Transitive Works With HP to Accelerate Customer Datacenter Consolidation Using Linux x86 and Linux Itanium Platforms
Transitive Works With HP to Accelerate Customer Datacenter Consolidation Using Linux x86 and Linux Itanium Platforms
By VSM News Staff published: Friday, June 22 2007
Companies Take on the Biggest Challenge to Successful Enterprise Datacenter Consolidation Projects -- Legacy Application Migration
LAS VEGAS, NV - HP TECHNOLOGY FORUM - Transitive® Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system pairs, is working with HP to take on one of the biggest obstacles to enterprise datacenter consolidation projects -- the migration of legacy Sun SPARC® applications. Responding to the worldwide increase in the pace and scope of datacenter consolidation initiatives, Transitive has signed an agreement with HP that includes joint technical, marketing and sales activities in order to help customers accelerate datacenter consolidation by focusing on solving the primary challenge of such projects, which is application migration.
To help enterprise customers overcome their application migration challenges, Transitive will work with HP to deliver solutions using Transitive's award-winning QuickTransit products, which allow customers to quickly and easily run applications compiled for Solaris™/SPARC® platforms on x86-based HP ProLiant and Integrity servers, without the need to modify any source code or binaries. In addition to the popular QuickTransit® for Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Linux®/x86-64, the expanded Transitive relationship with HP will also include the new QuickTransit® for Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Linux®/Itanium, which Transitive has announced will be available in July 2007.
"One of the biggest obstacles to migrating customers from Solaris/SPARC servers to HP servers is getting commercial and in-house Solaris/SPARC applications to run on the extensive HP range of x86- and Itanium-based systems," said Bob Wiederhold, CEO and president of Transitive. "Transitive's alliance with HP will help get this breakthrough technology into the hands of customers more rapidly and help accelerate the migration of Sun SPARC server workloads to HP servers."
As part of the agreement, Transitive's popular QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 and the forthcoming QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/Itanium will be included as part of HP's Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP). Transitive will also collaborate with HP on promoting both QuickTransit products through a wide range of joint marketing activities, including customer seminars, Webinars, speaking engagements, and trade shows, commencing with the 2007 HP Technology Forum. Transitive will also add key HP channel partners to Transitive's growing distribution channel.
"HP continues to see strong interest from Sun customers migrating from their SPARC platforms," said Christine Martino, vice president of the Open Source and Linux Organization at HP. "Customers whose only option had been a full port from Solaris to Linux will find the Transitive solutions attractive alternatives for addressing Solaris applications that may not be easily portable. The QuickTransit products provide customers with a simple way to take advantage of the performance and reliability of industry-leading HP ProLiant servers running Solaris applications."
"Intel saw the potential of Transitive's breakthrough technology a few years ago and established a strategic relationship with Transitive to deliver products that would allow Solaris/SPARC binaries to run on Intel architectures," said Lisa Graff, general manager of Server Platform Management at Intel. "We see HP and Transitive's growing relationship as a great way to speed the adoption of this breakthrough technology in the enterprise IT market."
Transitive's QuickTransit Products for Solaris/SPARC Migration
Transitive's unique and innovative QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86 and QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/Itanium solutions make it possible for enterprise customers using x86- and Itanium-based servers to run the extensive selection of commercial and in-house Solaris/SPARC applications, without modification to their source code or binaries, with full functionality and in a way that is completely transparent to end-users and system administrators. Most importantly, the performance of translated applications on x86 and Itanium servers is comparable to performance on the latest Solaris/SPARC servers and significantly faster than older Solaris/SPARC hardware.
The global drive for increased IT efficiency has led most large IT organizations to define a datacenter consolidation strategy that requires decommissioning of legacy hardware and the migration of workloads to standardized platforms. The award-winning QuickTransit product line makes such transitions faster and easier, and they focus on the most common migration paths being adopted by enterprise customers.
QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/Itanium complements Transitive's award winning QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 product, and provides enterprise customers a choice of hardware platform when they choose to make a switch from Solaris to Linux, depending on their IT strategy and future datacenter consolidation objectives. QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64, released in November 2006, has enjoyed considerable market success, with enterprise deployments worldwide. Transitive plans to continue extending the QuickTransit family with additional innovative products through 2007 and beyond, based on enterprise customer needs.
Pricing and Availability
The production release of QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86 has been shipping since November 2006. QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/Itanium will ship in July 2007. Both products are priced at $875 per populated processor socket, in the form of 1-year or 2-year subscriptions (including customer support). When deployed in a virtualized environment, the QuickTransit software is priced per virtual machine rather than per physical processor socket. Customers will be able to buy the product from Transitive directly, and it will be downloadable for evaluation and purchase from the Transitive Web site (www.transitive.com). It will also be available directly through Transitive's global channel partner network.
About Transitive Corporation
Transitive is the leader in providing solutions that allow the transportability of software applications across multiple hardware platforms. The company's 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. For more information, please visit Transitive's Web site at www.transitive.com.
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