Q&A with Shinichi Urano of Kubisys
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
February 10, 2011
Modern data centers today host production applications that are critical to the business. In order to prevent outages due to conflicting or faulty patches and updates, tests must be done against them within a separate testing environment. Thin Capture™ enables streamlining of existing change management processes by allowing users to create and manage multiple such test environments within one appliance.
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10 Hot Emerging Vendors For January 2011
Joe Kovar, CRN
January 10, 2011
The Lowdown Kubisys, Pompton Lakes, N.J., was incorporated in 2006 as a developer of technology to help automate and simplify data center mission-critical operations. Kubisys' primary product is its Thin Capture™, a 2U appliance which can clone an accurate replica of a Windows or Linux server in only 15 minutes. Then, while the original server remains in production, the new clone can be used for testing upgrades and roll-outs, meeting SOX and PCI-DSS mandated upkeep, evaluating new software, testing new configurations, conducing training and demos in real environments, or providing remote tech support. About 80 percent of the company's U.S. business goes through indirect channels.
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Interview with Kubisys
Ashok Bindra, TMCnet
November 22, 2010
At the recent Interop New York 2010 in New York City, TMC's CEO Rich Tehrani met with chief scientist Shinichi Urano of Kubisys, which is based in Pompton Lakes, N.J. Tehrani asked him to give readers of TMCnet.com an overview of the company and insight into the flagship product just launched.
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Start-Up Creates 'Flight Simulator' for IT Environments
Plugs into existing infrastructure and creates and hosts multiple isolated read-only clones of complex Windows and Linux apps
Maureen O.Gara, SYS-CON
November 19, 2010
The appliance can create a complete clone of a production application environment in 15 minutes, preserving identical production networking, application stacks, entire datasets, even security.
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The preconfigured stack craze - if IT vendors build it, will users come?
Beth Pariseau, SearchServerVirtualization
November 9, 2010
Still, while the turnkey concept may fly, there's no guarantee these particular offerings from big vendors will burn up the market. Among the potential use cases for Vblocks for companies that can afford them is a quick-setup test / dev environment. But there are also startups like Kubisys, launched earlier this year, looking to offer turnkey test / dev appliances for about $80,000 MSRP - far lower than the million-dollar price tags on some Vblock bundles. The same is true in the VDI space, though Vblocks may have greater allure for MySAP users struggling with that resource-intensive application.
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Kubisys Takes Snapshots of Production Environments for Testing
Fritz Nelson and David Berlind, InformationWeek
October 21, 2010
This isn't just about security, it can be about any change. It can be a change, not only to the application itself; it can be a change to the operating system, the hard drive, the network, anything.
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Start Spreading The News: 15 Hot New Products To See At Interop NYC
Andrew Hickey, CRN
October 19, 2010
Kubisys Thin Capture, which the company will showcase at Interop New York, produces a complete clone of the production environment in just 15 minutes, preserving identical production networking, application stack, and entire data-set all working together in an isolated bubble.
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Xand Provides Kubisys Thin Capture™ Technology to Hosting Customers
David Hamilton, WHIR
September 09, 2010
Augmenting its managed hosting services, XAND has partnered with data center software provider Kubisys to offer its "Thin Capture™" technology, which gives organizations the ability to quickly and easily create clones of their production environment for software testing.
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Non-Disruptive Qualification of Production Software Fixes, Patches andUpgrades Now a Possibility
Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG
July 7, 2010
The Kubisys Thin Capture™ Appliance enables enterprise organizations to non-disruptively test proposed changes to their Windows production application server (physical or virtual) as it can take snapshots of them and then run the application on the Thin Capture Appliance so organizations can see the impact of changes before they are implemented.
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Linux Hot Copy Picks Up Where LVM Snapshot Leaves Off
Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG
June 9, 2010
Kubisys is starting to use the Linux Hot Copy technology in its Thin Capture™ appliance which enables organizations to non-disruptively make clones of their production applications in 15 minutes or less.
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