ScaleXtreme offers cloud automation software that makes it a bit easier for admins to manage certain tasks, such as rolling out patches. This week the company revealed plans to enhance this functionality with analytical capabilities that will ship with a future release of ScaleXtreme’s platform. The next generation solution is scheduled to debut sometime in the near future, according to the developer’s homepage.

News went out yesterday providing a few extra details about the systems management utility, known as the ScaleXtreme Intelligence Network for now. Contextualization will be its main function.

Intelligence Network can compare the performance of one cluster with that of another, and cross-reference items with industry-wide best practices as well as peer benchmarks. That is, an admin can check if his or her colleagues decided to implement a given patch to certain software, or whether their deployment is less vulnerable to security risks.

“Only a cloud-based tool can aggregate, anonymize and analyze IT operations data at scale, from a large base of users to deliver actionable intelligence to customers,” said ScaleXtreme CEO Nand Mulchandani. “The advancement of data analysis technologies has enabled us to begin work on an ambitious overhaul of the systems management products that IT operators are familiar with.”

ScaleXtreme is expanding across multiple verticals in an effort to catch up with other vendors – after all, it’s not the first cloud firm that decided to spice up its value prop with big data tools. But it may just be among the first cloud automation provider that launched its own iPhone app.

In late march ScaleXtreme announced an iOS client that gives users access to real-time data about the infrastructure they’re managing. It visualizes a lot of information to make things even more user-friendly.