Last Friday Rich Miller informed me about the upcoming release of the Replicate Datacenter Analyzer. Rich joined Replicate Technologies as its CEO in October 2007. Together with Ken Novak and Rich Pelavin, the company's co-founders, he is directing RT's efforts to deliver a new class of management technology for the networks that support virtual machine environments.
The past few weeks at Replicate Technologies have been a combination of intense concentration and confident, regular progress. It's a real tribute to the team and the development process that everything has been showing up on time, and with the highest quality. We can now state categorically that we have a product. We're quite pleased with the outcome. The first-customer-ship (FCS) version of the Replicate Datacenter Analyzer (RDA 1.0) arrived on schedule. The new website is up, and includes the first of a set of short webcasts to provide introductions and tutorials. We've instituted an "early access" program, limited to a modest set of users, in order to test out our back office and support processes. Based on our experience so far, we should be in full commercial availability as scheduled next week.
Replicate Datacenter Analyzer enables a new mode of datacenter management – Predictive Fault management. By taking advantage of the dynamic nature and malleability of virtualization, Replicate Datacenter Analyzer instruments and ana¬lyzes the behavior of the entire unified datacenter. Instead of waiting for failures and then scrambling to restore service, with RDA datacenter administrators can proactively discover errors in the datacenter and resolve them on a schedule of their own choosing. Once identified, RDA’s prescriptive guidance makes fixing potential future faults quick and easy. Watch how you can use RDA to quickly find latent configuration problems in your datacenter. Utilizing our advanced discovery, RDA maps out your entire topology, identifying issues that prevent VMotion and DRS in advance, while providing you detailed diganostic drill-downs so you can quickly remediate any issues.
Get up and running in under 30 min from start to finish. Deployed as a virtual appliance, getting RDA installed and running is fast and easy. With built-in automated probe provisioning, discovery, and analysis, you can start getting results almost immediatly. RDA's intuitive AJAX UI works with all major browsers, and includes all the guidance you need to start using RDA.
