Canada's long time virtualization solution provider, PlateSpin, has enhanced its PowerConvert solution with a minor dot release advancing the software product to a 6.6 release version. PowerConvert 6.6, which enables customers to manage and move workloads at will across a variety of virtual and physical infrastructures, provides new workload protection capabilities for the growing number of PlateSpin's medium an Canada’s long time virtualization solution provider, PlateSpin, has enhanced its PowerConvert solution with a minor dot release advancing the software product to a 6.6 release version. PowerConvert 6.6, which enables customers to manage and move workloads at will across a variety of virtual and physical infrastructures, provides new workload protection capabilities for the growing number of PlateSpin’s medium and large datacenter customers.“Organizations are starting to recognize that server workloads – the data, applications and operating system that reside on a physical or virtual server – are becoming the base unit of business value in the data center,” said Stephen Pollack, PlateSpin founder and CEO. “PlateSpin’s strategy to unify the management of the workload lifecycle is aimed at empowering organizations with the solutions they need to profile, manage, optimize and protect all workloads in the data center. Our broad vision for unifying the management of workloads throughout their lifecycle continues to resonate with customers. Within a single technology platform investment, data centers are able to leverage PlateSpin’s workload awareness and anywhere-to-anywhere (X2X) workload migration capabilities to successfully accomplish common IT initiatives such as server consolidation, hardware migration and cost-effective disaster recovery.”When used in combination with PowerRecon 3.0, PlateSpin’s advanced workload profiling, analysis and planning solution, customers can effectively choose the best protection strategy for each workload in the data center based on a thorough time-based workload profile and real-time resource utilization data. New features found in PowerConvert 6.6 include the following: Block-Level Replication – In addition to file-based replication, PowerConvert now provides high-speed block-level replication to further enhance the product’s data protection and disaster recovery capabilities. With block-level transfer, only the portion of a file that has changed is replicated, making it ideal for incrementally synchronizing larger database servers and enabling efficient offsite data transfers. Block-level replication is offered as an option at a premium price. Server Sync – Customers can now perform an incremental transfer to a server workload without first having to perform a full PowerConvert server conversion. By separating full and incremental transfers, customers gain more flexibility in performing file-based transfers over the network to a remote recovery site, especially when slow-speed connections are the only options. Wizards and Easy Job Configuration – With intuitive built-in conversion logic and an updated drag-and-drop interface, PowerConvert reduces learning curves and shortens the time to complete projects. Additionally, new purpose-built wizards for common tasks and mature job configuration capabilities have been added to make the process of configuring anywhere-to-anywhere workload movement faster, easier and more reliable. PowerConvert 6.6 is available now. Click here to find out more information about this product. Software Development