fluid Operations has introduced new version 2.0 of its eCloudManager product suite. The new offering has now implemented the VMFS driver into its ready-made automation tool-set for immediate customer use.
The new offering packages a set of eCloud productivity tools to: manage the entire Enterprise Compute Cloud stack from hardware to software, including creating, monitoring and administrating of multi-system virtual application landscapes; drive internal Landscape-as-a-Service (LaaS) offerings for IT system development, testing, production and training; and mitigate risks around system introductions, upgrades, migrations, consolidations, the company noted.
The company claimed that customers tasked with the challenge of driving compliance and automation through their IT resources, are looking to the eCloudManager to provide IT managers and teams control over their enterprise application landscapes, available resources, and ongoing SLA requirements.
This new breed of practical, enterprise application management product reportedly sits on top of existing hardware, storage and virtualisation sources, and supports IT automation based on a unified semantics foundation.
The company said that it is now possible to recover a virtual machine (VM) from a VMFS filer snapshot by selecting the desired point in time and VM in a file system tree. Similar simplicity is available to provision terabytes of new enterprise VMs within minutes using eCM’s storage assisted cloning technology. Both tasks are integrated to the storage provider capabilities leveraging the available APIs, and no extra hardware, software or setup is needed.
The company is said to be working with strategic partners, including SAP, VMware and GOPA ITC, to develop the software and deliver the eCloudManager to customers.