UPDATED 14:28 EDT / JUNE 22 2011

ScaleXtreme Brings Virtualization into the New Age

When it comes to scaling the cloud, there’s a number of pitfalls you could fall into, and an equal number of solutions you can seek out.  As an industry struggles to find its footing in resolving these issues, ScaleXtreme launches its cloud-based systems management service, presenting a simplified and central system for running your virtualized machines.

What ScaleXtreme does is offer end-to-end lifecycle management, all from a single system.  It works on Amazon EC2 and VMware-based cloud servers, automatically deploying configuration agents to get you set up and ready to go.  From there, you can manage all of your physical servers remotely, controlling across public, private and hybrid clouds.  This all happens in real-time, with a web-based interface that you can pull up on your laptop or your iPad.

With a cloud-based script library, you can store scripts centrally to run in the cloud anywhere.  There’s even an associated marketplace for buying, selling and swapping scripts online.  Not surprisingly, there’s a series of metrics you can follow to monitor your machines, giving you stats on performance in real-time.  ScaleXtreme moves beyond the offerings of companies like RightScale to extend a wider range of control within its interface, leaving you with an agnostic approach to IT management that’s suited to your needs.

In fact, mobility is an important aspect of what ScaleXtreme is all about.  Enabled in a couple of different ways, you can now manage your internal machines and externam machines all through a “single pane of glass,” but you can also manage from the iPad.

“In the old days, you couldn’t be at an airport terminal and jump on a net connection to manage your machine,” says Nand Mulchandani, ScaleXtreme CEO.

“We think this is really where the excitement is.  The whole concept of taking these old system managements, which haven’t fundamentally changed in the past 15 years–there’s this whole movement towards the consumerization of IT systems.  How do we take these hard-to-use systems and bring them into the new age?”

Virtualization coupled with mobility is a great start in moving in that direction.  As we’ve seen from companies like VMware and Rackspace, the mobile sector has really driven a good amount of innovation around IT management, applying several consumerized trends to this arena.  It’s in large part thanks to the re-working many companies, large and small, have done on the back-end, pushing this trend forward.

It’s encompassing of the social enterprise, along with evolving open cloud standards that enable the cross-communication of entire systems.  This aids datacenters in running more smoothly, but more importantly, learning from themselves, each point of interaction becoming a shared piece of information that helps push the system, as a whole, into the future.  We’ve still a ways to go, but companies like ScaleXtreme, fresh off an $11 million funding round led by Ignition Partners, are seeking out new solutions to age-old problems, freeing everyone a bit more in this new era of mobility and virtualization.


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