August 27, 2008

Platform Market, Business & Strategy

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Platform Computing• Recognized leader and pioneer

in Grid computing and HPC– 17 years solving the most challenging enterprise distributed

computing problems – Global offices, resellers and partners– 24x7 worldwide service, support, and consulting– Continual innovation in new product development & open standards– Close to 500 employees worldwide– Growing and profitable since its inception

• 2,000+ global customers in many vertical markets– Financial Services, Electronics, Aerospace, Automotive, Life

Sciences, Oil & Gas, Government, Universities & Research, Telco, Business Intelligence

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IT Industry Trends

Cloud Computing, Dynamic IT, Grid, On Demand, Organic IT, SaaS, Scalable Enterprise, SOA, SOI, Utility Computing, Virtualization, Web 2.0, …

What: Agile, scalable, cost effective IT infrastructure for rapidly changing, highly competitive business

How: Leverage commodity hardware, share IT resources, automate administration, deliver SLA

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Automation:Policy-based Orchestration

Predictable, TransparentFlexible & Extensible

Simple & Intuitive SLA configurationResource-aware

The Dynamic Data Center

Physical & Virtual Server

Environments

Multi-vendor Hypervisor Support

Cloud Integration

Self-Service PortalReporting,

Chargeback, Planning

Scalable, Reliable, Highly Available, Secure, Energy

Efficient

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Physical Machine

Provisioning

Dynamic Package Management

Monitoring, Events, Alerting

Reporting, Analytics,

Chargeback

LSF, SymphonyHPC Workload Acceleration

Platform VMOVirtual Infrastructure

Management

Platform ManagerPhysical

Infrastructure Management

EGO: Orchestration Policy Engine

SAS AcceleratorBI Acceleration

VirtualMachine

Provisioning

CloudProvisioning

Platform Solution Portfolio

XenServer Hyper-V

ESX Xen

Enabling the Dynamic Data Center

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Citi – Corporate Shared ServicesFX derives Pricing & Hedging

Converts Pricing & Hedging

Credit Derivs, Pricing/Hedging

Enterprise Mkt Risk

Counterparty Credit Risk

Acc’ting, Actuarial Analysis

Fraud, Anti-Laundering

CRM, Data Mining, Credit Scoring

More & more apps from LOB silos

Operational Risk

Platform SymphonyPlatform LSFPlatform EGO

Platform EGO

Platform Symphony

Platform LSF

Real-time

Applications

Long Running

Applications

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Singapore National Cloud

Platform VMO, Platform LSF Platform SymphonyPlatform EGO, Platform OCS 5Singapore Computer Systems

• Supports Singapore's growth as Shared Services hub

• Frees enterprises from installing, maintaining hardware & applications locally

• Allows SaaS ISVs to incubate commercial services

• Accelerates adoption of SaaS & cloud computing in private & public sectors

Software Development

HR Department

Finance Department

Life Sciences research

• 2,400 cores, HP blades, 16 TB of storage• Primary users – government agencies, commercial businesses• Cloud infrastructure – Platform VMO    • CRM, financial, accounting, HR apps, secure online storage, &

engineering workloads

Government Ministry

Government Agency

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Evolution of Grid Adoption

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Utility Grid / Cloud• Virtualization of services• Dynamic service

provisioning• On Demand, Utility• SaaS, SOA

Internet Data CentersPowered by xSPs

Enterprise Grid / Internal Cloud

• Cluster-to-cluster sharing management

• Reliable file transfer & staging

Enterprise