Red Hat and Scalent Systems Combine
A partnership between Red Hat and Scalent Systems – a provider of real-time Management and Automation software for large data centres – was announced today. The combined solution extends virtualization and data centre automation beyond hypervisors, to bare metal servers, network and storage connectivity.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 provides IT managers with greater flexibility, via a comprehensive suite of open source server applications and virtualization capabilities. Scalent V/OE enables IT managers to rapidly provision entire virtual or bare metal servers and associated storage and network topologies, yielding higher asset utilization and lowering costs dramatically.
The software from Scalent provides real-time data centre management, automation, and virtualization across physical and virtual servers, networks, and storage.
The V/OE software enables data centres to react in real-time to changing business needs by shifting workloads and connectivity. This means that data centres can change between different configurations without physical intervention.
Scalents software works with Enterprise Linux 5 and Linux Automation capabilities by delivering fully transparent management and automation of software workloads and connectivity across bare metal and virtual environments, including:
“Simple, transparent deployment, automation, and management of both virtual and physical servers, network connectivity and storage access
“Cost-effective high availability and server failover solutions, through Scalent’s N+1 technology leveraging existing IT assets
“Fully-automated disaster recovery across data centres, through Scalent’s disaster recovery technology
“Creation of server pools that enable server rightsizing and scalability through dynamic repurposing
“Effective chargeback capabilities, logical, secure partitioning, and named pools of resources for rapid change of operational lab or production environments.”
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