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NEC, SOFTRICITY TO OFFER ON DEMAND, FAULT TOLERANT APP MGMT

NEC Solutions Inc, a provider of integrated solutions for the Connected Enterprise in North America, and Softricity Inc, provider of the SoftGrid application virtualization platform, announced an agreement to offer the first on demand, fault tolerant application management solution.

Starting immediately, the two companies will offer a joint solution that combines Softricity's SoftGrid application management platform with NEC's Fault Tolerant servers to provide a robust application business continuity solution. This is a critical offering, as applications are the foundation of today's businesses.

"NEC Solutions America is synonymous with the delivery of best-of-class solutions," said Harry Ruda, CEO of Softricity Inc. "Our agreement with NEC underscores both companies' commitment to deliver enterprises the industry's most effective fault tolerant application management solutions."

"NEC's Fault Tolerant solutions are the perfect complement to Softricity's SoftGrid application management platform," said Larry Sheffield, senior vice president of the Solutions Platform Group for NEC Solutions America. "Together we can provide a well-needed solution for our customers leveraging advanced, yet easy-to-use, technology."

NEC Solutions America will work with independent software vendor (ISV) partners to certify their offerings for the SoftGrid solution, enabling customers to ensure their applications are fault tolerant ready. NEC will offer the SoftGrid platform as part of their integration services.

This joint solution offered by NEC Solutions America and Softricity will be on display OCt. 27-29 at VMware's VMWorld 2004 in San Diego. Attendees will be able to use SoftGrid, combined with VMware, to centrally deploy and manage applications to a range of virtualized desktops and terminal services/Citrix servers -- all running on a single NEC Fault Tolerant server. Attendees will also be able disable the server's critical components, including memory, the power supply and CPU, to see first-hand how application availability is maintained as a result of the server's fault tolerant design.