Scalent Systems

Scalent Brings Combined Virtual and Bare Metal Management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

October 13, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Scalent Systems, provider of real-time Management & Automation software for large data centers, and Red Hat today announced Scalent’s support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Xen. The combined solution extends virtualization and data center automation beyond hypervisors, to bare metal servers, network and storage connectivity.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 provides IT managers unprecedented levels of operational flexibility, via a comprehensive suite of open source server applications and virtualization capabilities . Scalent V/OE enables IT managers to rapidly provision entire virtual or bare metal servers and associated storage and network topologies, yielding higher asset utilization and dramatically lower costs.

Scalent’s software provides real time data center management, automation, and virtualization across physical and virtual servers, networks, and storage. Highly complementary to Red Hat’s Linux Automation efforts, the Scalent V/OE software enables data centers to react in real-time to changing business needs by shifting workloads and connectivity.

The result: data centers can transition between different configurations – or from bare metal to live, connected servers – in five minutes or less, without physical intervention.

Scalent’s software complements Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Linux Automation capabilities by delivering fully transparent management & automation of software workloads and connectivity across bare metal and virtual environments, including:

Simple, transparent deployment, automation, and management of both virtual and physical servers, network connectivity and storage access
Cost-effective high availability and server failover solutions, through Scalent’s N+1 technology leveraging existing IT assets
Fully-automated disaster recovery across data centers, through Scalent’s disaster recovery technology;
Creation of server pools that enable server rightsizing and scalability through dynamic repurposing; and
Effective chargeback capabilities, logical, secure partitioning, and named pools of resources for rapid change of operational lab or production environments.

Scalent Systems Releases Scalent V/OE 2.5

June 16, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Scalent Systems today announced general availability of Scalent V/OE version 2.5, with enhanced workload and image portability functionality. Scalent claims to be the first company to deliver portability of Windows and Linux server images and associated provisioning of network connectivity & storage access across virtual andphysical machines in real time, without costly and time-consuming conversions.

With Scalent V/OE, IT organizations can dynamically provision for average demand and shift available resources as needed, in real time, to match business needs. Specific business systems can be redeployed as dictated by business priorities, time of day, or other policy-based criteria – so less hardware, software, and other resources are needed.

“Our customers consistently reduce their server populations by over 50% without sacrificing performance,” said Ben Linder, CEO of Scalent Systems. “Scalent V/OE allows IT organizations to extend the benefits of virtualization by rapidly provisioning servers, network, and storage at the physical level to quickly react to changing business needs.”

Scalent And Enigmatec Team Up

April 6, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

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.”