LinMin, a systems management software provider in stealth mode for the past several months, today announced the availability of its first product, LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning (LBMP(TM)). LBMP can remotely provision (natively install and configure Linux and customer-specified applications) as well as image (snapshot and rollback entire systems for disaster recovery and clone systems for mass deployment) servers, blades, PCs, appliances and virtual machines. LBMP enables systems to be rapidly deployed, repurposed and recovered. LinMin delivered the successful Beta version of the product to customers several weeks ago.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Business Wire EON) March 11, 2008 --
LinMin, a systems management
software provider in stealth mode for the past several months, today
announced the availability of its first product, LinMin
Bare Metal Provisioning (LBMP™). LBMP can
remotely provision (natively install and configure Linux and
customer-specified applications) as well as image (snapshot and rollback
entire systems for disaster recovery and clone systems for mass
deployment) servers, blades, PCs, appliances and virtual machines. LBMP
enables systems to be rapidly deployed, repurposed and recovered. LinMin
delivered the successful Beta version of the product to customers
several weeks ago.
“I installed LBMP in just a few minutes, and
immediately started using it to provision
my Linux servers and blades," said Brian McArthur, Regional Director
for Advantage Professionals. "LBMP is a great system provisioning and
imaging solution that saves me incredible amounts of time while
increasing consistency between systems. LBMP paid
for itself in less than two weeks.”
“LinMin ships a commercial grade product at
unheard-of prices. This allows corporate and departmental IT
organizations, web hosting and SaaS companies, academic and research
institutions, system builders, QA labs and open source professionals
with very limited budgets to benefit from advanced IT automation
solutions,” said Laurent
Gharda, CEO and founder of LinMin. “One of
the old ways of acquiring IT tools was to spend months defining
requirements and evaluating products priced from $10,000 to $200,000,
make a business case to the CIO and then spend weeks or months
implementing the solution. The other way was for experts to assemble
open source components and customize them to work in a specific
environment with considerable IT development and maintenance costs. Now
you can simply buy LBMP with a credit card, expense it and become
productive the same day, at a fraction of the cost. ‘Affordable
and simple to use’ are the cornerstone
principles for LBMP and future LinMin products.”
Based on proprietary Linux systems management intellectual property
acquired by LinMin, LBMP is the enhanced fifth generation of a
provisioning solution used by leading companies for several years.
Installation and operation have been dramatically simplified. LBMP also
supports all of the most popular
versions of Linux. A pre-release edition supporting the provisioning
of Windows® Server products for mixed
Linux/Windows environments is also included in the current shipping
product.
“LBMP
is complementary to existing commercial and open source systems
management solutions that perform patch updating, monitoring, asset
management and other necessary functions,”
added Laurent Gharda. “What has been lacking
until now is a low-priced, framework-independent bare metal provisioning
solution that co-exists
with other systems management tools. LBMP automates the installation
and configuration of the operating system, applications and management
agents, then passes control of the newly provisioned or re-purposed
system to the customer’s existing systems
management infrastructure, be it commercially-supplied, open source or
entirely manual.”
LBMP is available direct through the Internet for purchase and download
at www.linmin.com. This direct, no
sales force model enables LinMin to price the product at a fraction of
competitive products. An annual subscription to LBMP costs $100 for 10
client systems, $400 for 100 client systems and $750 for 250 clients
systems. Perpetual
licenses are also available.
About LinMin:
LinMin provides software that transforms a server into a bare metal
provisioning and imaging appliance for Linux and Windows servers,
blades, PCs, appliances and virtual machines. LinMin Bare Metal
Provisioning (LBMP) is the industry’s first
truly affordable system provisioning solution that can be implemented by
IT organizations of any size with very limited budgets, yet its
capabilities match or exceed solutions costing fifty times more. By
offering its products for sale over the Internet and without having to
fund a direct sales force, LinMin can offer outstanding products at very
low prices. Led
and staffed by experts in systems management, LinMin is based in Redwood
City, CA. More information on LinMin can be found at www.linmin.com.
©2008 LinMin Corp. All Rights Reserved.
LinMin, LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning and LBMP are trademarks of LinMin
Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
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