BEIJING, Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Novell today
announced the 16th Asian Games chose the company's Linux and
enterprise management technologies to implement an efficient and
flexible data center and software distribution management system to
support their premier event. With 45 nations, 476 events in 42
sports and more than 9,500 competing athletes, the Asian Games is
one of the largest sports events in the world. The Guangzhou Asian
Games Organizing Committee (GAGOC) utilized SUSE Linux Enterprise,
Novell Cloud Manager and Novell ZENworks Configuration Management
to enable uniform deployment, provide effective management of all
terminal devices, and ensure a smooth and successful event.
"We are honored to have been selected by such an important
sports event, something which we believe proves our strength in the
intelligent workload management market," said Dr. Sen Ming Chang, managing director of Novell East Asia. "The three solutions we
provided represent the advantages of Novell products--openness,
multi-platform support, automation, reliability and safety. We were
able to leverage these advantages to maximize our contribution to
the Games."
With 53 competition venues and 17 training venues, including
four outside of Guangzhou, hosting
the Asian Games was highly complicated, requiring the information
systems to coordinate numerous tasks. To achieve effective IT
device testing, software deployment/upgrade and emergency response,
an effective data center and software distribution mechanism was
necessary to ensure the stable operation of the Games' information
systems and to enhance service quality and IT efficiency.
Based on the Asian Games' requirements for software distribution
among competition venues, the Information Technology Department of
the Organizing Committee adopted SUSE Linux Enterprise, Cloud
Manager and ZENworks Configuration Management. With these three
Novell solutions, GAGOC was able to automatically implement, deploy
and manage a scalable, multi-platform, distributed IT system that
minimized risk and reduced on-site maintenance workloads and
personnel costs. After the event, the Guangzhou Asian Games
Organizing Committee presented Novell with a certificate of
commendation in recognition of its contributions to the success of
the Asian Games.
For more on how customers around the globe are leveraging Novell
solutions, visit www.novell.com/success.
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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
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