ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise Edition from Convirture brings automation,
high-availability and private cloud management to open source
virtualization

SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2010 – Managing open source
hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, became a lot easier today with the
release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition from Convirture Corp.

The open source version of ConVirt has been available for more than
three years and is broadly deployed and well-tested in real-world data
centers — having been downloaded more than 30,000 times. In fact,
ConVirt1.x is included in most major Linux distributions such as Ubuntu,
Open SUSE, Debian and others.

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise extends ConVirt Open Source with the advanced
automation and scalability features necessary for running large-scale or
mission-critical virtualized environments. By delivering high
availability, backup and recovery, storage and network automation, and
enterprise-grade security, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise enables IT managers to
meet and exceed service levels while using infrastructure in the most
efficient way.

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise is also the go-to tool for enterprises ready to
move beyond virtualized infrastructure management towards a hosted or
private cloud model. With an extensive cloud management feature set,
which includes multi-tenant security, delegated control, scheduled
provisioning, resource limiting, and many more, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise
enables IT organizations to offer infrastructure-as-a-service, while
ensuring full isolation and compliance with corporate policies.

“Until now, any organization that wanted a complete solution for
managing and automating a virtual data center was locked into expensive
and proprietary solutions like VMware vCenter,”,” said Arsalan Farooq,
CEO of Convirture. “That changes today as ConVirt 2.0’s advanced
automation, private cloud management, enterprise scalability and
datacenter integration features now meet or exceed what’s available from
proprietary platform vendors. With ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise,
organizations considering Xen or KVM as open source alternatives to
commercial virtualization platforms are no longer forced to compromise
on manageability. ”

About ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise supports all of the features available with the ConVirt 2.0 Open Source product including:

• Server pool-based management
• Templates-based provisioning
• Monitoring and configuration management
• Comprehensive virtual machine administration
• Highly scalable, 3-tier, standards-based architecture

In addition, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise delivers scalability, automation,
and private cloud management features that were previously available
only for proprietary virtualization platforms, including:

• High availability: ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise ensures that
  mission-critical applications are always up and running by delivering a
  comprehensive high availability feature set, including virtual and
  physical machine failover;
• Backup and recovery: A full backup and recovery feature
  set ensures successful recovery from planned and unplanned outages.
  Scheduled and on-demand backups are supported. Restore modes can be for
  the most recent state or any earlier backup. Both virtual machine state
  and storage are captured, so virtual machines are brought up in a
  consistent state.
• Private Cloud Management: A data center that has been
  virtualized can be turned into a private, infrastructure-as-a-service
  cloud in a scalable and secure way, with support for full multi-tenant
  security, delegated control, scheduled provisioning, resource limiting
  and the ability to create virtual appliances that comply with corporate
  standards and publish them effortlessly to cloud users.
• Storage and network automation with ConVirt 2.0
  Enterprise significantly streamlines the error-prone and time-consuming
  tasks of configuring network and storage in a virtualized environment.
  Storage configuration standardizes storage across a server pool by
  automating configuration of all storage types, including NFS, iSCSi,
  AOE, Fiber Channel and LVM. Network integration provides a centralized
  interface for managing virtual networks.
• Enterprise Integration: ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise provides a
  full suite of integration capabilities, including an open repository,
  command line interface, and programmatic APIs.

Pricing and Availability

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise is available immediately direct from
Convirture. Pricing starts at $1,495 per host for up to 10 hosts, with
volume pricing available for larger environments. A “per virtual
machine” pricing package is also available for ISP’s and hosting
providers. More information is available at http://www.convirture.com/contact.html

About Convirture

Convirture was founded in 2006 to help organizations effectively
manage open source virtualization platforms. More information is
available at www.convirture.com.

Let us begin by thanking everyone for their sincere interest in our ConVirt product line.  The activity and interest over the last year has been staggering and the feedback we receive from our customers has been nothing less than amazing.  We’re proud to serve our customers and we’re humbled by the impact we’re making on the day to day operations of managing opensource virtualization environments.  Our goal is to continue to serve you and provide you with the latest and greatest technologies to make your job easier.

In just one short year we’ve had the opportunity to experience over 3,000 unique installations of ConVirt, over 800 requests for access to ConVirt Enterprise and hundreds of stories about how ConVirt is being used to manage virtualization environments in datacenters all over the world.

We’re only days away from the exciting release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise and shortly you will see even more and exciting announcements about our continued development as an organization.

We look to the future and we’re focused entirely on providing you with the most flexible, cost effective and heterogeneous virtualization and cloud management platform in the industry.

Today we are announcing the development of the Convirture Customer Advisory Council.  With our Customer Advisory Council, our focus is to capture your feedback so we can maintain the best customer service possible and develop the most important features for you.  The Convirture Customer Advisory Council will be integral to the future planning of our ConVirt suite of products.  Membership will provide access to our engineering organization, previews of upcoming solutions, discounts on purchasing ConVirt Enterprise and much more.

Please take a few moments to share your thoughts and comments about your experience with ConVirt by filling out this short survey.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/convirt

We want to thank each and every one of you for your continued interest in Convirture and look forward to our success together.

Sincerely,

Team Convirture

The response to our call for registration has been utterly overwhelming and we are having to do all we can to keep our heads above water. We’ll keep you abreast of progress whenever we are able to get back up to periscope depth.

Meanwhile, lets get a few details out of the way. For those of you who registered for the program and haven’t yet received your download instructions, worry not. It is very likely that you have been placed in Phase-2 and our beta team will be getting in touch with you with more details shortly.

What is this ‘Phase-2′ business you ask? Well, with the sheer number of beta registration requests we received, there was no way we could have handled the load in one go while doing justice to our beta customers. So we decided to break the beta up into phases spanning a few weeks each. The first of these kicked off last week.

If you did make it into Phase-1 (i.e you received instructions on how/where to download the beta bits), and are having difficulty of any sort getting things up and running, email our beta team without delay.

Finally, with the new multi-phase beta structure in place, we are now able to continue taking new beta registrations. So, if you haven’t yet registered for the beta and wish to get in on all the excitement, head on over to our website and register.

Most notable features of Enterprise Beta are :

• High Availability
• Backup and Restore
• CLI and XML-RPC API for Enterprise Integration
• Role Based Access control
• Storage Automation
• Ability to schedule Virtual Machine retirement

Please visit here for details.