Enigmatec

Enigmatec Corporation Limited has announced that managed cloud computing pioneer PrimaCloud will deploy Enigmatec’s run book automation software for provisioning and management of its customers’ virtual private datacenters (VPDCs) in the cloud.

In addition to automating the deployment and lifecycle management of complex cloud applications, PrimaCloud will utilize Enigmatec’s Workload Management (AWM) and Disaster Recovery (ADR) solutions to offer its customers automatically scalable enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure featuring greater than 99.99 percent uptime.

Adding run book automation capability to its managed cloud computing service enhances PrimaCloud’s capability to provide dynamic, real-time orchestration of the crucial IT components for their customer’s virtual application infrastructure. PrimaCloud’s customers in turn can realize cloud computing’s benefits of minimizing staffing and reducing capital expense.

Enigmatec’s run book automation technology links together the IT management, provisioning and support tools customers use today and provides a powerful distributed workflow platform in which to design and deploy new workflows for IT operations. Automation of these tasks is critical to the cost effective and rapid creation and management of a new virtual application environment as a utility within the cloud. Enigmatec’s dynamic provisioning enables cloud computing providers to rapidly flex IT resources to meet demand and fulfil the promises of improved service, SLA’s and the cost reductions customers expect from cloud computing.

Enigmatec, provider of run book automation (RBA) software, and Scalent Systems, provider of infrastructure virtualization software for large data centers, today announced an integration partnership to enable policy driven automation of server repurposing in the data center.

The partnership reportedly combines policy-based IT process automation from Enigmatec and server repurposing from Scalent to deliver an integrated software solution to dynamically place compute resources where and when they are needed in the data center. This implementation of real-time infrastructure should dramatically lower data center management operations costs while increasing flexibility in the face of business need change.

The Enigmatec Management System (EMS) continually monitors all levels of a multi-tier application stack for changes in availability or demand. When EMS detects a failure or load spike, the system orchestrates the reallocation of resources to the appropriate users and applications, leveraging Server Automation software to ensure that all resources are maintained at required release, patch and configuration levels. EMS also provides full lifecycle management of shared virtual resources including decommissioning, archiving and returning resources back to a server pool.

Scalent allows data center operators to rapidly change entire systems and associated topologies, including which servers are running, what software is running on them, and how they’re connected to network and storage. Scalent does this in real-time without requiring physical changes to the infrastructure. Scalent V/OE software enables customers to take their data centers from “dead bare metal” (powered off hardware with no software installed) to live (newly deployed or restored), connected (to network and storage) servers, in five minutes or less.

“Scalent’s server repurposing solution gives IT operations the ability to dynamically change their server environment,” said Duncan Johnston-Watt, Chief Technology Officer, Enigmatec. “Integrating Scalent with Enigmatec takes this to its logical conclusion – using run book automation to orchestrate their data center virtualization solution delivers a policy-driven infrastructure which automatically adapts to meet changing business requirements.”