Univa's Reliance Named Top Product for Automated VM Provisioning

Leading Cloud Management Product Wins 2009 'Virtualization Review' Readers' Choice Award for Virtual Automation

Lisle, IL – Nov 3, 2009 – Univa UD, a leading provider of cloud management software, announced today it has been named a winner of the 2009 Virtualization Review Reader's Choice Awards, with its market-leading Reliance product named #1 in Virtual Automation.

Reliance is a market-leading service governance product that intelligently automates virtual or physical resource provisioning, so application performance adheres to established policies. The product monitors the application infrastructure, gathers and analyzes detailed performance metrics, then takes provisioning actions based on these metrics to meet customer service-level agreements (SLAs).

For service providers in particular, Reliance is the essential core of a cloud-based environment. Reliance leverages cloud building blocks like virtual machines and infrastructure management tools, enabling companies to better utilize their resources by avoiding over- or under-provisioning infrastructure and prioritizing workload.

"We're proud to receive this honor from those individuals in the best position to judge the quality of a virtual automation product – the end users," said Jason Liu, president and CEO of Univa UD. "Reliance is the only product of its kind that can intelligently automate resource provisioning based on both infrastructure and application SLAs. Our top service provider and enterprise customers alike are choosing Reliance for exactly the capability we are being honored for: policy-based virtual automation."

Over the past year, Univa has experienced tremendous growth with service providers and internal corporate IT organizations interested in using Reliance to power external and internal computing clouds. The company's efforts were recognized by Virtualization Review readers, favoring Reliance 2 to 1 over the competition in the Virtual Automation category.

Conducted annually, Virtualization Review's 2009 Reader's Choice Awards survey asks readers to vote for the best of the best in the world of virtualization. The voting process included decisions on more than 125 products in 11 categories, ranging from application virtualization to virtualization security, standards and training.

The flexible business appliance being demonstrated at Oracle OpenWorld this week in the Sun Microsystems Inc booth (1101 Moscone South) features Sun hardware, Zeus Technology's ZXTM software to load balance applications and Univa's cloud management software dynamically provisioning and managing virtual machines on Oracle Enterprise Linux. UniCloud supports local and public cloud provisioning. Creation, management and portability of Oracle E-Business Suite software across public and private clouds is automated and simplified.

About Univa UD

Univa UD is a leader and innovator in cloud computing management. Univa understands the challenges and benefits of cloud and provides the evolutionary path and comprehensive product suite to get companies there – all without having to 'rip and replace' legacy IT investments. For over a decade, Univa has delivered proven, award-winning technology to hundreds of market-leading companies. Our lightweight infrastructure products are fast and easy to deploy, ensuring better time to value, and our leading service governance product intelligently automates resource provisioning based on application SLAs. With a focus on making business easier for our customers, Univa is advancing the vision and practice of cloud computing. Visit us at www.univaud.com.