Novell acquires PlateSpin
Novell has completed its acquisition of PlateSpin, a provider of workload lifecycle management solutions for the enterprise data centre, says Fox Business.
PlateSpin allows the movement of workloads between physical and virtual environments regardless of platform or operating system.
These capabilities, combined with Novell's systems management solutions, enable customers to fully leverage their virtualisation investments and reduce both costs and server sprawl in their data centres.
EMA shows off new centres
Enterprise Management Associates, the IT management research and consulting company, has launched the Network Change and Configuration Management Solutions Centre and Service Catalog Solutions Center, says TMCNet.
The two new technologies have been developed by the company's IT Management Solutions Centre. This centre is a free-of-cost online resource that offers the most effective third-party analysis of IT management vendors and technologies.
Together with the new topics, the IT Management Solutions Centre now includes 15 important IT management technologies.
Virtualisation hits data centres
According to InfoWorld, enterprise IT managers should expect to deploy more automation technologies and adopt best practice frameworks in an effort to better keep virtualisation, service-oriented architecture and Web 2.0 technologies under control and operating efficiently.
Enterprise Strategy Group surveyed 602 global IT decision makers to learn how data centres are transforming and how IT managers are keeping up with the change.
More than three-quarters of the respondents said they expect virtualisation to extensively or moderately impact their IT management requirements over the next 24 months, with SOA and Web 2.0 expected to have a "similar impact," according to ESG.
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