First solution to provide unified management of workloads across physical and virtual infrastructures WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 3
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.
SOURCE Novell, Inc.
