Librato Introduces Enterprise-Class Checkpoint/Restart Solution

Librato®, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions that increase the utilization of cloud and data center resources, today announced Librato Availability Services™ 2.0. Librato Availability Services is a unique product that delivers robust, application-transparent checkpoint, preemption, migration, and restart capabilities for serial and parallel applications to protect against hardware and software failures and to increase utilization of cluster resources. It requires no application or operating system modification and integrates seamlessly with popular schedulers including Runtime Design Automation’s Network Computer, Platform Computing’s LSF, Sun’s Grid Engine and Altair’s PBS Pro. The new release supports a wide range of applications, Ethernet and InfiniBand interconnects, and a variety of MPI stacks, including HP-MPI (Platform MPI), Open MPI and MVAPICH.

“As application workloads are increasing in complexity and size, data center managers need enterprise-class solutions to increase resource utilization and meet service level agreements,” said Andrea Casotto, CTO of Runtime Design Automation. “Using Runtime Design Automation’s Network Computer along with Availability Service enables customers to protect valuable compute time and increase application quality of service even in the face of unexpected failures or other interruptions.”

Jobs in grid environments that require long run times, possibly across large numbers of compute nodes are often subject to high failure rates, resulting in lower throughput and poor server utilization. With the ability to save the entire state of a running application in real time, Availability Services enables:

• Rapid recovery from hardware failures with minimal loss of compute cycles by restarting from a previous checkpoint
• Increased resource utilization and Quality of Service by allowing long-running jobs to be suspended and resumed in case higher priority jobs need to be scheduled
• Application fault tolerance by migrating entire applications or “ranks” of parallel jobs from servers that have failed or require maintenance to healthy servers
• Improved server utilization through load balancing, by migrating applications to less loaded servers

“Availability Services provides data center managers a commercial grade checkpoint/restart solution to increase resource utilization and Quality of Service in a wide-range of Linux-based application environments,” said Fred van den Bosch, CEO of Librato, Inc. “Availability Services 2.0 significantly expands the range of supported applications and configurations, making it possible to use one standardized mechanism for protecting all applications without requiring changes to the application code or operating system.”

Availability and Pricing

Librato Availability Services 2.0 is now available. Annual subscription pricing is based on CPU sockets and volume pricing is also available. For more information, visit http://www.librato.com or contact sales@librato.com.

About Librato, Inc.

Librato, Inc., is a leading provider of software for maximizing the utilization of hardware and software assets in clouds and data centers, while maintaining the desired application Quality of Service. Librato’s Load Manager and Smart Suspend products manage the use of server resources and software licenses for interactive and background (grid) workloads, PaaS and SaaS cloud providers, cloud hosted applications, and databases. Its Availability Services product provides high availability (Checkpoint/Restart) solutions for grid workloads. Librato’s products are based on a unique, application-centric variation on virtualization that is transparently interposed between application and Operating System, and allows the products to be easily deployed in existing data center or cloud environments and generate a rapid return on investment. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit  http://www.librato.com.

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