Librato Introduces Application Workload Management Solution for Heterogeneous Environments

By VSM News Staff
published: Thursday, October 09 2008

Librato Load Manager enables application workload management with no application or operating system modification, resulting in fewer servers and guaranteed service level agreements

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - October 6, 2008 - LibratoTM, Inc., a leader in application workload management software, today announced Librato Load ManagerTM 2.0.  Librato Load Manager is the only technology on the market to offer heterogeneous application workload management in x86 environments, and require no application or operating system modification. Load Manager enables more applications to run on fewer servers whether the infrastructure is physical, virtual or both. The new release adds support for Windows Server 2003 and 2008 environments, and delivers new demand monitoring capabilities which provides users with a comprehensive view of application resource requirements for more accurate capacity planning.

"The next generation data center will be orchestrated and automated to make the best possible use of an organization's industry standard system infrastructure," said Dan Kusnetzky, principal analyst and president of the Kusnetzky Group LLC. "Effective tools to make a data center more efficient, manageable, and reliable, such as those offered by Librato, could be considered an absolute requirement."

Librato Load Manager enables fine-grained monitoring and control of all server resources, including CPU, memory, network I/O and storage I/O. As a policy-based scheduler, Load Manager offers dynamic rebalancing, ensuring enterprise applications are allocated the system resources required for optimal performance and predictable service levels. By dynamically assigning unused capacity, Load Manager dramatically increases server utilization, enabling IT organizations to get the most out of existing resources.  Load Manager is lightweight with typically less than 1% overhead.

Load Manager 2.0 broadens the product's initial platform support for Linux to now include Windows Server 2003 and 2008.  The new demand monitoring capability provides an advanced level of capacity planning that was unattainable until now. In addition to allocating system resources to an application and measuring actual resource consumption (load) over  time, Load Manager can now also be used to project how much resource an application would have consumed (demand) had it not been limited by its allocation. This ability to determine the difference between load and demand provides IT organizations with a powerful tool for planning server capacity - enabling them to better meet application SLAs.

"Since its introduction earlier this year, Load Manager has given companies the ability to increase the resource utilization of data centers in a wide-range of Linux-based application environments," said Fred van den Bosch, CEO of Librato, Inc. "By adding support for Windows, Load Manager 2.0 can provide these benefits to more enterprises and for more data center resources.  We are excited to offer such a powerful solution so early in our product lifecycle."

Availability

Load Manager 2.0 will be available December 1, 2008.  For more information, visit www.librato.com or contact sales@librato.com.

About Librato, Inc.

Librato is a leader in application workload management software that enables customers to reduce expenses by continuing to meet business goals with fewer data center resources.  The company's core technology is based on innovative techniques to monitor and control system resource usage by applications without requiring any application or operating system modifications. This allows Librato products to be seamlessly deployed in existing data center infrastructures and generate a rapid return on investment.  The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with offices in Blacksburg, Virginia and Pune, India.  For more information, visit www.librato.com.