LinMin(TM) Helps IT Reduce Energy and Labor Costs With ''Fire and Forget'' Provisioning

LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 5.1 Simplifies the Unattended
Deployment of Systems and Virtual Machines on New Platforms, Adds
''Green'' Features and Innovative Provisioning Business Rules
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
LinMin, provider of the most cost-effective bare metal system
provisioning solution available, announced significant enhancements to
its popular LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning (LBMP(TM)). LBMP 5.1
includes new features to help customers reduce energy consumption and
contain labor costs. With new platforms added, LBMP now supports over
50 different versions and architectures of Red Hat(R), Novell(R),
Ubuntu(R), Fedora, CentOS and Asianux(R) Linux(R), and the most
popular versions of Microsoft(R) Windows(R).

LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning now makes it easy for IT
organizations to "park" or temporarily decommission systems to reduce
energy consumption and carbon footprint. LinMin's unique combination
of rules-based bare metal installation of Linux and Windows operating
systems as well as bare metal imaging for Linux blends two very
different, yet complementary, technologies accessed through a single
graphical user interface. Organizations can easily capture Linux disk
snapshots of older, power-hungry systems for safekeeping, then deploy
operating system and application stacks or "roles" onto newer, more
energy-efficient hardware with the assurance that the older systems
can be either reprovisioned, repurposed or re-imaged for use during
peak demand periods, or used as cold standby backup systems.

LinMin has also added new business rules to accommodate IT teams
required to support more systems while controlling headcount. "Fire
and Forget" Provisioning gives IT professionals complete control over
each system. By setting specific rules such as "always provision",
"never provision", "provision only once then never provision", "boot
to local disk", "capture disk image" and "restore disk image", system
activities can be orchestrated ahead of time, yet changed at any time
with a few mouse clicks. Every system can deterministically install
and configure specific operating systems and applications, in addition
to identity, network, security and other settings.

"Razor Servers and LinMin worked closely together to augment
LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning with capabilities ideally suited to web
hosting companies and IT organizations with heterogeneous data centers
and limited personnel," said Matt Kelly, CEO of Razor Servers, a
Philadelphia-based dedicated hosting company. "With LinMin's new 'fire
and forget' provisioning business rules, we reduce labor costs, human
error and elapsed time in getting new Linux and Windows
servers online."

"With skyrocketing energy prices and shrinking IT budgets,
reducing expenses is more important than ever. LinMin helps customers
contain or reduce these costs," said Laurent Gharda, CEO and founder
of LinMin. "LBMP 5.1 has a re-designed user interface, 'fire and
forget' to complement our 'on the fly' provisioning capabilities and
support for many new Linux distributions. We even have built-in
support for versions of Linux that are either just now entering beta
or soon will be, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, Fedora 9,
Novell SLES 10 SP2 and even SLES 11, giving customers a head start in
rolling out even more energy-efficient operating systems on newer,
greener hardware. LinMin is systems management-agnostic as it can
install third party management agents then automatically pass control
of freshly provisioned or re-purposed systems over to the customer's
systems management infrastructure."

LBMP is available for purchase and download at www.linmin.com.
Annual subscriptions cost $100 for 10 client systems, $400 for 100
client systems and $750 for 250 clients systems. Perpetual licenses
are also available for $250, $1,000 and $1,875 respectively.

About LinMin:

LinMin provides software that remotely deploys Linux and Windows
on servers, blades, PCs, appliances and virtual machines. LinMin Bare
Metal Provisioning (LBMP) is the industry's only truly affordable
system provisioning solution that can be implemented by IT
organizations of any size with very limited budgets, yet LBMP's
capabilities match or exceed solutions costing fifty times more.
LinMin is based in Redwood City, CA. For more information, please
visit www.linmin.com. Please send media inquiries to pr@linmin.com.

(C)2008 LinMin Corp. All Rights Reserved. LinMin, LinMin Bare
Metal Provisioning and LBMP are trademarks of LinMin Corp. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

LinMin
Laurent Gharda, 650-520-9549
pr@linmin.com

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