Novell Redefines Workload Management for the Mixed IT Data Center
December 03 2008 - 8:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
First solution to provide unified management of workloads across
physical and virtual infrastructures WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 3
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novell today announced significant
enhancements to its PlateSpin(R) Workload Management solution.
Leveraging Novell's strengths in interoperability, the new
PlateSpin Recon(TM), PlateSpin Migrate, PlateSpin Protect and
PlateSpin Orchestrate(TM) enable customers to profile, migrate,
protect and manage server workloads between physical and virtual
infrastructures in heterogeneous IT environments. Through these new
enhancements, PlateSpin Workload Management is the only solution on
the market today to support 32- and 64-bit Windows* and Linux*
servers, as well as all leading hypervisors including Citrix*
XenServer*, Microsoft* Hyper-V and Virtual Server, VMware* ESX and
ESXi and Xen* integrated in SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server.
"PlateSpin Workload Management is another great example of Novell's
mission to make IT work as one," said Joe Wagner, senior vice
president and general manager of Systems and Resource Management at
Novell. "Today's announcement strengthens our position as the
leading cross-platform provider of workload management products for
the mixed IT data center. Novell delivers best-in-class
capabilities that empower customers to make better IT decisions,
simplify and accelerate data center initiatives -- such as server
consolidation and disaster recovery -- and reduce cost, complexity
and risk." As data centers increasingly deploy diverse hardware
platforms, operating systems and virtualization technologies in
heterogeneous environments, the artificial boundaries between
physical and virtual machines are being erased by portable
workloads -- the combination of an operating system, application
and data software independent from the underlying physical or
virtual platform. PlateSpin Workload Management enables data center
administrators to optimize the distribution of workloads to provide
the best performance for users and applications across both
physical and virtual machines. As a result, customers can transform
their IT environment into a more efficient and resilient
next-generation data center. "IT organizations are looking for
holistic management tools that can support both physical and
virtual environments without requiring platform-specific point
products," said Tim Grieser, IDC program vice president, Enterprise
System Management Software. "Companies that focus on solutions that
manage workloads across multiple hypervisors and platforms can
eliminate the need for single-purpose management tools that
reinforce silo-based management of data center infrastructure. The
holistic approach positions companies toward end-to-end service
management which helps IT organizations align with business needs
and priorities." Expanded Line of PlateSpin Workload Management
Products PlateSpin Workload Management has added key functionality
that makes PlateSpin a critical component of the day-to-day
operation of the next-generation data center. PlateSpin Workload
Management includes the following products: -- PlateSpin Migrate:
Leveraging the unique workload portability technology of PlateSpin
PowerConvert(R), PlateSpin Migrate decouples server workloads from
their underlying hardware and enables anywhere-to-anywhere
migration over the network between physical servers, virtual hosts
and image archives. New features in PlateSpin Migrate include
broader hypervisor and platform support and significant security,
automation and scalability enhancements. -- PlateSpin Protect:
Developed from PlateSpin PowerConvert, PlateSpin Protect provides
whole workload protection by replicating entire workloads for
flexible image back-up and hardware independent restore, as well as
consolidated recovery using virtualization as a recovery platform
for physical and virtual workloads. Similar to PlateSpin Migrate,
new features in PlateSpin Protect include broader hypervisor and
platform support and significant security, automation and
scalability enhancements. -- PlateSpin Recon: PlateSpin Recon, an
updated edition of PowerRecon(TM), is a sophisticated workload
profiling, analysis and planning solution that eliminates guesswork
and provides data center managers with the intelligence needed to
effectively manage and optimize server workloads across physical
and virtual environments. New to this release are increased
assessment accuracy, the ability to import resource utilization
data from other monitoring tools and additional hypervisor and
operating system support. -- PlateSpin Orchestrate: PlateSpin
Orchestrate, the evolution of ZENworks(R) Orchestrator, interacts
with configuration and storage resource management servers to
manage the relationship between physical computer and storage
resources. PlateSpin Orchestrate also manages virtual resources,
controlling the entire life cycle of each virtual machine. New
features in PlateSpin Orchestrate include a powerful, easy-to-use
interface and expanded hypervisor and operating system support.
"Managing our enterprise data center means keeping track of large
numbers of physical and virtual servers and continually monitoring
them to make sure we minimize expenses and maximize resource usage,
while getting the most out of our VMware Virtual environment," said
Troy Szabo, Senior Systems Engineer at Nvidia Corporation.
"PlateSpin's capacity planning and workload profiling takes away
all the guesswork; I wouldn't be able to do my job without it."
Availability PlateSpin Recon, PlateSpin Migrate and PlateSpin
Protect are available now. PlateSpin Orchestrate will be available
in the first quarter of 2009. For more information including
product specifications, pricing and packaging options, contact your
PlateSpin reseller or visit http://www.platespin.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/. Novell, PlateSpin,
SUSE and ZENworks are registered trademarks and PowerRecon and
Recon are trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other
countries. *All third-party trademarks are the property of their
respective owners. DATASOURCE: Novell, Inc. CONTACT: Charlotte
Betterley of Novell, Inc., +1-781-464-8253, ; or Erica Burns of PAN
Communications, +1-978-474-1900, , for Novell, Inc. Web site:
http://www.novell.com/ http://www.platespin.com/
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