PolyServe Expands Commitment to Mission-Critical Data Center, Joins HP Blade Alliance Program

PolyServe shared data clustering software validated for HP blade servers

HostReview.com
Wednesday, November 26, 2003; 12:00 AM

Beaverton, Ore. — November 25, 2003 — PolyServe Inc., the leading provider of highly available, shared data clustering software for Linux-based data centers, today announced it has joined the HP Blade Alliance Program and purchased HP blades for development and support. HP has tested PolyServe enterprise clustering software on blade servers and will offer development and support.

In designating PolyServe as a solution partner, HP successfully completed verification tests of PolyServe Matrix Server™ shared data clustering software running on HP ProLiant BL blade servers. In addition, PolyServe has purchased multiple HP ProLiant BL20p blade servers on which it develops and tests its Matrix Server software. Multiple joint customers are already benefiting from the companies' alliance in the area of clustering software for mission-critical workloads.

"Unlike PolyServe, other Linux clustering software providers are forced by their product architectures to focus on scientific or high performance computing applications where high availability is not absolutely critical," said Mike Stankey, president and CEO of PolyServe. "PolyServe is 100 percent committed to helping customers successfully adopt and deploy clusters of low-cost Intel-based servers for demanding transactional/read-write intensive workloads in data centers that must never fail."

"Our partnership with HP in their Blade Alliance Program is an ideal solution for satisfying the clustering needs of the industry's largest base of blade server customers," Stankey added.

PolyServe Matrix Server software enables customers to build flexible, scalable on-demand clusters of blades that concurrently read and write to shared data on a storage area network (SAN). Matrix Server software incorporates a true symmetric cluster file system that enables scalable data sharing, high availability services that increase system uptime, and cluster and storage management capabilities that allow multiple servers and pools of storage to be managed as one. Without Matrix Server, each blade would have to have its own copy of data on a SAN.

About PolyServe
PolyServe is the leading developer of shared data clustering software for Linux-based data centers and will soon release comparable clustering solutions for Microsoft Windows. The company's products reduce the cost and complexity associated with traditional clustering approaches, while offering superior scalability, availability and manageability. In addition to its headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, PolyServe has sales and support offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Redmond, Wash., and San Francisco. For more information about PolyServe, visit www.polyserve.com, or call 877-765-7378.