Press Release

Librato and Platform Computing Sign Reseller Agreement

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – April 7, 2009 – Librato™, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions that increase the utilization of enterprise data center resources, and Platform Computing, the global leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) management software, today announced a reseller agreement that provides intelligent job suspension by combining Librato’s Smart Suspend solution with Platform LSF Scheduler. This new offering will provide customers with comprehensive job preemption and application license management solutions that will help maximize the utilization of hardware and software resources.

Under the terms of the agreement, Platform will sell Librato Smart Suspend to its installed base and new customers, and customers using Librato Smart Suspend with Platform LSF will receive support from Platform. The two companies will also participate in joint marketing activities, and recently hosted the webinar, “Improving Resource Utilization with PreEmption Management Solution for Platform LSF” that covered how the new solution ensures that organizations utilize application licenses as efficiently as possible, view the webinar at http://www.platform.com/company/events/on-demand-webcasts.

“Librato Smart Suspend provides unique scheduling benefits for grid computing environments, and integrates seamlessly with Platform LSF, so this was a natural partnership for us,” said Tripp Purvis, vice president, business development, Platform Computing. “Our integrated solution gives customers the most efficient tools to manage their complex IT environments, achieving maximum resource optimization while reducing hardware and administration costs – a huge advantage in this economy.”

Librato Smart Suspend enables safe and efficient preemptive scheduling of applications in grid computing environments. It enables users to suspend running jobs and free resources including memory and application licenses to make room for higher priority jobs. Once these tasks are complete, the suspended jobs can resume from the initial suspension point without wasting any resources. Librato Smart Suspend is completely transparent to the application and operating system, allowing it to be easily deployed in any data center environment.

“Our partnership with Platform helps us further our commitment of providing solutions that make data centers more efficient and dynamic,” said John Wernke, vice president of marketing for Librato, Inc. “By integrating with a best-of-breed product such as Platform LSF, we help data center managers increase the utilization of hardware and software resources, improve overall job throughput, and deliver rapid ROI.”

About Platform Computing
Platform Computing provides software that dynamically connects IT resources to workload demand according to business policies. Over 2,000 of the world’s largest organizations rely on our solutions to improve IT productivity and reduce data center costs. Platform has strategic relationships with Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, and SAS. Building on 16 years of market leadership, Platform continues to help data centers be more efficient, responsive and dynamic. Visit http://www.platform.com.

About Librato, Inc.
Librato is a leader in data center resource management software that enables companies to reduce operating and capital expenses by dramatically increasing utilization rates. The company’s products achieve fine-grained monitoring and control of resource usage by applications without any application or operating system modifications. This allows Librato to deliver easy-to-deploy solutions for server consolidation, job priority management, capacity planning and chargeback. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with offices in Blacksburg, Virginia and Pune, India. For more information, visit http://www.librato.com.



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