Majitek Joins IBM Ready for Grid Program
23/Jan/2007
One of only two Australian Independent Software Vendors to satisfy IBM Grid Ready technology criteria
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, January 23, 2007 – Grid Application Platform company, Majitek, today announced that its GridSystem platform had officially been validated as “Ready for Grid” by IBM.
IBM Ready for Grid, a highly sought after mark for IBM Grid Business Partners, goes to vendors who have validated their capabilities to run in a grid environment. Ready for Grid is part of IBM’s Grid Ecosystem program which grew in 2006 to include over 100 IBM Business Partners.
“We are very pleased to join the IBM Ready for Grid program”, said Rob Cumming, Director of Marketing, Majitek, “Through the use of our Grid Application Platform Majitek can offer IBM customers and other IBM Application ISVs a low cost means to ‘Grid Enable’ their existing Java applications”.
Majitek GridSystem provides a next generation alternative to traditional Java Application Server platforms. Through the use of advanced SOA technology, Majitek enables any Java application to be deployed as an array of component parts and run on a virtualized pool of computing resources.
“Grid Computing is no longer reserved only for the scientific research domain”, said Cumming. “Through the combination of Majitek GridSystem and the IBM BladeCentre environment, any Java application can be ported to a highly scalable, high performance Grid platform with minimal cost and effort – this is real Grid Computing for the Enterprise”.
Majitek will also work with the IBM Grid Value Network Initiative that helps customers realize the power of grid computing by combining Independent Software Vendor (ISV) technologies with IBM hardware, software and consulting expertise to deliver end-to-end solutions like IBM Grid and Grow Express to help enterprise adopters use existing IT resources to form an easily scalable grid environment for better handling complex, time consuming functions.
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About Majitek
Majitek specialises in Grid Computing technologies and advanced Service Oriented Architecture. The company’s flagship Grid Application Platform increases performance, lowers cost and simplifies operation of complex software environments, bringing a new level of efficiency to Enterprise IT departments.
Majitek GridSystem is ideally suited as an underlying platform for complex software application scenarios such as Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Shared Services, Real-Time High Performance Computing, Federated Wide Area Networks, Device Sensor Networks, Content as a Service and Software as a Service.
Majitek is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and has offices in Singapore and San Francisco. For more information visit www.majitek.com.
About IBM
To learn more about IBM, go to www.ibm.com. To learn more about IBM Grid and the IBM Ready for Grid Program, go to www.ibm.com/grid. IBM is a trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.