PlateSpin Ltd. today announced enhanced versions of its best-in-class data center automation and optimization software. PowerConvert 6.5 and PowerRecon 2.5 are now more tightly integrated to provide a comprehensive end-to-end solution for continuous server consolidation. The latest releases contain features that will transform the way organizations plan and implement data center consolidation initiatives. PlateSpin launched the new products at VMworld 2006, VMware’s premier virtualization event attended by over 5,000 IT professionals, developers and managers.

“Organizations tend to think of server consolidation as a one-way, once-and-done physical-to-virtual (P2V) migration,” said Stephen Pollack, PlateSpin founder and CEO. “However, our work with over 2,000 data center clients indicates that P2V migration accounts for only 1/3 of the total server consolidation effort. Servers must be continually monitored and migrated across physical and virtual infrastructures to accommodate changing workloads and business requirements. PlateSpin PowerConvert and PowerRecon allow organizations to perform end-to-end server consolidations faster and easier by completely automating the project planning, physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical conversion phases of a continuous consolidation initiative.”

"Forrester believes advances in system imaging for P2V products will change the way firms manage server migrations, consolidation projects, and disaster recovery," writes Galen Schreck in the March 2006 Forrester Research report entitled Physical-To-Virtual Server Conversion Basics. Conversion tools excel at all kinds of migrations, particularly where administrators need to swap out the underlying gear or hardware abstraction layer. Vendors like PlateSpin support different scenarios, often including physical to physical (P2P), P2V, and virtual-to-physical (V2P) migration scenarios."

About PowerConvert and PowerRecon

PlateSpin PowerConvert is a software solution that streams servers between physical hardware, blade infrastructures, virtual machines, and image archives over the network. PlateSpin PowerRecon is agentless software that measures, analyses and determines the optimal fit between server resource supply and workload demand. Together, PowerConvert and PowerRecon form the world’s first and only end-to-end continuous server consolidation and disaster recovery solutions leveraging virtualization technologies.

New Features of PowerRecon and PowerConvert

• New levels of integration between the two products allow customers to automatically create an optimal consolidation plan with PowerRecon that can be seamlessly transferred to PowerConvert for implementation.
• PowerConvert’s live transfer functionality enables customers to migrate a physical server into a consolidated virtual environment or vice-versa, without having to take it off line. The live transfer feature also includes application-level control so the data can be captured with integrity. Accelerated and uninterrupted migrations mean added ROI for the consolidation initiative.
• Unlike standard P2V tools, PowerConvert’s Virtual-to-Physical capability makes it possible for customers to continuously adjust and right size to ensure an optimal pairing of server software and data center infrastructure.
• Stream OS and applications in any direction between virtual infrastructures, including VMware, Microsoft, and Virtual Iron.
• Supports the movement of Microsoft Windows, Red Hat, and SuSE Linux based servers
• PowerRecon enables users to collect data from multiple geographically-dispersed data center sites and aggregate and analyze it holistically to build server consolidation scenarios that optimize resources across the data center.

“The link between PowerRecon and PowerConvert means we do things right the first time,” said Michael Voss, Associate of Booz Allen and Hamilton, Inc. “Gone are the days of basing our projects on experiential data only. With PlateSpin, we can now collect data, plan scenarios, execute and adjust them on demand – not just once but as often as needed to make sure our data center is continually in balance.”

Visit PlateSpin and Its Partners at VMworld

PlateSpin will be exhibiting at VMworld 2006, November 7-9 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in booth 635. Visit the PlateSpin booth for product demonstrations and to learn about disaster recovery using VMware and how to consolidate servers in 60 minutes. John Stetic, PlateSpin’s Director of Product Management will be presenting in the Building Business Continuity breakout session during VMworld on Tuesday, November 7, 15:15-16:15. PlateSpin CEO Stephen Pollack will also be on hand to share his vision of the future of virtualization together with emerging data center best practices. PlateSpin also unveiled a disaster recovery solution based on infrastructure virtualization. For more information visit the booth or go to www.platespin.com.