SALT LAKE CITY, March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 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."
For more information, visit http://www.novell.com/platespin or
http://www.platespin.com/novell.
About 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. For more information, visit http://www.novell.com.
Novell and ZENworks are registered trademarks and BrainShare is a
registered service mark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other
countries. *Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other
third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE Novell, Inc.