On March 24, 2010, Lanamark announced Lanamark Suite 2010. The new version unifies analysis of applications, users, workloads and the underlying IT infrastructure. Here is a summary of new features:
Many thanks to all customers and partners who pushed the boundaries of innovation at Lanamark and provided ongoing product feedback, reviews and field validation.
Today Lanamark announced availability of Lanamark Suite Managed Services Edition which enables IT consultants, managed service providers, system integrators and value-added resellers to offer subscription-based capacity management and optimization services. Here is a summary of the two editions:
Professional Services Edition
Lanamark Suite Professional Services Edition enables solution providers to deliver project-based assessment, planning and design services across desktops, servers and storage. It facilitates delivery of the following solutions and services:
Managed Services Edition
Lanamark Suite Managed Services Edition enables solution providers to deliver subscription-based capacity management and optimization services across physical and virtual infrastructure. It facilitates delivery of the following solutions and services:
Rather than resell complex capacity planning software such as Novell PlateSpin Recon, solution providers can instead deliver capacity planning and optimization as a service. This allows customers to focus on their core business rather than purchase expensive software and maintain in-house expertise for using it.
Lanamark today announced a partnership with First Distribution, IBM's largest distributor in Africa. First Distribution is a true value-added distributor with a focus on data centre and virtulization solutions. The partnership will enable VARs, system integrators and consultants working with First Distribution to use Lanamark Suite to design and deliver desktop virtualization, server virtualization and storage solutions to enterprises in South Africa.
Our partnership further validates our value proposition to the IT channel around design and delivery of application virtualization, desktop virtualization, server virtualization and storage solutions. To excel in the highly competitive virtualization services marketplace, solution providers need to be armed with the best sales and service delivery tools and to provide customers with cross-vendor solutions. Lanamark Suite enables our partners set themselves apart and deliver highly optimized, enterprise-class virtualization solutions across leading virtualization platforms.
On November 10, 2009 Lanamark announced Lanamark Suite 2009 R2. The new release dramatically extends scalability to 50,000 systems and adds support for the latest OS and virtualization platforms, including: Citrix XenServer 5.5, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows 7, VMware vSphere 4.0 and VMware vCenter. Lanamark also introduces aggressive pricing for virtual machines and enhances the Lanamark Storage Design Module to provide deep insight into current and historical usage of local and networked storage resources.
The new release is a culmination of more than nine months of close collaboration with our alliance and channel partners. Many thanks to everyone who helped us push the envelope of innovation and deliver a world-class product.
To provide enterprises with virtualization management capabilities, Citrix offers Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Hyper-V in Enterprise and Platinum editions. What's interesting is that the pricing for the Hyper-V version is actually cheaper than it is for the XenServer version. In essence, Citrix is incentivizing customers to go with Hyper-V.
As of October 22, 2009 the per-server pricing is as follows:
In a nutshell, Citrix Essentials is
What's even more interesting is that Citrix even offers a free Citrix Essentials Express Edition for Hyper-V but not for XenServer.
Regardless of the underlying platform selected, Lanamark Suite supports virtual infrastructure solution design (including licensing calculations) for both Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V. Citrix Essentials in Enterprise and Platinum Editions as well as Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager can be included in the what-if scenarios presented to enterprise customers by Lanamark partners.
Lanamark today announced a partnership with Avnet Technology Solutions, a leading distributor of enterprise computing products, software and services with locations in more than 30 countries. The partnership will enable value-added resellers, system integrators and system builders working with Avnet Technology Solutions to use Lanamark Suite to accelerate design and delivery of desktop virtualisation, server virtualisation and storage solutions to enterprises in EMEA.
The partnership between Avnet Technology Solutions and Lanamark allows IT solution providers to offer real options to customers across virtualization and hardware platforms, rather than limiting them to a fixed combination. Now VARs, system integrators and consultants can mix-and-match:
By doing so, solution providers can build solutions that are best for their customers and then purchase all the key components of these solutions from Avnet, all while shortening sales cycles and maintaining control of sales and services opportunities.
Lanamark today announced a distribution partnership with interAct, a value-added distributor specializing in data center and virtualization solutions. interAct will be the main distributor for Lanamark in Belgium and Luxembourg. It is also the primary distributor in the BeLux market for AppSense, Citrix, DataCore, IGEL, Marathon, Platform Computing, RES, ScriptLogic, ThinPrint, VASCO and visionapp.
With a rapidly growing base of customers and partners that spans APAC, EMEA and North America, Lanamark is now ready to expand its reach in each of these regions through key distribution partners. interAct will distribute Lanamark Suite to its network of more than 450 qualified partners.
Today is exactly one year since Lanamark came out of stealth mode and started offering its flagship IT infrastructure analysis and design software, Lanamark Suite, to solution providers world-wide.
Yes, our headquarters are in Toronto, Canada but our base of customers and partners spans APAC, EMEA and North America. Our alliance partners include Citrix, Microsoft and Parallels. And with our teams distributed across North America and Europe, we have been literarily working around-the-clock to delight our customers and partners. We are a global company!
Here is a recap of the past year:
It has been an exciting year to say the least. I would like to thank our customers and partners who inspire us to build great software and services, and our employees who wake up everyday inspired to make our customers and partners successful with innovative products and first-class support.
Today Lanamark announced the Storage Design Module for Lanamark Suite. The Storage Design Module enables solution providers to design the underlying storage infrastructure for both virtualized desktops and servers.
While most software solutions focus on data center capacity planning, Lanamark enables solution providers to deliver a broad portfolio of IT services using a single software plus services platform, Lanamark Suite, across:
We'd like to thank all our partners who have worked closely with Lanamark to shape development of Lanamark Suite and the Storage Design Module. We would also like to extend a sincere thank you to our launch partners:
Novell PlateSpin Recon and Lanamark Suite provide similar visual charting and reporting capabilities. However there is a significant difference in the amount of time it takes solution providers to prepare reports for customers. This is largely because Novell PlateSpin Recon is designed for enterprises whereas Lanamark Suite is optimized for usage by consultants, system integrators and value-added resellers delivering IT infrastructure analysis and design services.
Based on feedback from Lanamark partners who have used PlateSpin Recon in the past, it takes 60% to 80% less time per project to perform analysis and reporting using Lanamark Suite. This typically translates to time savings of one-to-two days per project. For a five-day project, this results in 20% to 40% savings in manual effort required from the solution provider. Here is why reporting with Lanamark Suite is so efficient:
1. Project files
Lanamark Suite allows solution providers to create a project file using a snapshot containing inventory and performance data, and a project template containing one or more report templates. This ensures that customer data from different snapshots and reports are never mixed across different projects, making analysis and reporting much more manageable and efficient.
2. Report templates
Report templates can be exported and shared among a team of consultants. When a project is created and a report template is selected, the data in the snapshot is automatically projected onto the report template.
3. Automated data projection
There is no need to generate each report and then export it to the file system. Lanamark Suite automatically projects snapshot data onto report templates which can be immediately published into various file formats.
4. Plug-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007
Lanamark Suite enables solution providers to create a report document template in Microsoft Office Word 2007 with embedded charts and tables. This allows a report to be produced for customers without exporting, copying and pasting each chart and table into the report document, dramatically reducing the amount of time required for preparing customer deliverables.
Because Lanamark Suite is designed to enable solution providers to deliver assessment, planning and design services, every bit of efficiency is multiplied by the number of projects. This is the reason why reporting automation is an integral part of Lanamark Suite.
