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April 05, 2006 03:01 AM US Pacific Timezone

Solid Information Technology Announces Always-On, Real-Time Database for Sun Netra HA Suite; Combining Sun's High Availability Platform with Fast, Carrier-Grade Data Management, Speeds Time to Market for Communications Applications

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2006--Solid Information Technology, a provider of fast, always-on database management solutions, today broadened its commitment to the communications industry by announcing a new version of its fast, affordable and compact database, solidDB(TM) for the Sun Netra(TM) High Availability (HA) Suite. This new product can be managed by Sun's Netra HA Suite out of the box. With these combined capabilities, customers can address their applications' data management challenges faster and in compliance with standards established by the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum).

Sun's Netra HA Suite provides a reliable and scalable management platform for Sun's Solaris and Linux based Netra Systems. solidDB for Sun Netra HA is the first database specifically designed to be managed effectively and efficiently by Sun's Netra HA Suite out of the box, and offers an in-memory and a disk-based database with sub-second failover capabilities.

The combination of Sun's Netra HA Suite with Solid's solidDB for Netra HA provides a standards based, out of the box, carrier-grade environment on which developers and system integrators can rapidly develop and deploy highly available applications, based on proven, fast, and affordable products.

"Solid's work allows Sun to provide Netra HA customers with an industry leading in-memory carrier-grade data management solution," said Raju Penumatcha, vice president, Netra Systems & Networking for Sun Microsystems. "Together, Sun and Solid are committed to delivering standards based products that meet our customers' evolving needs."

"Solid has continued to increase its market share in the communications industry. Our work with Sun and the Netra HA Suite is compelling proof of Solid's continued growth and momentum and our ability to support real-time services and applications with extreme reliability and availability," said Alain Couder, president and CEO at Solid.

Solid has established itself as a market innovator, merging proven data management concepts with next-generation technologies. Solid offers the fastest in-memory database, as established by the TM1 benchmark, and the only in-memory carrier-grade database available. solidDB for Sun Netra HA will be included with every copy of Sun Netra HA Suite, and is downloadable from Sun Microsystem's website.

General availability of the integrated products is expected in the summer of 2006.

About Solid Information Technology

Solid(TM) is the only company that provides a fast, always-on database that is affordable. This compact solution is easy to deploy, use and maintain. More than 3,000,000 Solid databases are deployed worldwide in telecommunications networks, enterprise applications and embedded software. Customers include market leaders such as Alcatel, Cisco, EMC2, HP, Nokia and Siemens. With Solid, companies experience faster time-to-results and dramatically lower total cost of ownership.

Solid Information Technology has worldwide headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., and regional offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.solidDB.com