VMware and Novell Expand Strategic Partnership to Deliver and Support SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server for VMware vSphere(TM) Env
June 09 2010 - 8:00AM
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VMware and Novell today announced an expansion to their strategic
partnership with an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement
through which VMware will distribute and support the SUSE® Linux
Enterprise Server operating system. Under the agreement, VMware
also intends to standardize its virtual appliance-based product
offerings on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
Customers who want to deploy SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for
VMware® in VMware vSphere™ virtual machines will be entitled to
receive a subscription to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server that
includes patches and updates as part of their newly purchased
qualifying VMware vSphere license and Support and Subscription.
Under this agreement, VMware and its extensive network of solution
provider partners will also be able to offer customers the option
to purchase technical support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
delivered directly by VMware for a seamless support experience.
This expanded relationship between VMware and Novell benefits
customers by reducing the cost and complexity of deploying and
maintaining an enterprise operating system with VMware
solutions.
As a result of this expanded collaboration, both companies
intend to provide customers the ability to port their SUSE
Linux-based workloads across clouds. Such portability will deliver
choice and flexibility for VMware vSphere customers and is a
significant step forward in delivering the benefits of seamless
cloud computing.
Several VMware products are already distributed and deployed as
virtual appliances. A virtual appliance is a pre-configured virtual
machine that packages an operating system and application into a
self-contained unit that is easy to deploy, manage and maintain.
Standardizing virtual appliance-based VMware products on SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server for VMware® will further simplify the deployment
and ongoing management of these solutions, shortening the path to
ROI.
"VMware's mission is to reduce IT complexity and provide
customers a pragmatic path to the cloud," said Raghu Raghuram,
senior vice president and general manager, Virtualization and Cloud
Platforms, VMware. "By delivering SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for
VMware® with every qualified VMware vSphere™ subscription,
customers can more easily and cost-effectively virtualize Linux
applications, accelerate their evolution to a fully virtualized
datacenter and simplify portability of their applications to cloud
environments."
"We are pleased that VMware, the leader in virtualization
solutions, intends to standardize its virtual appliances on SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server, as well as be able to distribute SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server with VMware vSphere™," said Joe Wagner,
senior vice president and general manager, Global Alliances,
Novell. "This strategic partnership gives VMware and Novell
customers a simplified and lower-cost way to virtualize and manage
their IT environments, from the datacenter to the cloud. It gives
our partners exciting new solutions with which to modernize their
customers' IT environments and deliver significant ROI. This
agreement is also a strong validation of Novell's intelligent
workload management strategy."
VMware vSphere is the industry's most complete and widely
deployed virtualization platform, providing the foundation to
transform datacenters into dynamic, simplified infrastructures for
private, public and hybrid cloud environments. With the most
comprehensive set of capabilities for availability, security,
resource optimization and business continuity, VMware vSphere
enables the next generation of IT services while preserving
customers' flexibility to choose between any type of OS,
application and hardware.
For complete details go to
www.vmware.com/go/sles-for-vmware.
About Novell Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL),
a leader in Intelligent Workload Management, helps organizations
securely deliver and manage computing services across physical,
virtual and cloud computing environments. We help customers reduce
the cost, complexity, and risk associated with their IT systems
through our solutions for identity and security, systems
management, collaboration and Linux-based operating platforms. With
our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell
integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to
work as one. For more information, visit www.novell.com.
About VMware VMware (NYSE: VMW) delivers
solutions for business infrastructure virtualization that enable IT
organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the
industry leading virtualization platform -- VMware vSphere™ --
customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses,
improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security
and go green. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, more than 170,000
customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in
virtualization which consistently ranks as a top priority among
CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices
throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
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Contacts: Leah Bibbo VMware Global Communications
lbibbo@vmware.com (650) 427-1097 Alex Kirschner OutCast
Communications for VMware alex@outcastpr.com (415) 345-4783 Ian
Bruce Novell ibruce@novell.com (781) 464-8034 Jennifer Meyer PAN
Communications for Novell jmeyer@pancomm.com (978) 474-1900
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