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Enomaly Releases New Enomalism Core

December 19, 2008 by Kris Buytaert Leave a Comment

Reuven announced the availability of Enomaly ECP 2.1.1 on SourceForge. Enomaly 2.1.1 is a bug fix and security release, so don’t expect to see a whole lot of new functionality –
2.2 is coming is planned to be released shortly into 2009 with lots of new features.

This maintenance release fixes a potential security exploit in the startup script’s temporary file handling as well as the following bug fixes:

* Randomly generated mac addresses are now written to the machine XML at provision time.
* The available system memory is now checked against the required memory for new machines at provision time.
* Fixed a bug regarding the valet extension module not properly checking the hypervisor type.
* Fixed a bug that disallows a machine’s XML definition to be edited.
* Fixed several misc. bugs in the valet extension module.
* Added messages to the interface stating the required extension modules.

You can download the new release here

ECP is governed by the AGPL, a free open source license

After Embotics, Stephen Pollack Joins Enomaly’s Advisory Board

December 15, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

After joining the Advisory Board for Embotics, which we just reported raised a $4 million Series B round of funding, Stephen Pollack is also joining the Advisory Board of Enomaly.

Stephen Pollack is a recognized leader in the virtualization industry who founded PlateSpin (acquired by Novell earlier this year). With the addition of Pollack, the Advisory Board will continue to help guide Embotics’ direction, organization and strategy for product and company growth.

See Reuven Cohen’s blog post on the addition of Pollack.

Enomaly Unveils Elastic Computing Platform After Years of R&D

October 7, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Enomaly today announced Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform (ECP), after having released an Alpha version in March of this year. ECP is an open source, programmable, cloud computing infrastructure for businesses looking to design, deploy and manage virtual applications in the cloud. With its official product launch, Enomaly is shifting its business from a services organization to a software products and support company.

Enomaly’s ECP is designed to work alongside a company’s existing virtual data center providing time and money savings. An intuitive, browser-based dashboard makes it easy for IT personnel to efficiently plan deployments, automate VM scaling and load-balancing; and, analyze, configure and optimize cloud capacity.

The Enomaly ECP is available for immediate download. Proprietary enterprise licenses of the software are available. With the release of the Enomaly ECP, the company is offering paid Web-based and phone support packages. The three plans are: Silver — Web-based support for up to 25 incidents per year; Gold — Phone and Web-based support for up to 50 incidents per year; and Platinum — Phone and Web-based support for up to 100 incidents per year plus assistance and advice with cluster architecture and virtual machine and application design.

Enomalism 2.0 Available For Download, Beta Testers Wanted

March 21, 2008 by Robin Wauters 2 Comments

Enomaly just announced the Alpha release of the Enomalism Elastic Computing Platform. The Enomalism v2.0 Alpha is said to have been completely redeveloped from the ground up and builds on the concept of ” Elastic / Cloud Computing”.

The company hopes to move to a stable beta within a couple weeks. The current release is considered “Alpha” and should be used at your own risk.

New Enomalism Features include:

Web Services API – RESTful
Automated VM Deployment with Elastic Valet
Multi-Server Support
Virtual Cluster Engine
Extensible system monitoring integration
Flexible business process management with SOA (jBPM)
Integrated appliance / module repository
Extended User / Group Management
Elastic Dashboard / Portal Framework
System Metering (Utility / Chargeback)
Increased Virtual Machine / Hypervisor Support
Xen, KVM, Qemu, OpenVZ, Amazon EC2 * (Ec2 Module)
Support for installation in Linux & Windows
New Open Source License (AGPL)

For installation Documentation and core distribution download, you can go to http://trac.enomalism.com/enomalism/

Enomaly is looking for early testers to assist them with the following tasks:

Interface Debugging CSS, JS (IE7,Firefox)
Platform Testing (Linux,Windows,BSD,OSX)
Cluster Testing
Amazon EC2 Testing
Repository / Appliance Testing
Module Testing
User Management Testing
REST API Testing
Anything else that needs fixing

If you are interested in lending a hand, please visit the Enomalism forums at
http://www.enomalism.com/resources/community-center/

[Source: Open Management Consortium blog]

Baseline: 10 Free Virtualization Tools You Should Know

February 28, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Baseline published an interesting list of “10 free virtualization tools you should know” on its website.

The list in full:

OpenVZ (Parallels) – also check out our video interview with Werner Fisher from Thomas-Krenn.AG on OpenVZ
FreeVPS (Positive Software)
Sun xVM (Sun Microsystems, who wants to equip Web 2.0 startups with “SAMP”)
VirtualBox (innotek, recently acquired by Sun)
PlateSpin Power Recon (PlateSpin, recently acquired by Novell)
Vizioncore vOptimizer Free Ware (Vizioncore, recently acquired by Quest)
Virtual Iron Single Server Edition (Virtual Iron)
Enomalism Virtualized Management Dashboard – VMD (Enomaly)
Microsoft Virtual Server Migration Toolkit – VSMT (Microsoft) – also check out our video interview with Mike Neil, Virtual Machine Technologies Product Unit Manager at Microsoft
Moka5 LivePC Engine (Moka5)

Enomalism Beta-Released Management Console for Xen

May 16, 2006 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

Virtualized Management Console (VMC)

Enomaly, a Canadian innovator in virtualization solutions, announced the Beta deployment of Enomalism Virtualized Management Console , a pre-packaged virtualization infrastructure solution based on Xen 3.0 and available under LGPL open source license. The Enomalism VMC is a powerful web-based systems administrator management tool for XEN hypervisor that enables the management of multiple isolated Virtual Private Servers (VPS) to be managed from a central web based interface. Enomalism brings the performance, stability, security and openness of the Xen hypervisor to the market in a product that emphasizes ease of use, effortless deployment and management of Xen-based virtual infrastructure.

“By using Enomalism, organizations can clearly implement a controlled and easy to manage virtualization environment resulting in increased server utilization, reduced IT cost and improved operational performance,” said Reuven Cohen, CTO of Enomaly. “Enomalism supplies customers with a superior virtualization solution that provides open access to source code and price performance benefits over proprietary offerings. By leveraging Xen virtualization technology and open source standards, Enomalism increases flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership for our enterprise customers”.

Xen is an operating system level server virtualization solution that makes efficient use of your hardware, software and management resources. Xen lets a computer run several operating systems simultaneously, sharing the same hardware and more effectively utilizing its capacity than is typically the case for stand-alone servers. In the Xen virtual environment independent servers perform and execute with their own memory and I/O, configuration files, users and applications running on a single operating system.

Enomalism enables customers from a single interface to start, stop and move virtual machines from one physical computer to another without any interruption in service or availability. Enomalism comes equipped with a provisioning wizard which deploys new virtual machines and centralized user management. Customers can manage memory resources changing virtual machine behavior so priorities are easily met.

Download a free copy of the Enomalism beta or visit their website for more information