Server Virtualization Radically Improved by uptime software, Including VMware ESX 3, IBM LPARs, and Solaris Containers

uptime software introduces cutting edge solutions for consolidating, monitoring, and reporting on VMware ESX 3, IBM LPARs, and Solaris Containers, with a new release today. uptime software has been making waves since 2000 with its wildly successful IT performance, availability and capacity management software.

Toronto, Canada (PRWeb) February 13, 2007 -- uptime will continue to delight its enterprise customers with powerful new virtualization and consolidation (http://www.uptimesoftware.com/vmware.php) features today. uptime software, a software company since 2000, develops powerful enterprise IT performance, availability, and capacity management software (http://www.uptimesoftware.com) in an all-in-one solution that helps increase the value of IT while drastically cutting Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for IT departments.

"Today marks a big shift for companies interested in, or proceeding with, virtualization and consolidation," describes Nick Johnson, Director of Marketing at uptime software. "The old management maxim says that you can't manage what you can't measure. Our industry leading solution now gives IT departments the ability to collect in-depth metrics and measurements on all virtual server instances, including VMware ESX 3, IBM LPARs, and Solaris Containers." On top of that, Johnson explains that these new features are free to customers, "once a customer purchases up.time with support, all downstream service packs and future releases of the product are absolutely free. We want up.time customers to be customers for life."

The newest release provides highly valued server monitoring (http://www.uptimesoftware.com/servermonitoring.php) and capacity management (http://www.uptimesoftware.com/http://www.uptimesoftware.com/capacityplanning.php) features for up.time customers, with a focus on consolidation and virtualization, including:

-VMware ESX 3 (http://www.uptimesoftware.com/vmware.php): New and improved profiling, monitoring, and reporting for VMware ESX 3 - Virtual Infrastructure.

-VMware ESX 3: System alerting based on instances exceeding CPU, memory, % Ready, or disk busy for VMware ESX 3 - Virtual Infrastructure.

-VMware ESX 3: The ability to perform workload profiling across an ESX farm, helping you find the 'busy' levels of an instance is as it migrates between systems, including information on the total compute capacity of your ESX environment.

-AIX LPARs (http://www.uptimesoftware.com/aix.php): Enhanced support for AIX LPARs. Use your HMC to inventory all managed LPARs and perform workload profiling of your LPARs within the physical pSeries systems. Graph your micro-partitioned CPU usage against entitlements to determine which LPARs are consuming too much resource.

-New Custom Alerting: New alerting formats allow you to send pager, email, or SMS-based alerts with specialized information about the services that need attention.

up.time is an enterprise-class server performance, availability monitoring, and capacity management solution for virtualized and physical servers that seamlessly works across platforms (Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, Windows, Novell), across applications (WebSphere, WebLogic, Exchange, SAP, etc), and across databases (SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle, etc). It's more affordable than most software maker's heavy, multi-component programs and is enabled through a friendly web browser interface, providing secure access at anytime and from anywhere. For a case study or an IT Systems Management ROI calculator, please click here: Case Studies and ROI Systems Management Calculator (http://www.uptimesoftware.com/casestudies.php?utm_source=PRWeb&utm_medium=SP4Feb13).

An enterprise ready version of up.time is available for a free 14-day evaluation download at: Trial up.time (http://www.uptimesoftware.com/register.php). uptime software's world class support services are free during this 14-day evaluation period to help customers test up.time in their environments.

For further information please contact:

uptime software, 555 Richmond Street West, PO Box 110, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5V 3B1

Telephone: 416.868.0152

About uptime software

uptime software inc. is a privately held corporation founded in 2000 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada and is a premier provider of IT performance, availability, and capacity management technology to the Fortune 1000 marketplace, with clients in more than 30 countries around the world. It has made numerous innovations in business software. For more, visit www.uptimesoftware.com

up.time is a registered trademark of uptime software in Canada, the United States and in other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

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