Somerset, NJ, December 10, 2008 - Melillo Consulting, Inc. today announced its new turnkey offering for Virtualization Management. Virtualization Management Solution (VMS) is a turnkey solution using a combination of HP Software along with Melillo Consulting’s integration components, unique experience, insight and methodology to design, build, run and secure virtualization across the enterprise. This results in spending less time managing the virtualized IT infrastructure and allowing data center optimization to become a reality.

“Today, market adoption of virtualization is growing in all segments, fueled primarily by the need to reduce resources and the success of VMware among others,” says Rick Carney, VP, Professional Services of Melillo Consulting’s Enterprise Management Practice. “Despite the growth we hear many IT customers say that virtual machines are great for development, but acceptance for use in production environments lingers, especially for mission-critical applications. Melillo Consulting addresses this issue with VMS, which enables customers to realize the full promise of virtualization while minimizing its risks.”

The Melillo Virtualization Management Solution reduces complexity by providing unified visualization and management of physical and virtual servers, storage, and network environments across the management lifecycles including Problem & Operations, Configuration & Change, and Performance and Availability. Melillo’s VMS includes an intuitive interface and dashboard that allows IT managers to see available virtual resources, how they are being used, and how they relate to the physical infrastructure.

The Virtualization Management Solution utilizes a variety of resources and HP Software products. For the provisioning aspect of the solution, Melillo utilizes HP Server Automation Software and HP Operations Orchestration. HP Operations Manager is used in conjunction with HP Storage Essentials, HP SiteScope, and HP Network Node Manager i Software for Infrastructure Management.  For Capacity Management, Melillo uses HP Performance Insight Software, and finally, it uses HP Universal CMDB with HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping for the Visualization aspect of the solution.VMS uses a comprehensive virtualization management technology to keep complexity at a minimum and streamlines operations.  A common virtualization management environment reduces training, ensures uniform policy application and simplifies maintenance as well.

“Organizations want to leverage virtualization technologies to help reduce the cost of the technology infrastructure to the business,” said, Walt Rossi, director of product Marketing in the Software and Services Solutions, HP. “The combination of HP software and the knowledge and expertise of Melillo Consulting helps customers design, build and run virtualized technology infrastructures.”

Melillo Consulting Inc., an HP Software Platinum Partner, is a technology solutions integrator that provides highly reliable and scalable Enterprise Management solutions to manage a wide range of complex mission-critical environments. Melillo also provides word-class Data Center design and implementation services. The Melillo combination of business process consulting, technology, and support services offers complete, cost-effective Data Center Automation and delivers the next generation of IT operations. Melillo Consulting is headquartered Somerset, New Jersey and offers its services to midsize and enterprise customers nationwide.