Cloupia Continues to Strengthen Converged Infrastructure Orchestration Offerings With New Solution Announcements

Cloupia, a leading data center orchestration and cloud management software provider, today announced expanded converged infrastructure management offerings to help enterprises and service providers transition to next generation dynamic data centers. Cloupia’s announcement is a major advancement in converged infrastructure management and orchestration. These new offerings will enable enterprises and service providers to easily transition to clouds with one integrated and comprehensive data center management platform across the entire IT stack — physical, virtual, cloud and converged infrastructure.

“Organizations are looking for flexible and integrated data center management platform to rapidly deploy converged infrastructure based solutions on demand,” said Raju Datla, CEO of Cloupia. “Cloupia unified converged infrastructure management offerings will accelerate the enterprise data center transformation towards fabric-based data centers with the necessary automation capabilities. As a leading converged infrastructure management provider, we will continue to work closely with major infrastructure vendors to provide our customers with best-in-class unified data center orchestration solutions.”

Cloupia Product Enhancements and Updates:

Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC): Cloupia flagship product, Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC), is the first fully featured unified and integrated data center management platform that provides an end-to-end cloud and data center management solution. CUIC now manages and automates virtual server infrastructure, VDI, physical infrastructure, public clouds and converged infrastructure via a single pane of glass. The latest CUIC V3.0 release key capabilities include Secure Cloud Containers, VDI automation – Citrix Xen Desktop Support, Virtual Console support, and Multi-vendor support.

CloudIgnite: CloudIgnite provides fully automated day zero deployments to configure and provision converged infrastructure with consistency, accuracy and speed. This tool is designed and targeted for partners and resellers to drastically reduce the typical Converged Infrastructure deployment times. CloudIgnite enables partners to validate the deployment against validated design without requiring deep technical skills. This tool helps partners to keep track of customer Converged Infrastructure deployments for easy support since these configurations vary from one customer to other.

CloudGenie: CloudGenie™ is the industry-first mobile application for IT admins for datacenter management. CloudGenie now supports both iPad and Android platforms. CloudGenie V1.1 release features enhanced reporting and analytics along with self-service catalog and provisioning capabilities.

Enhanced Multi-Vendor Support: Cloupia unifies compute, storage, network and virtualization management into a single cohesive and complete cloud management system. Cloupia announces enhanced multi-vendor support in CUIC release V3.0 that includes: Compute – Cisco, HP and Dell platforms; Storage – NetApp 7-mode, C-Mode and EMC VNX platforms; Network – Cisco and Brocade platforms; VDI – Citrix Xen Desktop; Virtualization – VMware, Microsoft and Redhat and Other key capabilities — Power shell and IPMI 2.0 support. Cloupia will be supporting other vendors in coming months and inquiries can be made to info@cloupia.com for more roadmap details.

Cloupia Converged Infrastructure (CI) Management and Orchestration Solutions: Cloupia offers a complete end-to-end converged infrastructure management and orchestration solution suite. Cloupia added new Converged Infrastructure solution bundles targeted exclusively to address management and orchestration of evolving converged infrastructure such as FlexPod, Entry Level FlexPod and VSPEX. Customers have flexibility to upgrade to advanced solution bundles encompassing both converged infrastructure and cloud management and orchestration capabilities.

FlexPod Solutions: Cloupia is the market leader of end-to-end FlexPod management and automation solutions. Cloupia is the first validated FlexPod management solution by NetApp and Cisco. The Cisco and NetApp FlexPod is a pre-tested shared infrastructure that combines Cisco networking, computing and NetApp storage to help channel partners accelerate and simplify their customers’ transition to the cloud. Cloupia customers and partners span across Americas, EMEA & APAC regions and has an active and growing ecosystem of partners around the world. Cloupia now supports Entry Level FlexPod architecture and configurations. Cloupia customers can leverage unified Cloupia solution to manage and orchestrate FlexPod and Entry Level FlexPod from a single pane of glass.

VSPEX Solutions: Cloupia now supports EMC VNXe/VNX storage systems and announces unified VSPEX management and orchestration solution. With recently added EMC and Brocade support, Cloupia now supports multiple VSPEX configurations announced by EMC. Cloupia will be demonstrating unified VSPEX management and orchestration capabilities at Cisco Live. Cloupia will expand support to EMC VMAX storage platform and other VSPEX configurations in the third quarter of 2012.

Other Converged Infrastructure Solutions: Cloupia’s vision is to provide unified automation platform for evolving needs of dynamic data centers with heterogeneous platforms. Cloupia continues to support multiple vendors in both virtual and physical domains and provide unified management and orchestration for other evolving converged infrastructures.

Pricing and Availability:

For pricing information and evaluations, contact sales@cloupia.com.