Xandros Debuts Heterogeneous Systems Center Capabilities at Microsoft Management Summit

 
Xandros Debuts Heterogeneous Systems Center Capabilities at Microsoft
Management Summit
 
New Xandros BridgeWays Management Packs Enable Microsoft System Center
Operations Manager 2007 to Administer Apache and MySQL on Linux and Solaris
 
LAS VEGAS - April 29, 2008 - Xandros, Inc., a leading provider of
mixed-environment management tools, intuitive Linux solutions, and Scalix
e-mail services, today announced the beta presentation of Xandros BridgeWays
Management Packs at the Microsoft Management Summit. This release is the
first in a series of BridgeWays Management Packs designed to help extend the
capabilities of the Microsoft System Center to heterogeneous environments.
The new management packs will enable system administrators to monitor and
manage Apache and MySQL on Windows, Linux, and Solaris from within the
Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007. Developed under the broad
collaboration agreement between Microsoft and Xandros announced in June
2007, the management packs released today will be followed by others for
such key data center applications as Oracle Database, Oracle Application
Server, IBM WebSphere, and VMWare.
 
"Xandros' expertise in open source and its delivery of management packs,
which utilize the Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions for the
management of Apache and MySQL on Windows, Linux and Solaris, provides key
functionality for extending the benefits of System Center across the
heterogeneous enterprise," said Robert Reynolds, director of System Center
product management at Microsoft Corp. "The rapid pace at which Xandros was
able to deliver these offerings and its road map for future solutions will
provide our mutual customers with a wide variety of options for managing
applications across their environments through a single management
experience, and we look forward to our continued work together."
 
"The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions have
already delivered exciting results for Xandros. They enabled us to cut our
expected development time in half as we created our management packs for
Apache and MySQL running on Linux and Solaris, resulting in quicker time to
market and delivery of betas to our customers today," said Andreas Typaldos,
CEO of Xandros. "This new foundation from Microsoft enabled us to focus on
the development of high-level management functions for applications, with
the knowledge that the Cross Platform Extensions were providing the
necessary underlying interfaces to System Center Operations Manager,
enabling heterogeneous management from a single location across customer
environments."
 
Showcased at Microsoft Management Summit
Previews of the Xandros BridgeWays Management Packs for Apache and MySQL are
showcased at the Xandros booth at the Microsoft Management Summit at Las
Vegas, Nevada, April 28-May 2, 2008. The beta software is also available as
a free download for testing and review from the Xandros web site at
www.xandros.com <http://www.xandros.com/> .
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About Xandros
Xandros, Inc. is a leading provider of mixed-environment BridgeWays
management tools and intuitive Linux solutions including SMB and enterprise
servers, consumer and business desktops, OEM products, and mission-critical
applications. Xandros subsidiary Scalix provides the premier e-mail,
calendaring and messaging solutions based on open standards and open source.
Xandros and Scalix foster Linux adoption with graphical products that
leverage existing skill sets while providing seamless Windows-Linux
interoperability. Xandros server and management tools feature workflow
automation and centralized remote deployment and administration. The company
is headquartered in New York with research and development facilities in
Ottawa, Europe, and Mumbai, and sales and support offices worldwide. For
more information, please visit www.xandros.com <http://www.xandros.com/> .
 
 
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