SANTA CLARA, Calif. - August 17, 2011
- Gale Technologies, a leading provider of infrastructure
automation software solutions that power IT as a Service for
labs, enterprises, and service providers, today announced its
membership in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program as a Cloud
Management Partner. Gale Technologies is collaborating with NetApp
to integrate the GaleForce automation software with NetApp's
open-management APIs and to deliver the GaleForce Turnkey Cloud
Solution for customers. With this partnership, customers will be
able to implement private and hybrid cloud solutions in just two
steps and as little as two weeks, to dramatically accelerate IT
service delivery.
The GaleForce software is an advanced
infrastructure provisioning and orchestration framework that
provides template-based automated provisioning of bare metal,
physical, and virtual resources, spanning across storage,
networking, computing, and virtualization technologies. The
GaleForce Turnkey Cloud Solution for NetApp is a solution bundle
that includes the GaleForce software and new GaleForce resource
adapters for the NetApp® Data ONTAP® and OnCommandTM
software interfaces, and support for the NetApp Storage Service
Catalog. With these GaleForce resource adapters for NetApp storage
products, together with adapters for compute and network resources,
and pre-built automation workflows, organizations gain newfound
agility and simplicity that allows them to easily define
service-level templates for storage services and publish them to
the GaleForce self-service catalog. The GaleForce Turnkey Cloud for
NetApp therefore provides a ready-made solution for three of
NetApp's main tenets of the path to a private cloud - Automation,
Service Catalog, and Self-Service Enablement.
"The challenge in today's IT organizations is
building a cloud infrastructure out of legacy and existing
infrastructure that can run all their workloads, virtualized or
not, while also leveraging the benefits of new technologies and
standards in a way that makes sense in their operations," said
Garima Thockchom, vice president, marketing of Gale Technologies.
"The GaleForce Turnkey Cloud Solution for NetApp benefits companies
by allowing them to get the most from their infrastructure
investment and enabling them to automate the provisioning of any
workload environment at any scale across multiple vendors and
technologies."
Gale Technologies will be demonstrating the
integrated GaleForce Turnkey Cloud Solution at VMworld 2011, in Las
Vegas from August 29 to September 1, in booth 871. Gale will also
be participating in NetApp's booth 402.
NetApp collaborates with leading automation
and analytic software vendors like Gale Technologies to provide
seamless integration with NetApp® open-management APIs. This
integration provides end-to-end cloud management, including
full-stack orchestration, self-service portals, metering, and
reporting. To learn more about NetApp's cloud management partner
solutions, visit www.youtube.com/user/NetAppTV#g/c/F2B53DC61A1B869D.
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With over 100 live deployments powered by its products, Gale
Technologies is a trusted provider of advanced software solutions
that automate and orchestrate IT resources - allowing organizations
to accelerate and streamline the delivery of infrastructure as a
service and cloud computing environments. As a pioneer of
innovative solutions for end-to-end resource provisioning,
scheduling, and automation across networking, server, storage, and
virtualization technologies, Gale allows thousands of users to
schedule and execute workloads on a shared, heterogeneous, dynamic
environment with unprecedented flexibility. Gale's customers report
CAPEX and OPEX savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars per site
from converting legacy silos of IT environments into fully
automated and shared dynamic environments that can be securely
accessed 24/7 from anywhere in the world. Headquartered in Santa
Clara, California, Gale serves a global customer base with offices
in North America and Asia. For more information, visit www.galetechnologies.com.
About the NetApp Alliance Partner
Program
The 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-of-breed
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.
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