Clerity Solutions Selected as Finalist in the Data Center Modernization Category of the 2009 Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Awards

CHICAGO--(Business Wire)--
The Itanium Solutions Alliance today announced that Clerity Solutionshas been
selected as a finalist in the Data Center Modernizationcategory of its 2009
Innovation Awards program. Clerity Solutions`UniKix mainframe rehosting software
suite provides a mission-critical environment for deploying online and batch
mainframe workloads on open systems. By adding support for Itanium-based systems
in UniKix 11.0, Clerity can offer direct and independent software vendor
customers greater choice and extremely high reliability, availability and
serviceability (RAS) levels on open systems.

The Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Awards were designed to recognize and
reward end users and developers for outstanding use of Intel® Itanium-based
servers in their applications. A panel of distinguished judges evaluated
submissions on a number of criteria such as difficulty of challenge, results
produced, and originality of the solution.

"For our second annual Innovation Awards, we received a large number of very
compelling entries from across the globe, showcasing a wide variety of
innovative applications backed by Itanium-based technology," said Joan Jacobs,
president and executive director of the Itanium Solutions Alliance. "We are
pleased to recognize this year`s finalists for their groundbreaking work with
Itanium-based systems from across the spectrum of industry and research."

The Data Center Modernization category highlights the success of projects in
which an organization has migrated from a mainframe-based infrastructure to an
open architecture framework to employ the reliability, availability and
serviceability of Itanium-based systems.

Winners will be honored at a special event during the Intel Developer Forum,
September 23rd, 2009 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

About Clerity Solutions, Inc.

Clerity is a leading, full-service provider of mainframe migration,
modernization, and optimization solutions. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois
with offices worldwide, Clerity's service team and automated software solutions
have facilitated hundreds of successful migrations. With over 15 years of
experience and more than 1,300 sites worldwide, Clerity is uniquely positioned
to assist organizations through all aspects of legacy migration. For more
information on Clerity visit http://www.clerity.com.

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Clerity Solutions, Inc.
Wendy Williams
Director of Marketing
602-995-6470
wendy.williams@clerity.com

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