Novell Buys PlateSpin

Novell is buying five-year-old Toronto-based PlateSpin for $205 million cash whose management software will help define Novell as an infrastructure company and assure it a place selling into the next-generation data centre, says Sys-Con.

PlateSpin manages workloads on either physical or virtual hosts to deal with server consolidation, data centre relocation, disaster recovery, controlling virtual machine sprawl and handling billing and charge-backs

PlateSpin is agnostic and supports the various virtualisation widgetry such as VMware, Microsoft, Citrix - as well as Linux, Unix and Windows.

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) will still be hosting two free Webinars focused on IT management during the month of March, says The Sun Herald.

The first Webinar, regarding network management, will take place on 20 March and can be accessed here.

The second Webinar, regarding IT service management, will take place on 25 March and will be accessible here.

Enterprise software management vendor Micro Focus has launched a new version of its Enterprise View product, that is intended to help with application portfolio management and other areas, says ZDNet.

Micro Focus claims the tool can give a consolidated "portfolio" view of business and technical intelligence across an organisation, and can help chief information officers make more informed IT management decisions.

According to Micro Focus, application portfolio management can help identify and free up IT resources in areas where they are scarce.