WALLDORF, Germany-December 6th,
2010-fluid Operations, the provider of innovative cloud
management software for complex, virtualized enterprise application
environments, today announced membership in the NetApp Alliance
Partner Program as an Advantage Alliance Partner. By collaborating
with NetApp, fluid Operations helps customers achieve flexible and
customizable monitoring and management solutions for their data
centers along their journey to the cloud. Together with the already
available support for VMware and Cisco, the eCloudManager is the
first solution to support all the components of the FlexPod out of
the box with one single tool.
"Customers around the world will benefit from
our collaboration with NetApp," said Irina Parepa, Director of
Marketing at fluid Operations. "The tight integration between the
eCloudManager™ and NetApp storage systems enables enterprises
to leverage their entire IT stack and consume mission-critical
enterprise applications as on-demand standardized services."
The fluidOps™ and NetApp® combined
solution helps customers automate their data centers - from the
infrastructure layer up to the enterprise application layer. This
allows companies to bring their enterprise applications to the
cloud and deliver them to end users as Landscape as a
Service™- within minutes and ready to run. The simplified
process of provisioning enterprise applications, e.g. SAP, Oracle,
Microsoft, etc., is achieved by leveraging advanced storage
features and by using a wizard-based interface in a self-service
portal.
With the eCloudManager's semantic data
integration and NetApp's high-performance unified storage,
customers can achieve a higher level of scalability and utilize
their resources more efficiently. The eCloudManager monitors a
customer's complete data center or several geographically
distributed data centers, and collects and correlates information
from various resources, allowing customers to benefit from a very
granular pay-per-use billing model for all consumed resources
(storage, compute, application, etc.).
Earlier this year fluidOps was selected by
Gartner as a "Cool Vendor in the SAP Ecosystem." After many other
innovations throughout the year, fluid Operations announced on
November 29th a major release, eCloudManager 3.5. Support for Cisco
UCS blades, eCloudManager Intelligence Edition for private beta
customers, and advanced self-services are just a few of the new
features included in the eCloudManager 3.5 release.
"NetApp unified storage systems help
customers reduce the management complexity and increase the
flexibility of their IT infrastructures," said Patrick Rogers, vice
president of Alliance and Solutions at NetApp. "By joining the
NetApp Alliance Partner Program, fluid Operations provides our
mutual customers with cost-effective solutions that can help reduce
the complexity of their storage environments."
About NetApp Alliance Partner
Program
NetApp Alliance Partner Program provides qualified infrastructure
and application providers with access to NetApp solutions, software
development kits, technical support, training, certification,
product information, and marketing and sales assistance. Customers
benefit by having access to best-in-class partner solutions that
are tested to work with NetApp storage. Additional information on
the NetApp Alliance Partner Program is available at www.netapp.com/alliances.
About fluid Operations
fluid Operations (fluidOps) is the provider of an innovative cloud
management platform for complex, virtualized and physical
enterprise application environments. This includes the creation of
a flexible cloud infrastructure, the rapid provisioning of
enterprise application landscapes through a self-service portal as
Landscape as a Service (LaaS)™, as well as the automated
handling of the daily operations of a private or public eCloud. For
more information, visit www.fluidOps.com.
Press Contact:
Christiane Mohr
fluid Operations AG
+49 6227 3849 567
press@fluidops.com
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