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Penton's Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine Name PolyServe Database Utility for SQL Server Best of TechEd 2006 Awards Finalist

Posted on: Tuesday, 16 May 2006, 09:03 CDT

BEAVERTON, Ore., May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Penton's Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine announced the PolyServe Database Utility(TM) for SQL Server was chosen as a finalist in the Database Development and Administration category for the Best of TechEd 2006 Awards. The winners will be determined after final judging at TechEd 2006 in Boston, Mass. and announced the evening of June 14.

"The field included more than 250 entries. After technically evaluating all of the entries, we chose finalists based on the product's strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages and the value to the customer," said Michael Otey, technical director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

The PolyServe Database Utility for SQL Server enables IT organizations to effectively and reliably consolidate up to hundreds of disparate Microsoft(R) SQL Server(TM) databases into a single, easy-to-manage cluster. The Database Utility for SQL Server integrates PolyServe's innovative shared data clustering technology to deliver immediate and long-term consolidation benefits that redefine the economics of SQL Server deployments: reducing by half the number of servers and software installs needed for SQL Server, cutting cluster configuration and management time as much as 75 percent and lowering total cost-of-ownership by often more than 50 percent over three years.

PolyServe's shared data clustering technology offers a unique approach to SQL Server consolidation. With traditional virtual machine technologies, software overhead limits performance, and "big iron" consolidation approaches increase the risk of application failure and incur more cost. Only PolyServe runs directly on Microsoft Server System with no performance degradation and reliably re-hosts SQL Server instances to another server upon system failure. With all servers in a cluster as possible active-active failover targets for other servers, re-hosting is simple, assured and comes with no additional price penalty. PolyServe's Dynamic Re-Hosting(TM) feature allows database instances to be moved from one server to another of any size or from any vendor with less than 30 seconds of cluster downtime, making it easy to increase capacity or provide server maintenance. With online capacity upgrades and assured high availability, companies can comfortably stack multiple instances on a single server to take full advantage of their IT assets.

About PolyServe

PolyServe, Inc. is a leading provider of software for enabling utility computing in enterprise data centers. PolyServe software consolidates Linux and Microsoft Windows(R) servers and storage into manageable, available and scalable utilities for databases and file serving. PolyServe's software overcomes the limits of server virtualization to extend server consolidation benefits to all applications, and to all cost footprints. In addition to its headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., PolyServe has a Microsoft development center in Bellevue, Wash. It also has sales and support offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, London, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. For more information about PolyServe, visit http://www.polyserve.com/, or call 877-476-5973.

About Windows IT Media

Penton's Windows IT Media, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, includes flagship print publication Windows IT Pro. First published in 1995, Windows IT Pro is the editorial leader in its field and has a paid subscription base of 105,000. The magazine is published in 13 languages and has an international reach into 160 countries. Windows IT Pro UPDATE, the group's flagship email newsletter, is the only e-newsletter to make BtoB Magazine's Media Power 50 list.

Windows IT Media also includes SQL Server Magazine and MSD2D. SQL Server Magazine has 30,000 paid subscribers, and three email newsletters sent to more than 130,000 opt-in subscribers. MSD2D is a rich online information resource for IT professionals, with a focus on the software developer community. MSD2D has a robust product mix that includes a vertical search engine, Web sites, partner directories, email newsletters, trade show programs and Web seminars.

The Windows IT Media network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its websites each month, and more than one million (gross) subscribers who opt-in to one or more of our email newsletters. Windows IT Media is the world's leading producer of custom roadshows, paid conferences and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT professionals.

For more information visit: http://www.windowsitpro.com/pressroom, and http://www.windowsitmedia.com/

NOTE: PolyServe, PolyServe Database Utility and PolyServe Dynamic Re- hosting are trademarks of PolyServe, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

PolyServe, Inc.

CONTACT: Rich Bruer of McClenahan Bruer Communications, +1-503-546-1000,or rich@mcbru.com, for PolyServe, Inc.

Web site: http://www.polyserve.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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