As U.S. government agencies and departments evaluate the potential cost savings, service level improvements and greater resource utilization offered by various Cloud computing models, there is a recognized need for a technology-agnostic platform that can support and integrate legacy, heterogeneous HPC environments while also managing a wide-range of hardware, operating systems and virtual machines. In order to maximize prior technology investments, government agencies must invest in technologies that prevent vendor lock-in and that work with multiple types of operating systems.

"Platform's ISF and ISF Adaptive Cluster can provide government agencies the scalability and performance needed to manage their data centre resources while evolving to Cloud-based infrastructure services and also adhering to federal requirements for open standards, compliance and budgetary requirements", stated Tripp Purvis, Vice President, Business Development, Platform Computing. "Given our longstanding partnership, Platform is in close alignment with Instrumental to ensure that our mutual HPC customers are able to efficiently manage compute- and data-intensive workloads in the Cloud."

"By extending our partnership with Platform, we are furthering our commitment to customers and providing them with the most comprehensive and innovative HPC cloud solutions on the market", stated Paul Battaglia, President and CEO, Instrumental Inc. "With Platform's private Cloud management and HPC Cloud-enabling software, our team of HPC experts can better meet government customer demands and offer a greater return on their Cloud computing investment."