Elastra Launches New Green IT Initiative for Enterprises
Software Oriented Solution Provides Innovative Approach for Energy Efficient Data Centers
SAN FRANCISCO – January 12, 2010 – Elastra Corporation, the leading provider of application infrastructure automation software, today announced an initiative to help enterprises create and maintain energy efficient data centers. In adopting the advanced planning and optimization technologies of the Elastra Cloud Server and by extending Elastra’s modeling languages, customers can explicitly optimize the distribution of applications in their data center to maximize energy efficiency.
“With the recent v2 release of the Elastra Cloud Server we now have a platform that our customers can use to create innovative solutions that solve real problems like the ones encountered while migrating a server infrastructure towards energy efficient systems,” said Peter Chiu, Director of Product Management, Elastra.
Elastra accomplishes this through two technologies available in the product. The first technology is the ECML and EDML semantic modeling languages. ECML is a language used to describe an application (software, requirements, and policies) and EDML is used to describe the resources (virtual machines, storage, and network) available in a data center. These languages can be easily extended to enhance the definition of the applications and resources.
These modeling languages coupled with the Plan-Composer in the Elastra Cloud Server enables users to synthesize a plan for execution. The Plan-Composer analyzes the proposed application designs (expressed thru ECML) and data center resources (expressed thru EDML), comparing them against a library of actions and outcomes. It then generates a plan based on the energy efficiency policies of the organization that can be executed by the Cloud Server against a customer’s infrastructure.
By extending ECML and EDML to integrate with existing power management systems and processes in the data center, Elastra can create extensible knowledge modules that allow the Plan-Composer to optimize and plan for energy efficiency. For instance, if resource A in a customer data center had a power cost of X and every other resource had a power cost of Y a knowledge module can be configured to provision the cheaper resource in terms of power cost. In addition to simple minimization algorithms the Plan-Composer can optimize for more sophisticated goals like PUE or DCiE. Since knowledge modules can be used in conjunction with each other the system can balance competing priorities to ensure that applications are still managed on systems that meet the requirements of the applications.
“With our modeling languages we understand the difference between each piece of software and their distinct requirements. But we can also help balance their requirements against the energy policies of the organization. This way we can expedite the constant back and forth that typically occurs between Dev and IT in order to determine where applications live in order to have the most energy efficient infrastructure,” added Chiu.
About Elastra
Elastra develops software that enables enterprises to automate modeling, deployment and policy enforcement of their application infrastructure. Our products work in conjunction with provisioning and virtualization solutions to orchestrate the intelligent delivery of IT infrastructure required to run complex applications. Elastra solutions enable enterprise IT organizations to accelerate the delivery of new applications, effectively utilizing internal and virtualized IT resources to help enterprise IT groups deploy applications faster, increase resource utilization, and improve IT governance effectiveness.
