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PROXIMA TEAMS WITH SUN MICROSYSTEMS ON N1 GRID INITIATIVE

Proxima Technology announced Centauri Business Service Manager software as an integral element of Sun Microsystems' much-heralded N1 Grid Instant Provisioning Reference Architecture.

This reference architecture reduces the complexity of provisioning a Web service-delivery infrastructure, using Sun's N1 Grid architecture and N1 Grid Service Provisioning System software. The new Reference Architecture is designed and tested with real world workloads.

Centauri Business Service Manager enables IT managers to view in real time whether IT is working as planned, economically and otherwise.

"Proxima Technology's Centauri Business Service Manager adds an important component to the N1 Grid system that allows customers and others to accurately measure Web services built with the Sun Java Enterprise System, and provisioned with the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System," said Hatem Naguib, director of N1 grid systems at Sun.

"We are very excited to be a part of Sun's vision for Web-based service provisioning and their N1 Grid system initiatives. Together, Sun and Proxima Technology can help customers take another step toward ensuring that IT can be more responsive to the increasingly dynamic needs of the business," said Steve Jones, CEO of Proxima Technology.

Customers and media can see a live implementation of this reference architecture in the Sun iForce Center located in Menlo Park, Calif., where Sun and Proxima can assist customers in building and testing prototype solutions before deploying.