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UXComm ANNOUNCES AutonomIQ FOR DYNAMIC SERVER PROVISIONING

UXComm Inc, a provider of management software solutions for modular, utility computing environments, announced the next member of its flagship AutonomIQ product family, AutonomIQ for Dynamic Server Provisioning (DSP). UXComm's AutonomIQ for DSP applies advanced technology and broad support for open standards to deliver a powerful autonomic server management solution designed to provide businesses with a logical, sequential path from today's manual, people-intensive systems management tools and processes to true automated utility management for modular computing environments.

AutonomIQ for DSP has been developed from the ground up to directly address the unique lifecycle server provisioning and other management requirements affecting Information Technology (IT) managers now and in the future. AutonomIQ provides the necessary functions to dynamically provision multiple servers from "bare metal" up through operating system, middleware and application layers. DSP can provision resources according to a staged deployment model built around user-definable policy-driven workflows that drive granular, interrelated tasks based on logical sequences, system-level events and calendar-based schedules. AutonomIQ's dynamic provisioning support works in conjunction with its on-demand asset tracking and event management functions to create a unified system for server lifecycle management.

AutonomIQ provides businesses with important benefits and operational advantages including:

Significantly increases the number of servers able to be managed per IT person through datacenter automation.
Facilitates modeling of IT services according to well-defined, easily iterated and replicated workflows that drive deployment and provisioning of OS and application stack resources based on current server asset inventories.
Enables flexible sourcing of hardware, operating system and commodity application (e.g., open source) resources.
Maintains and dynamically re-deploys logical pools of server and IT resources for both "committed" applications and on-demand allocation.
Supports creation of on-demand models to provision resources in a predictive fashion before demand arrives.

"Customers consistently tell us that the key to successfully deploying modular, utility computing environments and realizing the large number of cost and operational benefits associated with this wave is management tools that automate the datacenter," said Mark Sigal, president and CEO of UXComm. "Addressing these new server management challenges and providing a non-disruptive path from where datacenters are today to this new world is our singular focus as a company."

About AutonomIQ for DSP

AutonomIQ for Dynamic Server Provisioning addresses the need for manual, ad hoc provisioning processes to be automated in a procedural fashion according to sequence, calendar-based schedules and events-primary operational focal points for provisioning processes.

Like all products in the AutonomIQ product suite, AutonomIQ for DSP is built upon its patent-pending Intelligent Agent Architecture (IA2). IA2 delivers localized, policy-based autonomic server management functions that span from "bare metal" to infrastructure. AutonomIQ for DSP provides business applications with a single logical management interface for managing the underlying server and system resources needed to power service-oriented compute environments.

Core Functions Of AutonomIQ For DSP

AutonomIQ for DSP incorporates and builds upon the following core functions:

Flexible resource discovery, with support for multiple protocols as well as manual registration of resources, which provides DSP with up-to-date information on the IT infrastructure.
An extensible data repository to store asset information.
Fault and performance management, giving DSP insight into the real- time status of each managed element, and enabling a policy-based approach to automation.
A workflow engine that coordinates all IT task automation.
An architecture that supports hierarchical or completely agent-less deployments.

DSP leverages these core functions to deliver a complete provisioning solution that includes:

"Bare-metal" provisioning of multiple hardware form factors with appropriate operating system.
OS and application provisioning.
Security provisioning.
Support for rollback functions.
De-provisioning of system back to a bare-metal state.