Meiosys, a provider of transparent middleware solutions for optimizing and protecting business-critical applications, today announced its expansion into the United States. The company also plans to introduce its first product, for the high performance computing market, later this month. With headquarters in Toulouse, France, Meiosys established sales, marketing and customer support operations in Palo Alto, earlier this summer. The company was established in 2001 to help Enterprise customers improve their return on investment and lower the total cost of ownership of their distributed IT infrastructure, by providing more flexibility and reliability. Meiosys will host its own exhibit (Booth 1310) and display its middleware solution at the Sun Microsystems' booth (Booth 623) as well as the RackSaver booth (2219) at the Supercomputing Conference (SC 2003), November 15-21, in Phoenix, Arizona. "Meiosys is focused on helping customers optimize their clusters and manage their applications more efficiently," said Marc Rougier, President and CEO of Meiosys. "Our solutions do this in a transparent manner -- no modifications to the applications or the operating system are required to implement sophisticated functions such as checkpoint and restart or dynamic application migration. The bottom line is: we're saving IT managers time and money." As more organizations turn to Linux clusters for compute-intensive applications, IT managers are learning that system reliability and scheduling cannot be taken for granted. Initial deployments of the company's new product have received very positive feedback from customers. Meiosys has raised over $9M in capital over two rounds of financing and currently has 26 full-time employees between its offices in the U.S. and France.