CiRBA Inc. released version 4.2 of its Data Center Intelligence (DCI) solution. This release provides improved usability, performance enhancements, data acquisition enhancements and expanded system audit coverage. The company's solution helps organizations quickly analyze and map the safest path to an optimally consolidated and virtualized data center. Some of the new features in CiRBA 4.2 include: New Map Navig CiRBA Inc. released version 4.2 of its Data Center Intelligence (DCI) solution. This release provides improved usability, performance enhancements, data acquisition enhancements and expanded system audit coverage. The company’s solution helps organizations quickly analyze and map the safest path to an optimally consolidated and virtualized data center. Some of the new features in CiRBA 4.2 include: New Map Navigation Window – Through its unique compatibility maps, the CiRBA solution offers an intuitive way of visualizing an organization’s server environment. A new analysis Map Navigation Window in version 4.2 provides a practical and scalable visualization of large maps to enable data center managers to look at the big picture but quickly and easily zoom in and focus on areas that warrant closer examination. Customizable Statistical Distribution Report – CiRBA provides specialized Statistical Distribution Reports to facilitate compliance and consolidation analysis initiatives. The report identifies statistical outliers in an organization’s environment by providing detailed comparative variance and distribution analysis of the configuration of systems in a data center. In version 4.2, outliers can be selectively removed from the report to reflect an organization’s accepted server configuration variances Data Acquisition – Whether it’s for a one-time QuickStart implementation or a long term deployment with ongoing scheduled audits, CiRBA’s comprehensive data acquisition options provide unparalleled flexibility to collect configuration, workload and non-technical constraint data for data center transformation analysis. CiRBA’s already extensive list of data acquisition options has been further expanded in version 4.2. Agentless WMI Configuration and Performance Data Collection New Data Import interface Expanded SNMP Agent Coverage to include: SuSE SLES9 x64 SP3 and SLES10 x64 SuSE SLES8 SP1 and SLES9 SP3 for pSeries Microsoft Virtual Server version 2005 Analysis Usability and Performance – Extensive advancements in map caching and other performance optimizations in version 4.2 makes all actions, from generating analysis maps to making rule edits and performing what-if analysis, significantly faster. For more information, visit their Web site, here. Software Development