| By Glenn Rossman |
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| May 2, 2012 04:18 PM EDT |
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If you liked Convirture's enterprise management software or its free open source software, you're going to like it even more now.
Convirture has updated its ConVirt Enterprise Cloud virtualization and cloud management software to include support for the latest version of OpenStack (Essex). Support for CloudStack will be available in an update to the software that is planned for the third quarter of this year. ConVirt Enterprise Cloud also is also now certified to run on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
The company also released ConVirt 2.1 Open Source, an update to the free, open source version of its management software.
ConVirt Enterprise Cloud is used by enterprises worldwide to manage virtual and cloud infrastructures based on KVM and Xen. Today's announcement continues Convirture's drive to provide the easiest and most cost-effective means of managing virtual and cloud-based datacenters based on open source hypervisors.
The company aims to be the Switzerland in the cloud wars -- rising above the fray. Listen to company CEO, Arsalan Farooq: "Open source-based clouds are proliferating and we believe that most IT managers will adapt a hybrid, heterogeneous approach, with multiple platforms in their datacenter. To that end, we are Switzerland in the cloud wars. Our customers just want to meet an IT need and ConVirt is the tool that will enable them to manage the increasingly complex world of cloud platforms."
In addition to OpenStack Essex and CloudStack, ConVirt can be used to manage OpenStack 1.0, as well as Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus.
A complete list of all the virtualization and cloud platforms that can be managed using ConVirt can be found at: www.convirture.com/support_configurations.php.
ConVirt 2.1 Open Source update
Here are details on the new release of the update to the open source version of ConVirt software. Version 2.1 includes performance and feature enhancements including:
- Ability to use SSH to manage servers
- Annotation for Servers and Virtual Machines
- IE8 support
- VNC Password for KVM virtual machines
- SLES 11 SP2 certification
- Diagnostic capabilities to reduce downtime
- Fixes for issues found in customer and community deployments
Current users can find upgrade instructions on the ConVirt wiki.
You can find more information at www.convirture.com. The company was founded in 2007 to help organizations effectively manage open source virtualization platforms.
Glenn Rossman has more than 25 years communications experience working at IBM and Hewlett-Packard, along with startup StorageApps, plus agencies Hill & Knowlton and G&A Communications. His experience includes media relations, industry and financial analyst relations, executive communications, intranet and employee communications, as well as producing sales collateral. In technology, his career includes work in channel partner communications, data storage technologies, server computers, software, PC and UNIX computers, along with specific industry initiatives such as manufacturing, medical, and finance.
Before his latest stint in technology, Glenn did business-to-business public relations on behalf of the DuPont Company for its specialty polymers products and with the largest steel companies in North America in an initiative focused on automakers.
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