Novell has unveiled its desktop-to-data centre management initiative, including the availability of a set of solutions that orchestrate the management of virtual machines, high-performance computing and other IT resources, the company said in a statement. Following the agreement with Microsoft earlier this month, these offerings are the next steps in Novell's plan to deliver an interoperable, cross-platform management solutions, the company said.
According to Novell, as organisations adopt new technologies, including Linux, open source and virtualisation, they gain performance and cost benefits but can face an additional level of management complexity. Four new solutions from the Novell ZENworks systems and resource management family provide a complete set of integrated ITIL based services that automate management across diverse server and client platforms for both physical and virtual environments. These systems management solutions from Novell now manage and schedule heterogeneous virtual machine deployments, including Xen virtualisation on Linux, and automate the load balancing of these machines.
"Companies today are looking to virtual machines as one way of consolidating servers, saving power and space, and increasing the efficiency of their IT investments," said Ronni Colville, research vice president at Gartner. "However, while virtualisation can reduce the physical requirements of the data centre, it can also compound the level of management complexity. To maximise their computing potential in the data centre, customers need cross-platform systems management solutions for both virtual machines and physical machines."
Joe Wagner, Novell general manager of systems and resource management, said, "The latest Novell ZENworks management solutions are aimed squarely at answering customer calls for interoperable solutions. Novell ZENworks Orchestrator and Virtual Machine Management allow organisations to leverage virtualisation".
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