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Meiosys, a provider of application virtualization and stateful relocation solutions for Utility Computing, High-Performance Computing and Fault Tolerance announced today it is collaborating with Sun Microsystems to port the MetaCluster portfolio of solutions to the Solaris Operating System (OS) in early 2005. Meiosys' MetaCluster solutions will be demonstrated at Supercomputing 2004 in the Sun Microsystems booth (booth 1207) this November in Pittsburgh, PA. MetaCluster HPC addresses the High-Performance technical markets by providing transparent checkpoint and restart, a unique capability that offers protection and optimization of technical computing applications running on Linux clusters and grids. In production since 2003, MetaCluster HPC is integrated with Sun N1 Grid Engine. MetaCluster UC addresses the enterprise market by providing virtualization and stateful application mobility within the datacenter. MetaCluster UC lowers overall datacenter costs by quadrupling server efficiency with vastly superior resources optimization, dynamic workload management and higher availability. MetaCluster UC supports transactional enterprise applications including databases and application servers. The product will be jointly marketed by Meiosys and Sun. "Sun has a continued commitment to its customers to partner with the best technology providers to increase efficiency in enterprise and technical datacenters," said Peter ffoulkes, Director of Marketing at Sun Microsystems. "Meiosys' MetaCluster solutions are a natural fit with Sun's vision to deliver on the promise of Grid and Utility Computing, and offer a real competitive advantage to our customers." "Today the operating system, servers, storage and networking infrastructures have all been virtualized," said Hubert Catanese, VP Business Development, Sales and Marketing at Meiosys. "Application virtualization and stateful application relocation are the last frontier and can dramatically increase the efficiency of servers by providing better performance management and better uptime. This is the kind of impact customers expect from their preferred platform providers and we look forward to working with Sun to complement their Utility Computing solutions, while we continue to market MetaCluster HPC to the High-Performance computing community."