Egenera adds to software portfolio

automation provider, has announced the addition of PAN Cloud Director and PAN Domain Manager to its family of software products, Market Watch reports.

PAN Cloud Director provides unique self-service cloud management, while PAN Domain Manager delivers scalability and support of mixed hardware environments. In addition to these new products, Egenera has also added new disaster recovery functionality and integrations with VMware Orchestrator to its flagship PAN Manager software.

According to PC Advisor, PAN Cloud Director dishes up a self-service portal that streamlines provisioning of infrastructure so that end-users can request resources without needing IT to do it for them.

Customers see an abstracted version of the infrastructure presented as a service that has been set up by IT professionals. Services can be defined by capacity, service level and pricing so usage can be billed back to departments or, in service provider environments, to commercial customers.

In an industry first, PAN Domain Manager provides greater management flexibility and hardware choice by enabling converged infrastructures to consist of mixed hardware environments, EON writes.

This includes the ability to failover and perform full disaster recovery between blades from different server OEMs.

In addition, PAN Domain Manager extends PAN Manager support up to 256 servers with 20GB fabric throughput to each blade and an architecture allowing scaling beyond this in the future. The advanced storage management feature simplifies storage resource allocation through integration with industry and storage vendor technologies.

Finally, Egenera has provided some significant enhancements to PAN Manager, making it more efficient and cost-effective to automate, manage and protect IT infrastructures. These include new granular many-to-one disaster recovery targeting as well as expanding its integration in the virtualisation ecosystem with the availability of a VMware vCenter Orchestrator plug-in enabling access to PAN environments from VMware vDirector and vCloud.