PlateSpin is one of the new breed of start-ups that are thriving in today's markets; focusing on solving difficult business problems with truly innovative technology. The enterprise datacenter is very complicated and difficult to manage. With shrinking budgets and increased capability expectations, datacenter managers are looking for a change. In March of 2003 PlateSpin Ltd was founded to address these needs. Recognizing the changing trends in the datacenter - a move back to virtualization and consolidation - PlateSpin tackles the challenge of how datacenter managers can more easily leverage the benefits that these trends are promising.

Building the Automated Data Center
PlateSpin IT optimization products bring agility, flexibility, and automation to the data center, accelerating server consolidation projects, easing test lab deployments, and maintaining business continuity

Anywhere-to-Anywhere automated conversions between Physical Servers, Virtual Machines, and Server Archives.
The evolution of PowerConvert. PlateSpin PowerConvert is a fully automated Operating System Portability solution enabling the complete interchange of data, applications, and operating systems across Intel infrastructure in the data center, breaking the dependency between hardware infrastructure and server software.

PlateSpin PowerConvert is available in 3 different configurations, each designed to migrate the software layer between physical servers, virtual machines, and server archives in different combinations, to meet the unique needs of your data center:

Server Consolidation - PowerConvert Universal
Full featured anywhere-to-anywhere migration package.

Server Consolidation - PowerConvert for Consolidation
Automate the migration of data, applications, and operating systems to virtual machines (The evolution of PowerConvert)

Server Consolidation - PowerConvert for Recovery

Agentless Performance and Resource Monitoring
Measure resources and server performance from a single view from any location, making capacity planning, server consolidation, and ongoing infrastructure optimization easier and quicker.

Highlights

Universal flexibility with Anywhere-to-Anywhere Migrations
Migrate data, applications, and operating systems between physical servers, virtual machines, and server archives

100% Automated Concurrent Conversions for “Lights Out” Consolidations
No boot CDs. No physical contact with source or target machines required. Configure multiple conversions to run concurrently, all from a single point of control.

Maximum adaptability with On-the-fly configuration
Reconfigure and right-size CPU, Disk, Memory and Network resources on-the-fly for target

Hardware Independent Images Create and deploy PlateSpin Flexible Images from servers or Third Party Images for easy provisioning and recovery.