Crowbar Software Framework

Deploying an open-source cloud or cluster from bare-metal servers can be a complex undertaking. If you’re using manual processes, you could spend days or even weeks working to get your cloud up and running. And even then, your cloud never sits still — it’s always on an upgrade or improvement path. You need to continually deploy new servers and add new management capabilities, creating ongoing burdens for the team.

Learn how the Dell™ Crowbar software framework automates and accelerates the deployment, configuration and ongoing operation of your cloud or cluster environment. Crowbar enables you to:

• Automate the deployment, provisioning and configuration of a cloud environment
• Provision bare-metal servers from box to cloud with minimal user intervention
• Maintain, upgrade and evolve your cloud over time
• Leverage an open-source framework backed by a growing developer ecosystem

When you pair Crowbar with OpenStack™ or Hadoop™ and a Dell reference architecture, you have an all-around open-source solution that has been proven in real-world deployments.