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Emulex Unveils OpenWorks Connector [Manufacturing Close - Up](Manufacturing Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Emulex Corp. has reported the first Emulex OpenWorks Connector for use with the new Emulex OneConnect OCec14000 series of Cloud Adapters. In its release, the Company said the Emulex OpenWorks Connector provides a "highly scalable" solution that enables bare metal adapter configuration management and rapid provisioning/deployment capabilities for scale-out environments such as cloud-based infrastructures. The Company noted that the Emulex OpenWorks Connector uses a RESTful API, allowing third-party provisioning tools to leverage the new OpenWorks Connector to manage the Emulex OneConnect OCec14000 Cloud Adapters. Egenera, a provider of cloud and data center infrastructure management software, is the first partner to utilize this API, and when combined with Egenera's PAN Manager 8.0, will allow customers to configure and provision machine images to bare metal rack servers for physical and virtual environments. "As we move into the era of Web-scale computing, orchestration systems that manage both physical and virtual resources are critical to realize service level commitments and achieve expected return on investments (ROIs)," said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing, Emulex. "Together, our OpenWorks Connector and Egenera's PAN Manager provide administrators with single-pane-of-glass management capabilities, allowing them to deploy new workloads, manage resource pools, and provision/repurpose physical and virtual infrastructures with high efficiency and accelerated time-to- application deployment." The Emulex OpenWorks Connector provides the capability to configure each server with its own boot profile for Emulex-based cloud adapters, ideal for Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS) applications, as well as on-the-fly provisioning of servers for day/night operations or bare metal workload migrations. When combined with the Egenera PAN Manager, the integrated solution allows a cloud service provider to deploy new rack servers with a full machine image. "The combination of Egenera PAN Manager 8.0 and the Emulex OpenWorks Connector brings the power of choice to cloud service providers that are intent on maintaining service levels while containing operational and capital expenditures," said John Humphreys, vice president of marketing, Egenera. "The result is the first cloud automation and management suite in a production environment, with the capability to provision and manage heterogeneous rack server environments in a truly cost-effective manner." "Based on the Emulex OpenWorks Connector and the extended PAN Manager functionalities, we can now offer our customers the opportunity to build their converged infrastructure with Primergy rack and scale-out servers," said Uwe Romppel, Head of Product Management Server at Fujitsu. "The solution automates essential IT management tasks and improves service level agreements through embedded high-availability and disaster recovery mechanisms for both physical and virtual workloads." The initial pre-configured, integrated cloud infrastructure solution with Egenera will begin shipping in October. Emulex, specializing in network connectivity, monitoring and management, provides hardware and software. More information and complete details: www.Emulex.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |