Launched today by Flexiant, the technology and services company, Extility is a licensed virtualised cloud platform delivering all of the benefits of real-time server estate management to end-users through its unique user interface and API. Central to these end-user benefits is the ability to shape server requirements to meet and exceed the demands of a perpetually shifting market landscape,… This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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In the past months virtualisation.info documented how the Cisco entrance in the server market with its Unified Computing System (UCS) is having a major impact on the landscape. The move is especially dangerous because it involves powerful allies like EMC and VMware , and delivers a platform that is designed from scratch to be a virtual data center in a box. The most nervous among its competitors seems HP, which openly criticized the UCS and then acquired 3Com to strengthen its networking offering. HP also released a competing platform, called BladeSystem Matrix, which doesn’t bundle yet with any specific virtualisation platform (VMware vSphere support is still experimental).

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