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Platform Computing today announced the successful joint deployment of an Enterprise Utility Computing (EUC) solution that will be demonstrated in the Enterprise Grid Solutions Showcase at LinuxWorld in Boston, April 3-6, 2006. This demonstration allows customers to learn about the benefits of grid, virtualization and how grid- enabled enterprise applications provide the necessary foundation for robust and agile business services. Other participating partners include Intel, SAS and VMware. The demonstration also provides attendees with practical information and best practices supporting successful approaches for applying grid solutions within their own enterprise IT environments. The Enterprise Utility Computing demonstration consists of a virtualized pool of IT resources that can be dynamically provisioned to ensure that they are easily and continually reallocated in real-time according to dynamic business needs. Further, the usage of resources can be tracked and billed down to the level of an individual user or group. "Enterprise IT is facing tremendous pressure to increase utilization of infrastructure resources, as well as deliver predictable service levels for the growing number of applications and volumes of data that are needed to run and operate a business," said Robert Fogel, Worldwide Director of Grid Strategy & Business Development, Intel Corporation. "This demonstration gives a first-hand opportunity to actually see how Enterprise Utility Computing is playing an important role in the enterprise." The foundation of the EUC demonstration is Platform VM Orchestrator (VMO) built on Platform Enterprise Grid Orchestrator (EGO) technology to provision both virtual and physical compute resources on-demand to satisfy an organization's changing service level and IT policy requirements. SAS Grid- enabled applications, including SAS Grid Manager, SAS Business Intelligence Server and SAS Enterprise Miner, can be dynamically and transparently allocated more resources as business demands change. Further, accurate costing of services based on resource consumption for individual business units can be made so that the processing of daily transactions can be properly recorded. "By partnering with Intel and SAS, the EUC deployment illustrates how businesses can meet variable demands across their entire enterprise, resulting in increased business value, agility and flexibility." Said Chris Purpura, VP, New Ventures & Strategic Alliances "Platform's products solve the problem for serving multiple applications or user groups by delivering a virtualized pool of computing resources that orchestrates on-demand and policy based allocation of resources to applications."