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Leading European Retailer Cactus SA Deploys QuickTransit® to Extend the Productive Life of Critical Enterprise ApplicationsCross-Platform Virtualization Leader Transitive® Speeds and Simplifies the Re-Hosting of Financial Applications from Legacy Hardware to PRIMERGY® Linux®/x86 Systems AUGSBURG, GERMANY, – November 12, 2008 – Transitive® Corporation, the leading provider of cross-platform virtualization solutions, today announced that prominent Luxembourg retailer Cactus SA has deployed Transitive’s innovative QuickTransit® for Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Linux®/x86-64 solution to re-host several of its most important enterprise applications on Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY systems with Linux. “We are pleased to welcome Cactus as a QuickTransit customer, and appreciate the role that our partners at Fujitsu Siemens Computers played in successfully deploying this cross-platform virtualization solution in record time,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Transitive. “As a result, Cactus has been able to rapidly benefit from the cost savings and enhanced productivity made possible by QuickTransit.” “We are strongly impressed by the PRIMERGY/Linux and QuickTransit Solaris transition solution of Fujitsu Siemens Computers,” said Serge Dublet, Head of IT at Cactus SA. “The easy transfer of our old Solaris-based SAP R/3 applications to industry open standards with Intel® Xeon® processor-based PRIMERGY systems and Linux -without any need for costly re-coding efforts – was our biggest surprise. The new environment will start saving money immediately.” Transitive’s QuickTransit cross-platform virtualization solutions enable software applications to run on any hardware platform without any source code or binary changes, and at speeds comparable to native ports. By deploying QuickTransit on the latest enterprise server platforms, enterprise data center managers can replicate workloads that were previously tied to a single hardware platform and run them unmodified, without incurring the costs and delays of porting projects, and without disruption to end users. Furthermore, such comparatively easy workload replication can provide the basis for more cost-effective business continuity solutions, including disaster recovery, application scalability and dynamic workload re-balancing. 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 . Transitive also offers a free Adobe® Reader® solution for Solaris/x86 users requiring fully-functional Portable Document Format (PDF) viewing capabilities. QuickTransit for Solaris/x86 with Adobe Reader can be downloaded from the Transitive Web site at: http://www.transitive.com/reader . Transitive will participate in the VISIT 2008 conference for Fujitsu Siemens enterprise customers in Augsburg, Germany during November 12-13, 2008. About Cactus SACactus SA (www.cactus.lu) is Luxembourg’s leading retail chain, operating more than 20 stores with a total sales area in excess of 56,200 square meters. With more than 3900 staff, Cactus is also the second-largest private employer in Luxembourg. About Fujitsui Siemens Computers Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT Infrastructure Provider. By delivering Infrastructure products, solutions and services as well as Managed Infrastructure or a combination of these offerings, our customers have the freedom to choose whatever IT infrastructure fits best to their specific needs. Fujitsu Siemens Computers is present in all key markets in Europe, Africa and the Middle East serving large, small or medium-sized companies or private consumers, while its Infrastructure Services division is active in 170 countries. The company benefits from the global cooperation and innovation power of both its shareholders, Fujitsu Ltd. and Siemens AG.Fujitsu Siemens Computers is one of the pioneers in offering a complete range of environmentally conscious products and in using environmentally friendly technologies and processes throughout the entire lifecycle of a product.More information about Fujitsu Siemens Computers is at: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com./. Additional information about social responsibility is at: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.de/aboutus/sor/index.html. . About Transitive Corporation Transitive is a leader in cross-platform virtualization, and its award-winning QuickTransit technology is built into more than 16 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. More information can be found at 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. |
“ The advantages of the virtualization trend are many and varied, but many datacenters may be forced to launch multiple virtualization strategies or expensive porting projects to account for the multiple platforms they maintain. Cross-platform virtualization eliminates this obstacle, allowing datacenters to take a single, simple approach to virtualization that delivers the maximum benefits from initiatives related to server consolidation, disaster recovery, energy efficiency, and legacy migration. By enabling immediate software migration to chosen strategic server platforms, we believe that Transitive can help eliminate much of the difficulty and expense that companies face when upgrading hardware.”
Tony Iams
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