Cloud management provider Egenera announced on Tuesday it will soon launch its next major release of its cloud management software, PAN Cloud Director 2.0, which features integration with Amazon Web Services.
The move comes a few months after Egenera acquired Dublin, Ireland-based cloud lifecycle software provider Fort Technologies for an undisclosed amount.
Adding Amazon Web Services to the PAN Cloud Director service catalog and portal enables users to build IT solutions that span public and private clouds, and can also consist of a combination of virtualized and physical servers.
Amazon Web Services is the first of many public clouds that will be accessible through PAN Cloud Director to provide greater user flexibility for Egenera customers.
PAN Cloud Director, a key component of the Egenera Cloud Suite, is a complete cloud provisioning and management suite, with an interface to build solutions using a drag and drop designer.
With PAN Cloud Director 2.0, users can include EC2 resources in their service catalog to design, build and manage hybrid cloud environments.
The open architecture of Egenera’s Cloud Suite ensures that enterprises and service providers will have the flexibility to create cloud services that support all of their application needs.
This includes support from all the major server vendors including IBM, HP and Fujitsu, support for all the major hypervisor products including VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and KVM, the ability to provision and manage both physical and virtual servers, N+1 high availability and disaster recovery, and the ability to provision internal infrastructure and public cloud resources.
“The cloud is rapidly becoming defined by its ecosystem,” said Dan Busby, vice president of product management at Egenera. “With so much innovation happening in the Amazon ecosystem and with customers demanding truly hybrid cloud management solutions, the decision to integrate with EC2 was an easy one. Making it simple for organizations to use both private and public cloud resources and to easily manage their hybrid clouds helps to further position Egenera strategically with cloud buyers from the managed services and corporate markets.”
Egenera raised $3 million in new venture capital funds in a follow-on equity round from existing investors.
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