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New
Features Deliver Time and Cost Savings, Business Continuity and
Improved Management LINUXWORLD
EXPO (Booth #459), San Francisco, Calif. – August 8, 2005 –
Taking another step to make it easier for enterprises to migrate to
Linux, Emu Software today introduced key new features to its flagship
NetDirector™ Linux Application Management Suite. With enhancements
such as server cloning, support for NFS and email notification, Emu
Software continues to build NetDirector into the most comprehensive
real-time configuration management tool for enterprise Linux.
“There’s
a perception in the enterprise market that Linux is too hard to
manage because of a lack of management tools and staffing experts,
making it much more expensive than a proprietary platform like
Windows,” said Jim McHugh, CEO of Emu Software. “The reality is
that managing a Linux environment has never been easier, especially
with what Emu is bringing to NetDirector. Our goal is to take the
fear out of moving to Linux by providing a reliable management tool
that any system administrator can use without being a Linux expert.”
NetDirector
simplifies and secures the ongoing administration of a Linux server
network through a single Web console. Until the introduction of
NetDirector, Linux users have had no centralized, GUI-based
configuration management tool with such enterprise-class features as
the ability to group distributed servers; apply configuration changes
to one server, a group of servers, or all servers simultaneously;
schedule changes to occur later; and rollback configuration changes
if needed. Now, making a routine change to a service no longer means
manually editing multiple configuration files on each server and then
restarting the services all the servers.
Today’s
new features extend NetDirector’s ability to save time and money
for enterprises, provide visibility into the network to ease
regulatory compliance and minimize workflow disruptions. These
features include:
Server
Cloning – This capability enables rapid deployment of new
servers and disaster recovery by cloning existing servers. Because
NetDirector stores all the configuration settings for services
across all managed servers in a given network, system administrators
can use server cloning to easily deploy new servers or restore
failed servers based on any version, past or present, of any
server’s configuration. As enterprises increasingly add new Linux
servers to their environment, NetDirector’s server cloning
capability makes it easy to replicate and deploy without
time-consuming manual configuration.
Support
for NFS – A popular file sharing approach, NFS provides remote
access to shared files across networks. By adding support for the
centralized management of NFS, NetDirector delivers a common
management architecture for businesses running NFS alongside BIND,
Apache, DHCP and Sendmail. Administrators now have the ability to
create and remove network exports on the fly to one or many servers
at the same time. Moreover, NFS support complements NetDirector’s
existing support of Samba so that organizations moving from one to
the other now have a consistent management layer for the two file
sharing technologies. And organizations that rely on both NFS and
Samba can now use NetDirector to easily manage both applications
through one central tool.
System
Configuration Files – Enhancements to NetDirector’s /etc
files management capabilities provide administrators with greater
control over their server’s individual configuration files. In
addition to easing the daily burden of Linux administrators, these
enhanced capabilities form an important part of the groundwork
needed to provide single sign-on capabilities.
b>Availability
These
new features will be available in NetDirector 2.8 due out August 31.
A free 90-day evaluation download will be available at
www.emusoftware.com NetDirector
supports Red Hat, Debian, Mandriva and Novell SUSE on x86 and IBM
Power PC.
About
Emu Software
Emu
Software, Inc. is dedicated to making the management of Linux easier
and more robust so that more companies and organizations can do more
with Linux. Partners include Core Function, IBM, MBX and Red Hat
Software. Emu Software is headquartered in Durham, N.C. For more
information, please visit www.emusoftware.com.
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NetDirector
is a trademark of Emu Software, Inc. in the U.S. Linux is a
registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other trademarks herein
are property of their respective owners.
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