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IBM Platform Unification Expands Market for Innovative PowerVM Lx86 Cross-Platform Virtualization Solution Created By Transitive(R)

Posted on: Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 09:00 CDT

Transitive(R) Corporation, the leading provider of cross-platform virtualization software that enables the execution of applications across diverse computing platforms, today welcomed IBM's unification of its former System i and System p enterprise server families into a common Power Systems product line. This unification represents a significant market expansion for the PowerVM Lx86 solution that was developed for IBM by Transitive. PowerVM Lx86 is available for all of IBM's new Power Systems models, which offer POWER6(TM) processors, simplified pricing, increased application choice and reduced energy and administration costs.

The IBM platform unification means that customers using previous System i servers can boost performance and energy efficiency by moving their mission-critical workloads to the new systems (including cost-effective blade options) while continuing to use the same applications and operating systems they have depended on for two decades. These customers can also take advantage of IBM's PowerVM virtualization -- which allows them to create up to 80 virtual partitions per server -- as well as using the PowerVM Lx86 cross-platform virtualization solution to run thousands of additional mainstream Linux/x86 applications on the very same Power Systems servers.

"The Power Systems product line unification by IBM is a bold move that reflects the needs of CIOs and IT managers to move towards a highly-consolidated, fully-virtualized IT infrastructure based on standardized hardware platforms," said Bob Wiederhold, president and CEO of Transitive. "Transitive is excited to have played such a key role in this strategic transition, by providing IBM with an effective cross-platform virtualization solution that allows all of the new Power Systems models to run popular Linux/x86 applications alongside workloads compiled for i, AIX and Linux/Power."

"IBM continues to work very closely with Transitive to address the needs of customers interested in reducing server sprawl and saving money by consolidating multiple diverse workloads onto Power Systems servers," said Scott Handy, vice president of marketing and strategy, IBM Power Systems. "By making PowerVM Lx86 available to the unified Power Systems customer base, the universe of applications that can easily be consolidated by these customers increases beyond AIX, i and Linux on Power native applications to include virtually all Linux/x86 applications as well."

Developed as the result of a strategic partnership between Transitive and IBM, PowerVM Lx86 is included with all IBM PowerVM Editions, which were designed to provide advanced virtualization technologies that yield efficiencies in resource utilization and cost savings. As a result, IBM Power Systems customers have an integrated solution that can help consolidate more of their applications running on x86 servers to increase the value obtained from server consolidation. The three PowerVM Editions -- which all include PowerVM Lx86 as a standard component -- are PowerVM Express Edition, PowerVM Standard Edition and PowerVM Enterprise Edition. PowerVM Lx86 allows almost all Linux x86 applications to run without requiring modification, upgrade or recompilation on Power Systems platforms with PowerVM.

About Transitive Corporation

Transitive is a leader in cross-platform virtualization, and its award-winning QuickTransit technology is built into more than 10 million computers worldwide. QuickTransit 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. As a result, QuickTransit allows data center managers to quickly and easily replicate legacy enterprise applications from the original hardware and allow them to run on more modern, standardized platforms without incurring the costs and delays of porting projects, and with no disruption to end users. This workload replication helps enterprise customers improve business continuity, including superior disaster recovery, scalability and high-availability solutions.

Transitive's cross-platform virtualization technology provides the engine for Apple's Rosetta translation software (which ships in all of Apple's Intel-based Macintosh computers) and also for PowerVM Lx86, which is available for all IBM Power Systems enterprise servers. Transitive Corporation is located in Los Gatos, California with a research and development team in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit Transitive's Web site at www.transitive.com.

Transitive, QuickTransit and the Transitive logo are registered trademarks of Transitive Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

 Media Contact: Becky Quinlan Eastwick Communications (For Transitive Corporation) 650-480-4032 Email Contact

SOURCE: Transitive

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