Elastra Announces General Availability of Enterprise Cloud Server.

New Product Accelerates Application Delivery in Public, Private, and Hybrid Compute Clouds

SAN FRANCISCO -- Elastra Corporation, the leading provider of application infrastructure automation software, today announced the immediate availability of Elastra Cloud Server (ECS) 2.0, Enterprise Edition.

In this release, ECS lets customers compose, orchestrate and manage systems made up of Oracle databases, WebLogic Application Servers and other Enterprise-grade software as well as open-source applications like MySQL, Apache, and Tomcat. ECS integrates with enterprise tools such as Tivoli, OpenView, Patrol, CA Spectrum, Zenoss, and Splunk. ECS can be used on private clouds based on VCenter from VMware or XEN from Citrix as well as the public cloud available from Amazon. Systems created for one environment are portable to another.

"To realize the full value of cloud computing, whether public or private, businesses must do more than move to virtualized hardware. They must shift the way that they plan, architect, deliver, and service IT infrastructure. Businesses will require cloud service management tools to maximize the value of these services," said Lydia Leong, Research Director, Gartner.

Elastra brings an unprecedented level of automation to IT organizations seeking to leverage the economics of cloud computing while staying true to existing architectural practices and corporate policies. ECS addresses some of the fundamental challenges faced by IT organizations today:

* Make IT LEANER: ECS automatically generates deployment plans and provisions sophisticated systems that are optimized to minimize operational and capital expenses. At the same time, applications are deployed to be compliant with the customers' own sets of policies, procedures, and service level agreements.

* Make IT AGILE: ECS dramatically cuts the lead times IT needs to create complex development, testing, and production environments by automating the processes traditionally managed by hand or via hand-crafted scripts.

* Keep IT MANAGEABLE: ECS lets IT organizations maintain control of their operations using familiar tools and technologies while delivering on-demand, self-service system provisioning to their users.

"We have built a product that seamlessly fits into an existing data center and addresses some of IT's perennial challenges: let IT get more done with fewer resources, make IT deliver results faster, reduce IT operational and capital costs, and keep IT in control of sensitive information within the company's data center," said Kirill Sheynkman, President and CEO of Elastra Corporation.

The beta program for the Enterprise Edition of Elastra Cloud Server involved customers from a variety of industries including: a large European Telecommunications company, a leading US Federal Government systems integrator, and a major IT services and outsourcing company. This beta program has now concluded with the general availability of the product.

Elastra offers a free edition of ECS running on Amazon Web Services and an Enterprise Edition for private data centers.

About Elastra

Elastra develops software that enables enterprises to automate modeling, deployment and policy enforcement of their application infrastructure. Our products work in conjunction with provisioning and virtualization solutions to orchestrate the intelligent delivery of IT infrastructure required to run complex applications. Elastra solutions enable enterprise IT organizations to accelerate the delivery of new applications, effectively utilizing internal and virtualized IT resources to help enterprise IT groups deploy applications faster, increase resource utilization, and improve IT governance effectiveness.

For more about Elastra, visit us on the Web at www.elastra.com.