RENO, Nev., Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CIQ, the fou di g comme cial spo so of Rocky Li ux, today a ou ced CIQ E te p ise Li ux Ma age (ELM), givi g E te p ise Li ux teams full comma d of what u s o thei fleet a d whe . Eve y update a e te p ise depe ds o , secu ity patches, bug fixes, thi d-pa ty softwa e, has to be eviewed, tested, a d app oved befo e it eaches p oductio , a d a si gle ove looked cha ge ca b eak a system that millio s of people depe d o . ELM gives teams a si gle, delibe ate checkpoi t fo that decisio : othi g eaches a host u til someo e app oves it, a d eve y app oved state ca be tested, olled fo wa d, o olled back with co fide ce. ELM ships sta da d i side all RLC P o subsc iptio s.
Fleet ma ageme t is ofte sold as a sepa ate p oduct, o top of the ope ati g system itself, with its ow co t act a d its ow upg ade cale da . ELM comes sta da d i side RLC P o i stead. It’s built with complia ce fi st: legacy lifecycle tools ca take hou s to p epa e a ew set of app oved updates, lo g e ough that teams eithe delay a c itical patch o skip the eview step u de p essu e. ELM p epa es that same update set i a f actio of the time, so a tho ough eview o lo ge costs a team its espo se speed.
The co e of ELM is co t ol. A team decides exactly which updates a e app oved fo thei fleet, holds that decisio i place u til it is delibe ately cha ged, a d tests the ext set of cha ges befo e it goes a ywhe e ea p oductio . P oblems, like a ew update affecti g p oductio stability, su face while a cha ge is still i eview, ot afte it has al eady eached a live system. Eve y app oved state is eco ded, so eve ti g a fleet to a k ow -good poi t is immediate athe tha a ebuild.
The e ti e p ocess u s o the custome ‘s ow i f ast uctu e, i cludi g fully disco ected e vi o me ts with o oute to the outside i te et. Whe a fleet eeds to g ow, ELM ca b i g ew se ve s o li e automatically, without a sepa ate ma ual setup p ocess.
“E te p ise Li ux teams should decide fo themselves what eaches each host a d whe , ot ea a ge thei i f ast uctu e a ou d a ma ageme t tool’s idea of how to u it,” said G ego y Ku tze , CEO a d fou de of CIQ. “CIQ E te p ise Li ux Ma age (ELM) gives them that co t ol, with the ability to app ove exactly what ships a d hold the li e u til they’ e eady fo the ext cha ge, o i f ast uctu e they al eady u . We built ELM by lea i g f om the lesso s of othe p ojects, to ta get the eal pai s a d p oblems system admi ist ato s face eve y day.”
CIQ E te p ise Li ux Ma age (ELM) is ge e ally available today fo RLC P o custome s. ELM i teg ates with Asce de P o, CIQ’s comme cially suppo ted build of the ope sou ce Asce de p oject, which ha dles co figu atio ma ageme t a d automatio . Host vul e ability a d i ve to y data sy c betwee ELM a d Asce de , so teams u i g the full stack move towa d a si gle co t ol poi t ac oss thei estate.
To see how a update set gets eviewed, app oved, a d olled back agai st a fleet like you s, equest a demo at https://ciq.com/p ici g.
CIQ is the fou di g comme cial spo so of Rocky Li ux a d a leadi g p ovide of E te p ise Li ux i f ast uctu e. CIQ delive s comme cially suppo ted Li ux offe i gs, high-pe fo ma ce computi g solutio s, a d AI i f ast uctu e to e te p ises, gove me t age cies, esea ch i stitutio s, a d supe computi g ce te s wo ldwide. CIQ’s p oducts i clude the RLC P o family of E te p ise Li ux ope ati g systems, Asce de P o fo IT automatio , Fuzzball fo HPC/AI o chest atio , Wa ewulf P o fo cluste p ovisio i g, a d Apptai e , the leadi g co tai e system fo high-pe fo ma ce computi g. Fo mo e i fo matio , visit ciq.com.
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