NetCraft Communications http://www.netcraftinc.com Sabayon Linux Partners with NetCraft Communications to Enhance Versiera's Support for Linux OS http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1018664.htm The collaboration will contribute to reducing costs of infrastructure monitoring and management Trentino, Italy (PRWEB) June 12, 2008 -- Sabayon Linux today announced that it will partner with NetCraft Communications, a global provider of computer infrastructure management services and makers of Versiera, Remote System Management and Monitoring Software. As part of this strategic alliance, both companies will leverage their technologies, including Sabayon Entropy to provide broader software distribution methods. Versiera will now be available on Sabayon Linux, an open source desktop operating system based on Gentoo Linux. The first web-based system for infrastructure monitoring and management to support a broad spectrum of operating systems, Versiera simplifies the common system administration tasks. It can quickly identify and notify of technology issues, Versiera can help preempt functionality problems at various layers of the infrastructure. The purpose Versiera software is to reduce the cost of technology ownership and enable companies to focus on their core business. "We are excited to start concretizing our long efforts in producing our upcoming release, and making NetCraft Communications part of it. Versiera is another demonstration of the flexibility that Sabayon Linux and the Entropy projects are reaching. Users will be glad to use our distribution either on their home workstations or at work seamlessly, thanks to Versiera.â" said Fabio Erculiani, Chief Architect of Sabayon Linux. "We are proud to be strategically aligned with Sabayon Linux,â" said Frank Pikelner, CTO, NetCraft Communications. â "By pooling our technologies, we can strengthen adoption in a meaningful way and give back to the community. Sabayon Entropy will provide boarder software distribution methods within Versiera, thereby reducing management costs of updating software across many systems,â" he added. About NetCraft Communications NetCraft Communications Inc. has developed a state of the art infrastructure management solution that enables enterprises to gain greater control of their IT investments and contribute more effectively to their overall business performance. In 2006, Versiera became the first Internet hosted application service for infrastructure monitoring and management with support for a broad spectrum of operating systems and hardware platforms. The support includes Linux, PC-BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Apple OS X, Sun Microsystems Solaris and Microsoft Windows. In 2008, Versiera 2.0 was released boasting new features including a faster and more scalable architecture. Versiera is available as an Internet Software-as-a-Service and as a hardware appliance. To learn more or sign up for the free hosted service, please visit: http://www.netcraftcommunications.com About Sabayon Linux Sabayon is a fast and scalable Linux distribution based on Gentoo featuring both sources and binary packages support, ready to work out of the box on any kind of hardware, any kind of workload in your either SOHO or HOME environments. Sabayon has been the first Linux distribution adopting top-tier technologies like XGL and Compiz. Entropy is the name of the new Sabayon binary package manager, bringing revolutionary ideas on the Open Source Software landscape between 2008 and 2009. Portage is the current Sabayon Linux source package manager, allowing advanced users to fine tune their system deep to the core. Media Contact Information Rachel Oliver NetCraft Communications 416-450-1940 http://www.netcraftcommunications.com/news.php#item110 iXsystems Announces Partnership with NetCraft Communications http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb884864.htm PBI Released for Quick and Simple Deployment of Versiera Software on the PC-BSD Desktop. For Immediate Release: San Jose, April 23, 2008 iXsystems, Inc. announced today a partnership with NetCraft Communications Inc., a global provider of computer infrastructure management including multi-platform management, compliance, asset management, software distribution, alerting and ticketing. The agreement will make NetCraft's Versiera Remote System Management and Monitoring Software available on PC-BSD. PC-BSD is a fully functional open source desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE. Versiera is a web-based system that simplifies the common routine tasks required for system administrators, thus reducing the total cost of ownership and enabling your company to focus on your business. Versiera can quickly identify, notify and help preempt functionality problems at various layers of the infrastructure. Versiera also aids in detecting system performance issues and capacity limitations. As part of its monitoring, Versiera maintains a database of all systems and their hardware configurations, ensuring an accurate active asset inventory. A PBI (push-button installer) has been released that will enable quick and easy deployment of the Versiera Software on PC-BSD. Any PC-BSD user can download the Versiera PBI from http://www.pbidir.com/bt/pbi/117 and run it on PC-BSD Version 1.4 Da Vinci Edition or PC-BSD Version 1.5 Edison Edition. Versiera gives you a real-time view of all of your hardware and software assets and can be used to consolidate management software. Versiera is a single system that simplifies computer infrastructure management. It can be used to consolidate management software, allowing you to get the most out of your computing time. "The partnership between iXsystems and NetCraft Communications marks an important step forward for the PC-BSD development project. The availability of the Versiera PBI enables PC-BSD to have a system management offering similar to that provided by Canonical's Landscape, the systems management and monitoring tool for Ubuntu", says Michael Lauth, President and CEO of iXsystems. "We are excited about our collaboration with iXsystems and to be a part of the self-containing PBI system, says Frank Pikelner, CTO of NetCraft Communications. "This partnership supports our mission to make all technologies easier to control through a single system that simplifies computer infrastructure management," he adds. Versiera offers the following compelling System Monitoring and Management Features: Cross-platform: Versiera can monitor a wide range of open source platforms and offers full support for PC-BSD, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. Scalability: Versiera is designed to manage large installations of hosts, and is designed to scale so that it can monitor all hosts on the network, including critical servers. Different levels of monitoring can be configured for different hosts, ensuring that important events are not lost in noise. Security: Versiera uses strong encryption to protect all communications and to authenticate all connections between hosts and Versiera's management systems. Extensibility: The capabilities of the Versiera platform can be expanded by end-users using both platform-specific run-time libraries and platform-independent high-level languages. Openness. Versiera uses industry standard protocols for communication and representing data. Versiera's database is accessible to external tools and database schema is provided with the Enterprise product. About PC-BSD PC-BSD is a rock solid, fully functional desktop operating system running FreeBSD version 6, with a KDE desktop interface and graphical system installer. Its PBI system, developed exclusively for PC-BSD, lets users download and install their applications in a self-extracting and installing format. About NetCraft Communications NetCraft Communications Inc. has developed a state of the art infrastructure management solution that enables enterprises to gain greater control of their IT investments and contribute more effectively to their overall business performance. In 2006, Versiera became the first Internet hosted application service for infrastructure monitoring and management with support for a broad spectrum of operating systems and hardware platforms. The support includes PC-BSD, FreeBSD, Linux, Apple OS X, Sun Microsystems Solaris, Microsoft Windows, OpenBSD and NetBSD. In 2008, Versiera 2.0 was released boasting new features including a faster and more scalable architecture. Versiera is available as an Internet Software-as-a-Service and as a hardware appliance. To learn more or sign up for the free hosted service, please visit: http://www.netcraftcommunications.com About iXsystems iXsystems, Inc. is a leading provider of high-performance computing clusters, blade servers, rackmount servers, and storage solutions to the global marketplace. iXsystems supplies FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux servers to a wide cross-section of industries. iXsystems also supports and maintains the PC-BSD project. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA. http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php#item109 Versiera 2.0 Release Announcement http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php Toronto, Canada - March 6, 2008 - We are extremely pleased to announce the immediate availability of Versiera 2.0. This release attains a major milestone in bringing together many new technologies in Versiera and represents many months' worth of research, development, testing, feature-requests and customer feedback. From amongst the myriad of improvements and new features in this release, here are a few highlights: Scheduling System, Jobs, Service Probes, Compliance and Deviation Tracking, Ticketing System, Communication Tracking, Host Process and Identity Tracking. These and many other new features and enhancements should allow Versiera users to effortlessly manage their host infrastructure technology. Versiera 2.0 is available as a hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) and as standalone appliances. http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php#item108 Versiera Automated IT Documentation Library. http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php Toronto, Canada - January 19, 2007 - NetCraft Communications Inc. is pleased to announce the immediate release of the Automated IT Documentation Library (AITDL) system to all users of the Versiera Professional and Enterprise infrastructure monitoring and management systems. IT organizations will be able to take advantage of the AITDL for generating infrastructure and policy documentation that describes their computer systems registered with Versiera and its policies. Portable Document Format (PDF) is used for AITDL documents. http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php#item107 Versiera Gaining Ground on Openview and Tivoli. http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php Toronto, Canada - October 04, 2006 - NetCraft Communications Inc. today announced the immediate availability of its Rees IT Support Ticketing system now fully integrated with Versiera Professional and Enterprise infrastructure monitoring and management systems. IT managers will now be able to use Versiera to provide a documentation work-flow as part of their infrastructure monitoring and management activities. From identifying issues with technology, to assigning the required remedial work by way of ticketing, to resolving and providing historical documentation of problems and the steps to resolution and verification the IT Support Ticketing system provides the documentation mechanism necessary for the successful management of technology. Versiera enables a broad range of IT activities to be performed without the use of individual tools or separate systems connected by communication APIs. The underlying framework for Versiera is based on configuration management database (CMDB) platform which allows for information to be stored once and provide for the single source of truth describing technology. This foundation is used to not only provide information on what exists in the present, but also how it has changed over time, including hardware, software, configurations, security and resource utilization. Building on its key features Versiera in the fourth quarter of 2006 will be releasing an automated documentation library and application dependency mapping (ADM) features, currently in beta testing with customers. Additionally compliance functionality will be strengthened to allow specifying a baseline for system configurations on a granular level and track deviations to comply with enterprise and government requirements. Enterprises are starting to take a hard look at Versiera when considering their choices for infrastructure monitoring and management tools. NetCraft Communications Inc. with its Versiera product has embarked to overthrow the market heavyweights the likes of HP Openview and IBM Tivoli. Versiera was the first Internet hosted application service for infrastructure monitoring and management supporting a broad spectrum of operating systems and hardware platforms. The support includes Microsoft Windows, Sun Microsystems Solaris, Apple OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. Anyone can take advantage of Versiera, enterprise with thousands of systems, medium sized organization on a budget, consultants broadening their service, and educational institutions with distributed management organizations. There is even a completely free hosted version called Versiera Core that includes most of the key features including management and monitoring to give something back to the community. Further information can be found on the company website: http://www.netcraftcommunications.com/. http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php#item106 Dynamic DNS for Versiera Core, Professional and Enterprise is now available. http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php Toronto, Canada - August 30, 2006 - NetCraft Communications Inc. today announces the availability of Dynamic DNS for its Versiera infrastructure monitoring and management systems; Core, Professional and Enterprise. Dynamic DNS (DDNS) enables automatic updates of DNS records by remote computers whenever their IP address changes and to populate or update the changes in DNS. The frequent updates of computer IP addresses are usually the result of Internet facing computers configured to receive their IP address from Cable/DSL Internet Service Providers (ISPs) using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). Users of Versiera will have the ability to assign alias names (i.e. mycomputer.locate-ip.com) to Versiera registered hosts and place them into one of several available domain zone files. Versiera agents residing on remote computers will be responsible for maintaining updated DNS records whenever the computer\'s IP address changes (more precisely the source Internet IP address seen by Versiera). Computers with a static Internet IP address that are not already referenced in any Internet DNS zone file can also benefit by using Versiera DDNS to allow for their referencing by an assigned alias name in Versiera management console. http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php#item105 Active protocol monitoring abilities including Internet Web Sites (http), Domain Name System (dns), and Mail Servers (smtp) released. http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php Toronto, Canada - August 21, 2006 - NetCraft Communications Inc. is pleased to announce the most recent upgrade of its Versiera Professional application service and Versiera Enterprise appliance which broadens the Versiera active protocol monitoring abilities to include Internet Web Sites (http), Domain Name System (dns), and Mail Servers (smtp). The upgrade will further differentiate Versiera Professional and Enterprise from the free Versiera Core version. Versiera Professional and Enterprise can now be configured to actively test remote web servers to ensure specific URLs are reachable, DNS servers are able to resolve fully qualified domain names (FQDN), and mail servers are accepting mail for delivery. http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php#item104 Versiera Blogs launched! http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php Toronto, Canada - August 16, 2006 - The first round of Versiera blogs has been posted and can found at http://blogs.versiera.com/. http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php#item103 New versions of Versiera released! http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php Toronto, Canada - July 6, 2006 - NetCraft Communications Inc. today released three new versions of its Versiera computer systems monitoring and management system. Versiera Core is a powerful application service offering that has more features available than any competing products, is simple to use and is completely free of charge. Versiera Professional is an enhanced version of Versiera Core that includes Compliance functionality for meeting Sarbanes Oxley and Bill 198 (ISO27001) governance requirements. The additional features that are soon to be released include System scheduling, software distribution and advanced monitoring. Versiera Enterprise will be available in Q3 of 2006 and is a dedicated appliance that includes all the features of Versiera Professional allowing you to manage your computer infrastructure on your premises. Versiera Enterprise includes options for high-availability and redundancy. http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php#item102 Beta Trial started. http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php Toronto, Canada - April 5, 2006 - NetCraft Communications Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Versiera, its much anticipated Internet on demand systems management and monitoring service. The technology is at hand to drastically change the way systems monitoring and management is delivered. Gone are the days of the costly legacy based solutions. It is time to start enjoying industry leading services at a fraction of the cost. With Versiera you can have a fully functional systems management and monitoring service available the same day just by deploying Versiera agents onto your system. Enterprise and technical staff engaged in management of corporate systems are invited to give Versiera a test run through our 30 day Free Trial period. Versiera includes support for most of the common operating systems and hardware architectures. Just visit our website at www.netcraftcommunications.com or go directly to the Versiera website at www.versiera.com . http://www.netcraftinc.com/news.php#item101