PlateSpin recently announced the release of a special version of their PowerRecon software that allows data center professionals to get a jump-start on their virtualization and server consolidation projects at no cost. The software enables users to take a complete inventory of x86-based physical servers or virtual machines running VMware or Microsoft Virtual Server across the enterprise without needing to instal PlateSpin recently announced the release of a special version of their PowerRecon software that allows data center professionals to get a jump-start on their virtualization and server consolidation projects at no cost. The software enables users to take a complete inventory of x86-based physical servers or virtual machines running VMware or Microsoft Virtual Server across the enterprise without needing to install software agents. PowerRecon lets administrators automatically collect hardware information across Windows and Linux services such as CPU, disk, memory and network and also collect software information from servers such as OS configurations and list of installed and running applications for analysis.Data centers can also use the free version for other purposes including server inventory, asset management, and preliminary capacity planning for disaster recovery, consolidation or virtualization. “This newest release marks the first completely free product that PlateSpin has announced to the market in order to fulfill demand for easy-to-use, agentless software tools for data center asset inventory,” said John Stetic, Director of Product Management at PlateSpin. “Users can take inventory for hundreds of servers distributed across the enterprise without leaving their chair.”In addition to announcing the free version of PowerRecon, PlateSpin also announced a list of new enhancements that were made to the full version of the product. The full version has added support for VMware Infrastructure 3 and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. And for larger data centers, the full product offers enhanced scalability as well as an application and services workload report. PlateSpin PowerRecon 2.2 is available now and comes in three different software packages. The free version can be downloaded from PlateSpin’s Web site or any of the participating PlateSpin partner Web sites. Software Development