SAN DIEGO, CA (PRWEB) December 13, 2012 CFEngine Inc. announced CFEngine Enterprise 3.0 at LISA12, the annual System Administrators Conference by Usenix. The product is based on CFEngine Community, the worlds leading open source configuration management software adding special capabilities needed for enterprise use. First introduced in 2009, CFEngine Enterprise today automates large-scale IT infrastructure at leading organizations worldwide in banking, ecommerce, hosting and government, with deployments of tens of thousands of servers and more. IT organizations need to cooperate closely with software development teams, enabling fast cycles between software releases and deployment in production environments, says Thomas Ryd, CFEngine co-founder and CEO. But continuous integration and deployment of applications is not enough. IT needs to continuously maintain the IT infrastructure in its desired state to avoid system drift and guarantee ongoing reliable operation of applications. CFEngine Enterprise 3.0 is uniquely designed to support this full life cycle, from provisioning, to maintenance to analysis. This release is heavily influenced by what we’ve learnt from participating in the DevOps community. Issues like continuous deployment of both applications and infrastructure, without any downtime, modular provisioning and smart monitoring have been core focuses. We also have a much improved the analytical capabilities, with specialized “apps” for browsing the aggregate data according to particular roles and viewpoints, says Mark Burgess, CFEngine co-founder and CTO. This release is really a new chapter for CFEngine – one that focuses on the user experience and which ties together all aspects of our mission to deliver smart infrastructure into a coherent technology. Among the new features of CFEngine Enterprise 3.0 are: CFEngine Ships Version 3.0 of CFEngine Enterprise, Helping IT Organizations to Better Align with Business Goals

SAN DIEGO, CA (PRWEB) December 13, 2012

CFEngine Inc. announced CFEngine Enterprise 3.0 at LISA12, the annual System Administrators Conference by Usenix. The product is based on CFEngine Community, the worlds leading open source configuration management software adding special capabilities needed for enterprise use. First introduced in 2009, CFEngine Enterprise today automates large-scale IT infrastructure at leading organizations worldwide in banking, ecommerce, hosting and government, with deployments of tens of thousands of servers and more.

IT organizations need to cooperate closely with software development teams, enabling fast cycles between software releases and deployment in production environments, says Thomas Ryd, CFEngine co-founder and CEO. But continuous integration and deployment of applications is not enough. IT needs to continuously maintain the IT infrastructure in its desired state to avoid system drift and guarantee ongoing reliable operation of applications. CFEngine Enterprise 3.0 is uniquely designed to support this full life cycle, from provisioning, to maintenance to analysis.

This release is heavily influenced by what we’ve learnt from participating in the DevOps community. Issues like continuous deployment of both applications and infrastructure, without any downtime, modular provisioning and smart monitoring have been core focuses. We also have a much improved the analytical capabilities, with specialized “apps” for browsing the aggregate data according to particular roles and viewpoints, says Mark Burgess, CFEngine co-founder and CTO. This release is really a new chapter for CFEngine – one that focuses on the user experience and which ties together all aspects of our mission to deliver smart infrastructure into a coherent technology.

Among the new features of CFEngine Enterprise 3.0 are:

CFEngine Ships Version 3.0 of CFEngine Enterprise, Helping IT Organizations to Better Align with Business Goals