APPLICATIONS

Proxima Technology announced Centauri Business Service Manager software as an integral element of Sun Microsystems' much-heralded N1 Grid Instant Provisioning Reference Architecture. This reference architecture reduces the complexity of provisioning a web service-delivery infrastructure, using Sun's N1 Grid architecture and N1 Grid Service Provisioning System software. The new Reference Architecture is designed and tested with real world workloads. Centauri Business Service Manager enables IT managers to view in real time whether IT is working as planned, economically and otherwise. "Proxima Technology's Centauri Service Manager adds an important component to the N1 Grid system that allows customers and others to accurately measure web services built with the Sun Java Enterprise System, and provisioned with the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System," said Hatem Naguib, director of N1 grid systems at Sun. Proxima CEO Steve Jones stated: "We are very excited to be part of Sun’s vision for web-based service provisioning and their N1 Grid system initiatives. Together Sun and Proxima can help customers take another step towards ensuring that IT can be more responsive to the increasingly dynamic needs of the business." Customers and media can see a live implementation of this reference architecture in the Sun iForce Center located in Menlo Park, CA., where Sun and Proxima can assist customers in building and testing prototype solutions before deploying. Proxima Technology is headquartered in Denver, Colo., with sales offices across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Proxima has a client list that includes many household names in the corporate world: T-Mobile (UK), Mutual of Omaha, Qualcomm, Capgemini and others. Proxima also works closely with IT service providers such as EDS. For more information about Proxima Technology, please visit: www.proxima-tech.com or visit http://www.sun.com/service/refarch/giprov.html)