Racemi's flagship software, called DynaCenter, eliminates the need for the heavy-duty processing that typically accompanies server provisioning in IT networks. Instead of sending a layered operating system-plus-applications image across a LAN or SAN to recover or provision a server, DynaCenter sends a basic image that boots up from the network and fools the server into thinking network storage is its own local drive.
"It's not a provisioning process, it's an application deployment process," says Brian Hoffman, Racemi's chief strategist. "Once we start the server boot process, we configure the OS, the network devices, and the storage. Then we map the application and start the application. It could be any type of application, from a single server-type application to a 100-node SAP application or an entire data center."
As an example, Hoffman says Atlanta-based Racemi is talking to one user that's looking to roll out an application across several thousand systems in Europe, North America, and Asia, encompassing multiple data centers.
"They are going to use DynaCenter to consolidate over 80 data centers to one in Europe, two in North America, and one in Asia," says Hoffman.
DynaCenter runs under Windows, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris, and it can support virtual machines in VMware. It also supports virtual machines running in logical partitions on a range of systems.
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