With virtualization and disaster recovery on the minds of IT organizations around the globe, Scalent Systems announces an update for their solution that seems to fit right in. The company announced the release of Scalent V/OE software version 2.5 - the DR Edition of Scalent V/OE. It adds features that are tailored for disaster recovery scenarios. Datacenter managers are constantly trying to increase flexibility With virtualization and disaster recovery on the minds of IT organizations around the globe, Scalent Systems announces an update for their solution that seems to fit right in. The company announced the release of Scalent V/OE software version 2.5 – the DR Edition of Scalent V/OE. It adds features that are tailored for disaster recovery scenarios.Datacenter managers are constantly trying to increase flexibility and response time as they combat spiriling IT costs. And Scalent believes the answer is their software, which allows customers to take their datacenters from a state of powered off hardware with no software to a live environment with network and storage connectivity, in five minutes or less.According to the company, their solution addresses the entire data center environment, not just the individual server “box.” The company’s software enables datacenter operation owners to rapidly change entire systems and associated topologies (which servers are running, what software is running on them, and how they’re connected to network and storage) without altering physical infrastructure. With Scalent software, the claim to fame is instead of spending hours or days reloading software, adjusting configurations, and even moving machines and cables, IT teams can rack once, cable once, then reconfigure repeatedly, in minutes, effortlessly. Failover is automatic, and data center functionality matches the data center schematic. Scalent says the infrastructure flexibility creates a significant increase in server utilization and reaction time. Instead of provisioning each application silo for peak demand conditions, IT can provision for average demand and shift spare resources to match business needs. Specific business systems can be redeployed as dictated by business priorities, time of day or other criteria. New features include: Image Portability: Support for Windows SAN Booting across disparate hardware Clustering Replacement: Automatic failover eliminates need for clustering software .NET: Addition of a .NET API for third-party systems integration and controlFor more information, visit their Web site, here. Software Development