Released on: September 11, 2007, 8:48 am

Press Release Author: CiRBA

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: VMware-Focused Release Improves Planning and Long-Term
Management of Virtualization and Consolidation Initiatives

Press Release Body: CiRBA Inc., a leader in Data Center Intelligence, today
announced the release of Version 4.4 of its leading consolidation and virtualization
analysis software solution. New functionality included in Version 4.4 ensures that
organizations achieve optimal initial placements for virtual machines, and improves
the ability to manage and govern environments virtualized using VMware.

CiRBA's unique multi-dimensional analysis capabilities enable organizations to
simultaneously analyze critical business and technical constraints and detailed
workload data to map virtualization opportunities. With Version 4.4, CiRBA enables
organizations to factor into their analysis the unique characteristics of VMware's
virtualization technologies, such as VMware-associated CPU overhead, to further
enhance the accuracy of virtualization planning.

Once organizations have used CiRBA to determine optimal initial placements and
cluster design, CiRBA also helps them keep environments optimized over the long term
by integrating with VMware's Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). Through this
integration, it is seamless to create and synchronize rules that maintain optimal
placement of virtual machines within virtualized environments.

"The combined power of VMware's VMotion and Distributed Resource Scheduler will
undoubtedly have a significant impact on management processes within data centers,"
said Andrew Hillier, co-founder and CTO of CiRBA. "However, leveraging the benefits
of these tools without sound boundaries runs the risk of violating key constraints.
CiRBA's integration with VMware's DRS makes it easy to create sophisticated DRS
rules and manage them over time."

Highlights of CiRBA Version 4.4 include:

. VMware DRS Integration - VMware's Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) determines
motion paths for virtual machines based on workload balancing criteria, without
consideration for the technical and business constraints used to determine virtual
machine placement. While DRS supports affinity and anti-affinity rules to identify
where systems should or shouldn't reside, these rules must be developed and entered
manually. CiRBA 4.4 enables organizations to analyze environments, factor in
technical and business constraints, and automatically populate and synchronize
VMware DRS rules.

. Virtualization Overhead Modeling - The ability to accurately model workloads is
critical to virtualization planning. Virtual machines create CPU overhead, and until
now VMware customers had to rely on percentage-based estimates of those overhead
levels. With Version 4.4, CiRBA enables organizations to accurately model VMware
workloads including virtualization overhead by using an algorithm to automatically
calculate CPU overhead by converting disk and network IO into projected CPU load.

. VMware VMotion Compatibility Analysis - VMotion is a powerful capability that
enables organizations to migrate virtual images between compatible servers without
experiencing downtime. CiRBA has developed new rules that enable organizations to
map where VMotion will and won't work amongst servers they already own or intend to
purchase.

Pricing and Availability
CiRBA 4.4 will be available September 30, 2007. The solution is licensed on a
monthly basis with pricing based on the number of server operating systems analyzed
and term of commitment. For more information, visit www.cirba.com.

About CiRBA Inc.
CiRBA is a leading provider of Data Center Intelligence (DCI) solutions. CiRBA
provides enterprise software that enables Global 5000 organizations to rapidly
analyze and visually map the safest path to an optimally consolidated and
virtualized data center. Using a unique cross platform, multi-strategy approach,
CiRBA addresses all configuration, workload and business constraints to ensure
success in any consolidation initiative. For more information, visit www.cirba.com.


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