University of Utah Health Care Standardizes on Softricity Virtualization Platform

SoftGrid Sets Foundation for Dynamic Computing Infrastructure

Boston, MA — September 12, 2005 — Softricity®, the Application Virtualization Company, today announced that University of Utah Health Care ("University Health Care") is expanding its use of the company's SoftGrid application management platform. University Health Care is implementing SoftGrid as the foundation of its enterprise-wide dynamic computing infrastructure, which encompasses approximately 5,000 PCs and servers used by more than 12,000 clinical and administrative staff.

University Health Care, which is renowned for innovative use of technology, initially adopted SoftGrid in 2003 to manage applications across its terminal server farm. As a result, they gained tremendous savings and efficiencies through streamlined application change management, elimination of time-consuming regression testing, and increased utilization/reduction in the number of silos of terminal servers.

"When we saw the results SoftGrid delivered in terminal services, we realized it could have an even greater impact on our business if we also used it to transform application management across our PC infrastructure," said Viki Bass, Application Delivery Services. "SoftGrid is truly groundbreaking technology and it's been indispensable for managing a dynamic, complex environment like ours. IT can now be incredibly responsive to the needs of our doctors, nurses and support professionals, regardless of where they are located, what kind of computing device they rely on, and which applications they use."

SoftGrid transforms Windows applications from products that must be installed and managed locally into virtual services that are centrally managed and deployed on-demand – without any recoding – to any desktop, server or laptop. SoftGrid's patented application virtualization technology enables applications to run in a protected "sandbox" environment without installation or alteration to the host operating system. This eliminates application conflicts and the need for time-consuming regression testing, and vastly accelerates application deployments, updates, patches and support.

University Health Care's SoftGrid-based infrastructure enables:

• Accelerated deployments: Helps cut desktop application deployments and updates from an average of 14 days per application to just 24 hours.
• Rapid application changes: SoftGrid enables University Health Care's wide variety of applications to be treated as services rather than products, delivered "on-demand" when needed by the user.
• Reduced IT administration : By enabling centralized deployment and management of all its applications, SoftGrid helps reduce the time IT staff spend on time-consuming application testing, installation, updates, patches and terminations – freeing them for more strategic, business-critical projects.
• Higher-quality user and business support: SoftGrid enables University Health Care to be extremely responsive to evolving business needs while providing consistently high-quality user support. This is critical to helping University Health Care remain a leading healthcare organization.

"University Health Care's decision to expand its use of SoftGrid and standardize its infrastructure on SoftGrid is a great vote of confidence," said Harry Ruda, CEO, Softricity. "We're thrilled they've decided to tap into the full potential of Softricity's on-demand virtualization environment."

About Softricity

Softricity helps enterprises simplify and accelerate software management with SoftGrid®, the industry's first application virtualization platform. The award-winning SoftGrid utility computing solution transforms applications from products that must be installed locally into virtual services that are centrally managed and deployed on-demand to any Windows desktop, laptop and Terminal Services/Citrix MetaFrame Presentation server. By eliminating application conflicts and regression testing, and increasing change management responsiveness, SoftGrid expedites deployment, upgrades, patches and terminations. Global 2000 companies such as Mayo Clinic, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Prudential, AIG, and Raytheon use SoftGrid to save tremendous time and money, enhance IT service quality, and transform into more dynamic businesses. Softricity has a multiyear Strategic Alliance with Microsoft Corporation and is Gold Certified Partner. Softricity is also a partner of HP and VMware. More information can be found at http://www.softricity.com.