manageable Linux environment with the increased hardware capabilities needed to move forward. Using Mono on Linux, we are now also able to gather real-time integration status straight from the engine. This is a major improvement to system monitoring and availability.”
“In healthcare, as in many other industries, popular applications often outlive the hardware they were originally installed on by many years, so the option of using QuickTransit for fast and easy application migration to new hardware platforms is very appealing,” said Ian Robinson, vice president of Marketing for Transitive Corporation. “The King’s College Hospital Trust Integration Engine is a great example of an important application that has been liberated from legacy hardware and rejuvenated through deployment via QuickTransit on a modern industry-standard platform.”
The IT team at King’s College Hospital deployed QuickTransit on an HP ProLiant server equipped with Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor technology.
“Moving from outdated legacy SPARC server platforms to more powerful and cost-effective HP ProLiant servers can now be achieved seamlessly, as QuickTransit takes on the challenge of legacy application migration,” said Scott Farrand, vice president of Industry Standard Server Software at HP. “King’s College Hospital provides a great example of how companies can easily migrate from legacy hardware with these tools and realize the many benefits derived from industry standard servers, without incurring the costs or disruption of software porting projects.”
Availability and Licensing
Customers can purchase QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 from Transitive directly, and it is downloadable for evaluations or purchase from the Transitive Web site (www.transitive.com). The QuickTransit enterprise product line is also sold by Transitive’s global network of channel partners, which include:
— Enterico Division, CRI – www.enterico.com — Morse plc (in the UK) – www.morse.com — MSI Systems Integrators, Inc. – www.msiinet.com — Networld Corporation (in Japan) – www.networld.co.jp — Paradigm Technology – www.pt-corp.com — PKA Technologies – www.pkatech.com — Repton (in the UK) – www.repton.co.uk — Xcedex – www.xcedex.com — Zot – www.zot.com
About Transitive Corporation
Transitive is the leader in providing solutions that allow the transportability of software applications across multiple hardware platforms. The company’s award-winning QuickTransit hardware virtualization solution allows software applications that have been compiled for one processor/operating system to run on a system with a different processor/operating system, without any source code or binary changes and at speeds comparable to native ports. QuickTransit allows data center managers to transport legacy enterprise applications quickly and easily from outdated, proprietary hardware to modern, standardized platforms without incurring the costs and delays of porting projects, and with no disruption to end users. QuickTransit also facilitates computer companies’ migration to new hardware platforms; dramatically reduces software developers’ cost, risk, and time-to-market in supporting multiple hardware platforms; and makes significantly more software available for more hardware platforms.
QuickTransit technology provides the engine for Apple’s Rosetta translation software and is currently shipping on all of Apple’s Intel-based computers. QuickTransit also provides the engine for IBM System p AVE, which will be included with all IBM System p enterprise servers later in 2007
Transitive Corporation is located in Los Gatos, California, with a research and development team in Manchester, UK. Transitive was nominated as a Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland in January 2007, and the company’s QuickTransit software was awarded the European ICT Grand Prize in March 2007, ahead of 450 technology products from 30 countries. For more information, please visit Transitive’s Web site at www.transitive.com.
About King’s College Hospital
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of London’s largest and busiest teaching hospitals, with a unique profile of strong local services and a focused set of tertiary specialties. This includes providing specialist services to patients across a wide catchment, and King’s is recognized internationally for its work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac and haemato-oncology. King’s provides a full range of local hospital services for over 700,000 people in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, and plays a key role in the training and education of medical, nursing and dental students.
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