By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com
July 25, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cross-platform virtualization solutions provider Transitive Corporation (transitive.com) has announced its QuickTransit software is compatible with Microsoft’s (microsoft.com) new Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
“The combination of a leading cross-platform virtualization solution and a robust, affordable hypervisor integrated into the most broadly-deployed server operating system is a ‘win-win’ for enterprise customers,” transitive vice president of marketing Ian Robinson said in a statement. “Used in Hyper-V, QuickTransit allows thousands of additional non-Windows applications to run on the latest Windows Server 2008 systems without the costs, delays or disruption of porting.”
Hypervisor-based vitualization platform, Hyper-V allows a physical server to be separated into multiple virtual machines that can run independent operating systems. Transitive expects the product combination between QuickTransit and Hyper-V to allow enterprise customers to run Solaris/SPARC applications on the latest Windows-based servers without porting or recompilation. QuickTransit integration will offer cost-effective new solutions for scalability, high availability, disaster recovery and legacy application re-hosting.
Native Solaris/SPARC software on Windows Server 2008 requires a guest operating system such as Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 in a Hyper-V virtual machine, with Transitive’s QuickTransit 1.5 for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64.
Transitive offers three configurations of QuickTransit, Workstation for use on desktop and laptop PCs, Server for large-scale datacenter consolidation projects, and Legacy for application re-hosting from very old legacy hardware running no longer supported operating system versions.
Evaluation versions of QuickTransit are available for trial.
