Embotics Corporation announced the upcoming availability of the latest version of Embotics V-Commander, to enable the provisioning of IT-as-a-service (ITaaS) using private Clouds.
Embotics V-Commander’s provisioning capabilities have been significantly expanded with an enhanced service catalogue and support for deploying virtual machines (VMs) as linked clones.
End users are now able to provision anything from VMs to IT services through the service catalogue’s user friendly app store interface.
Users can create a service that includes several VMs that make a multi-tiered application or even unmanaged components such as a desktop phone, completely automating the provisioning process through completion workflows. Linked clones, also referred to as delta disks, have the dual benefit of conserving disk space and enabling much faster provisioning time, and are an especially important component of lab management and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments. Service catalogue entries can be now be deployed as linked clones and at the same time users can manually deploy a VM as a linked clone.
Embotics V-Commander will also be introducing support for Microsoft Hyper-V from early 2013.
Embotics V-Commander can be installed and configured in a matter of minutes, offering businesses rapid provisioning, self-service, service catalogues, IT costing and chargeback, workflow automation, resource optimisation and lifecycle management capabilities. It also keeps private cloud resources optimised by providing a 360-degree view of the entire virtualised environment: eliminating virtual server sprawl, ensuring operational efficiency and thereby delivering cost and resource savings.
“As businesses have accelerated their march to the cloud over the past few years, IT management requirements have evolved at an equally fast pace,” said Colin Wright, Vice President for EMEA, Embotics. “IT administrators need a solution that enables them to provision virtual and physical infrastructure and services from a centralised management platform. With Embotics V-Commander enhanced service catalogue and linked clone capability IT service provisioning can be both simplified and speeded up. For example, IT administrators can create a new hire procedure, automating the provision of everything a new employee needs to get up and running, such as a desktop machine, software applications and a phone. With planned support for Microsoft Hyper-V, Embotics V-Commander offers an all-in-one cloud management solution for the majority of IT departments.”
Other key updates in Embotics V-Commander 4.6 include:
• Support for vApps as a vehicle for deploying multiple VMs, setting expiry dates and owners, cloning and powering on and off
• Self-service provisioning of unmanaged assets as services, such as desktop phones and database instances
• Faster provisioning and deployment with manual and automated service requests for multi-component services; Administrators can configure services for individual users or groups, setting conventions and automating post-deployment tasks such as setting-up firewalls
• Fully customisable service catalogues and service request forms, alongside a new icon view interface and search and category filtering enables users to find and provision the services they need quickly, through service catalogues branded in-line with the corporate image
• Shopping cart style service catalogue interface enables users to request multiple instances of a service as well as multiple services in a single request; Aggregate service costs provide greater visibility into the true business impact of complete service requests
• Service request tracking monitors the progress of each item in a service request, enabling IT administrators to quickly and easily identify where their attentions are needed
“Embotics V-Commander gives IT administrators a greater degree of control than ever before, whilst significantly reducing the management burden upon them,” added Wright. “By enabling self-service provision of practically any of an end-user’s IT needs, Embotics V-Commander provides IT departments with a more holistic view of their infrastructure, enabling them to make smarter, more strategic decisions that benefit the overall business. Embotics V-Commander has the capability to work alongside existing IT service management tools or can be implemented easily for businesses with no prior management systems in place.”
Embotics V-Commander 4.6 will be available from the end of December 2012.
Embotics is currently offering Managed Service Providers (MSPs) free access to the latest version of Embotics V-Commander to enable them to offer a white-labelled cloud management platform to their own customers. MSP subscriptions last for a duration of six months, and include full support.
The Latest
Like most digital transformation shifts, organizations often prioritize productivity and leave security and observability to keep pace. This usually translates to both the mass implementation of new technology and fragmented monitoring and observability (M&O) tooling. In the era of AI and varied cloud architecture, a disparate observability function can be dangerous. IT teams will lack a complete picture of their IT environment, making it harder to diagnose issues while slowing down mean time to resolve (MTTR). In fact, according to recent data from the SolarWinds State of Monitoring & Observability Report, 77% of IT personnel said the lack of visibility across their on-prem and cloud architecture was an issue ...
In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 23, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA discusses the NetOps labor shortage ...
Technology management is evolving, and in turn, so is the scope of FinOps. The FinOps Foundation recently updated their mission statement from "advancing the people who manage the value of cloud" to "advancing the people who manage the value of technology." This seemingly small change solidifies a larger evolution: FinOps practitioners have organically expanded to be focused on more than just cloud cost optimization. Today, FinOps teams are largely — and quickly — expanding their job descriptions, evolving into a critical function for managing the full value of technology ...
Enterprises are under pressure to scale AI quickly. Yet despite considerable investment, adoption continues to stall. One of the most overlooked reasons is vendor sprawl ... In reality, no organization deliberately sets out to create sprawling vendor ecosystems. More often, complexity accumulates over time through well-intentioned initiatives, such as enterprise-wide digital transformation efforts, point solutions, or decentralized sourcing strategies ...
Nearly every conversation about AI eventually circles back to compute. GPUs dominate the headlines while cloud platforms compete for workloads and model benchmarks drive investment decisions. But underneath that noise, a quieter infrastructure challenge is taking shape. The real bottleneck in enterprise AI is not processing power, it is the ability to store, manage and retrieve the relentless volumes of data that AI systems generate, consume and multiply ...
The 2026 Observability Survey from Grafana Labs paints a vivid picture of an industry maturing fast, where AI is welcomed with careful conditions, SaaS economics are reshaping spending decisions, complexity remains a defining challenge, and open standards continue to underpin it all ...
The observability industry has an evolving relationship with AI. We're not skeptics, but it's clear that trust in AI must be earned ... In Grafana Labs' annual Observability Survey, 92% said they see real value in AI surfacing anomalies before they cause downtime. Another 91% endorsed AI for forecasting and root cause analysis. So while the demand is there, customers need it to be trustworthy, as the survey also found that the practitioners most enthusiastic about AI are also the most insistent on explainability ...
In the modern enterprise, the conversation around AI has moved past skepticism toward a stage of active adoption. According to our 2026 State of IT Trends Report: The Human Side of Autonomous AI, nearly 90% of IT professionals view AI as a net positive, and this optimism is well-founded. We are seeing agentic AI move beyond simple automation to actively streamlining complex data insights and eliminating the manual toil that has long hindered innovation. However, as we integrate these autonomous agents into our ecosystems, the fundamental DNA of the IT role is evolving ...
AI workloads require an enormous amount of computing power ... What's also becoming abundantly clear is just how quickly AI's computing needs are leading to enterprise systems failure. According to Cockroach Labs' State of AI Infrastructure 2026 report, enterprise systems are much closer to failure than their organizations realize. The report ... suggests AI scale could cause widespread failures in as little as one year — making it a clear risk for business performance and reliability.
The quietest week your engineering team has ever had might also be its best. No alarms going off. No escalations. No frantic Teams or Slack threads at 2 a.m. Everything humming along exactly as it should. And somewhere in a leadership meeting, someone looks at the metrics dashboard, sees a flat line of incidents and says: "Seems like things are pretty calm over there. Do we really need all those people?" ... I've spent many years in engineering, and this pattern keeps repeating ...