Gale Technologies Crafts Private Clouds

According to Garima Thockchom, VP of marketing for Gale Technologies, the company's provisioning tools are already used to automate much of the cloud management process. The new GaleForce Turnkey Cloud adds workflow management tools that span both virtual and physical servers. That capability is critical, says Thockchom, because other cloud computing platforms require all the components to be virtualized. In contrast, the Gale Technologies approach allows physical servers running mission-critical applications to be managed right alongside virtual servers, said Thockchom.

Thockchom says Gale Technologies' pre-defined workflow templates support HP, IBM and Dell Blades; switches based on Cisco IOS/CATOS, Juniper JunOS; NetApp NAS, EMC Clarion; VMware ESX and many other vendors and platforms.

Pricing for GaleForce Turnkey Cloud starts at $50,000, which includes the GaleForce 5.3 server, support for up to 15 physical resources and up to 60 virtual machines, two days of setup and training services and one year of standard support.