Cloupia Named Cloud Management Cool Vendor 2012 by Leading Industry Analyst Firm Gartner

Santa Clara, CA., April 17, 2012 – Cloupia, cloud and data center management and automation software provider, announced that it has been named a “Cool Vendor in Cloud Management, 2012” by Gartner, Inc. The April 11, 2012 report, authored by distinguished analysts and VPs - Milind Govekar, Cameron Haight and Donna Scott, highlights a select group of vendors that are innovative in private and hybrid cloud management.

According to this Report, “As enterprises deploy private clouds, interest in managing them and hybrid cloud implementations is rising. Innovative vendors and technologies can help manage infrastructure resources to deliver service quality, security and availability, as well as workloads, in private, hybrid cloud environments.”

“We are honoured to be named as Cool Vendors in Cloud Management by Gartner”, said Raju Datla, CEO of Cloupia. “We consider our inclusion in the Cool Vendor report as recognition for Cloupia’s success in helping its customers globally with rapid cloud and data center transformation while significantly improving operational efficiencies. As a leading vendor of unified management and automation for converged infrastructure such as FlexPod, we will continue to strengthen our position to lead data center and converged infrastructure management and automation space.”

Cloupia’s award winning flagship product, Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller, provides unified cloud and datacenter management and automation 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. Using Cloupia turnkey and extensible automation platform, our customers can start small and evolve to a holistic data center solution with required policy-driven governance, complete security containers, lifecycle and operation automation of entire stack.

About Gartner’s Cool Vendor Selection Process
Gartner, Inc., Cool Vendors in Cloud Management, 2012, Milind Govekar, Cameron Haight and Donna Scott , Published: 11 April 2012.

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About Cloupia
Cloupia, a cloud automation and management software provider, offers suite of cloud computing products and solutions to power the next generation dynamic data centers. Cloupia powers enterprises and service provides with its data center and cloud automation offerings. Cloupia helps organizations to smoothly evolve from static data center or virtual environments to private and public cloud environments with the necessary tools and automation. Cloupia has created a platform and suite of data Center and cloud automation products built from ground-up. Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller enables delivery of ITaaS by supporting multi-vendor Virtual and Physical Infrastructures and multi clouds to address evolving enterprise needs.