openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform. Its fully pluggable architecture focuses on automatic, rapid- and appliance-based deployment, monitoring, high-availability, cloud computing and especially on supporting and conforming multiple virtualization technologies. openQRM is a single-management console for the complete IT-infra structure and provides a well defined API which can be used to integrate third-party tools as additional plugins.

An updated roadmap for the next openQRM releases is available at

http://www.openqrm.com/?q=node/15

Please feel free to post further feature requests for the future openQRM releases via our feature-request tracker.

openQRM Enterprise just announced an openQRM Cloud Computing workshop which is taking place from 03. to 05. November 2010 at Linuxhotel in Essen/Germany.

We have just build in some new significant features into openQRM especially regarding "Green IT" and High-availability. Those new features increasing the robustness of high-availability and exponential saving the power-consumption of datacenters by enabling a "Green High-availability".

The yearly Open Source Data Center Conference (OSDC) taking place at the 23. and 24. of June in Nuernberg is a great place to get the latest facts and trends about Data Center Management and Cloud Computing.

Sizing Servers Lab is organizing the "Advanced Virtualization & Hybrid Clouds" themeday which is taking place on the 26.

openQRM Enterprise sponsored an easy HowTo guiding you step-by-step through an openQRM Cloud setup on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx using the KVM Virtualization technology !

Please more infos and the URL to download this HowTo at the openQRM Enterprise News-Blog.