SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloupia, a leading data center orchestration and cloud management software provider, today announced it has joined the VCE Technology Alliance Partner program. Cloupia offers a complete end-to-end converged infrastructure management and orchestration solution to offer cloud services on VCE™ Vblock™ Systems. 

With customers that span worldwide and an active ecosystem of partners, Cloupia is well positioned to manage today's data center needs of enterprise and services providers alike.  Cloupia's cloud management software extends VCE's infrastructure management products and solutions to support the Vblock Systems and will facilitate their customer's journey to the cloud.  Further, Cloupia and VCE will help customers to manage and orchestrate their cloud and data center infrastructure, simplify management and reduce total cost of ownership.

VCE designs and delivers Vblock Systems, which seamlessly integrates leading compute, network and storage technologies.  Through intelligent discovery, awareness and automation, Vblock systems provide at-scale virtualization and application performance.  Vblock systems are designed with flexibility and scalability in mind, drawing upon the resources of RSA, EMC, Cisco and VMware.  The Cloupia orchestration solution provides cross-functional automated service provisioning across server, networking and storage components of the Vblock Systems.  Finally, it also provides a single management interface to automate discovery, ease configuration and establish compliance in the data center. 

"VCE Vblock Systems are optimized for companies running mission-critical and highly virtualized mixed workloads," said Trey Layton, CTO of VCE.  "By working with Cloupia through the VCE Technology Alliance Partner program, we're helping customers to save time, money and resources by simplifying and automating infrastructure management processes." 

"VCE Vblock Systems are a proven infrastructure that accelerates the journey to cloud computing, delivering a simple, efficient and flexible system based on best of breed components. Cloupia complements this converged infrastructure solution perfectly with its simplicity and comprehensive ability to manage and automate all components of Vblock Systems seamlessly and out of the box," said Raju Penmetsa, CTO of Cloupia. "The solutions we're building on Vblock Systems allow our customers to enable and build a software defined data center. We are pleased to bring additional value to customers through Cloupia Unified Management and Orchestration." 

About Cloupia

Cloupia is a datacenter and cloud management and orchestration software provider. Cloupia provides turnkey and comprehensive solution with infrastructure control, provisioning, management and monitoring capabilities across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Cloupia customers can build their own internal private clouds or public service provider clouds as well as manage hybrid clouds using single pane of glass. Cloupia's vision is to provide unified automation platform for evolving needs of dynamic data centers with heterogeneous platforms.  Cloupia is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit http://www.cloupia.com.  

VCE and Vblock are registered trademarks or trademarks of VCE Company LLC or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries.  

Partner PR Contact Name:  Vijay Parthasarathy
Phone number:  408 988 1111
Email: pr@cloupia.com

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