WALTHAM, Mass., July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novell today
released SUSE® Gallery™, a new online showcase for registered SUSE®
Studio users to publish their appliances and cloud-based
applications. With SUSE Gallery, end users can browse published
appliances for the solution to their particular commercial or
personal need, and then download the appliance free of charge. With
an appliance, the end user avoids the typical installation and
configuration headaches that come with many traditional software
applications. For independent software vendors (ISVs) and other
software developers, SUSE Gallery represents an opportunity to
broaden the exposure of their application and reach an entirely new
audience.
"A year after its debut, the SUSE Appliance Program has helped
ISVs simplify distribution and deployment of their applications,
get to market faster and reduce support costs for themselves and
their customers," said Parag Patel,
vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. "SUSE Gallery
is another step forward in helping software vendors accelerate
their customers' evolution to a virtualized data center as they
progress on the journey to cloud computing."
SUSE Gallery is the latest addition to the SUSE Appliance
Program, which is celebrating its one-year anniversary today. The
SUSE Appliance Program is a comprehensive business and technology
program that helps ISVs simplify appliance creation, reduce
development and support costs, and extend applications to the
cloud. A key technology component of the SUSE Appliance Program is
SUSE Studio, the industry's most successful web-based appliance
creation tool with more than 82,000 registered users worldwide. The
Program also includes the SUSE Appliance Toolkit, which enables
ISVs and enterprises to build, manage and update appliances
regardless of location.
SUSE Gallery
SUSE Gallery offers a free, web-based venue for ISVs and other
users to publish and market their appliances. ISVs, corporate
developers and enthusiasts can now share, promote, collaborate and
freely exchange their appliances with others. Novell will not
charge developers for putting their appliances in SUSE Gallery, nor
will Novell charge end users for downloading appliances. SUSE
Gallery provides a friction-free venue for the exchange of ideas,
innovation and best practices across all sectors of the software
industry.
Serving as a central repository of appliances, SUSE Gallery
targets developers and other users searching for commercial and
community-oriented appliances. Appliance templates and tailored
operating system images can also be published, facilitating reuse
that further accelerates appliance development. Each published
appliance will have a dedicated web page with a unique URL, making
it possible for software vendors to conduct targeted marketing and
sales campaigns and track results.
To celebrate the launch of SUSE Gallery, Novell is also
announcing the First Annual "Dister" Awards, a SUSE Studio award
contest that will run from July 27 to
September 30, 2010. Novell is looking for inventive minds to
build the most innovative software appliances in two categories:
"Community Use" and "Commercial Use". After Novell narrows the
field to a list of finalists, a panel of industry-leading judges
will then select and award each of the two winners a $10,000 grand prize. For more information, click
here.
"The SUSE Appliance Program has enabled us to simplify appliance
creation, reduce development and support costs, and enter new
markets," said Paul A. Scripko, vice
president, Business Development at ROC Software Systems, provider
of enterprise output management and job scheduling solutions. "With
SUSE Gallery, the process becomes even easier. Now we can build and
market a fully-supported appliance all with one easy-to-use
interface."
SUSE Appliance Program Celebrates First Anniversary
Novell launched the SUSE Appliance Program in 2009 as a key
component of its strategy to lead the rapidly emerging intelligent
workload management market. As enterprises develop their
business and technical strategies to leverage virtualization and
cloud computing, software appliances will become the leading form
factor to move applications across different environments.
The SUSE Appliance Program was conceived to enable both ISVs
and enterprises to leverage appliances.
Software appliances – pre-configured combinations of an
application, middleware and operating system, integrated into a
single image and tailored to run on industry-standard platforms –
offer new possibilities for efficient and cost-effective software
application deployment. As a result, IDC forecasts the software
appliance market to grow to $1.18
billion by 2012. (1)
"With software appliances, ISVs now have the opportunity to
simplify the packaging of their solutions for multiple
environments, allowing them to test, deploy and scale their
offerings to their customers' specific needs," said Brett Waldman, senior research analyst, Software
Appliances and Virtualization at IDC. "In effect, software
appliances present a significant market opportunity, making it
possible to 'mass customize' application delivery and furnish a
fully-integrated solution faster and more efficiently than
before."
During its first year, the SUSE Appliance Program met a number
of key milestones, including:
- Significant ISV and enterprise support: Since its
July 2009 release, the web-based
appliance-building tool SUSE Studio has built more than 415,000
appliances and gained more than 82,000 registered users worldwide.
Novell has also experienced widespread support for the SUSE
Appliance Program from leading ISVs and technology providers
including Adaris Technologies, Black Diamond Software, Codice
Software, Commvault, Extis GMBH, Four J's Development Tools,
GroundWork Open Source, HP, IBM, Infobright, Ingres, ISD, Lymeware,
Messaging Architects, Mindtouch, REDE, ROC Software Systems, SAP
AG, SEP, Sonoa Systems, VMware and Zmanda.
- Broad collaboration with VMware: VMware and Novell
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.
- IBM delivers Linux-based software appliances: Novell
announced that IBM is delivering a portfolio of software appliances
across IBM brands. Leveraging the SUSE Appliance Program from
Novell, this broad-based initiative enables IBM to deliver "plug
and play" appliances that substantially lower the cost and
complexity of deploying applications for small and medium-sized
businesses (SMBs) and helps ISVs significantly expand their routes
to market.
- Product innovation: Novell announced the availability of
the SUSE Appliance Toolkit, a suite of tools designed to make
building, configuring, testing and updating appliances fast and
easy. Developers can choose to build their appliances on either
SUSE Linux Enterprise or openSUSE®.
- Industry accolades: SUSE Studio won the 2010 American
Business Award for Best New Product or Service – Computer Hardware
or Services, eWeek's 2009 Enterprise IT Product of the Year
and was a 2010 SIIA CODiE Awards finalist.
"In the last 12 months, customer and partner interest in the
SUSE Appliance Program and uptake have far exceeded our
expectations," said Markus Rex,
senior vice president and general manager of Open Platform
Solutions at Novell. "The addition of SUSE Gallery further extends
the solutions Novell already offers for the intelligent workload
management market, and makes the SUSE Appliance Program the only
solution that takes an ISV from appliance development to appliance
market in a few simple steps, making it even easier to address new
market opportunities. Through our unique combination of technology,
support and go-to-market capabilities, our ISV partners gain the
assistance they need to increase their customer satisfaction and
grow revenues faster than ever."
Availability
SUSE Gallery is available now at www.susegallery.com or in the
browse feature of SUSE Studio Online. For more information
on the SUSE Appliance Program, visit www.novell.com/appliances.
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.
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(1) "Worldwide Software Appliance 2008-2012 Forecast: A
Workload Analysis" IDC #213783, August
2008
SOURCE Novell, Inc.