Levanta announced that mobile advertising firm, Third Screen Media, has chosen the Intrepid M appliance to manage its rapidly growing Linux server environment. Third Screen Media operates the world's largest mobile advertising management and delivery platform, connecting agencies, publishers and carriers on a common platform.

As its subscriber base and revenues have grown over the company's two year history, Third Screen Media has rapidly scaled its Linux infrastructure to meet the underlying IT infrastructure demands behind its mobile advertising services. The company recently implemented Levanta's Intrepid M appliance to greatly simplify the provisioning, configuration and ongoing maintenance of its Linux server environment.

"For Third Screen Media's Linux management requirements, high availability, extensibility and ease of use were at the top of our wish list," said Adam D'Amico, IT operations manager of Third Screen Media. "I don't know of another product like the Intrepid M on the market. It has all of the qualities we were looking for, and it is already dramatically reducing the time and money that we have to spend on common Linux server management scenarios."

Linux system uptime and performance are mission-critical to Third Screen Media's service delivery. By storing server templates in the Intrepid M image repository -- building a new Linux server with the desired configuration is a simple mouseclick away. This means an extremely consistent level of service delivery for Third Screen Media's customers, and a seamless way for Third Screen Media to continue to scale its Linux server environment to meet the growing market demand for its service.

"Continued high-level service is absolutely core to our operation--if our infrastructure hangs, we stop making money," said D'Amico. "We like being able to create a profile on the Intrepid and take a bare metal system out of the box, mount it in the rack and have it running in a matter of minutes."

Designed for use by a Linux systems administrator with as little as one year of experience, Levanta's Intrepid M can provision a new server in under five minutes, migrate and reactivate a system from one hardware platform to another in minutes, track byte-level changes with rollback, and restore a server (even an unbootable one) to a previous known, stable state.