Microsoft and Novell Deliver Joint Virtualization Solution Through Partners
September 11 2008 - 12:01AM
PR Newswire (US)
Supported by Dell and other channel partners, solution includes
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server running as optimized guest on Windows
Server 2008 Hyper-V. REDMOND, Wash. and WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 11
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. are
announcing the availability of a joint virtualization solution
optimized for customers running mixed-source environments. The
joint offering includes SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server from
Novell(R) configured and tested as an optimized guest operating
system running on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, and is fully
supported by both companies' channel partners, including Dell Inc.,
which will test and validate this offering at the Microsoft and
Novell joint Interoperability Lab in Cambridge, Mass. The offering
provides customers with the first complete, fully supported and
optimized virtualization solution to span Windows and Linux*
environments. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO) The new
offering represents significant progress in the Microsoft-Novell
collaboration and business model first announced in November 2006,
which delivers seamless integration of SUSE Linux Enterprise and
Microsoft Windows, providing a bridge between proprietary software
and open source software. The virtualization solution is the first
to include technology developed by both companies at their joint
Interoperability Lab, including virtual machine adapters built to
optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as an optimized, or often
referred to as enlightened, guest operating system on Windows
Server 2008 Hyper-V, providing optimized performance to SUSE Linux
guests. "The collaboration between Microsoft and Novell has been
built by our desire to meet our customers' and partners' IT needs,
and to deliver solutions that support customers' mixed-source
environments," said Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of
infrastructure server marketing within the Server and Tools
Business at Microsoft. "For customers standardizing on Microsoft's
hypervisor who also have a mixed-source IT environment, this
virtualization solution gives that choice. For channel partners who
need a cross-platform hypervisor offering, our work with Novell
gives them an easy starting point." The new offering represents
more than 18 months of technical collaboration undertaken between
Microsoft and Novell in response to customer demand for a
virtualization solution that provides high performance and ease of
deployment, and is tested and supported. The joint solution is
fully supported by Microsoft, Novell and participating channel
partners, including Computer Integrated Services Company of New
York LLC (CIS), Continental Resources Inc., Dell, Insight, Total
Tec Systems Inc., and 21Vianet. Dell is the only major systems
vendor to participate in the program and will provide updates on
its Web site -- http://www.dell.com/novell -- that references the
validation conducted on Dell PowerEdge server blades and
rack-mounted systems. "Virtualization radically simplifies IT,
providing greater flexibility and helping our customers focus their
resources on innovation instead of maintenance," said Rick Becker,
vice president of Software and Solutions, Dell Product Group. "By
supporting this new solution from Microsoft and Novell, we can
provide our customers running mixed Linux and Windows environments
with an optimized solution that is quick and simple to deploy."
"We're very pleased to be offering this new virtualization solution
with Microsoft and our channel partners, which demonstrates the
success of our ongoing technical and business relationship and the
unique, high-value solutions we can deliver for our customers,"
said Roger Levy, general manager and senior vice president, Open
Platform Solutions, Novell. "Together, we offer our customers
dramatic cost savings and greatly enhance overall business agility,
allowing them to leverage SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the best
virtualized guest for those who are using Hyper-V. Novell has
worked closely with Microsoft on virtualization solutions, and was
a charter member of its Server Virtualization Validation Program,
with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server a fully supported and validated
operating system on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V." "The availability
of this virtualization solution from Novell and Microsoft further
proves that the two companies can and are continuing to deliver on
the promises of their collaboration," said Janet Waxman, vice
president for Hardware Channels and Alliances at IDC. "This
offering is a net win for the channel partners who now can offer
their customers a fully supported and optimized virtualization
solution for mixed Windows and Linux environments." The original
November 2006 Microsoft-Novell agreement included four areas of
technical collaboration: virtualization, standards-based systems
management, identity federation and document format compatibility.
Since then, the companies have announced three other areas of
collaboration: Moonlight, accessibility and a new SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server management pack for Microsoft System Center
product. With the new Linux Enterprise Server management pack,
Microsoft System Center customers can manage Windows and Linux
environments, both physical and virtual, from one common tool.
Novell is also a charter member of Microsoft's Server
Virtualization Validation Program, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
is a validated operating system in the program. More information
about the Microsoft and Novell agreement can be found at
http://www.moreinterop.com/. 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/. About Microsoft Founded
in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses
realize their full potential. Novell and SUSE are registered
trademarks of Novell Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. * Linux
is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. The names of actual
companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of
their respective owners.
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