BrainShare(R) 2008
-- Novell today announced it will be offering a first look at
next-generation data center management at BrainShare 2008. This event will
showcase the offerings available today from Novell(R) and PlateSpin* that
deliver complete workload lifecycle management, helping customers plan,
provision, protect and optimize their data center provided services. These
solutions reinforce Novell's ability to harmoniously integrate mixed IT
environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. The combined
solutions allow customers to seamlessly move workloads between physical and
virtual environments creating greater agility and reducing server sprawl,
complexity and costs in their IT infrastructure.
"Today's data center is quickly evolving to a mix of physical and
virtual resources, often with multiple overlapping virtualization
platforms," said Chris Wolf, senior analyst at Burton Group. "A vendor
solution which is capable of managing workloads across this mixed IT
environment will soon no longer be a luxury, but rather a necessity. True
competitive advantage is realized with an IT infrastructure that is capable
of dynamically responding to changing business requirements as they occur.
If a customer's existing management solution is incapable of orchestrating
resources across both physical and virtual infrastructures, then it's time
to explore solutions that do."
Together, Novell and PlateSpin offer the only heterogeneous data center
automation solutions on the market that provide customers the flexibility
to manage mixed IT environments. This is another key step as Novell builds
out its strategy as a leading infrastructure software company that can make
interoperability a reality. Customers can now fully manage the lifecycle of
their data center. First, analyzing which workloads to virtualize with
PlateSpin PowerRecon*. Next, converting the workloads from physical to
virtual machines, as well as virtual back to physical, with PlateSpin
PowerConvert*. Finally, converted workloads can be inventoried, categorized
and provisioned with Novell ZENworks(R) Orchestrator. This comprehensive
approach continually monitors the data center and responds to demands
automatically, ensuring the most effective and efficient IT infrastructure,
while maintaining service level objectives.
In addition, ZENworks Orchestrator brings high availability to the
virtual infrastructure, which, when paired with PlateSpin Forge, will allow
virtual machines to be continually backed up to provide disaster recovery
control. This gives customers an affordable option for ensuring business
continuity.
Joe Wagner, senior vice president and general manager of Novell Systems
and Resource Management, said, "Both Novell and PlateSpin are committed to
interoperability and heterogeneous support for leading operating systems
and virtual platforms. With Novell's recently announced plans to acquire
PlateSpin, customers will not have to rip out their existing IT
investments. Instead, they will continue to have the freedom to choose the
tools and systems that work best in their environment, while benefiting
from the unique synergies that Novell and PlateSpin offer for managing both
their physical and virtual data centers."
Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most
interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management
software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and
risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships,
Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and
technology to work as one.
SOURCE Novell, Inc.
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