PlateSpin says the latest releases contain features that will transform the way organizations plan and implement data center consolidation initiatives. New levels of integration between the two products will enable customers to automatically create an optimal consolidation plan with PowerRecon that can be seamlessly transferred to PowerConvert for implementation.

PowerConvert is a software solution that streams servers between physical hardware, blade infrastructures, virtual machines and image archives over the network. PowerRecon is agentless software that measures, analyzes 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 virtualization technologies.

"Organizations tend to think of server consolidation as a one-way, once-and-done physical-to-virtual migration," says Stephen Pollack, PlateSpin founder and CEO. "However, our work with over 2,000 data center clients indicates that P2V migration accounts for only 1/3 of the total server consolidation effort. PlateSpin PowerConvert and PowerRecon allow organizations to perform end-to-end server consolidations faster and easier by completely automating the project planning, physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical conversion phases of a continuous consolidation initiative."