Company History

Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI), is the first developer of a new generation of mainframe computers compatible with the broadest set of datacenter environments and operating systems, including IBM® z/OS®.

Founded with a vision of offering true choice in the selection of advanced new mainframe systems, PSI provides customers a new level of control over their IT investments and ultimate flexibility in aligning their existing and future enterprise computing resources with changing business priorities and technologies.

The new PSI mainframe computers are based on proven systems architecture acquired from Amdahl and industry-standard Intel® Itanium® 2 processor technology. This unique combination gives customers of PSI systems unequalled system and software cost advantages over proprietary mainframe computers. PSI systems are the first new generation mainframe computers that can run the z/OS® operating system along with Linux, UNIX® and Windows® simultaneously on the same system. This broad compatibility, along with breakthroughs in I/O virtualization, makes the new PSI mainframes ideal for bridging the proprietary mainframe world and today's increasingly open systems based environments.

Originally founded in 1999 by a core team of former Amdahl engineers, PSI raised its first round of venture funding in the Fall of 2003. PSI's premiere strategic and venture investors now include Blueprint Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, InterWest Partners, and Investcorp.

Additionally, the company is led by a world-class management team comprised of senior executives from IBM, and Amdahl Corporation who have decades of directly related experience in high-end enterprise computing, mainframe architecture design, open systems technologies, and high-transaction oriented applications.

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