Qlusters Announces openQRM Power Management Plug-Ins for Dell, HP and Intel.openQRM Users Can Reduce Power Consumption in the Data Center Via Integration with Dell DRAC The Dell Remote Access Card or DRAC is an interface card which provides out-of-band management. The card has its own processor, memory, battery, network connection, and access to the system bus. , HP ILO ILO abbr. International Labor Organization Noun 1. ILO - the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor International Labor Organization, International Labour Organization , and Intel IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) A protocol for monitoring server hardware for temperature, voltage, chassis intrusion, etc. Introduced in 1998 by Intel, HP, NEC and Dell, IPMI defines a standard set of messages for the characteristics of hardware Enabled Systems Using New Plug-In Offerings PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Qlusters, Inc., the leading provider of open source data-center provisioning and management software for physical and virtual environments, today announced plug-in support for Dell DRAC, HP ILO and Intel IPMI enabled systems. As a result, organizations can now better manage power consumption in the data center by automatically powering off servers when they are under-utilized or not in use. "Reducing power consumption is top-of-mind for IT managers, because power and cooling are driving up operational costs in the data center," said Jean S. Bozman, research vice president in IDC's worldwide server group. "By providing a control point for open-systems management software, openQRM's new plug-ins support the need for improved granularity in management of power and cooling by automatically taking under-utilized compute resources offline." The new tested and supported power management plug-ins enable the openQRM platform to manage high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. servers, reducing the number of solutions needed to manage a data center. Specifically, the plug-ins allow openQRM to power-up or power-down systems, powering-down systems that are now in use, and automatically powering-up systems when they are needed, or when a node malfunctions and cannot be restarted. By dynamically managing servers and powering them off when they are not needed, openQRM helps users reduce the power consumed by superfluous servers and consequently reduces the operations and management cost within the data center. "Qlusters is committed to tackling the largest issues in the data center through open source solutions," said Ofer Shoshan, founder 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 Qlusters. "The addition of power management support within openQRM will help our users lower power consumption and costs, and optimize utilization of their data center assets." About openQRM openQRM is the premiere open source data center provisioning and management solution for the enterprise. With more than 44,000 downloads since its launch in January 2006, openQRM features an open plug-in architecture that enables easy integration with existing data center applications, such as Nagios[TM], VMWare[TM], Xen[TM], QEMU and Linux VServer, helping to improve reliability and increase automation while reducing overall management costs. Additionally, openQRM is the only data center management solution that works with Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows and Linux. About Qlusters, Inc. Founded in 2001, Qlusters is a leading data center technology and services provider. Qlusters' openQRM (www.openqrm.org) is the leading open source data center provisioning and management solution on the market today and is currently used by multiple data centers worldwide to improve uptime and reduce operations costs. Qlusters is the founding member of the Open Management Consortium (www.open-management.org), which creates open source alternatives to proprietary management systems. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. , with offices in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest , Israel. For more information visit www.qlusters.com. Qlusters and openQRM are trademarks of Qlusters, Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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