Platform Steps Up Partnership with Microsoft
Platform and Microsoft have been working together for more than a
year and the integration between their two products will be the first
time the companies will "go out to market [together] publicly," Zhou
said in a phone interview Monday. The integration will enable
bi-directional job forwarding so that users can offload jobs to where
there's optimal capacity, either on the computing cluster or in the
data center, he added.
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By China Martens, IDG News Service
Grid computing software vendor Platform Computing Inc. announced support for Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) Corp.'s upcoming cluster server software Tuesday. The two companies are also developing an open scheduling standard, according to the head of Platform. Additionally, Platform is expanding its existing relationships with both IBM (Profile, Products, Articles) Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co.
Platform and Microsoft have been working together for more than a year and the integration between their two products will be the first time the companies will "go out to market [together] publicly," Zhou said in a phone interview Monday. The integration will enable bi-directional job forwarding so that users can offload jobs to where there's optimal capacity, either on the computing cluster or in the data center, he added.
