New tools to unite virtualisaion systems
New tools to unite virtualisaion systems
Jul 27, 2005: IBM has released new virtualisation technology that aims to allow customers to pool, manage and optimise their IT resources across a variety of servers, networking and storage devices.
The new Virtualisation Engine 2.0 uses open interfaces, virtualisation building blocks and Web services to connect server and storage systems.
Rod Adkins, the vice president of development at IBM systems and technology group, said that the Virtualisation Engine has evolved to a highly integrated open standards platform based on a four-year R&D push across IBM and in collaboration with various business partners.
"The platform helps customers to drive much greater asset utilisation and management simplification of their complete, open IT infrastructure on a scale never before seen."
IBM stated that the Virtualisation Engine console provides a single view of systems and platform health, as well as a road map or "topology", for the virtualised systems infrastructure.
Some of the features included in the engine include Resource Dependency Services - to help companies gain a view into their IT resources, and can be used to help define and discover relationships between users, resources, applications and networks.
This allows organisations to automatic discovery of resources on the IP Network; the ability to map business processes to IT resources; interoperability with IBM's recently announced IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management database and a graphical display of topology via the Virtualised Engine console.
The Integrated Virtual Management feature can help simplify the process of creating and configuring virtual systems.
In addition, Network Appliance is going to join forces with IBM and Industry Leaders to collaborate on blade technologies. The focus will be on combining IBM's storage virtualisation technologies and the full line of NetApp V-Series and FAS storage systems into integrated solutions, which signals a new beginning in efforts to exploit the synergies between the companies' respective virtualisation technologies.
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