Platform Computing Selected as Winner of 2010 CATAAlliance Innovation and Technology Award for 'Emerging Technology'

TORONTO, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Platform Computing announced today that it has been selected as the winner of the 2010 "TSX Award for Emerging Technology" by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA).  Given in recognition for the recent launch of an innovative new product, Platform received the award for its private cloud management software product, Platform ISF.

Supporting Quotes:

• "These award winners have shown that they are innovators and skilled business people. They are role models for the development of commercially successful enterprises in Canada. CATA's role as their advocate is to ensure that we create a rich foundation of programs and initiatives that enable leading entrepreneurs to launch their products and exploit their new business opportunities," said John Reid, president, CATA.
• "Platform has been an innovator in the Canadian technology community for over 18 years since our founder Songnian Zhou first created a vision of shared computing infrastructures," said James Pang, Vice President Product Management, Platform Computing.  "As the leader of grid, cluster and cloud computing worldwide, we're really delighted to be recognized alongside fellow Canadian technology leaders by the CATA for our contributions to the technology industry."

Key Points:

• The CATAAlliance Innovation and Leadership Awards are the most prestigious annual awards conferred on individuals and corporations by Canada's advanced technology community.  They are presented in recognition of exceptional contributions made to the creation of science and technology based industrial strength in Canada.  The awards gala was held on May 19th in Ottawa at the University of Ottawa.
• As one of the hottest and most hyped technologies on the market today, cloud computing is intended to be a game-changing way for businesses to run their IT departments more efficiently, share resources more effectively and maximize computing power across organizations.  Introduced to the market in June 2009, Platform ISF is the first private cloud management product that efficiently manages application workloads over multiple virtual and physical platforms.
• After maintaining a longtime leadership position in grid and cluster management software, Platform saw an innovation opportunity to leverage its decades of experience delivering shared computing solutions to take advantage of the new IT business model that cloud computing offers.
• Platform ISF creates a shared infrastructure that can be used by any application, where resources are allocated to each application according to workload-smart and resource-aware policies. Private clouds deployed through Platform ISF allow IT departments to be more responsive to the needs of the enterprise by delivering application environments in minutes instead of weeks, while reducing IT costs through dramatically improved utilization with fewer resources.

Resources:

• http://www.platform.com
• http://www.platform.com/private-cloud-computing/private-cloud-platform-isf
• http://www.cata.ca/Media_and_Events/Awards/NominProcess.html

About Platform Computing

Platform Computing is the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software – serving more than 2,000 of the world's most demanding organizations. For 17 years, our workload and resource management solutions have delivered IT responsiveness and lower costs for enterprise and HPC applications. Platform has strategic relationships with Cray, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, and SAS. Visit www.platform.com.

SOURCE Platform Computing