Consera Software today announced the first member of its new product family, Consera AgileOne(TM), delivering a robust environment that allows organizations to optimize their server resources while enabling change and flexibility in file server lifecycle management.

The new product utilizes an Intelligent Automation System, a powerful underlying system that provides a new level of capabilities and capacities to IT staff when working with their computing infrastructure, including automating workflows, incorporating best practices and adapting infrastructure management operations to a specific environment. Consera was founded by Microsoft veteran Frank Artale and received Series A venture funding from Ignition Partners, Intel Capital and Matrix Partners, totaling $8.5 million.The process of deploying, migrating or consolidating servers is a time-consuming and frustrating task, with a success rate of less than 30 percent," said Ken Winell, president and CEO of Econium LLC. "Following pages and pages of handwritten instructions is tedious and inaccurate, and until now, the only way to effectively manage the process. Consera AgileOne automates the process and does it quickly and accurately, enabling our IT department to improve the overall quality of our infrastructure, while at the same time streamlining the management of our clients' operations." Consera AgileOne dramatically increases flexibility in managing servers, activating the corporate IT organization and allowing it to better meet the business needs of the organization. By giving IT the visibility and adaptability they need to control their complex server environments, IT professionals can freely manage, take action and deliver improved performance on a daily basis. The product leverages Consera's powerful underlying Intelligent Automation System to effectively abstract services from the physical and operating system infrastructure, delivering complete control in the management of those services. This proprietary technology allows Consera AgileOne to encapsulate lifecycle operations and configuration information related to a computing service, codify workflows while incorporating best practices, and combine them through an Intelligent Automation Engine that discovers, maps, schedules and executes the service management tasks appropriately.

Consera AgileOne is built on a scalable agentless architecture, delivering powerful file server lifecycle management capabilities, automating the process of deploying, migrating, consolidating and redeploying servers throughout an organization. Focusing on effective server lifecycle management, file sharing service management and comprehensive administrative capabilities; Consera AgileOne integrates into the existing environment and is easily managed through either a Web Console or a command line interface. The product supports the newest technology, including Microsoft's Automated Deployment Services (ADS). The key features of Consera AgileOne include:

-- Server Lifecycle Management -- Supports discovery, deployment,

migration, consolidation and redeployment of file servers.

This includes determining file servers of interest on the

network, exposing the properties and establishing a simple

view of the server infrastructure without any manual

exploration. Consera AgileOne enables IT to add and configure

a new file sharing service with custom configuration and

provisioning bare metal servers. File servers can be migrated

with all of the data and relevant configuration, such as

permissions and security, removing the burden from these human

intensive tasks. Multiple servers can be consolidated to a

single destination or redeployed efficiently, based on

changing business needs.

-- File Sharing Service Management -- Allows users to move file

shares with configuration information related to them such as

permissions and security from source to destination. Consera

AgileOne also enables users to add and configure a file

sharing service on an existing server, using standard or

customized configuration templates.

-- Administrative Capabilities -- Consera AgileOne allows for

share and directory conflict management to occur automatically

with operator-assisted resolution for all operations. Easy

access to operations and control settings is available through

a Web Console or command line interface. The product provides

flexible access to its capabilities by the various classes of

users it supports while also producing comprehensive logs for

job analysis and reporting and providing automatic roll back

when unanticipated errors occur. Consera AgileOne incorporates

a scalable, agentless architecture, allowing customization of

operations and scheduled or immediate operations.