GemStone Systems and Platform Computing Partner to Deliver High-Performance Data Virtualization to Grid-Based Environments

Partnership Brings the Power of a Data Fabric to Grid Infrastructures

Beaverton, OR and Toronto, ON – September 6, 2006 – GemStone Systems, the leading provider of the Enterprise Data Fabric (EDF), and Platform Computing, the industry leader in enterprise grid software solutions, today announced a strategic technology partnership.  The unified GemStone – Platform solution enables organizations to virtualize, share, and manage data, compute and other IT resources across application deployments on grid-based infrastructures.  The joint solution delivers unmatched scalability and performance by parallelizing data availability while intelligently leveraging comprehensive IT resources to guarantee scalability and low- latency for high performance applications.

The combined use of GemFire Enterprise Data Fabric with Platform Symphony is already helping several firms combat the compute and data intensive challenges hindering many grid initiatives, significantly improving performance and reliability. GemFire serves as data grid that pools memory and disk across a grid, providing unmatched data access, intelligent task routing and delivery that further enhances the CPU utilization of compute resources managed by Symphony. In this fashion, even the most demanding applications can scale transparently and manage large scale computations and massive data volumes on the grid.

“As financial services firms continue to move toward large scale distributed systems, they are faced with challenges of compute power, as well as data access and distribution,” said Simon Lonsdale, Director of Strategic Alliances, Platform.  “The integration of GemFire and Symphony means that as our customers’ infrastructures grow, they can overcome these challenges by maximizing their existing hardware resources, increasing revenue while reducing cost.”

GemFire Enterprise Data Fabric can also intelligently feed data to heterogeneous, distributed IT resources virtualized by Platform Enterprise Grid Orchestrator (EGO) and drive precise, real-time business decisions. By leveraging existing IT assets, the joint solution powers multiple applications running in a shared environment, significantly improving enterprise efficiency while lowering the total cost of ownership.

"By partnering with Platform and leveraging their products and expertise, we can expand the benefits of the Enterprise Data Fabric (EDF) to any organization attempting to reap the benefits of grid computing and virtualization," said Juan Menendez, SVP of Business Development, GemStone Systems. "This partnership delivers a best-in-class, comprehensive solution to virtualize, manage and provision resources and data across a network of nodes running disparate applications, delivering mission critical data instantaneously to large-scale applications."

About GemStone Systems, Inc.
GemStone Systems is the leading provider of the Enterprise Data Fabric (EDF), offering data services solutions for enterprise business architects and data infrastructure managers that are building, enhancing or simplifying access, distribution, integration and management of information within and across the enterprise.  Founded in 1982, and with over 200 installed customers, GemStone is recognized worldwide for its unique competency and patented technology in object management, virtual memory architectures, high-performance caching, and data distribution technologies.

About Platform Computing
Platform Computing is the global leader for grid computing solutions and a technology pioneer of the supercomputing world. The company's solutions for enterprise and high performance computing helps the world's largest organizations integrate and accelerate business processes, to increase competitive advantage and enjoy a higher return on investment from IT. With over 2000 customers, the company has achieved a clear leadership position in the market through a focus on technology innovation and execution. Founded in 1992, Platform Computing has strategic relationships with Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novell and Red Hat, along with the industry's broadest support for third-party applications. For more information please visit www.platform.com