NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- February 14, 2007 -- Xandros, the leading provider of easy-to-use
Linux desktop, server and management solutions, today announced
"BridgeWays" -- a new suite of next generation,
cross-platform and cross-service, workflow-driven and rules-based,
management products and integration frameworks. The suite enables data
center managers and system administrators, with typical Windows
administration skills, to configure and support an optimal mix of Linux,
Unix, and Windows platforms, systems, and services in today's demanding and
diverse computing environments. Without such sophisticated "bridging
tools," a heterogeneous computing environment can devolve into an
unmanageable and costly-to-administer set of silo infrastructure
components.
BridgeWays marks a milestone in Xandros' strategy of leveraging its
award-winning desktop, server, and mixed-environment-integration
technologies into a complete set of Linux platforms and management
products. This
end-to-end product line offers powerful Linux desktop and server platforms
that uniquely fit today's IT environment, as well as the tools to centrally
administer the overall mixed-platform infrastructure as a rationalized
"whole."
Some Xandros BridgeWays integration technologies made their debut in the
Xandros Standard Server, which won a Best Linux Product Award last spring.
These technologies included the revolutionary "Managed Community" and
workflow-driven application dependency management tools that help prevent
problems from arising, versus the traditional approach of depending on
Linux certified engineers and support personnel to resolve problems after
the fact.
"BridgeWays conjures up images of bridging an enterprise's typical
silo-oriented environments and single-point-solution management tools into
a single-pane-of-glass management, deployment, and monitoring console or
'captain's bridge,'" said Andreas Typaldos, Xandros CEO. "The name further
conjures up images of easy 'pathways' to connect all elements in the
enterprise infrastructure in a seamless and intuitive way. This allows the
typical enterprise infrastructure to grow in accordance with heterogeneous
business needs, without imposing the false and forced homogeneity of a
single standard. At the same time, it is managed as if it was in fact a
homogeneous single-platform-type whole."
"These cross-platform, cross-service, and cross-domain management tools
represent the final stage in the realization of Xandros' end-to-end next
generation Linux solutions strategy," continued Andreas Typaldos. "This
strategy seeks to leverage Xandros' historical leadership in value-add
technology and architecture, what we like to refer to as the 'Xandros
technology DNA', to facilitate server and desktop co-existence and
cross-platform management in today's typical mixed Windows and Linux or
Unix enterprise environment. Platform co-existence in these heterogeneous
enterprise environments has become ever more difficult, since they employ a
diversity of servers and desktops (Windows, Sun Solaris, Unix, Red Hat,
Oracle, Novell, and other Linux), each managed by a different tool running
on a particular host (Windows, Linux or Unix). At the same time,
traditional infrastructure system management tools and consoles (IBM
Tivoli, Microsoft MMC, CA Unicenter, HP OpenView, BMC, and others) can
benefit from integration and feeds, through tools like BridgeWays that tie
such silo-managed platforms into the general infrastructure fabric."
Today's IT organizations unnecessarily suffer from higher administration
costs, inefficient business processes through lack of integration, and the
inability to benefit from high-value functions like compliance, best
practices, business-rules based optimization, and application-dependencies
management. For these reasons, Xandros' mission is to unify, to
manage/eliminate complexity, and to highlight the business process over the
physical/technical layers, so as to extract the business benefit that IT
can deliver.
Slated to Begin Delivery in Spring 2007:
Xandros BridgeWays for Red Hat, Oracle, Xandros and Debian, with Windows
Active Directory Integration, currently in beta, will ship in Spring 2007.
These tools apply the award-winning Xandros Managed Community model and
automated application-dependencies-management workflow to the set-up,
configuration-management, and on-going administration of the most popular
Linux servers and desktops. In addition, their sophisticated multi-tier
architecture allows the management console to run on either Windows, or
Linux. From that console, a Windows-trained administrator can then
cross-manage servers, and cross-manage services running on those servers,
regardless of the server on which the services may be running. BridgeWays
supports all of the key hardware architectures, and the initial modules
slated for its inaugural release are:
-- BridgeWays Server Management Edition
-- BridgeWays Deployment and Management Edition
-- BridgeWays Systems Monitoring Edition
-- BridgeWays Storage Management Edition
Future announcements of enterprise servers and additional BridgeWays
platform availability will follow in coming months. For further details on
the Xandros BridgeWays strategy and product line, please visit
www.xandros.com
About Xandros: Xandros, Inc. is the leading provider of easy-to-use Linux
alternatives to Windows. Founded in 2001, Xandros pioneered low cost,
graphical operating systems that leverage existing skill sets and provide
seamless compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and networks. It has
since expanded its Debian-based product line from standalone consumer
desktops to end-to-end enterprise desktop, server, and management solutions
featuring workflow automation and centralized, remote administration. The
company is headquartered in New York with research and development
facilities in Ottawa and Mumbai, and sales and support offices worldwide.
For more information, please visit
www.xandros.com.
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Contact Information:
Xandros Contact:
Xenia von Wedel
Terpin Communications Group
1-415-595-2030
Email Contact
Customer service:
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