There's a lot of news coming out of Interop this week. Here are highlights of a few interesting announcements. The first comes from Gale Technologies. The company announced its GaleForce software on Tuesday. GaleForce is orchestration software that lets enterprises and service providers build templates of virtual and physical servers, application software, network resources and storage. Business units can then choose from among these templates to quickly access and deploy software and hardware resources for test/dev labs and production applications. Resources are allocated automatically, speeding the provisioning and deployment of applications.

Of course, before companies can use the orchestration software, they have to have a comprehensive understanding of the assets available to them. Gale Technologies says a professional services engagement is usually the first step. The software package includes a discovery tool to find and identify assets, and also includes a CMDB-like inventory asset management system to track physical and virtual assets. The other key component is the modeling system that lets IT use graphical tools to model the templates that customers can deploy. The system can set a time limit on how long these resources are available, for example, a period of months. If the customer opts not to extend its use of the resources, they are automatically returned to the pool. The company says an initial deployment typically starts around $100,000 to $150,000 and will scale based on the number of assets.

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