Convirture was named a "Vendor to Watch" by industry
analyst firm, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), in its just released
report "EMA Radar for Private Cloud Platforms: Q1 2013," which was created to
assist information technology (IT) professionals with the selection of private
cloud management products.
The
report contains detailed analysis of the leading solutions in the market place,
offering guidance to organizations looking to adopt the most effective platform
to meet their unique, private cloud requirements. It is authored by research
director, Torsten Volk, of EMA, a leading IT and data management research and
consulting firm.
Convirture's flagship product, ConVirt, is described
as "one of these indispensable products" in the report, which goes on to
say: "EMA believes that Convirture deserves more time in the spotlight, due to the
product's tremendous virtualization and cloud orchestration, and automation
capabilities."
The
report states: "EMA was impressed by Convirture's take
on the concept of the Software Defined Datacenter, ensuring agility and
efficiency through a central self-service portal and enabling organizations to
take advantage of multiple hypervisors (ESXi, Xen, KVM) and cloud resources (Amazon EC2, OpenStack, or Eucalyptus). End users can then determine
where to best run their individual application workloads, while Convirture ensures that these workloads are placed into
resource pools with sufficient headroom."
"We're always pushing to be where the puck is going -
and we believe that is building on today's virtualization and cloud platforms
using our management capabilities to create software defined infrastructure,"
said Arsalan Farooq, CEO of Convirture. "By reflecting
the end user perspective, EMA has validated our approach - meaning that now it
is possible to create data centers with keystrokes and mouse clicks without
lifting servers and messing with cables."
A
reprint of the section of EMA's report about Convirture is available
here. More information and availability of the complete EMA
report can be found
here.