According to the company, LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning now makes it easy for IT organisations to 'park' or temporarily decommission systems to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint. LinMin's combination of rules-based bare metal installation of Linux and Windows operating systems as well as bare metal imaging for Linux blends two different, yet complementary, technologies accessed through a single graphical user interface.
LinMin has also added new business rules to accommodate IT teams required to support more systems while controlling headcount. 'Fire and Forget' Provisioning gives IT professionals complete control over each system. By setting specific rules such as always provision, never provision, provision only once then never provision, boot to local disk, capture disk image, and restore disk image, system activities can be orchestrated ahead of time. Every system can install and configure specific operating systems and applications, in addition to identity, network, security and other settings.
Laurent Gharda, chief executive officer and founder, LinMin, "LBMP 5.1 has a re-designed user interface, 'fire and forget' to complement our 'on the fly' provisioning capabilities and support for many new Linux distributions. We even have built-in support for versions of Linux that are either just now entering beta or soon will be, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, Fedora 9, Novell SLES 10 SP2 and even SLES 11, giving customers a head start in rolling out even more energy-efficient operating systems on newer, greener hardware. LinMin is systems management-agnostic as it can install third party management agents then automatically pass control of freshly provisioned or re-purposed systems over to the customer's systems management infrastructure." |
