Gale Technologies Introduces GaleForce Turnkey Cloud for FlexPod and GaleForce 6.0
08/29/2011
Latest technologies from automation and orchestration software leader accelerate deployment of private or hybrid clouds
Las Vegas – VMworld 2011 #871 – August 30, 2011 –Gale Technologies, a leading provider of infrastructure automationsoftware solutions that power IT as a Service for labs, enterprises, and service providers, today announced GaleForce Turnkey Cloud for FlexPod and GaleForce 6.0, the latest release of the company’s flagship technology. GaleForce Turnkey Cloud for FlexPod offers top to bottom orchestration and automation for compute, network and storage layers of FlexPod. GaleForce 6.0 contains many new features that make it even more attractive for private/hybrid cloud and MSP environments.
Gale Technologies supports management of the FlexPod™ data center solution through integration with the individual device managers for individual Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus and NetApp FAS Storage System components. Gale Technologies’ new software package, GaleForce Turnkey Cloud for FlexPod, includes: GaleForce Server product; specialized integrations with NetApp APIs and plug-ins; multiple resource adaptors to manage physical as well as virtual resources; and predefined end-to-end workflows. With the GaleForce Turnkey Cloud for FlexPod, organizations can convert their existing compute, network, and NetApp storage infrastructure into a private or hybrid cloud environment in just two steps in two weeks and reduce GTM of service tiers based IT offerings from days to minutes.
With GaleForce Turnkey Cloud for FlexPod, organizations gain newfound agility and simplicity, which allows them to easily define service-level templates—published, for instance, as gold, silver, and bronze services—for storage services and publish them to the GaleForce self-service catalog along with compute and network resources.
GaleForce 6.0 transforms static IT environments into dynamic private or hybrid clouds, enabling organizations to drastically reduce capital and operational expenditures. With GaleForce, IT operators are able to set up a cloud, lab, demo, or data center environment in just minutes, providing secure access to resources 24/7 from anywhere in the world. Using GaleForce, operators design rich service templates with drag-and-drop ease and publish them to a custom brandable Web portal catalog. When users reserve and schedule templates from the catalog, GaleForce seamlessly allocates and provisions appropriate physical and virtual resources from the pool of IT resources to bring the workload to life.
Benefits of GaleForce 6.0 include:
· Integrated automated discovery of resources for inventory management;
· Enhanced resource utilization reporting and Showback;
· Chargeback capabilities through CloudCruiser Integration;
· Reservation and Scheduling based on user and group priorities;
· A Language independent and extensible Resource Adaptor Framework to enable customized solutions;
· Updated support for VMware such as discover, manage, suspend, resume, snapshot, relocate, access, report on utilization, etc., through integrations with vSphere; and,
· Over 15 new resource adaptors (RAs) added to the current list of 130+ RAs. The new RAs include adaptors for Cisco UCS, Nexus 5K, Nexus 7K, MDS, L2 CatOS, JunOS L2 support, HP Proliant, Xen, KVM, vCloud Director and many others.
“As a cloud software provider we are constantly working to develop solutions that enable IT organizations to quickly build and deploy a private or hybrid cloud. Adding new capabilities to our award winning GaleForce Technology allows us to further our relationship with partners such as NetApp to deliver simple, real-world solutions to our customers,” said Akhil Sahai, vice president of product management at Gale Technologies. “GaleForce Turnkey Cloud for FlexPod and GaleForce 6.0 aim to solve the complexities and lack of agility challenges in most IT environments by leveraging the benefits of new technologies and standards in a way that sense in their operations.”
Gale Technologies will be demonstrating the GaleForce Turnkey Cloud for FlexPod and GaleForce 6.0 in booth 871 at VMworld 2011, in Las Vegas taking place August 29 to September 1. Demonstrations of GaleForce Turnkey Cloud for FlexPod will also be available in the NetApp booth 402. VMworld attendees can visit booth 871, or sign up on the webfor a 1 day free installation offer for GaleForce Software.
Product Availability and Pricing
GaleForce Turnkey Cloud for FlexPod will be generally available in September 2011; pricing starts at $50,000. GaleForce 6.0 beta program starts on September 6 and GA is expected December 1, 2011. For more information, contact Gale Technologies at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)or (408) 213-4900.
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About Gale Technologies
With over 100 live deployments powered by its products, Gale Technologies is a trusted provider of advanced software solutions that automate and orchestrate IT resources – allowing organizations to accelerate and streamline the delivery of infrastructure as a service and cloud computing environments. As a pioneer of innovative solutions for end-to-end resource provisioning, scheduling, and automation across networking, server, storage, and virtualization technologies, Gale allows thousands of users to schedule and execute workloads on a shared, heterogeneous, dynamic environment with unprecedented flexibility. Gale’s customers report CAPEX and OPEX savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars per site from converting legacy silos of IT environments into fully automated and shared dynamic environments that can be securely accessed 24/7 from anywhere in the world. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Gale serves a global customer base with offices in North America and Asia. For more information, visit www.galetechnologies.com.
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