LinMin,
maker of award-winning IT automation software LinMin Bare Metal
Provisioning™, today unveiled LinMin
Bare Metal Provisioning Release 6.0 with Cloud, hosting and
corporate data center enhancements. Today’s release, which has been in
development for nearly a year, also offers improvements in security,
platform support and ease of integration with IT applications, including
control panels and Cloud orchestrators.
The new release offers several key new features. The optional Windows
Provisioning Module enables the deployment of Microsoft® Windows Server
2008 and Windows® 7 systems using the same graphical or programmatic
interfaces used to provision all current releases of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and SLES as well as
legacy Windows operating systems. The new online
self-help and knowledge base provides customers with unprecedented
self-support ability.
LinMin now also offers more streamlined application integration. Release
6.0 boasts an upgraded API, including a new disk imaging interface,
enhanced provisioning support, and token and IP-based authentication.
LinMin’s API enables Cloud, hosting and corporate data centers to
seamlessly add provisioning and imaging support to their existing IT
applications, enabling full server
provisioning, recovery and cloning automation of the data center.
The API also enables Independent Software Vendors and OEMs to augment
their offerings with sophisticated provisioning and imaging capabilities.
“Large hosting companies need to implement server provisioning
automation as much as possible in order to keep service levels high and
costs low,” said David Elbaze, Managing Director, Elb Group Netissime,
a leading French hosting company. “We standardized on LinMin Bare Metal
Provisioning 6.0 because it takes less than one day to implement, is
easy to use, reduces labor costs tremendously and offers very high
scalability, resulting in very efficient data center operations.”
“LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 incorporates everything we’ve
learned from LinMin production deployments in numerous data centers and
IT shops worldwide, including enhancements in performance, platform
support, security over public networks, online self-help, rescue
system deployment and the provisioning of Windows
Server 2008 and Windows 7,” said Laurent Gharda, CEO of LinMin Corp.
“Our new Application Programming Interface enables data centers and OEMs
to easily add automated provisioning and imaging to any IT application.”
Ultimately, LinMin helps create flexibility within the data center. By
enabling system administrators to automate server provisioning,
scalability is enhanced without increasing cost. Disaster
Recovery is also substantially streamlined with LinMin’s snapshot
rollback capability. By offering both a browser-based Graphical User
Interface (GUI) and an Application
Programming Interface (API) so customers can integrate their control
panels, cloud orchestrators and other automation tools, LinMin makes
server provisioning, rollback and cloning easy.
LinMin is also used to automate PC deployments by remotely installing
Windows 7, Windows XP and Linux. PCs can also be backed up and restored,
avoiding lengthy OS and application installations should PCs get
infected with malware.
For a detailed description of the new features of LinMin Bare Metal
Provisioning Release 6.0, please visit http://www.linmin.com/help/linmin_revision_history_lbmp6_0.html.
Pricing
LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 for Linux and Windows is available
for free
trial. Perpetual license pricing
starts at $1,199 for up to 100 systems to provision and image (for major
versions of Linux and Windows Server 2003/XP) or $1,799 (for major
versions of Linux, legacy Windows plus Windows Server 2008 and Windows
7).
About LinMin
LinMin provides IT infrastructure deployment software for cloud, hosting
and corporate data centers. LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning automates
Windows and Linux server provisioning and PC deployments, while LinMin
Bare Metal Imaging enables Disaster Recovery and system cloning of
servers, blades, PCs, appliances and virtual machines. LinMin delivers
enterprise-grade IT software for use in organizations of any size with
limited budgets. LinMin is based in Redwood City, Calif.
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