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Start-up Evergrid enters virtualization fray
Evergrid’s virtualization software lets IT staff shift application loads to handle availability and resource-management issues.
Evergrid, a start-up coming out of stealth mode this week, is promising mainframe-like reliability for applications running on clusters of commodity Linux servers.
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The company’s virtualization software is designed to separate applications from the operating system so that software processes can be saved at any point in time, thus reducing downtime and allowing applications to be shifted as necessary. Evergrid is launching at the SuperComputing 2006 show going on this week in Tampa, Fla.
“Today, complex parallel applications . . . are constrained by hardware,” says Dave Anderson, Evergrid’s CEO. Anderson was formerly CEO of e-mail security firm Sendmail and also served as CTO and general manager at Amdahl before coming to Evergrid.
When there are hardware failures, applications running in parallel on commodity clusters typically have to be completely restarted. In addition, there is no easy way to move applications among different hardware platforms, he says.
“We end up with silos and servers dedicated to a particular application because we don’t have the ability to move servers back and forth from one kind of application to another, so that leads to increased management costs,” Anderson says.
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Evergrid tackles both the availability and resource-management issues with its Availability Management Suite of software, which includes Evergrid Availability Services for application recovery and restart and Evergrid Resource Manager for workload scheduling, according to Anderson.
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