Opsware (www.opsware.com), a developer of data center automation software, announced that the Opsware System’s Multimaster capabilities, which automate data center operations across geographically separate locations, has registered its 25th deployment in large-scale data centers over the world. According to the company, Multimaster capabilities, which considerably decrease costs connected with disaster recovery, are crucial to the popularity of Opsware. These capabilities quicken the disaster recovery process by enabling the immediate rebuilding of the environment including applications, server platforms and software infrastructure.
Tim Howes, executive vice president of development and chief technical officer at Opsware, said that achieving consistent operations was a critical component in creating a stable and secure IT environment able to withstand failure or disaster. He noted that Opsware System was the only system with Multimaster capability, which provided IT the ability to visualize an environment and share knowledge about that environment across the enterprise. He added that because of these capabilities, Opsware enabled organizations to create hardened IT operations that could be rapidly recovered in the event of a disaster.
