BusinessWire
March 15, 2006 08:30 AM US Pacific Timezone

PlateSpin Launches OS Portability SDK to Extend Product Integrations

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2006--PlateSpin(R) Ltd.:-- PlateSpin PowerSDK Allows ISV Technology Alliance Partners and Large End Users to Integrate PlateSpin OS Portability Technology into Their Commercial Offerings and Solutions Through Web Services Standards Based on the Microsoft .NET Framework

PlateSpin(R) Ltd. today announced the launch of the PlateSpin PowerSDK(TM) for PowerConvert, enabling service providers, customers, and ISV partners to further leverage PlateSpin's unique multi-platform OS Portability(TM) technology by integrating it into their product, service or solution offerings. PlateSpin PowerSDK is built on Web services, providing easy integration of PlateSpin's OS Portability technology for continuous server optimization into third-party applications through industry-standard protocols. Additionally, PlateSpin PowerSDK contains a rich object-based Microsoft .NET Framework API that provides an ideal integration point for advanced in-house and commercial management systems for Microsoft Windows platforms.

PlateSpin's powerful OS Portability (patent pending) is the first and only technology that decouples the data, applications and operating system from servers, re-configures and optimizes resources, and automatically streams them to any physical or virtual platform. Users can remotely drag-and-drop servers across dissimilar infrastructures around the world to optimize server resource capacity, saving time and money.

"The PlateSpin PowerSDK brings new flexibility to our partners and customers, providing them an array of integration options that have not been previously possible with this type of technology," said John Stetic, Director of Product Management for PlateSpin. "Our partners and customers will be able to integrate our OS Portability technology with systems management and workflow automation applications, as well as customized in house applications to create solutions that optimize the data center in dynamic ways. They will also be able to automatically create warm standby environments for physical production servers using virtual machines, or even build automated web-based service ordering and provisioning solutions."

PlateSpin PowerSDK features include:

-- Programmatic access to PlateSpin PowerConvert's extensive resource configuration flexibility

-- Rich C# object API for advanced job configuration

-- Web services API for server inventory and job status

-- Fully integrated security available through the API

-- Extended command line interface with simplified XML job definition

"We are pleased that PlateSpin has chosen to adopt the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 for their API," said Jim Ni, group product manager, Windows Server Division of Microsoft Corp. "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 makes it easier than ever before to build, deploy, and administer secure, robust, and high-performing applications. ISVs and in-house programmers that have adopted the Microsoft .NET environment can quickly and easily integrate with PlateSpin's OS Portability technology."

"Using the PlateSpin PowerSDK, Akimbi successfully integrated PlateSpin's OS Portability technology into our Akimbi Slingshot(TM) Virtual Lab Automation (VLA) System, quickly and easily," said Wilson Huang, co-founder and vice president of engineering for Akimbi Systems, a PlateSpin OEM Alliance Partner. "With embedded OS Portability, Akimbi Slingshot is the only Virtual Lab Automation System that enables customers to automatically import their physical test configurations into a virtual lab environment, avoiding the tedious and manual creation of templates and configurations imposed by other VLA solutions."

Pricing and Availability

PlateSpin PowerSDK is available now, with additional SDK modules targeting vertical application solutions to be made available in Q2. For more information about the PlateSpin PowerSDK, please visit http://www.platespin.com/PowerSDK.

For sales information, please contact PlateSpin at sales@platespin.com.

About PlateSpin

PlateSpin provides the most advanced data center automation software designed to optimize the use of server resources across the enterprise to improve business service levels and lower costs. PlateSpin OS Portability technology liberates software from hardware platforms allowing servers to be streamed over the enterprise network from any source to any destination, ensuring best fit between server resource supply and application workload demands.

Global 2000 companies use PlateSpin solutions to lower costs and solve today's most pressing data center initiatives such as server consolidation, disaster recovery, hardware migration and test lab automation. In 2005 PlateSpin was named one of the top 25 up-and-coming technology companies by The Branham Group and won the International Business Award for Best New Company. For more information please visit www.platespin.com.

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