fluid Operations eCloudManager Certified on VCE Vblock Systems

Feb. 4, 2013 - PRLog -- Walldorf, Germany – fluid Operations, leading provider of cloud and data management solutions based on semantic technologies, today announced that the eCloudManager™ has been certified on VCE™ Vblock™ Systems as “VCE Vblock Ready” as VCE Gold Technology Alliance Partner.

eCloudManager from fluid Operations delivers solutions for flexible infrastructure and cloud management and orchestration in virtualized and

physical enterprise environments.  This includes the creation of a flexible cloud infrastructure, end-to-end data center monitoring, rapid, on-

demand provisioning of new systems or enterprise application landscapes, as well as the automated handling of the daily operations of a private

or public enterprise cloud. Vblock Systems integrate leading Cisco networking and server, EMC storage and VMware cloud infrastructure

technologies into a single intelligent converged infrastructure system with seamless support. This certification provides customers with the

assurance that fluidOps eCloudManager will interoperate seamlessly with Vblock systems.

The certification was conducted by Superna™, which has been authorized by VCE to provide Vblock system certifications to VCE Technology Alliance

Partner (TAP) program members. This certification enables mutual channel partners and customers to accelerate adoption of Vblock systems by

leveraging eCloudManager for data center and cloud monitoring and management as well as for the delivery of ‘IT as a Service’ offerings. Thus

eCloudManager allows for a faster and easier implementation of Infrastructure as a Service, Storage as a Service, Landscape as a Service™ as well

as Data as a Service.

“We are very happy and proud to announce the certification of eCloudManager on VCE Vblock Systems. eCloudManager was designed to simplify and

automate daily IT operations and acts as the unified management platform across business and IT stacks. It is, therefore, the ideal complement

for Vblock Systems, and delivers all components and workflows customers need to build and run private clouds on their Vblock converged

infrastructures,” said Dr. Andreas Eberhart, Managing Director at fluid Operations.

Solutions for Cloud Management with Vblock Systems and eCloudManager

fluidOps eCloudManager simplifies and automates management and provisioning of enterprise applications and landscapes, while reducing the overall

costs for monitoring and managing enterprise environments, allowing mutual VCE and fluidOps customers to:
- Automate the analysis and management of enterprise environments through customizable dashboards and reports
- Reduce manual effort for administrators and IT operations departments
- Provision new application systems or landscapes for development, testing, QA and training scenarios within minutes and without any manual pre-

and post-cloning efforts

fluid Operations is also EMC Select® partner, and eCloudManager for VBlock Systems is available for purchase worldwide via EMC Select. fluid

Operations is also an SAP® software solution and technology partner.

About fluid Operations

fluid Operations® (fluidOps), an innovative software company headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, provides an open platform which allows for the

semantic integration of structured and unstructured data across business and IT stacks. This basis is leveraged to deliver our cutting-edge

infrastructure and cloud monitoring, management and orchestration solution, the eCloudManager®, as well as the Information Workbench®, a cloud-

based Linked Data and Big Data management platform. Together, the two products deliver the flexibility needed to optimize information management,

data integration, self-service IT, IT operations, and IT service management. Gartner Analysts named fluidOps “Cool Vendor” in 2010. fluidOps’

Conference Explorer won the Linked Data-a-Thon at the 2011 International Semantic Web Conference and was placed in the WWW 2012 Metadata

Challenge. For more information about fluidOps and its products and solutions please visit www.fluidOps.com.