Levanta Adds NetApp and OnStor External Storage Support, Advanced Virtual Machine Management Into Intrepid M 4.2 Release.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 -- Virtual Machine Migration, GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. Enhancements and Additional Linux Distro See Linux distribution. Support Among Other New Features in Intrepid M 4.2 Release Levanta (www.levanta.com), the leader in Linux management, today announced the release of version 4.2 of its award-winning Intrepid M Linux management appliance (http://www.levanta.com/products/index.shtml), to be demonstrated at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco (August 14-16). Version 4.2 of the Intrepid M will open up a wider range of storage environments for Levanta customers, with new built-in support for NetApp and OnStor. With the additional external storage support, the Intrepid M 4.2 provides increased redundancy and fail-over options -- and makes it possible to host mission critical data on storage systems on the back-end, while running cheap, off-the-shelf commodity Linux boxes on the front end. "The preferred approach to systems management is shifting to the notion of having the IP in a portable container, independent of commodity hardware," said David Dennis, Director of Marketing and Products at Levanta. "The goal is decoupling Decoupling The occurrence of returns on asset classes diverging from their normal pattern of correlation. Notes: Take for example stock and corporate bond returns, which normally rise and fall together. the content and data from the machine that it's running on, and organizations are increasingly keeping their valuable content on the back end -- in storage systems -- rather than on the servers themselves. By integrating support for multiple storage systems into the Intrepid M product line, Levanta is enabling a new degree of portability into Linux management, and making it much easier for customers to manage both the physical and virtual world." Levanta's Intrepid M is the first appliance to combine data 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. with network provisioning -- delivering on demand functionality in a Linux systems management solution that's as accessible to the mid-market as it is to the enterprise. Winner of the "Most Innovative Hardware Solution" from LinuxWorld, and recently named a finalist in eWeek's "Excellence Awards," the Intrepid M appliance greatly simplifies common Linux management scenarios (from server provisioning, to application deployment, to disaster recovery and change control). The Intrepid M 4.2 version also includes new enhancements to the graphic user interface See GUI. (GUI), and support for additional Linux distributions (including Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes. Red Hat commits to supporting each version of RHEL for 7 years after its release. 4). About Levanta Levanta is a leader in Linux management and data virtualization. Levanta's unique technology marries change control with data virtualization, delivering dramatically faster and more flexible control of Linux on commodity hardware, racks, blades, boxes, virtual machines, and even mainframes. Levanta's customers include industry leaders in financial services, entertainment, government, retail and telecommunications. Levanta has partnerships with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , HP, Novell, and Red Hat. A private company, Levanta is headquartered in San Mateo and can be found on the Web at http://www.levanta.com. |
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