Levanta® (www.levanta.com), the leader in Linux data center automation, today announced that ServerTweak Networks, a premier dedicated server and colocation service provider, has successfully deployed Levanta's Intrepid Data Center Automation solution. Levanta's innovative, state-based transactional approach, combined with data virtualization, brings unparalleled speed and simplicity to Linux systems management.
ServerTweak (www.servertweak.com) provides corporations and private individuals with managed dedicated servers as well as server colocation and high speed all-fiber network connections. In addition to deploying Levanta to automate their own data center environment, ServerTweak has also leveraged the Intrepid to bolster their services for their colocation customers.
With two large data centers in Los Angeles and Fremont and plans to add several hundred servers in short order, ServerTweak needed a way to quickly add capacity and automate day-to-day systems management functions without significant increase in employee headcount. ServerTweak's customers needed an easy way to automate crucial Linux server operations without having to submit support tickets to ServerTweak every time an action needed to be completed.
ServerTweak selected Levanta's Intrepid as an integral part of their effort to enhance their operational agility and resiliency, to increase systems administrator productivity, and to enable their collocation customers the freedom of doing configuration changes themselves; with Levanta's solution in place, customers have the flexibility and control of being able to log in and make changes to their Linux environment as needed with the comfort of Intrepid's "safety net to rapidly recover their systems in case of erroneous changes. Levanta's appliances have helped ServerTweak free up their IT staff to spend more time assisting customers rather than manually fixing/configuring Linux servers.
"With our data centers so spread out, before implementing Levanta, making configuration changes, performing updates and fixing problems were laborious and extremely time-consuming activities, said Ivan Gonzalez, owner and CEO of ServerTweak. "Since deploying Levanta, we have been able to significantly shorten the time it takes to address the change requests made by our customers.
With Levanta's Intrepid appliances, the ServerTweak staff and customers are able to monitor all system changes in real time, both for their own system and for the systems of their customers. Further, most corrective actions are performed automatically by the Intrepid's configurable rules engine with minimal sys admin intervention. The result: quick and reliable recovery from system malfunctions, restoration of unrecoverable systems, reversal of any change, and migration of the entire system. This flexibility presents unprecedented value to both ServerTweak and its customers in the form of money, time, and effort savings.
Added Gonzalez, "With Levanta, we can add new servers or repurpose the existing ones, almost instantly. We can remotely monitor all our systems and those of our customers and quickly take corrective actions. More importantly, the Intrepid has enabled us to streamline our IT operation and create error-free processes to do it right, every time. We are elated to see that the Levanta solution has more than paid for itself in a matter of weeks, in direct cost savings, not to mention the gains in customer goodwill.
"Managed Services Providers are under a lot of competitive pressure to improve their uptime and at the same reduce operating expenses, said Anil Uberoi, CMO at Levanta. "Specifically, for Linux based data centers most of the cost benefits remain unrealized due to lack of comprehensive management solutions that can address the unique challenges presented by Linux. Levanta's systems management solutions are engineered specifically for Linux from the ground-up, without any multi-OS trade-offs. We are pleased that ServerTweak picked Levanta as a strategic partner to help them in their rapid growth.
About Levanta
Specialists in Linux data center automation, Levanta marries virtualization technology with comprehensive Linux life-cycle management. Levanta's Linux data center automation solutions offer system monitoring, a configurable policy engine, and automated change control, delivering dramatically faster and more flexible control of Linux on both physical and virtual machines. Levanta's turnkey solutions drastically reduce time to implementation, enable your business to be more agile and responsive to change, automatically allocate resources, roll-out new applications faster, increase application availability, improve service levels, and reduce TCO. Levanta's customers include industry leaders in e-commerce, new media, ISPs/ASPs/MSPs, financial services, education, and government. Levanta has partnerships with IBM, HP, Novell, and Red Hat. A private company, Levanta is headquartered in San Mateo and can be found on the Web at http://www.levanta.com/.
