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Transitive(R) QuickTransit(R) Integrates With Microsoft(R) Hyper-V to Run Solaris/SPARC(R) Applications on Windows Server 2008 Without Porting
Cross-Platform Virtualization Leader Broadens Enterprise Customer Options When Deployed With Newly-Released Windows x86 Hypervisor Technology From Microsoft
| Source: Transitive Corporation
LOS GATOS, CA--(Marketwire - July 14, 2008) - Transitive® Corporation, the leading provider
of cross-platform virtualization solutions, today announced that its
award-winning QuickTransit® software will run within Hyper-V™, the
Windows Server 2008 hypervisor released this month by Microsoft. This
innovative product combination will allow enterprise customers to run
Solaris/SPARC applications on the latest Windows-based servers without
porting or recompilation, resulting in cost-effective new solutions for
scalability, high availability, disaster recovery and legacy application
re-hosting.
"QuickTransit and Hyper-V are a great fit," said Ian Robinson,
vice-president of marketing for Transitive. "The combination of a leading
cross-platform virtualization solution and a robust, affordable hypervisor
integrated into the most broadly-deployed server operating system is a
'win-win' for enterprise customers. Used in Hyper-V, QuickTransit allows
thousands of additional non-Windows applications to run on the latest
Windows Server 2008 systems without the costs, delays or disruption of
porting."
To run native Solaris/SPARC software on Windows Server 2008 requires
deployment of a guest operating system such as Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 10 in a Hyper-V virtual machine, with Transitive's QuickTransit 1.5
for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64. A broad range of Solaris/SPARC
executable files can then be run within that virtual machine, and these
applications can interoperate with native Windows applications running on
the same server. All of the considerable benefits of server virtualization,
such as consolidation and rapid provisioning, are thereby available for
legacy Solaris/SPARC workloads migrated from older RISC-based hardware.
To address the most typical customer deployments, Transitive offers three
configurations of its QuickTransit product line: QuickTransit Workstation
is intended for use on desktop and laptop PCs; QuickTransit Server is used
for large-scale datacenter consolidation projects; and QuickTransit Legacy
is a specialized version for application re-hosting from very old legacy
hardware running operating system versions that are no longer supported.
Evaluation versions of QuickTransit can be downloaded from the Transitive
Web site at:
http://www.transitive.com/evaluate.
About Transitive Corporation
Transitive is a leader in cross-platform virtualization, and its
award-winning QuickTransit technology is built into more than 12 million
computers worldwide. QuickTransit allows software applications that have
been compiled for one processor and operating system to run on systems with
different processors and operating systems, without any source code or
binary changes and at speeds comparable to native ports. As a result,
QuickTransit allows IT managers to quickly and easily replicate legacy
enterprise applications from the original hardware and run them on modern,
standardized platforms without incurring the costs and delays of porting
projects, and without 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 is the foundation for
Apple's Rosetta translation software (built into 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.
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