PlateSpin has enhanced its datacentre automation and
optimisation software solutions, PowerConvert 6.5 and PowerRecon
2.5.
The company says that the two solutions are now more tightly
integrated, to provide a comprehensive end-to-end solution for
continuous server consolidation. It claims that the latest releases
contain features that will transform the way organisations plan and
implement datacentre consolidation initiatives.
PowerConvert software streams servers between physical hardware,
blade infrastructures, virtual machines and image archives over the
network. PlateSpin PowerRecon is agentless software that measures,
analyses and determines the optimal fit between server resource
supply and workload demand.
PlateSpin says that together, PowerConvert and PowerRecon form
the world's first and only end-to-end continuous server
consolidation and disaster recovery solutions leveraging
virtualisation technologies. The company says that by completely
automating the project planning, physical-to-virtual and
virtual-to-physical conversion phases of a continuous consolidation
initiative, the two suites enable organisations to perform
end-to-end server consolidations faster and easier.
"Organisations tend to think of server consolidation as a
one-way, once-and-done physical-to-virtual [P2V] migration,"
comments Stephen Pollack, PlateSpin founder and chief executive.
"However, our work with over 2,000 datacentre clients indicates
that P2V migration accounts for only one-third of the total server
consolidation effort. Servers must be continually monitored and
migrated across physical and virtual infrastructures to accommodate
changing workloads and business requirements.