Raritan Updates Data Center Software

• By The WHIR, September 10, 2008

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By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com

September 10, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- UK IT management solutions provider Raritan (raritan.co.uk) has released updates to its CommandCenter Secure Gateway data center management software that promise to reduce the cost and complexity of deploying virtualization technologies

According to Raritan's Tuesday announcement, CC-SG version 4.0 provides consolidated discovery, access and control, power management and auditing of all IT infrastructure elements including virtual servers, physical servers, networking equipment and power devices.

"The growing coexistence of virtual and physical servers adds new layers of complexity to IT management," Raritan director of enterprise products Henry Hsu said in a statement. "Tools, such as VMware's VirtualCenter, do a great job of providing a single point of access to all VMware access methods. But, they only provide a partial view of the data centre."

Hsu said, "Instead of doubling or tripling the number of tools and adding extra complexity to data centre administration, Raritan has developed a single consolidated management portal to simplify things. We view a virtual machine as one more item in the IT infrastructure that CommandCenter Secure Gateway can manage."

CC-SG 4.0 watches the migration of data between virtual and physical machines, providing real-time infrastructure reports viewable from a single dashboard screen. The dashboard allows users to view all IT assets and launch remote access and management tools including third-party ones.

"In effect, the new release of CC-SG provides a unified access portal to every layer of every server type, whether physical or virtual," Hsu said. "Customers can easily add their VMware environment to CC-SG to obtain console and power operations to virtual machines, ESX host servers, and regular physical servers from one point of access and control."

CC-SG 4.0 pricing starts at £4,099, but is available to current CC-SG E1 and V1 customers as a free update. Distributed in more than 70 countries, Raritan solutions are used in more than 50.000 data centres worldwide.

Tags:  virtualization  Portal  Promise  Raritan  VMware 

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