IBM will be integrating Meiosys's technology into its products and offerings; financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

IBM, yesterday announced that it has acquired Meiosys, a provider of software solutions, based in Palo Alto, California. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Meiosys provides software technologies that enable applications to be dynamically moved from one server or set of servers to others without disruption. Software from Meiosys is designed to offer application relocation for transparent, stateful application mobility and fault-tolerant computing. IBM will be integrating the company's technology into its products and offerings, with initial deliveries planned in the second half of this year.

MetaCluster, a product line from Meiosys, provides checkpoint/restart capability, which is designed to allow users of long-running batch applications to checkpoint those applications on a periodic basis in order to reduce potential lost time upon an application failure. IBM intends to apply this technology across its high-performance computing and deep-computing product lines.

"The state-of-the-art application-relocation capabilities and fault-tolerant technology from Meiosys complement IBM's current systems software offerings," said Rod Adkins, vice president, development, IBM Systems and Technology Group. "This acquisition gives IBM the ability to provide even more innovative capabilities for UNIX and Linux, and will help advance our information on demand strategy and virtualization capabilities for clients."