Phurnace Announces General Availability of Phurnace Deliver™ 3.6

Newest Release Expands Functionality with Ease of Use and Advanced Portal Management Features

Austin, TX (PRWEB) June 29, 2009

Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced the general availability of its newest version, Phurnace Deliver™ 3.6 and Phurnace WebSphere Portal Deliver™ 3.6. The latest release focuses on increased ease of use and troubleshooting of environments, including enhanced features specifically developed for IBM® WebSphere Portal®. Phurnace's products provide IT operations staff with the tools they need to effectively manage large scale enterprise implementations of IBM WebSphere Portal, as well as IBM® WebSphere®, Oracle WebLogic®, and RedHat JBoss® web application servers. Accurate configuration and streamlined deployments are some of the most challenging obstacles to successful Portal and web application rollouts.

Phurnace Deliver reduces deployment times and associated costs to create faster, more comprehensive enterprise Java deployments. Phurnace Deliver 3.6 comes with an intuitive and powerful Eclipse RCP user interface, as well as a full command line interface. In addition, Phurnace Deliver has available integrations to popular operations frameworks such as BMC BladeLogic®, HP Server Automation®, IBM® Rational® Build Forge®, and Electric Cloud® ElectricCommander®. Phurnace Deliver also integrates easily and quickly into the custom build/roll out process built by their customers.

"The Phurnace Deliver products continue to grow as we add new features and capabilities at a rapid pace. These features are in direct response to customer and prospect requests," said Larry Warnock, president and CEO of Phurnace Software. "We have been able to embed the specific configuration knowledge and nuances of each environment that we support into our product. It is an "admin in a box", if you will. Because of this, we are saving I.T. departments money almost immediately upon using our product."

The latest release of the company's flagship product, Phurnace Deliver 3.6, provides comprehensive support for IT staff and developers during complex enterprise Java troubleshooting and deployments to decrease errors, streamline implementations, and avoid the downtime and outages that come with manual or script-based processes.

The release includes enhancements for all supported platforms as well as providing unique features for the IBM WebSphere Portal Server including enhanced dependency management, automated archiving, roll backs to specific points in time, and pin-point comparisons between Portal environments.

Phurnace Deliver™ 3.6 enhancements include:

•     User interface enhancements including additional process wizards
•     The ability to perform intelligent "merges" between Portal environments
•     Increased support for Virtual Portals
•     Archiving of live Portals, with "push button" roll backs
•     In-depth dependency management of changes, insuring that new items are deployed along with all other relied on and dependant objects
•     Enhanced support for the IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 release
•     Eclipse RCP graphical user interface and command line interface options for all functions

About Phurnace Software, Inc.
Phurnace software helps companies drive revenue and dramatically reduce cost by accelerating the deployment of business critical applications into physical environments, virtual images or to cloud computing providers. Leveraging patent-pending technology, Phurnace automates web application deployments - from installation to deployment to upgrades - eliminating manual, error-prone processes and delivering tangible ROI within weeks. Based in Austin, Texas, Phurnace is funded by S3Ventures, DFJ Mercury and other private investors. http://www.phurnace.com.

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