The early access offering is free, with a paid licenses and per-hour subscriptions available once the final product ships.
Cloud-based systems management company ScaleXtreme Inc. has announced the general availability of its early access product. With the early access model, system administrators and channel pros can log on to www.scalextreme.com and create a free account for tryout.
ScaleXtreme is a cloud-based systems management product and, for the first time, system admins can manage all of their servers from a single place in the cloud.
“ScaleXtreme provides unified management of all of an organization’s servers, spanning private and public cloud machines, different public cloud providers running on any virtualization platform, and even physical machines,” states ScaleXtreme in a press release submitted to Channel Pro-SMB.
Additional features include “live browse” of machines, one-to-many operations on the file system, inventory, monitoring, and script-based automation across multiple machines.
ScaleXtreme’s product is designed as an alternative to on-premise systems management products. “Unlike these products, which require months of complex implementation work,” states the cloud-based systems management company, “ScaleXtreme can be deployed in minutes.”
ScaleXtreme offers subscription and per-hour pricing models to fit the current use of virtualized and public cloud machines. The early access offering is free, with a paid licenses and per-hour subscriptions available when the final product ships.
Also available is a new “App Store” for scripts that enables systems administrators to download and publish their own scripts from a common store in the cloud. The App Store is closely integrated into the service itself, enabling users to select a script from the App Store and have it automatically appear in the product “with no downloads, uploads, or complex handling of files,” according to ScaleXtreme.