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System management suite bridges Linux, Unix, Windows
Feb. 14, 2007

Xandros today introduced a new software suite for IT administrators that enables Windows-to-Linux server and desktop integration and management, and deployment of systems that mix Linux, Unix, and Windows platforms, according to the company.

Without "bridging tools," a company spokesperson said, a computing environment can devolve into an unmanageable and costly-to-administer set of silo infrastructure components. Many IT organizations suffer from higher administration costs and inefficient business processes through lack of integration, according to the spokesperson.

"BridgeWays conjures up images of bridging an enterprise's typical silo-oriented environments and single-point-solution management tools into a single-pane-of-glass management, deployment, and monitoring console, or 'captain's bridge'," said Xandros CEO Andreas Typaldos.

"This connects all elements in the enterprise infrastructure in a seamless and intuitive way. This allows the enterprise infrastructure to grow in accordance with business needs, without imposing the false and forced homogeneity of a single standard. At the same time, it is managed as if it were, in fact, a single-platform-type whole," Typaldos added.

Some Xandros BridgeWays integration features made their debut in the Xandros Standard Server, which debuted in last spring. These included the Managed Community and workflow-driven application dependency management tools, which aim to help prevent problems from arising.

These cross-platform, cross-service, and cross-domain management tools -- targeting administrators with typical Windows skills -- represent the final stage in the realization of Xandros's end-to-end next-generation Linux solutions strategy, according to Typaldos.

"Platform co-existence in these heterogeneous enterprise environments has become ever more difficult, since they employ a diversity of servers and desktops (Windows, Sun Solaris, Unix, Red Hat, Oracle, Novell, and other Linux), each managed by a different tool running on a particular host (Windows, Linux or Unix)," Typaldos continued. "At the same time, traditional system management tools (IBM Tivoli, Microsoft MMC, CA Unicenter, HP OpenView, BMC, and others) can benefit from integration and feeds, using tools like BridgeWays that tie such silo-managed platforms into the general infrastructure fabric."

BridgeWays supports all of the key hardware architectures, according to Xandros. The initial modules slated for the package's inaugural release are: BridgeWays Server Management Edition; BridgeWays Deployment and Management Edition; BridgeWays Systems Monitoring Edition; and BridgeWays Storage Management Edition.

Availability

Xandros BridgeWays for Red Hat, Oracle, Xandros, and Debian -- with Windows Active Directory Integration -- are currently in beta, and will be fully released this spring, a company spokesperson told DesktopLinux.com. Pricing will be announced at a later date.

--Chris Preimesberger



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