A first in integrated open compute, network and storage

Rotterdam, December 9th 2011 — Inprove, specializing in open IT infrastructure solutions, today announces Inprove Ocean at the Open Source Conference in Amsterdam. Inprove Ocean is a bottom up IT infrastructure that allows companies and hosting partners to build scalable, high performance virtualized environments. Inprove Ocean covers the three layers needed for a solid IT infrastructure basis: storage, networking and compute.
The foundation of Inprove Ocean consists of solutions that are open source and open standard for storage (Nexenta), network (Arista) and compute (Red Hat).

With this full open source offer Inprove has a European and world wide first. Koen de Jonge, IT infrastructure veteran and owner and CEO of Inprove: "We strongly believe in offering open solutions since that gives our clients flexibility and freedom. In most cases open products offer higher quality and a higher technical level of excellence compared to their closed counterparts. Furthermore, they are predominantly more sustainable because they can combine the most energy efficient and durably produced components."

De Jonge is providing with Inprove Ocean a combination of products that have been fully integrated and can be supported by Inprove on a 24/7 basis. "Open source and open standards are a good start, but it is imperative that the infrastructure keeps functional and operational over time. That is why we put a great deal of time and effort into optimizing the combination of products enabling us to deliver the highest level of support possible. Our clients depend on their IT infrastructure, which is why the foundation has to be perfect." The fact that Red Hat uses Inprove Ocean for demonstrating Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 beta at the Open Source Conference illustrates the quality of the solution.

Availability

Inprove Ocean will be available as soon as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization version 3 (RHEV 3) is publicly released. Expected release date will be early 2012. For more information about the Open Source Conference, see www.opensourceconference.nl