Platform Computing has released a major upgrade to its Infrastructure Sharing Facility (ISF) software for private cloud enablement/management in the enterprise datacenter. ISF lets IT administrators pool physical and virtual infrastructure and set resource and workload scheduling policies, and it provides application and workload integrations, combining EGO (the resource allocation engine that populates compute nodes with a single common agent) and Platform's VM Orchestrator (self-service virtualization and chargeback management) technologies.

Version 2.1 is a major upgrade of Platform's ISF – private and hybrid cloud – software. ISF integrates with existing third-party security and provisioning management tools and is hardware, OS and VM agnostic. New features include a single cloud pane for IT administrators; new end-user portal UI; unlimited delegated administration; and new Chinese internationalization. For resource management, it offers deeper VMWare integration, including self-service distributed resource scheduling; 'active-active' multiple datacenter support; and enhanced bursting to Amazon EC2 (VPC). At the application layer, it supports out-of-the-box application catalog building blocks, as well as application lifecycle
enhancements (e.g., version, clone). ISF is licensed per socket/server through annual subscription or perpetual models. Deals start at about $100,000.

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