Embotics Launches V-Commander for Virtual Machine (VM) Lifecycle Management.The First-Ever Industry Solution to Provide Policy Management, Control and Operational Oversight for Virtualized Server Environments SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Embotics, the Virtual Machine (VM) Lifecycle Management[TM] Company, today launched V-Commander, a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. , policy-based control and management system for enterprise VMs. Embotics' V-Commander manages large pools of VMs to control VM sprawl and automate VM management tasks, providing real operational benefits and oversight. VM environments become more complex as enterprises expand their VM deployments. Current virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. tools can easily generate VMs but lack effective operational and management features. V-Commander is a policy-based control system that supports multiple VMware Virtual Centers simultaneously, providing effective VM Lifecycle Management that can integrate and automate ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, www.itil.co.uk) One of the more comprehensive as well as non-proprietary and publicly available sets of guidelines for "best practice" IT services management, owned by the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC). and business delivery practices. "Organizations are deploying server virtualization (1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions within a single server. The "virtual machine" method can run different operating systems simultaneously, whereas the "OS virtualization" method runs applications for only one operating system (see virtual machine and OS solutions in an effort to reduce IT spending and improve server resource utilization, but are finding that virtual machines cannot be effectively managed with traditional tools," said Mark Bowker, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "The rapid adoption of server virtualization across all industries is quickly creating the requirement for a management solution that directly tackles the growing problem of virtual machine sprawl. Embotics improves operational efficiency, reduces the risk of 'unapproved' virtual machines being deployed in a production environment and logs all actions for a complete audit trail." V-Commander can display the genealogy genealogy (jē'nēŏl`əjē, –ăl`–, jĕ–), the study of family lineage. Genealogies have existed since ancient times. of any VM in real time, making it simple to patch, configure, manage and rollback A DBMS feature that reverses the current transaction out of the database, returning the data to its former state. A rollback is performed when processing a transaction fails at some point, and it is necessary to start over. See two-phase commit. all related VMs. V-Commander also uses a range of VM markers and policies to control VM deployment and automate or simplify many control tasks that today consume valuable staff time. Embotics is publicly debuting V-Commander at VMworld 2007 in booth # 335 from September 10-13, in San Francisco. Embotics is also demonstrating interoperability between V-Commander and the PlateSpin PowerRecon Virtual Infrastructure Edition, the VM profiling, chargeback Chargeback The charge a credit card merchant pays to a customer after the customer successfully disputes an item on his or her credit card statement. Notes: Customers dispute charges to their credit card usually when goods or services are not delivered within the and growth monitoring solution for virtual environments. Intuitive and easy to use, V-Commander is built specifically for the virtualized data center and offers the following unique features: * Manages online and offline images * Automatic genealogy tracking allows for coordinated "family" actions (configuration, patching, retirement, etc.) * Integral policy engine automates important control policies including separation of duties, deployment control and VI partitioning * Built in secure repository provides a definitive VM library, facilitating standardization and easy deployment * Provides VM operational oversight, control and audit, complete with drill-down capability "Risk reduction, combined with policy-based management See policy management. and control, and point and click functionality allows operational staff to effectively manage larger pools of VMs," said Jay Litkey, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Embotics. "Embotics' V-Commander lets enterprises control their virtual server infrastructure across multiple VMware Virtual Centers and free up valuable staff resources." "With the launch of PlateSpin PowerRecon for Virtual Infrastructure, joint customers can benefit from integrating advanced workload profiling, billing, chargeback and lifecycle monitoring from PlateSpin with policy management, control and operational oversight from Embotics," said Stephen Pollack pollack: see cod. pollack or pollock Either of two commercially important North Atlantic species of food fish in the cod family (Gadidae). , CEO of PlateSpin Ltd. "We will be working with joint customers to further develop the value proposition of the joint solution as companies move to the next stages of their virtualization investments." Starting at USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. $25,000, Embotics V-Commander is generally available in Q4 2007. About Embotics Embotics Corporation is the Virtual Machine (VM) Lifecycle management company focused on maximizing the business benefits of virtual servers for its customers. Embotics does this by authorizing, controlling, managing, securing and tracking all VM assets, online or offline, throughout their lifecycle. Founded by seasoned entrepreneur Jay Litkey (founder of Symbium and BlackholeTV) and funded by Tera Capital Corporation, Embotics is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. For more information, please visit www.embotics.com. About PlateSpin PlateSpin provides the most advanced data center automation software designed to optimize the use of server resources across the enterprise to improve business service levels and lower costs. PlateSpin's patent-pending conversion and optimization technology liberates software from hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. , allowing servers to be streamed over the enterprise network from any source to any destination. This freedom of movement ensures the best fit between server resource supply and application workload demands. For more information please visit www.platespin.com. |
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