Configuresoft, an enterprise server configuration management company, has announced the release of ECM v5.1, a major expansion of its configuration audit management solution designed to help organizations achieve and maintain a cost-effective, secure, and compliant posture across heterogeneous platforms in the enterprise.

ECM 5.1 provides unified, cross-platform patch assessment and remediation, extends compliance and change management into mission-critical Oracle databases, and seamlessly integrates configuration management inside VMware’s VirtualCenter.

New features in ECM 5.1 include:

• Patch assessment, deployment, and compliance capabilities for UNIX platforms including Sun Solaris, Red hat Linux, IBM AIX, and SUSE Linux;• VMware VirtualCenter Compliance Plug-in delivers integrated configuration management into VirtualCenter to achieve and maintain compliance across physical and virtual environments;• New compliance and change monitoring capabilities for Oracle database servers; and• Additional platform support that includes Apple’s Mac OS X.