SOURCE: Transitive

September 29, 2008 08:00 ET

Transitive® Expands Asia-Pacific Business by Appointing ICE Systems as Regional Reseller for QuickTransit® Enterprise Solutions

Global Expansion of Cross-Platform Virtualization Leader Continues as QuickTransit Deployments in Asia-Pacific Region Increase in Scope and Sophistication

LOS GATOS, CA--(Marketwire - September 29, 2008) - Transitive® Corporation, the leading provider of cross-platform virtualization solutions, today announced the appointment of Sydney-based ICE Systems Pty Ltd as a reseller of the QuickTransit® enterprise product line. As cross-platform virtualization is rapidly becoming accepted by CIOs and IT managers as a cost-effective solution for datacenter consolidation, workload replication, scalability, business continuity and legacy application migration, the level of international interest in QuickTransit has grown. To meet this demand, Transitive is expanding its network of resellers in regions such as Australia that are broadly adopting virtualization solutions.

"ICE Systems is a highly regarded Australian technology solution provider that will play a key role in delivering QuickTransit solutions to our customers in the region," said Steven Mih, vice president of worldwide sales for Transitive. "The company is off to a great start, since it has already made some QuickTransit sales to forward-thinking enterprise customers in Australia that have identified the immediate ROI benefits they can enjoy from deploying cross-platform virtualization solutions in their datacenters."

"ICE Systems has assisted many enterprise customers with their Linux migration strategies," said Neil Burgess of the ICT Solutions Team at ICE Systems. "Transitive provides a unique set of tools to assist in one aspect of this migration process. As one of the leading Linux advocates within Australia, ICE Systems believes that its partnership with Transitive is ideally suited to deliver benefits to customers in what can be a complex arena. By working closely with Transitive and using other emerging technologies, ICE Systems helps customer organizations move from historically slow and expensive environments to current technology platforms.

"Virtualization is rapidly becoming the way forward in providing organizations huge flexibility to deploy multiple platforms under one management umbrella," he added. "QuickTransit, the leading cross-platform virtualization solution, offers customers the opportunity to more rapidly transition to current technologies, thus significantly reducing the costs associated with expensive legacy infrastructure."

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.

The QuickTransit product line is available from Transitive and its global distribution partners, which include HP, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Red Hat. Prospective QuickTransit customers in Australia can contact ICE Systems directly to arrange an evaluation of the leading enterprise cross-platform virtualization solution, and evaluation versions of QuickTransit can also 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.

About ICE Systems Pty Ltd

ICE Systems Pty Ltd, with its head office based in Sydney, is one of Australia's premier System integration houses. Specializing in the design and implementation of high availability, storage, disaster recovery and backup solutions, ICE Systems can cater for robust business requirements. With extensive product knowledge, ICE Systems delivers seamless solutions to meet challenging business needs. ICE Systems helps plan business IT strategy and put in place the right infrastructure that enables complete confidence. By providing the best possible advice, products, installation, training and technical support, ICE Systems ensures organizations can maximize the benefits of IT. More information can be found at the ICE Systems Web site at http://www.icesystems.com.au/.

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). 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.

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