CiRBA
Inc., a leader in Data Center Intelligence (DCI) software, today
announced a licensing partnership with Ideas International (IDEAS)
(ASX:IDE), the leading global provider of actionable comparative
intelligence for enterprise IT infrastructure. CiRBA has licensed IDEAS’
Relative Performance Estimate (RPE2) and Environmental Database for
integration with its Data Center Intelligence software. The integration
will provide CiRBA Powered Service Provider Partners along with direct
license customers, with the opportunity to utilize the most
comprehensive server performance ranking data available in the market.
Access to IDEAS benchmarks will help to streamline and improve benchmark
matching processes.
RPE2 provides comparable performance information for server
consolidation studies and for the initial evaluation phase of server
selection. RPE2 incorporates a composite workload profile comprising six
industry benchmarks; full coverage for all leading vendor server
families and variants; and coverage of current and obsolete models.
“We are very excited to provide our partners and customers with the
opportunity to access IDEAS’ cross-platform RPE2 performance rankings
and environmental data as part of a CiRBA analysis,” said Andrew
Hillier, CTO and co-founder of CiRBA. “By integrating this data, CiRBA
licensees will benefit from broader coverage of hardware and as a
result, they will not only obtain actionable answers faster, but they
will more likely find an exact benchmark match for greater accuracy in
the normalization of data.”
Stephen Bowhill, Ideas International CEO added: “CiRBA is a leader in
the data center analytics market, and by partnering with IDEAS, it
further signifies the value of our product offerings. We look forward to
expanding our footprint in the end-user corporate market as this
relationship grows.”
The IDEAS RPE2 and Environmental data will be free to CiRBA’s partners
to use for initial transformational analysis in assessments. The IDEAS
data will be available to CiRBA’s direct license customers for an
additional fee.
CiRBA’s integration to IDEAS RPE2 is available with CiRBA Version 5.3,
shipping on May 10, 2010.
About CiRBA Inc.
CiRBA is a leading provider of Data Center Intelligence (DCI) software
that enables leading systems integrators and Global 5000 organizations
to safely maximize efficiency through the intelligent planning and
management of physical and virtual infrastructure. Only CiRBA’s
policy-driven, multi-dimensional analytics answer the questions of where
to place workloads and how to allocate and configure resources. For more
information, visit www.cirba.com.
ABOUT IDEAS INTERNATIONAL
IDEAS is the leading global supplier of comparative intelligence on
enterprise IT infrastructure. Servicing both IT vendors and large-scale
IT users, IDEAS products focus on: servers; storage; virtualization and
consolidation; and software and infrastructure services. IDEAS online
products are backed by expert industry analysts who can also deliver
specialized advisory and consulting services. For more information,
visit www.ideasinternational.com.
Media:
Fleming Communications
Whitney Fleming, 724-687-0377
whitneyf@whitneyfleming.com