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<img src="http://www.qlusters.com/templates/qlusters_test3/images/logo.jpg" align="right" alt="Open Sourcer Qlusters Launches Commercial Sys Management">Open Sourcer Qlusters Launches Commercial Sys Management
By Jacqueline Emigh
September 25, 2006 10:13:51 AM

Today, open source player Qlusters will roll out the first commercial edition of its multiplatform systems management architecture, aiming its new OpenQRM Pro product at SMB and enterprise customers that don't want to pay the heftier prices of existing offerings from IBM, HP, and BMC.

In a pre-briefing for LinuxPlanet, Qlusters CTO William Hurley said that OpenQRM Pro will include five new proprietary plug-ins not available with OpenQRM, an LDAP-enabled open source systems management suite downloadable free of charge from the company's Web site. Hurley expects that, later this year, Qlusters (pronounced "Clusters") will announce additional plug-ins for the commercial product, including some modules to be produced by third-party partners.

The initial add-ins in OpenQRM Pro are geared to server provisioning and requisitioning, Hurley said. Specific capabilities of the commercial release include LDAP integration, with authentication through LDAP server; diskless server support; policy-driven resource allocation; audit trails of resource request and usage; and automatic, policy-based de-provision of resources.

Qlusters first moved to an open source model in January, launching an open source community and opening up the source code to its existing QRM software, an offering available up to that time only as a commercial product. Since then, the OpenQRM open source software has enjoyed almost 50,000 downloads, according to the CTO. About half of those downloads have happened over the past 60 days.

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