Scalent Systems Virtual Operating Environment™ Now Available for IBM Customers; Scalent Virtual Operating Environment Brings Management, Flexibility, Connectivity and Failover Capabilities to IBM Customers

Business Wire, August 28, 2006

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Scalent Systems, a leading provider of server infrastructure repurposing software for large enterprise data centers, today announced that Scalent has made Scalent Virtual Operating Environment (V/OE) available to IBM customers. IBM customers can now use existing relationships, contracts and purchasing agreements to obtain Scalent software. Scalent V/OE makes it easier for data center administrators to manage large-scale IBM BladeCenter and System x deployments, adding greater flexibility to help drive down costs and increase the failover capabilities of IBM systems.

"IBM is always seeking innovative solutions like Scalent V/OE for our customers," said Doug Balog, vice president, IBM BladeCenter. "Scalent V/OE will help enterprises increase their data center reliability, responsiveness, flexibility, and asset utilization."

Acting as "virtualization middleware," Scalent V/OE helps enterprises unify their data center infrastructure, including virtual and physical computing, networking and storage resources. IBM customers can seamlessly add, swap and failover among blades and servers, while transparently maintaining the consistency and integrity of their business systems. Scalent V/OE can help IBM customers increase their flexibility and asset utilization, consolidate their IT infrastructures and reduce the cost of ensuring high performance and availability.

"Working with IBM enables Scalent to better serve our joint customers, bringing greater reliability and agility to their data centers," said Andrew Duncan, senior vice president of business development, Scalent Systems. "This is a wonderful opportunity for Scalent to increase its product exposure to some of the world's largest companies and we look forward to continuing to expand our relationship with IBM."

About Scalent Systems

Scalent Systems is driving the next-generation of datacenter virtualization through a completely new approach called server infrastructure repurposing. Scalent goes beyond the capabilities of traditional server virtualization, which typically requires proprietary hardware or is reliant on physical network and storage connections, to address real and virtual machines, network connectivity and storage access. Scalent is able to do this because it has the broadest hardware and software support for easy integration into existing environments and it sits outside the data path so it can deliver much higher performance at lower risk. Scalent is complementary to provisioning, data center automation and server virtualization, tying each together within the datacenter environment. With Scalent, Fortune 1000 enterprises can now radically increase datacenter flexibility and asset utilization to stem the spiraling costs associated with server sprawl and underutilized systems.

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