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Embotics V-Commander Boosts Virtual Machine Management: Page 2 of 2

Right-sizing reports include information such as summary, storage, memory and CPU, while idle VM reports show information such as low CPU, disk I/O and network I/O. Bottleneck reports include data such as CPU, memory, disk and network.

"Embotics has done a nice job," says Chris Wolf, research VP for Gartner, a Stamford, Conn., consultancy. "Infrastructure as a service is highly complex, with numerous dependencies such as capacity management and lifecycle management. Embotics' integrated solution is attractive to customers because it can address those management dependencies under a single umbrella. Embotics had been a bit ahead of its time, and virtualization management requirements are now starting to catch up to the solution offered by Embotics."

The new version of the software is available now for prices starting at $299 per year per host CPU socket, or $649 per socket for a perpetual license, Cowie says. The company's users are split fairly evenly between the two licensing schemes, he says. About 20 to 30 percent of Embotics' users are enterprise-sized, while 60 to 80 percent are midmarket-sized, he says. The company has about 30 employees.

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