PlateSpin First-to-Market with Continuous Server Consolidation Product Suite; PlateSpin Delivers the Most Automated End-to-End Server Consolidation Solution on the Market.TORONTO -- PlateSpin today announced the general availability of the Consolidation Planning Module for PlateSpin PowerRecon, a completely automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. analysis engine which determines optimal fit between application workloads and server resources. The Consolidation Planning Module takes hardware, software and performance information gathered by PlateSpin PowerRecon, and automatically recommends an optimal allocation of servers to the most appropriate virtual hosts, such as VMware ESX Server VMware ESX Server is an enterprise-level virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc., a division of EMC Corporation. ESX Server is a component of VMware's larger offering, Virtual Infrastructure, which adds management and reliability services to the core server product. , VMware Server VMware Server (formerly GSX Server) is an entry-level server virtualization software suite from VMware, Inc., a subsidiary of EMC Corporation. VMware released version 1.0 of Server on July 12, 2006. Server is a continuation of the retired GSX Server product line. or Microsoft Virtual Server A virtual machine environment for Windows servers from Microsoft that supports most x86 operating systems as guests. It is used to run multiple copies of Windows as well as Linux in a virtualized server environment. For virtualizing a user's PC, Microsoft offers Virtual PC. See virtual machine. . It uniquely uses CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , disk, network, memory and time to determine the proper distribution of servers to a set of virtual hosts. With the click of a mouse, data center managers can quickly and easily determine where to consolidate servers to minimize hardware, while maximizing application performance. "Deciding on how to consolidate servers without proper analysis, optimization optimization Field of applied mathematics whose principles and methods are used to solve quantitative problems in disciplines including physics, biology, engineering, and economics. and what-if modeling tools is far from easy," said John Stetic, PlateSpin Director of Product Management. "By using PowerRecon with the Consolidation Planning Module and PowerConvert, our customers can significantly accelerate their time to value and maximize their return on investment with 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. ." The Consolidation Planning Module expands the capabilities of PlateSpin PowerRecon with the following features: --Automatically analyzes the five critical dimensions of workload: CPU, Disk, Memory, Network and Time across hundreds of servers simultaneously --Target server templates allow users to input virtual host server characteristics of their preferred makes and models prior to purchasing them --Modeling of virtual host utilization and allocation of VMs to those hosts --Time-based analysis to stagger multiple workloads evenly across virtual hosts --Automatically determines number of host servers required as target for a given set of physical servers to consolidate --Analysis support for both Windows and Linux servers The Consolidation Planning Module is the first in a series of licensable modules that will be offered with PlateSpin PowerRecon to optimize the use of servers in the data center. This first module will enable data centers to perform continuous server consolidation by allowing data center managers to quickly and easily assess their optimization levels at any time. When combined with PlateSpin PowerConvert to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. migrating server workloads to the destinations recommended by PowerRecon, the combined product suite provides the industry's most automated end-to-end software solution for continuously optimizing the data center. "We're extremely excited about the Consolidation Planning Module for PowerRecon," said Raymond McDonald, Systems Engineer of Expert Server Group. "Not only has PlateSpin made it easy and efficient to collect workload and resource information across the data center, it has provided a means for our customers to perform server consolidation and data center optimization with the click of the mouse, at any time." "We like PlateSpin's approach to keeping the data center in an optimized state by making it easy to continuously analyze and stream servers to where they fit most," said Matthew Legg, Senior VMware Consultant at Technical Architecture Solutions Pty Ltd PTY LTD Propriety Limited (company structure in Australia) . "Through PlateSpin's software, we're no longer treating server consolidation projects as one-time events. We will use PlateSpin software to continuously adapt to changing business and IT conditions." The Consolidation Planning Module is available for purchase immediately. Existing customers with maintenance agreements can download the update from the web site at any time. Customers who buy PowerRecon before the end of June 30 will receive this new module for free. For detailed pricing and licensing options, please contact a PlateSpin reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. (www.platespin.com/partners) or contact PlateSpin directly at 416-203-6565, or send an email to info@platespin.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 OS Portability 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, ensuring best fit between server resource supply and application workload demands. Global 2000 companies use PlateSpin solutions to lower costs and solve today's most pressing data center initiatives such as server consolidation, disaster recovery, hardware migration and test lab automation. Winner of the 2005 International Business Award for Best New Company, PlateSpin was also named the fourth fastest growing IT company in Canada by Branham Group, and as one of the top five Movers and Shakers Shakers, popular name for members of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, also called the Millennial Church. Members of the movement, who received their name from the trembling produced by religious emotion, were also known as Alethians. in the Canadian IT Sector for 2006. For more information please visit www.platespin.com. 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