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RLX Raises Bar With Release Of Server Management Suite
RLX Technologies, a provider of on-demand compute solutions, announced the
most significant release in a year of the industry's best-in-class management
software, RLX Control Tower. The new product, entitled Control Tower 6G,
raises the bar for blade and 1U server management and provides IT
organizations with an unparalleled level of manageability through innovative
policy-based automation, remote monitoring and control, and streamlined server
administration and provisioning capabilities.
Control Tower 6G delivers the power of automation to identify and fix problems
without manual intervention. Intelligent rules can be defined to address
time-consuming tasks that might otherwise require dedicated staff and constant
monitoring. The Automation Policy Manager in Control Tower 6G uses rules-based
policies to implement actions in response to alerts or infrastructure
monitoring. For example, an IT manager can define a policy that dynamically
allocates additional server capacity to an application at peak load times.
With the Automatic Sparing Manager, Control Tower 6G adds failover capability
to an infrastructure. A server or group of servers can be designated as
"spares" that can be provisioned on-demand in the event of a failure. Storage
connections are restored and the replacement servers take on the identity of
the failed ones. Control Tower 6G also extends the management functions beyond
the hardware into the solution. The Workload Inspector module monitors system
and network services such as TCP, HTTP and LDAP performance.
RLX has also enhanced the previous core functions with the release of Control
Tower 6G. Pre-defined workflows simplify the selection and implementation of
common provisioning tasks. Storage connectivity management has been extended
to include NAS, SAN and Direct-Attached storage. RAID capability has been
added to the Control Tower 6G appliance to increase reliability. Control Tower
6G further simplifies its server management capabilities with enhancements to
the product's web-based interface -- providing centralized anywhere, anytime
management and control to system administrators.
Dan Stivers, CEO of 7ticks IT Consulting, a provider of technical services to
the financial industry, uses RLX solutions to automate systems management for
their server infrastructure.
"Control Tower XT gave us an effective tool for managing our server portfolio
from a single console and the ability to perform a single action on a group of
servers. With Control Tower 6G we'll be able to further reduce our costs by
automating the actions that are taken in response to alerts or infrastructure
monitoring. This will provide us with additional savings in time and costs,
while enhancing our ability to provide service to our clients."
"RLX's earlier version of Control Tower set the standard for comprehensive
one-button management and provisioning for blade servers, providing our
customers significant savings in labor and time costs," said Doug Erwin, CEO
of RLX Technologies. "With the introduction of Control Tower 6G, RLX delivers
lights-out management for up to a 1000 servers from a single appliance. This
sets a new standard in comprehensive server management, one that puts us
significantly ahead of our competition."
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