rPath Delivers Release Automation, Targets Data Center Automation

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 24, 2009 --

rPath, an innovator in automating application deployment and maintenance, today announced its campaign to deliver release automation solutions to enterprise organizations looking to reduce the time, cost and risk of application deployment and maintenance. In addition, rPath announced its strategy and roadmap for extending its unique system version controlled management model into the broader data center automation market. Code named Project Javelin, this strategy will yield the industry’s first fully version controlled data center automation solution, offering complete automation and control over creation, deployment and maintenance of IT systems—business service, application and enabling software, and configuration data—managed together under strong version control.

“Today, rPath is delivering a powerful version control-based release automation solution for enterprises looking to remove delay, cost and risk from application deployment and maintenance,” said Mike Torto, president and CEO of rPath. “Project Javelin will take on an even broader set of automation challenges that benefit from our unique approach to system version control. The result will be a simple, lightweight and effective alternative to today’s costly and cumbersome data center automation solutions with dramatically improved time to value.”

rPath for Release Automation

Available to enterprises today, rPath provides a complete release automation platform for low-overhead, highly controlled application deployment and maintenance processes.

Most IT leaders recognize that a manual approach to application deployment and maintenance simply doesn’t scale; particularly as the number of system instances grow, applications become more complex, and IT is being asked to reduce operating expenses. As a result, many IT leaders are looking to automate these processes. But many automation solutions simply apply basic scripts to existing processes, failing to address the inadequacy of the underlying processes themselves—and failing to deliver the predictability and control IT requires.

Based on a deep system versioning approach, the rPath solution for release automation enables:

 Automated dependency discovery
 Policy-based system construction
 Automated, incremental update of running systems
 Complete control over deployed systems, including rollback and reproduction
 On-demand provisioning of output formats for any physical, virtual or cloud target

A whitepaper describing rPath’s release automation solution is available at http://bit.ly/gMnie.

The Project Javelin Roadmap

With Project Javelin, rPath will introduce the industry’s first solution for complete versioning of IT systems—from the business service down to the bare metal—providing a foundation for policy-driven IT and bringing complete automation and control to every level of the IT system.

Throughout 2010, Project Javelin will extend rPath into a new breed of data center automation challenges by a