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Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ:OPSW), the leading provider of Data Center
Automation software, today announced Opsware Server Automation
System 6.5, a major upgrade to the industry’s
number one choice for automating the full lifecycle management of
physical and virtual servers. With significantly increased
functionality, deeper integration with Opsware Process Automation
System, and expanded support for Windows, Linux and Virtualization,
Server Automation System 6.5 further delivers on Opsware’s
vision for helping IT eliminate latency from data center operations to
achieve a “zero-latency data center.”
Ranked by IDC as by far the fastest growing server provisioning
software, Opsware’s Server Automation System
has been deployed in hundreds of leading organizations around the world,
including Acxiom, Atos Origin, BT, Convergys, GAD, LogicaCMG, and
Network Appliance. The software automates day-to-day operational
activities, such as server provisioning, compliance, updates, and
application configuration management. It also automates the task of
setting and enforcing regulatory and best practice standards, delivering
executive-level, at-a-glance visibility into server, software, and
application configuration for regulatory compliance. Because the
software allows a single administrator to accomplish in hours what used
to take several administrators days to accomplish, it has helped many
Opsware customers reduce operational costs and achieve efficiencies by
as much as 90% per task.
“We view Opsware Server Automation System as
a cornerstone in our effort to run the highest quality, most efficient
data center operation in the industry,” said
Marty Sunde, Infrastructure Management Division Leader at Acxiom. “As
one of the industry’s leading IT service
providers, we set the bar very high for how efficiently we run our
operations. Working with Opsware will enable us to replace manual data
center tasks with a full lifecycle automation approach that is essential
to key data center initiatives such as Information Technology
Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standardization.”
Deep, Automated Lifecycle Management for Windows, Linux and Virtual
Server Environments
The trend in enterprise data centers is strongly towards three key
platforms that are growing markedly faster than any others: Windows
Servers, Linux, and virtual server environments. Opsware Server
Automation System 6.5 adds a deep array of new features designed to
support full lifecycle management on these platforms.
Microsoft Windows PowerShell Integration. Server Automation
System 6.5’s powerful data model is now
extended to integrate Microsoft Windows PowerShell, a command line
shell and scripting language, to help Windows administrators achieve a
higher level of productivity. Any information about a server that is
managed by the Opsware System is now accessible directly from within
PowerShell. Examples include the history for every job run on a
Windows server, or what applications are being supported by the
server. With this integration now the latest Windows technology can be
used to access the right information that has been automatically
stored in the Opsware System for change execution.
Seamless Integration with Process Automation System for Unmatched
ITIL Compliance. Server Automation System 6.5’s
seamless integration with the Opsware Process Automation System
greatly accelerates the process of standardizing on Information
Technology and Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices and
similar standards. The integrated systems provide out-of-the-box
workflow automation for ITIL incident, problem, change and release
management processes, greatly simplifying the task of managing
compliance across disparate IT groups and systems. Managing compliance
across large, complex organizations and heterogeneous systems is one
of the most difficult challenges enterprises face in maintaining ITIL
compliance, and the Opsware suite is the first to provide the seamless
integration between process and change management necessary to
simplify such coordination.
Automation of next generation Linux environments. Opsware
Server Automation System now manages servers running Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.0 and integrates with the Red Hat Network to
provide the easiest way to keep systems up to date and secure. This
out-of-the-box integration provides the ability to automatically
download software updates and vendor recommendations to Opsware.
Opsware takes all vendor recommendations and translates them into
actionable software policies, relieving administrators of this tedious
task. Opsware also enhances deployment of Red Hat software updates by
performing full dependency analysis and resolving any dependencies,
ensuring the success of Linux software and patch management.
Deeper Windows Management and Compliance. In addition to
providing audit and remediation for all COM+/DLL and metabase objects,
Server Automation System 6.5 supports Microsoft Windows
Pre-Installation Environment (WinPE), allowing for much more flexible
Windows provisioning. In addition, the system now supports creating
exceptions on audit rules. Individual rules can be selected on a
per-audit, per-server basis; exceptions can expire at a pre-determined
date; and rules with exceptions are not considered in compliance
calculations. Reports can be generated on per-server exceptions.
Process Controls for Virtualization Deployments. With the
proliferation of virtualized servers in data centers, virtualization
management has become a major concern. With the launch of Opsware
Virtualization Director earlier this year, Opsware already has offered
industry-leading automated management for both VMware and Solaris 10
virtual platforms. With Server Automation System 6.5 Opsware extends
its virtualization management capabilities by adding discovery and
application dependency mapping for virtual systems and adding process
and work-flow automation. These new capabilities are enabled through
integration with Opsware’s Visual
Application Manager product and Opsware’s
Process Automation System. In particular, the introduction of
automated process management for virtual environments allows IT to
enforce much-needed process and operational discipline for managing
virtual environments. To date, virtual server management has been ad
hoc, which is not sustainable in production data centers. The new
Server Automation System 6.5 now offers an automated, repeatable,
auditable and scalable solution for managing virtualized environments
in an enterprise ready, standards-compliant way.
“Opsware Server Automation System 6.5
delivers important new functionality for the fastest growing enterprise
platforms that can significantly drive down costs and reduce latency for
enterprise IT organizations,” said Tim Howes,
CTO at Opsware Inc. “If your data center is
running Windows, Linux, or virtualized environments, you can now manage
the full lifecycle of these platforms with an unprecedented degree of
visibility, flexibility and compliance controls.”
Availability
Opsware Server Automation System 6.5 is available now.
About Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ:OPSW)
Opsware, the world’s leading IT automation
company, unlocks the promise of technology by accelerating IT to zero
latency. The company’s software, the Opsware
System, automates the entire data center, from provisioning to patching,
configuration to compliance and discovery to deployment, turning data
center operations into a competitive advantage for business. Opsware’s
technology is used by hundreds of companies worldwide including banks,
service providers, retailers, manufacturers and Internet companies with
IT environments ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of servers,
network devices, storage devices and IT processes. For more information
on Opsware Inc., please visit our Web site at www.opsware.com.
Opsware is a service mark and trademark of Opsware Inc. All other
product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are
trademarks of their respective owners.
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the
benefits and capabilities of our software products. These statements are
subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from these statements, including the risk that the
assumptions underlying our current business strategy may change, that
our experience operating as a software company is limited, and that the
products may not perform as described. More information about these and
other factors that could affect our business are included in our Form
10-K filed with the SEC on April 14, 2006 under the headings “Risk
Factors” and “Management’s
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
and the Forms 10-Q and 8-K that we file during the fiscal year.
The determination of when the new automation capabilities described in
this release will be made generally available, if ever, remains at the
sole discretion of Opsware Inc.