British Telecommunications Selects United Devices To Power Virtual Services PlatformShared Infrastructure Enables Delivery of Business-Critical ApplicationsAUSTIN, Texas, March 27, 2006 — United Devices (UD) announced today that British Telecommunications (BT), one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions, has selected UD's grid technology to develop a prototype to power its virtual services platform. A virtual services platform would go beyond traditional utility computing approaches in that it would leverage BT's internal assets and network connectivity capabilities to create a real-time provisioning service that is network-aware and SLA focused. With real-time access to network heuristics and the opportunity to manipulate network controls, BT's offering would dynamically bind applications to the most eligible infrastructure components via a grid platform. As a result, applications with very large data movement requirements could finally be delivered in a shared services paradigm, while fulfilling bandwidth and low latency requirements. "What's significant about this approach is the opportunity to leverage BT's connectivity layer to dynamically open and close high-speed data pipes according to data access and movement requirements," said Ben Rouse, United Devices CEO. Frank Falcon, Innovation Development at BT, explains that "A flexible and scalable grid architecture that supports all of the heterogeneity and complexity inherent in legacy infrastructures was an absolute requirement. UD has an architecture with a credible set of production proof points in regards to implementing enterprise-wide production grids." BT will initially offer the virtual platform internally and develop managed grid services expertise. BT and UD's have a vision to then rapidly make it available to customers who are seeking alternatives to their rigid and expensive application infrastructures. Falcon will speak about the project at UD's annual grid conference, being held March 28-29 in Austin, Texas. About United DevicesUnited Devices (UD) provides the most cost-effective and flexible computing capacity available in any form. From traditional application acceleration to enterprise-scale infrastructure virtualization, our software solutions enable companies to achieve the appropriate balance between departmental autonomy and centralized control. UD products are proven to enhance innovation, reduce total cost of ownership and increase service levels for companies in a wide range of industries including Manufacturing, Energy, Life Sciences, Government and Telecommunications. UD also powers the world's largest production grids including grid.org and the IBM World Community Grid. Find out more at www.ud.com.United Devices and Grid MP are trademarks of United Devices. |