IDEAS Announces International Licensing Partnership with Global Data Center Intelligence Software Provider
Sydney, Australia – May 11, 2010
Australian company, Ideas International, (ASX:IDE), today announced that it is licensing its Relative Performance Estimate v2 (RPE2) and Environmental Database under a royalty driven license agreement as third party applications to international organizations. IDEAS has signed an agreement with CiRBA, a leader in Data Center Intelligence (DCI) software. CiRBA has licensed IDEAS Relative Performance Estimate v2 (RPE2) and Environmental Database for integration with its Data Center Intelligence software.
This partnership will provide CiRBA Powered Service Provider Partners along with direct license customers with the opportunity to utilize the most comprehensive relative performance data available in the market to power CiRBA’s analytics software.
RPE2 provides comparable performance information for server consolidation studies and for the initial evaluation phase of server selection. IDEAS RPE2 methodology incorporates a composite workload profile comprising six industry benchmarks, full coverage for all leading vendor server families and variants and coverage of current and obsolete models. Utilization of the IDEAS independent performance ranking data provides CiRBA users with answers based on the most comprehensive performance data available, saving them time and increasing the accuracy of benchmark matches.
Stephen Bowhill, Ideas International CEO added: “IDEAS is pleased to announce the first of its third party application licensing partnerships. CiRBA is a leader in the data center analytics market and this partnership further signifies the value of our product offerings, not only to this international partner but to its corporate end users. We look forward to expanding our footprint in the end user corporate market as this relationship grows.”
“We are very excited to provide our partners and customers with the opportunity to access IDEAS’ cross-platform RPE2 performance rankings and environmental data as part of a CiRBA analysis,” said Andrew Hillier, CTO and co-founder of CiRBA. “By integrating this data, CiRBA licensees will benefit from broader coverage of hardware and as a result, they will not only obtain actionable answers faster, but they will more likely find an exact benchmark match for greater accuracy in the normalization of data.”
The IDEAS RPE2 and Environmental data will be free to CiRBA’s partners to exploit for initial transformational analysis in assessments via CiRBA Version 5.3. The IDEAS data will be available to CiRBA’s direct license customers for an additional fee.
About Ideas International (IDEAS)
IDEAS is the leading global supplier of comparative intelligence on enterprise IT infrastructure. Servicing both IT vendors and large-scale IT users, IDEAS products focus on: servers; storage; virtualization and consolidation; and software and infrastructure services. IDEAS online products are backed by expert industry analysts who can also deliver specialized advisory and consulting services.
About CiRBA Inc.
CiRBA is a leading provider of Data Center Intelligence (DCI) software that enables leading systems integrators and Global 5000 organizations to safely maximise efficiency through the intelligent planning and management of physical and virtual infrastructure. Only CiRBA’s policy-driven, multi-dimensional analytics answer the questions of where to place workloads and how to allocate and configure resources.
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