LineSider’s OverDrive was named as one of the top 10 hot tools for the next-generation data center! Check it out here.
Feature editor Beth Schultz writes “Why it’s interesting: This technology will become increasingly important as enterprise IT adds desktop virtualization, test lab automation and other highly dynamic workloads to the data center, says Rachel Chalmers, infrastructure management research director at The 451 Group. While IT has a choice of automation software for provisioning and de-provisioning virtual machines on the server side, the same hasn’t been true for switches and routers that connect those systems to one another. That’s the gap LineSider is trying to address, she says. Perhaps better called an abstraction layer than virtualization, OverDrive ‘provides a uniform interface through which those devices can be controlled automatically according to business policy,’ Chalmers adds.”
