Sabayon Linux partners NetCraft Communications

TRENTINO, ITALY: Sabayon Linux has announced that it will partner with NetCraft Communications, a global provider of computer infrastructure management services and makers of Versiera, Remote System Management and Monitoring Software.

As part of this strategic alliance, both companies will leverage their technologies, including Sabayon Entropy to provide broader software distribution methods.

Versiera will now be available on Sabayon Linux, an open source desktop operating system based on Gentoo Linux. The first web-based system for infrastructure monitoring and management to support a broad spectrum of operating systems, Versiera simplifies the common system administration tasks. It can quickly identify and notify of technology issues, Versiera can help preempt functionality problems at various layers of the infrastructure. The purpose Versiera software is to reduce the cost of technology ownership and enable companies to focus on their core business.

“We are excited to start concretizing our long efforts in producing our upcoming release, and making NetCraft Communications part of it. Versiera is another demonstration of the flexibility that Sabayon Linux and the Entropy projects are reaching. Users will be glad to use our distribution either on their home workstations or at work seamlessly, thanks to Versiera.” said Fabio Erculiani, chief architect of Sabayon Linux.

“We are proud to be strategically aligned with Sabayon Linux,” said Frank Pikelner, CTO, NetCraft Communications. “By pooling our technologies, we can strengthen adoption in a meaningful way and give back to the community. Sabayon Entropy will provide boarder software distribution methods within Versiera, thereby reducing management costs of updating software across many systems,” he added.