Transforming Data Centres With New Mgmt Solutions

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Novell Helps Customers Transform Their Data Centres With New Management Solutions

Improved feature set simplifies virtual machine lifecycle management and streamlines data centre automation

Auckland – 7 August 2007 – Novell today announced the latest versions of its data centre management solutions that help customers realise the value of their physical and virtual data centre resources. This release increases the flexibility of the Novell® ZENworks® management solution through a modular approach that allows the high-level orchestration engine, which allocates overall data centre resources to be installed and run separately from more specialised management components, including virtual machine management.

Full-lifecycle management for SUSE® Linux Enterprise from Novell running Xen* virtualisation is also available with this version. These enhancements give customers the ability to leverage virtualisation in the data centre while helping them lower costs, reduce complexity and mitigate risks in their IT infrastructure.

“Effective virtualisation management is a mandatory component of any virtualisation strategy,” said Mark Bowker, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “IT administrators want a management tool that is not bound by the physical infrastructure, leverages existing investments, and works in a heterogeneous environment. Novell's ability to manage physical and virtual resources in a single solution demonstrates its commitment to enabling customers to rapidly deploy a virtualised infrastructure.”

Data centre management solutions from Novell are a cross-platform set of ITIL**-based services that orchestrate IT management and business processes. This release of ZENworks Orchestrator includes a more intuitive user interface and easier-to-use tools that reduce complexity, raising the standard for data centre management. Additionally, to help IT administrators control and manage virtual machine proliferation, enhanced full-lifecycle management capabilities provide image creation and warehousing for Xen Linux* virtual machines.

“To realise the promises of virtualisation, organisations must have management tools that automate and simplify the operation of the data centre,” said Joe Wagner, senior vice president and general manager of systems and resource management at Novell.

“The latest versions of Novell ZENworks Orchestrator and Novell ZENworks Virtual Machine Management make it easy for our customers to manage both physical and virtual heterogeneous environments, while lowering their costs and reducing the risks associated with dynamic virtualised environments.”

This version streamlines implementations and gives customers and partners the flexibility to choose which management tools to deploy in the data centre. It does this by separating the previously bundled ZENworks Orchestrator from management packs, such as ZENworks Virtual Machine Management.

Novell ZENworks Orchestrator and Novell ZENworks Virtual Machine Management are generally available today to customers worldwide.

For more information on data centre management solutions from Novell, visit www.novell.com/dca.

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About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers infrastructure software for the Open Enterprise. Novell is a leader in enterprise-wide operating systems based on Linux and open source and provides the enterprise management services required to operate mixed IT environments. Novell helps customers minimize cost, complexity and risk, allowing them to focus on innovation and growth. For more information, visit www.novell.com.

Novell and ZENworks are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. *Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

**Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a framework that outlines best practice IT service management procedures.

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