WALTHAM, Mass.,
"Flexible, automated management products that fully leverage server
resources and allow the movement of workloads are necessary for optimizing the
data center," said
Optimizing the Data Center
The acquisition of PlateSpin will allow Novell to offer customers a full solution stack with a powerful virtualization platform and a best-in-class heterogeneous management solution. Together, Novell and PlateSpin will solve many of the data center challenges that customers face today, including:
-- Relocation: PlateSpin provides a completely integrated product suite that automates the assessment and migration phases of data center initiatives, like server consolidation, data center relocation and hardware upgrades, to help customers reduce costs, power consumption and space in the data center. -- Protection: PlateSpin's disaster recovery solutions offer affordable workload protection that leverages virtualization technology to protect both physical and virtual servers in the data center, for improved security and business continuity. -- Provisioning: Using PlateSpin's technologies, customers will have a single approach to imaging and configuring physical and virtual workloads regardless of platform. This eliminates the manual install process and dramatically reduces the time to provision new server workloads. It will also enable customers to address changing resource requirements at peak demand times as well as in test lab scenarios. -- Optimization and Management: Novell and PlateSpin optimize the balance between physical and virtual infrastructure by automatically monitoring and making infrastructure adjustments based on server availability and workload demand. By automating the process and increasing the visibility into how workloads use physical and virtual resources over time, customers will be able to increase server utilization and optimize their data centers by better addressing common workload movement challenges.
The acquisition of PlateSpin will enable the heterogeneous data center with support for leading operating systems and virtual platforms. It will also further enhance Novell's leadership in open source virtualization by providing tools that easily enable customers to move physical workloads to Xen*-based virtual machines running on SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise as well as other virtual platforms provided by VMware*, Citrix*, Microsoft* and others.
Financial Overview
Novell will acquire PlateSpin for
Partner Support
"Citrix has a great relationship with PlateSpin and is excited to see them
become part of Novell's open data center management portfolio. With this
addition, Novell will be able to offer an even richer set of tools to manage
strategic virtual infrastructure systems like Citrix XenServer across a
heterogeneous data center," said
"As IT managers look to maximize their enterprise resources and have increased flexibility, they need tools to help them interoperate between Windows and Linux," said Larry Orecklin, general manager of marketing in the Server & Tools Division at Microsoft. "The combination of PlateSpin's capabilities in P2V, V2V and analytical tools, combined with Novell and Microsoft's interoperable virtualization will allow customers to cross the boundaries of the physical and virtual environments with confidence."
"Helping customers efficiently deal with server sprawl to achieve a real-
time infrastructure using technologies like open source and virtualization is
key to our business," said
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About PlateSpin
Founded in 2003, PlateSpin Ltd. provides a unified suite of solutions to help enterprises adopt, manage and extend their use of server virtualization in the data center. PlateSpin's patent-pending conversion and optimization technology liberates software from hardware platforms, allowing servers to be streamed over the enterprise network from any source to any destination. This freedom of movement ensures the best fit between server resource supply and application workload demands. Global 2000 companies use PlateSpin solutions to lower costs and solve today's most pressing data center initiatives such as server consolidation, disaster recovery and hardware migration. For more information, visit http://www.platespin.com/novell.
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