LOS GATOS, CA--(Marketwire - September 16, 2008) - Transitive® Corporation, the leading provider
of cross-platform virtualization solutions, today announced it has
surpassed the milestone of 15 million product shipments worldwide.
Transitive's award-winning cross-platform virtualization solutions, which
ship with all Apple Macintosh computers and most IBM Power Systems servers,
enable software applications to run on different hardware platforms without
source code or binary changes at speeds comparable to native ports. In
addition to custom solutions built for partners such as Apple and IBM,
Transitive sells its QuickTransit® enterprise product line directly and
through a global network of distribution partners that include Fujitsu
Siemens Computers, HP and Red Hat.
"As virtualization becomes a mainstream datacenter solution, IT managers
recognize that only cross-platform virtualization, which frees software
from legacy processors and operating systems, will enable them to move all
their applications off outdated hardware and onto more powerful and
efficient servers without the costs and delays of complex porting
projects," said Bob Wiederhold, CEO and president of Transitive.
"Transitive continues to lead the industry in delivering this technology,
which is why so many of the world's leading server and virtualization
vendors are partnering with us."
By deploying QuickTransit on the latest enterprise server platforms,
enterprise datacenter 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.
"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," said Tony Iams, vice-president and senior analyst for System
Software Research at Ideas International, Inc. "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."
To address the most typical customer deployment scenarios, Transitive
offers three configurations of its QuickTransit enterprise products:
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 older legacy hardware running operating system versions
that are no longer supported. The QuickTransit enterprise product line
includes QuickTransit for Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Solaris™/x86-64, QuickTransit
for Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Linux®/x86-64 and QuickTransit for
Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Linux®/Itanium®.
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's Expanding Partner Ecosystem
Increased demand for cross-platform virtualization solutions is driving
closer partnership activities between Transitive and the leading systems
and virtualization vendors.
Systems Vendors:
-- Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a global distributor for Transitive and
significantly boosts Transitive's presence in the European region.
-- HP is a global distributor for Transitive, and sells the entire
QuickTransit product line across all HP enterprise platforms.
-- IBM is shipping PowerVM Lx86, developed by Transitive, which runs
Linux/x86 workloads on IBM Power Systems (formerly System i and System p)
servers.
-- Sun has endorsed QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86-64 as a
solution to increase application availability for the Solaris/x86 operating
system.
Virtualization Vendors:
-- Transitive is a Microsoft partner, and QuickTransit runs in Hyper-V,
allowing native Solaris/SPARC applications to run on Windows Server 2008
systems.
-- Transitive has technology partnerships with Novell, Red Hat and
Citrix, and QuickTransit supports deployment within all 64-bit Xen-based
VMs.
-- Transitive is a Parallels Technology Partner, and QuickTransit runs
within Virtuozzo containers and Parallels Workstation virtual machines.
-- Transitive is a member of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP)
program and QuickTransit can be deployed within VMware virtual machines on
64-bit platforms. VMware has also certified the QuickTransit Virtual
Appliance.
As a cross-platform virtualization pioneer, Transitive plays an active role
in virtualization industry events, and during 2008 the company participated
as a sponsor at VMware Virtualization Forums in 16 cities throughout the
world. Transitive is also an exhibitor at the VMworld 2008 conference in
Las Vegas on September 16-18, 2008, where it will demonstrate QuickTransit
running highly-consolidated Solaris/SPARC virtualized workloads on a
next-generation Intel Xeon processor 7400 series server at Booth #435.
About Transitive Corporation
Transitive is a leader in cross-platform virtualization, and its
award-winning QuickTransit technology is built into more than 15 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 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 on 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.
Contact Information: Media Contact:
Andrew Evangelista
Eastwick Communications
(For Transitive Corporation)
(650) 480-4056
andrew@eastwick.com