| Solidcore Establishes
Legacy OS Migration Practice
EVP of Products Jay
Vaishnav to Lead Effort to Help Companies
Manage Costs and Minimize Risks of Major
Migration Projects
PALO ALTO, California
— July 28, 2005 — Solidcore
Systems, Inc., the leading developer of
IT control solutions, today announced the
establishment of its Legacy OS Migration
practice under the leadership of Executive
Vice President of Products, Jay Vaishnav.
The practice is focused on providing proactive
control of cost and risk at Fortune 500
and government agencies that have large
installed bases of now unsupported Windows
NT4 legacy systems as they migrate critical
business services to modern operating environments.
"As entrenched
but aging operating systems and related
support programs are phased out, maintaining
the availability of the services that key
legacy systems provide is becoming increasingly
risky and costly," said Mr. Vaishnav.
"By and large current best practices
are technical and do not take into account
fundamental business needs. Solidcore is
aware that businesses need to operate against
their own plans and not be forced by vendors
to take actions that can have very disruptive
consequences. To that extent, Solidcore
has developed best practices and unique
and powerful products that enable companies
to safely manage legacy system migrations
cost effectively on their own timetable."
Companies and government
agencies that maintain large IT infrastructures
often own a large number of legacy business
systems that provide critical services based
on older mainstream operating systems like
Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000. These organizations
must address how to best migrate their legacy
systems as support has already or will soon
come to an end. While commercial off-the-shelf
(COTS) systems can be upgraded readily—or
in the case of systems that are no longer
critical, eliminated—some systems
cannot be readily upgraded due to a variety
of reasons, including the prohibitive cost
of custom application redevelopment or proprietary
hardware dependencies.
Solidcore's Legacy OS Migration
practice is dedicated to helping companies
take proactive control of major migration
projects with a particular focus on risk
management and cost containment. With Solidcore,
organizations can extend the life of business-critical
legacy systems running on end-of-life operating
systems, re-deploy legacy systems as software
appliances, and migrate legacy systems over
a longer period of time consistent with
business goals, budgets, and schedules.
About
Jay Vaishnav, EVP of Products at Solidcore
Mr. Vaishnav has over 20 years
of experience in the software industry and
has served in senior executive roles at
several startups. Prior to Solidcore, he
was the VP of Engineering at Chingari, Inc.,
an enterprise software company. At Amazon.com,
Mr. Vaishnav's engineering team built the
foundational distributed service for managing
Amazon's product catalog. He also was the
Director of Technology at Junglee, which
was acquired by Amazon.com. During almost
10 years at Tandem, Mr. Vaishnav became
a key architect of their enterprise-class
relational database management system. He
began his career at ESVEL, a privately held
relational database management startup,
which was acquired by Cullinet Software.
About
Solidcore
Solidcore Systems is the leading
provider of IT control solutions that facilitate
an organization's ability to gain cost-effective
and categorical control of its IT operations
and realize immediate and tangible value
in security, compliance, and change control.
Solidcore solutions are being utilized by
leading Fortune 500 companies and US government
agencies. Solidcore Systems is a private,
venture-backed enterprise software company
with its headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
Please call toll free (888) 210-6530 or
visit www.solidcore.com
for more information.
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