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U.S. Defense and Intelligence Communities to Benefit from Platform’s Private Cloud Management Software

TORONTO, Canada, Jan. 26, 2010 — Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, today announced a strategic partnership with Instrumental Inc., a leading provider of architecture, design and integration services for high performance computing (HPC) and data storage in the government and commercial sectors. The partnership enhances Platform’s global service capabilities and gives users an end-to-end, full service solution that maximizes the value of Platform’s private cloud management and HPC cloud-enabling software solutions, Platform ISF and Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster.

As U.S. government agencies and departments evaluate the potential cost savings, service level improvements and greater resource utilization offered by various cloud computing models, there is a recognized need for a technology-agnostic platform that can support and integrate legacy, heterogeneous HPC environments while also managing a wide-range of hardware, operating systems and virtual machines. In order to maximize prior technology investments, government agencies must invest in technologies that prevent vendor lock-in and that work with multiple types of operating systems.

“Platform’s ISF and ISF Adaptive Cluster can provide government agencies the scalability and performance needed to manage their data center resources while evolving to cloud-based infrastructure services and also adhering to federal requirements for open standards, compliance and budgetary requirements,” said Tripp Purvis, Vice President, Business Development, Platform Computing. “Given our longstanding partnership, Platform is in close alignment with Instrumental to ensure that our mutual HPC customers are able to efficiently manage compute- and data-intensive workloads in the cloud.”

It’s interesting to see the different organizations and bodies utilizing a range of technologies including HPC solutions to deliver their IT services, whether it’s grid computing, application virtualization or as a vehicle to achieve more with less, anything vendors and service providers can do to help end user business benefit has to be a good thing. Private clouds can be a great way of changing the way we provide core cross business services such as email, storage or compute services, the concept of buying utility on demand, moving away from a server per application or infrastructure for a specific business unit to a more commoditized way of doing business where I pay for what I need in the most economic location on the most efficient infrastructure. This does not mean moving away from where we are, nor does it mean changing everything, it can be simply looking at consolidation of roles, looking at our processes, our business requirements and establishing how we can achieve the same results with a different platform, a cloud solution for email centralized in an efficient data center rather than duplicated regional email hubs for example.

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