3X Systems Introduces "Private Cloud" Remote Backup Appliance for Larger Organizations and Distributed Workers

Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) February 1, 2011

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Non-Profit Organizations Safeguard Critical Data with Backup My Info!

New York, NY (PRWEB) June 21, 2011

Backup My Info! (BUMI), the premium provider of managed online backup and recovery solutions for small to mid-sized businesses, today announced continued strong demand for its online data backup and recovery service within the non-profit sector. Non-profits are increasingly leveraging BUMI as a trusted partner to proactively manage and secure their business-critical data as well as membership and fundraising databases which are the lifeblood of any charitable organization.

One such organization leveraging BUMIs data backup and recovery expertise is Japan Society, an American non-profit which fosters understanding and relationships between Japan and the United States. Prior to deploying BUMI, the non-profit used a flawed data backup and recovery service that would only restore data by an entire day not specifically by sender or subject. For an organization heavily reliant on email, it was not an ideal solution.

“When we started using BUMI, the difference was immediately apparent,” said Larry Kong, IT Director at Japan Society. “You can use any company to backup data. The key question is how quickly can you restore it? With BUMI, if we lose something, even a single email or calendar entry, we can retrieve it quickly and easily.

Supporting all major operating systems, BUMI provides an automated off-site data backup and recovery service. With data protection and reliability a prime concern for all types of organizations, BUMI has built several layers of security into its online backup solution. Data is encrypted at the point it leaves a customer site and remains encrypted at all times. From a disaster recovery and business continuity perspective, all off-site backups are stored in SAS70 Type II data centers located in Canada.

Faced with reduced financial support coupled with a growing demand for services, non-profit organizations operate in an increasingly competitive environment while pursuing their charitable passions, said Jennifer Walzer, CEO at Backup My Info!, Inc. We are proud to work with a number of non-profits and serve as a virtual extension of their IT departments which can oftentimes be stretched and focused on many other tasks. Our secure, off-site data backup and restore service is complemented by our full-time engineers who continuously monitor data backup processes to ensure customer data is properly safeguarded and proactively follow up if they identify any errors or problems.

In addition to Japan Society, BUMI is working with many other non-profit organizations such as The Neuropathy Association, New York County Medical Society, The Boys’ Club of New York, and more.

About Backup My Info!

Founded in 2002, Backup My Info! (BUMI) specializes in delivering online backup and recovery solutions for small to mid-sized businesses. Based in New York City, BUMI provides an off-site data protection solution that addresses critical issues such as rapid growth of data, business continuity, and regulatory compliance. Every BUMI client is cared for by a team of senior-level engineers dedicated to providing proactive and personalized support. Clients include professional service organizations such as banking, financial, insurance, accounting, hedge funds and law firms. For more information, visit http://www.backupmyinfo.com, call (866) 444-BUMI (2864), or follow on Twitter at http://twitter.com/backupmyinfo.

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Non-Profit Organizations Safeguard Critical Data with Backup My Info!

iland Cloud Infrastructure Selected by Multiple Organizations in Recent Weeks

Houston, Texas (PRWEB) November 10, 2011

iland, the global cloud infrastructure provider and VMware Service Provider Partner of the Year for Americas today announced that multiple customers worldwide have selected iland for their cloud infrastructure needs over the past few weeks. The recent additions include companies from an array of industries including aviation, entertainment, facilities/property management, software development, real estate brokers and more.

Rob Davis, Director of IT at Texas-based Atlantic Aviation credits the value of ilands cloud services as one of the primary factors in selecting iland. He stated, iland was able to offer a cloud based DR solution at a price point that just makes sense. Our team can now be focused on recovery process and annual tests without the constant concern of our primary datacenter outgrowing our recovery site. We know we have the needed resources to keep our company running. Atlantic Aviation will be deploying ilands Disaster Recovery solution using the iland Continuity Cloud.

iland pioneered solutions for data replication and business continuity to a true VMware-based cloud environment. iland employs a unique implementation methodology for each customers DR plan because no two plans are the same. The companys methodology comprises a process that clearly documents, implements and manages an evergreen Recovery Action Plan (RAPTM) for each customer. Since its inception 15 years ago, iland has become expert in cloud infrastructure based on VMwares platforms.

Sofun Gaming based in Paris, France has deployed the iland Cloud environment for enterprise production. Julien Anguenot, CIO said Everything has worked flawlessly since the initial deployment. It has been audited successfully and our gaming platform has been running in ilands London datacenter for a few weeks. Everything is just working perfectly.

Sofun Gaming needed a scalable solution that could manage an enormous increase in demand which in turn is driven by a substantial increase in users at weekends. Additionally, specific events in the news or tournaments can dynamically raise the demand for short periods of time. It also needs to comply with stringent gaming regulations so it has to be able to track all activity securely.

Imovation Inc. was founded in 2003 as a payments technology and loyalty start-up in a dynamic and emerging market in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It has recently set up a new company, Looping.com in California, that has developed a mobile, contactless technology that can be used in applications of looping that range from processing mobile payments, running loyalty/coupon/offer/deal programs, rewarding presence, issuing and validating event tickets, unlocking doors and guest list access control, settling bills and much more. Looping is a patented “phone present” technology that relies solely on the speaker and microphone, the most basic elements found in all handsets past, present and future. Looping.com is using iland Cloud Services solution to scale for growth in North America. According to Dani Alyamour, President of Imovation, We selected iland because their price point and performance met our needs. We will be able to scale our growth in a cost-effective and efficient manner and look forward to continue working with iland in the future.

DataLine LLC is based in Moscow, Russia. The company was founded in 2007 and is a specialist provider of IT outsourcing services in Moscow. It is using iland Cloud Services based out of the London datacenter for its exchange production environment and is delighted with the results. Gregory Atrepyev, Chief Production Officer commented We selected iland for three primary reasons it offered the full range of services we needed for our specific business; the professionalism of the team from sales to deployment that ensured a smooth process from start to finish and the excellent and fast customer service we received. Everything is running smoothly and we couldnt be happier!

John Manulis, CEO of ScreenSpaces, a technology and social marketing company that specializes in the aggregation, sharing and monetization of online content says that they selected iland for three primary reasons: iland was strongly recommended by several of our peers; the pricing we were offered was very attractive and the staff members during the sales process were helpful and patient throughout. Were using iland Managed Resource Cloud with a combination of Tier 3 and Tier 4 storage as well as remote snapshot backup. Were very happy with our choice and are looking forward to a long and productive partnership.

We are seeing a marked increase in the number of customers selecting and implementing an iland Cloud environment for a variety of applications. As cloud technology moves further into the mainstream, our customers experience real value in terms of attaining a highly available enterprise IT infrastructure with lower and flexible pricing, speed to market, control and scalability. iland continues to be focused on meeting their needs and bringing new and innovative solutions to the global market commented Brian Ussher, iland President.

About iland

iland Internet Solutions, VMware’s Service Provider Partner of the Year for the Americas, provides hosted cloud infrastructure services in North America and Europe that enable customers to leverage enterprise class infrastructure in the form of virtual datacenters with flexible billing and capacity models. Solutions include secure hosted environments for virtual servers and desktops, test and development, cloud-based disaster recovery, and hybrid cloud services to maximize the value of existing VMware based environments. For more information, please visit http://www.iland.com.

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Latest 2012 Enterprise IT Survey Reveals Less Than 30 Percent of Organizations Believe Existing Tools Can Successfully Manage Cloud Performance Storms

Cupertino, CA (PRWEB) August 22, 2012

Xangati, the recognized leader in tracking performance storms for virtualization and cloud environments, and ZK Research, an IT consulting and research firm, today released findings from a joint survey covering the state of existing enterprise virtualization and cloud deployments, future plans, and the biggest challenges facing organizations in the implementation of these infrastructures. Conducted in July 2012 among more than 300 virtualization and IT admins and managers, the survey reveals alarming concerns about obstacles in assuring cloud performance, with a majority of respondents saying that increased virtualization density is dramatically impacting their ability to manage these evolving data centers.

In a related announcement, Xangati today also introduced new storm-tracking capabilities integrated in its Xangati Management Dashboard (XMD) suite to address these market changes. (See release here.)

As organizations migrate to cloud-based models, performance storms create new challenges for successful deployment, added Alan Robin, CEO of Xangati. The clouds constantly fluctuating environment makes it difficult to identify the instantaneous performance shifts occurring across the infrastructure. As revealed in our survey, organizations are now recognizing the need for advanced tools that can deliver second-by-second cross-silo insights, so that they can move quickly and decisively to capture and resolve the source of the problem.

Cross-Silo Storms Impede Cloud Performance Management

The Xangati/ZK Research survey highlights several key obstacles and concerns in managing cloud performance. Nearly two-thirds of those surveyed indicate that increasing density has made performance management of the cloud more difficult, yet adding to the problem 60 percent state that their existing solutions are unable to provide live insights in identifying and remediating performance problems and only deliver after-the-fact analysis. Further compounding the problem, an even larger 74 percent say that vSphere/vCenter does not deliver the automated performance remediation they expected.

These survey findings are loud and clear, said Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst, ZK Research. A next generation data center needs next generation management tools. IT requires live insight into performance problems to confidently deliver and expand cloud-based data centers.

Other specific findings include:

– A huge 77 percent say theyre concerned about the effect of the clouds self-provisioning model on existing virtualized application performance;

– More than 50 percent of respondents indicate that performance storms in their organizations can take over two hours to identify and last more than a day; and

– One in four of those surveyed state that they have been forced to roll back an application from virtual to physical due to undiagnosed performance storms.

Responding to whats needed and organizations plans for the future, the survey also showed that cloud infrastructures should not be managed as separate islands, with an overwhelming 94 percent of respondents saying that the cloud needs to be managed as a cross-silo endeavor among server, network and storage teams.

Contributing to overall concerns about managing performance storms were respondents perceptions about the unique characteristics of cloud storms as:

– The most difficult problems to track down and resolve (28 percent);

– Transient in nature (20 percent);

– Fly under the radar of existing monitoring solutions (19 percent); and

– Resulting from the moving parts in a virtual environment (12 percent).

Of those surveyed, nearly 75 percent indicate they would budget IT resources toward a solution to resolve cloud performance storms.

Survey Shows Hybrid Models are the Future of the Cloud

The survey also shows that as organizations move to the cloud, hybrid models are being increasingly adopted. Specifically, of the organizations surveyed, 40 percent are either evaluating Microsoft Hyper-V or already have it in production and/or test environments. The survey also revealed the following top three internal drivers for organizations hybrid plans:

– A growing positive perception about Hyper-V being good enough (27 percent);

– VMware licensing/pricing (34 percent); and

– A diversity model approach using different hypervisors for different applications (17 percent).

Methodology

The findings were based on more than 300 online surveys, jointly deployed by Xangati and ZK Research and completed by virtualization and IT admins and managers in July 2012. Respondents were from organizations of varying sizes, with more than 50 percent in companies with one thousand employees or more. Additionally, 75 percent of those surveyed were in organizations with more than 50 percent server virtualization representing a 10 percent increase in server virtualization from Xangatis 2010 server virtualization survey.

To access the complete survey results, go to http://xangati.com/resources/surveys/

About Xangati

Xangati is the recognized leader in tracking performance storms for virtualization and cloud environments. The award-winning Xangati Management Dashboard (XMD) suite of products includes the VI Dashboard for server virtualization, VDI Dashboard for desktop virtualization, and StormTracker. XMDs unparalleled in-memory computing architecture allows for a live and continuous awareness of the entire infrastructure end-to-end providing the ability to instantly identify and anticipate storms before they impact business user productivity.

Founded in 2006, Xangati, Inc. is a privately held company with corporate headquarters based in Cupertino, California. Xangati is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner and certified Citrix Ready Partner and has strategic technology partnerships with numerous other the leading data center infrastructure companies. For more information, visit http://www.xangati.com.

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ClearDATA Partners with National Council to Provide Healthcare Cloud Computing and Security Services to Behavioral Health Organizations

Phoenix, AZ / Washington, DC (PRWEB) May 29, 2012

ClearDATA Networks, Inc., the leading healthcare cloud computing platform and service provider, today announced a partnership with the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare (National Council) to provide its members specialty healthcare organizations treating mental illness and addiction disorders with a variety of HIPAA-compliant cloud computing and information security services. These services will further National Council members efforts to deliver the highest quality care through services that reduce overall IT costs, improve productivity, and comply with privacy and security regulations.

ClearDATAs Healthcare Cloud Computing Services include hosting of applications and data, offsite backup and storage, disaster recovery, and vendor neutral archiving (VNA) of PACS and other medical images. ClearDATA also helps organizations maintain regulatory compliance and reduce the chance of a security breach through HIPAA Security Risk Assessments, HIPAA Policies and Procedures Planning, and Remediation Assistance.

The Healthcare Industry is rapidly adopting cloud computing services as a means for organizations to grow and adapt their evolving technology requirements without incurring capital expenses, maintenance, and support costs. ClearDATA focuses exclusively on providing secure, HIPAA-compliant, cloud computing and information security services to the 5,000 hospitals and hundreds of thousands of clinics/medical offices in the U.S. market.

ClearDATA is pleased to work closely with the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare to help its members achieve cost savings and operational efficiency through cloud computing services, said David Bean, executive vice president of sales and marketing, ClearDATA Networks, Inc. The National Council is recognized throughout the country for its commitment and vision towards promoting proactive and holistic healthcare practices and we are honored to partner with them in their efforts.

If behavioral health providers cannot adopt health information technology at a rate comparable with primary care facilities, hospitals, and physicians, it will soon become impossible to provide clinical care coordination for persons with mental and addiction disorders and to meet payer and service system demands in the changing healthcare marketplace. The National Council is committed to helping our member organizations remain on the cutting edge and we are pleased that ClearData will help bring important new technologies and services to our members, said Michael R. Lardiere, LCSW, Vice President, HIT and Strategic Development at the National Council.

About the National Council

The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) association of 1,950 behavioral healthcare organizations that provide treatment and rehabilitation for mental illnesses and addiction disorders to 8 million adults, children and families in communities across the country. Learn more at http://www.TheNationalCouncil.org.

About ClearDATA Networks

ClearDATA Networks, Inc. is the market leader for cloud computing and information security services for healthcare providers, software vendors and VARs. ClearDATAs services enable providers to fully automate and securely manage healthcare medical records, applications, IT infrastructure and digital storage. The company provides HITECH HIPAA-compliant cloud and hosting infrastructure and managed services, offsite backup and disaster recovery, medical image archiving, information security and world-class support. The company offers HIPAA Security Risk and Remediation services through its U.S. Healthcare Compliance division to the healthcare industry in order to ensure that they meet the rigorous standards of security required for protected health information to demonstrate Meaningful Use. For more information, call 602-635-4000, email: sales(at)cleardata(dot)net or visit: [http://www.cleardata.net.

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Medical Review Business Process Outsourcing Increasing Among Healthcare Payer Organizations

Portland, OR (PRWEB) June 22, 2012

Among health insurance entities, including health plans, medical management companies and third-party administrators (TPAs), a continuing objective is to reduce costs, improve quality, and meet rigorous accreditation and regulatory compliance standards. This challenge is especially true when it comes to reviewing the medical necessity of service requests, including pre-authorizations as well as member and provider appeals.

AllMed Healthcare Managements recent webinar on physician review business process outsourcing (BPO) provided an excellent example of how payer organizations are increasingly turning to specialty BPO organizations like IROs and delegating medical decision making functions that used to be done by internal medical staff. In presenting this example of BPO innovation, AllMed cited several important reasons why health plans are moving in this direction. In particular, physician review business process outsourcing allows health plans to reduce costs, scale their resources up and down with variable volumes, and allocate their medical directors to higher value-added tasks.

Health plan medical directors are often called upon to review pre-authorization and appeals requests, which reduces the time they can devote to the oversight of quality, compliance and clinical operations functions, said Andrew G. Rowe, CEO of AllMed. Given the compensation levels of these professionals, it makes more sense to outsource routine medical review tasks and redeploy medical directors where their higher-level expertise is of most value to the organization.

Given this shift in thinking about how best to utilize internal medical staff, leading IROs have evolved and can now function as full service business process outsourcing partners for a health plan as it relates to medical decision making. High-performance IROs have developed an integrated portfolio of services that are delivered through web-based technology platforms. The IRO can now reduce and/or balance workloads inside the health plan, lowering costs and improving productivity in ways not possible before, Rowe added.

One such plan that recognizes this is Cambia Health Solutions, which operates BlueCross and/or BlueShield health plans in four western states, serving nearly 2.5 million members. The Regence affiliated companies have fully integrated their IRO (AllMed) into their clinical decision-making operations as a BPO partner. It relies on the company for outsourcing of all physician review functions, including first-level pre-authorizations and specialty-matched appeals.

An outsourcing partner like AllMed is a really good fit for us, said Csaba Mera, MD, Executive Medical Director of Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon. It has a large panel of physicians available for specialty-matched case reviews through a secure web portal, which improves our turnaround time on pre-authorizations and appeals. This gives our medical directors more freedom to focus on higher-level tasks such as medical policy development, provider services support and implementation of required regulatory programs.

But choosing the right IRO partner requires solid due-diligence, Mera would say, confirming that the partner needs to bring together all the cross-functional disciplines and expertise in physician recruiting, credentialing, training, quality assurance and compliance. Further, the full-service IRO should offer a solution that is highly optimized and integrated into the health plans clinical decision-making workflows. In the end, such a solution must be faster, better, and cheaper than what a health plan can develop and maintain on its own, he added.

Rowe outlined the technology capabilities and platform a payer should look for in looking for an IRO to partner with. These include:

Medical Review Business Process Outsourcing Increasing Among Healthcare Payer Organizations

98% of Organizations Unable to Tolerate More Than One Day Without Access to Critical Data

New York, NY (PRWEB) June 26, 2012

BUMI (Backup My Info!), the premium provider of managed online backup and recovery solutions for small to mid-sized businesses, today announced the findings of its annual industry survey, which analyzed current approaches to data backup and recovery. The survey, which polled CEOs, business owners and IT professionals at small- to mid-sized firms, found that 98 percent of respondents felt that more than one day to restore data after an incident was unacceptable even though almost a quarter of respondents did not regularly check the restore process of their data backup operations.

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Emerson Network Power Considers How Far Organizations Should Go to Improve Data Center Efficiency

Columbus, OHIO (PRWEB) October 24, 2012

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today released guidelines for organizations to consider when deciding to retrofit or replace a data center in the quest for greater efficiency.

Over the past few years, IT systems and data center infrastructure technologies that significantly improve efficiency have become available. Accordingly, the experts at Emerson Network Power now are frequently asked to help organizations determine how to take advantage of these improvements, especially in data centers that have run or are running out of capacity. Whats the better course of action? Should they retrofit the existing data center or replace it with a new one?

When to Retrofit

A retrofit is a good option when efficiency and stranded capacity are the major issues. Retrofitting has advantages over building a new data center, cost being at the top of the list, said Peter Panfil, vice president of global power, Emerson Network Power. Today, a new data center could cost in the range of $ 17M per megawatt, with ways to push this down to $ 12M per megawatt (for example, through UPS utilization improvements). A retrofit will run 25 percent to 40 percent of the new-build cost and in many cases can deliver the efficiency and capacity needed to extend the life of the data center.

Newer cooling, power and IT technologies that improve energy efficiency also help recover stranded capacity. Recovered capacity then can be allocated where needed.

Cold-aisle containment, intelligent controls that monitor conditions at the server and economization all lead to better efficiency by improving temperature and airflow management.

Additionally, implementing component technologies that optimize the cooling system to work more efficiently at partial loads is another good way to recover capacity without starting from scratch. Variable speed drives improve efficiency significantly over traditional fixed-speed fans, and electronically commutated (EC) plug fans are even more efficient. Both variable speed drives and EC plug fans can be installed on existing cooling units and their operation optimized by networking the cooling units through intelligent controls. Intelligent controls ensure the units work together as a system to optimize performance and efficiency.

Component upgrades such as these are much less intrusive than replacing entire cooling systems, and their payback is typically about two years, said Steve Madara, vice president and general manager, Emerson Network Powers Liebert Precision Cooling business. When you consider adding new components to upgrade existing precision cooling equipment, however, keep in mind that its like deciding when to trade in your car for a new model. Theres a certain point where you cant get enough mileage from retrofitted equipment to make it worth the investment.

Upgrades that make the power system more efficient include double-conversion UPS technology that eliminates conversion process losses, intelligent pairing of UPS modules and high-efficiency transformers. Additionally, adding a data center infrastructure management solution, implementing eco-mode on the UPS and optimizing the power path from the UPS to the servers all contribute to energy savings.

Data center managers also can employ Emerson Network Powers Energy Logic to improve energy efficiency. Energy Logic leverages the cascade effect that occurs when lower energy consumption at the component and device level is magnified by reducing demand on support systems. Its possible to achieve high overall energy savings from the cascade effect. Saving energy extends the useful life of the data center by freeing space in the data center that can be used for IT expansion.

When to Replace

While many options for retrofitting the data center exist, it is not always the practical choice. The downside of a major retrofit is that you are doing it in a live data center, Panfil said. If you are maxed out on space, its difficult to upgrade for efficiency without jeopardizing availability. In this case, upgrading unit by unit may protect against downtime, but organizations should consider building a new data center when:

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Emerson Network Power Considers How Far Organizations Should Go to Improve Data Center Efficiency

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