LinMin™ Releases Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0, Adding Support for Cloud Architecture & Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 Deplo...
July 27 2010 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
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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