Cloupia has expanded converged infrastructure management offerings to help enterprises and service providers transition to next generation dynamic data centers.

These new offerings will enable enterprises and service providers to easily transition to clouds with one integrated and comprehensive data center management platform across the entire IT stack — physical, virtual, cloud and converged infrastructure.

“Organizations are looking for flexible and integrated data center management platform to rapidly deploy converged infrastructure based solutions on demand,” said Raju Datla, CEO of Cloupia. “Cloupia unified converged infrastructure management offerings will accelerate the enterprise data center transformation towards fabric-based data centers with the necessary automation capabilities. As a leading converged infrastructure management provider, we will continue to work closely with major infrastructure vendors to provide our customers with best-in-class unified data center orchestration solutions.”

Here are some of the Cloupia product enhancements and updates:

- Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC): Cloupia flagship product, Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC), is a fully featured unified and integrated data center management platform that provides an end-to-end cloud and data center management solution. CUIC now manages and automates virtual server infrastructure, VDI, physical infrastructure, public clouds and converged infrastructure via a single pane of glass. The latest CUIC V3.0 release key capabilities include Secure Cloud Containers, VDI automation – Citrix Xen Desktop Support, Virtual Console support, and Multi-vendor support.

- CloudGenie: CloudGenie is a mobile application for IT admins for datacenter management. CloudGenie now supports both iPad and Android platforms. CloudGenie V1.1 release features enhanced reporting and analytics along with self-service catalog and provisioning capabilities.

- Enhanced Multi-Vendor Support: Cloupia unifies compute, storage, network and virtualization management into a single cohesive and complete cloud management system. Cloupia announces enhanced multi-vendor support in CUIC release V3.0 that includes: Compute – Cisco, HP and Dell platforms; Storage – NetApp 7-mode, C-Mode and EMC VNX platforms; Network – Cisco and Brocade platforms; VDI – Citrix Xen Desktop; Virtualization – VMware, Microsoft and Redhat and Other key capabilities — Power shell and IPMI 2.0 support. Cloupia will be supporting other vendors in coming months.

- Cloupia Converged Infrastructure (CI) Management and Orchestration Solutions: Cloupia offers a complete end-to-end converged infrastructure management and orchestration solution suite. Cloupia added new Converged Infrastructure solution bundles targeted exclusively to address management and orchestration of evolving converged infrastructure such as FlexPod, Entry Level FlexPod and VSPEX. Customers have flexibility to upgrade to advanced solution bundles encompassing both converged infrastructure and cloud management and orchestration capabilities.

- VSPEX Solutions: Cloupia now supports EMC VNXe/VNX storage systems and announces unified VSPEX management and orchestration solution. With recently added EMC and Brocade support, Cloupia now supports multiple VSPEX configurations announced by EMC. Cloupia will be demonstrating unified VSPEX management and orchestration capabilities at Cisco Live. Cloupia will expand support to EMC VMAX storage platform and other VSPEX configurations in the third quarter of 2012.