LinMin(TM) Enables any Open Source or Proprietary Application to Provision Linux...

LinMin(TM) Enables any Open Source or Proprietary Application to Provision Linux and Windows Systems From Bare Metal

LinMin Application Programming Interface (API) Adds Bare Metal
Provisioning Capabilities to Any existing Monitoring, Hosting, System,
Cloud Computing, SaaS or Other IT management Software
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
LinMin, provider of the award-winning LinMin Bare Metal
Provisioning(TM) solution, today unveiled Release 5.2, featuring a new
Application Programming Interface (API), single-command installation,
numerous feature enhancements and support for the provisioning and
imaging of additional platforms. The API is designed to allow
customers and partners to integrate LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning
into environments that presently cannot do bare metal provisioning of
Microsoft Windows(R), Red Hat(R), Novell(R), Ubuntu(R), CentOS, Fedora
or Asianux on physical systems or virtual machines.

LinMin customers requested the API for different business reasons
but with common objectives: automation, cost reduction, quality and
business agility. Web hosting and dedicated server hosting companies
want customer signup and billing software to automatically trigger the
provisioning of systems with the customer's choice of operating system
and applications. Corporate data center customers need a way to enable
their load balancing, monitoring, discovery/availability or systems
management software to quickly repurpose available systems. Providers
of Cloud Computing environments need to automate the provisioning of
the "commodity hardware infrastructure layer" and its subsequent
repurposing for optimized demand elasticity.

"IPNetZone has come to rely on LinMin for both the provisioning
and imaging of servers in our various co-location sites," said James
Karimi, CTO of IPNetZone, a New York-based provider of security,
monitoring and hosting services. "LinMin's new API will enable us to
offer even better responsiveness to customer requests for additional
and/or differently-configured Linux and Windows servers."

"Having a best-of-breed provisioning and imaging solution was a
great starting point, but being a standalone product didn't maximize
the potential of LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning," said Laurent Gharda,
CEO and founder of LinMin Corp. "Now, with the new LinMin API,
customers can optimize IT resources (physical, virtual and human)
around business processes, not the other way around."

LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 5.2 also introduces a fully
automated installation process. With a single command, LinMin detects
all networking attributes, then downloads, installs and configures a
database, network services and other required software components, and
presents to the administrator a fully configured provisioning and
imaging server in about 5 minutes. LBMP 5.2 also supports the
provisioning of additional platforms, including 32-bit and 64-bit
versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, Novell SLES10 SP2, CentOS
5.2, Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04.1.

About LinMin:

LinMin provides software that remotely provisions and images Linux
and Windows on servers, blades, PCs, appliances and virtual machines.
LinMin is based in Redwood City, Calif. For more information, please
visit www.linmin.com. Please send media inquiries to pr@linmin.com.

(C)2008 LinMin Corp. All Rights Reserved.

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

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