Novell (PlateSpin)

Novell

With Novell, you can turn your data center into a future-proof foundation for business growth. Give your end users the resources they need while lowering costs, mitigating risk and maximizing the value of your IT assets.

As business demands multiply, it gets tougher to maintain a cost-effective data center that is agile enough to keep up. Today’s IT environments are complex, with endless combinations of platforms, systems and applications. All of this adds to the cost of provisioning and maintaining your data center. And yet, you still may not be realizing the full potential of your IT investments.

Novell allows you to integrate future-proof technology with your current IT investments to create a powerful Service-Driven Data Center.

Virtualisation and Workload Management

Manage your data center with PlateSpin® Workload Management solutions from Novell. Simplify the ongoing management of server workloads across a mixed IT environment. Our solutions profile, migrate, protect and manage server workloads on physical machines and virtual hosts. Plus, our agnostic technologies allow you to migrate between multiple hypervisors and computing platforms.

Engineered to fit into your existing IT infrastructure, our solutions:

Decrease management time
Lower operating costs
Reduce complexity
Mitigate risk

If you want an open source Virtualisation solution, Novell offers SUSE Linux Enterprise with the integrated Xen hypervisor. Choose ours or stay with your existing Virtualisation stack—our Virtualisation and Workload Management solutions, can manage it all.

Novell technologies evolve with your data center, ensuring your IT environment is always efficient, well-balanced and resilient. Make the most of your current and future data center investments with PlateSpin Workload Management solutions.

Novell & PlateSpin

Platespin were one of the first organisations to develop capacity planning software (Recon) and workload portability (Protect, Migrate) and latterly simplify DR solutions with a single appliance capable of replicating workloads between sites (Forge). dataplex have committed to:

Competent Sales and Technical Capability
Collaboration through joint business plans and marketing events.

The products from PlateSpin that dataplex can deliver as part of your solution are:

PlateSpin Recon 3.7 - PlateSpin Recon is a sophisticated workload profiling, analysis and planning solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimising the data center. PlateSpin Recon collects inventory and workload utilisation statistics for a clear and concise picture of the application services running in the data center and how their resources are being used. With broad multiplatform support, PlateSpin Recon takes the guesswork out of server consolidation, disaster recovery, capacity planning and green data center initiatives.

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PlateSpin Migrate - PlateSpin Migrate is a powerful workload portability and migration solution from Novell that migrates server workloads over the network between physical servers, virtual hosts and image archives. PlateSpin Migrate remotely decouples workloads from the underlying server hardware and streams them to and from any physical or virtual host – all from a single point of control. With the broadest multiplatform support for hypervisors and operating systems, PlateSpin Migrate provides organisations with a mature, proven solution for testing, migrating and rebalancing workloads across infrastructure boundaries from desktop to datacenter.

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PlateSpin Protect - PlateSpin Protect is a powerful workload protection solution from Novell that protects and rapidly recovers whole server workloads including data, applications and operating systems – all from a single point of control. In the event of a production server outage or disaster, workloads can be rapidly powered on and continue to run as normal until the production environment is restored. PlateSpin Protect provides a simple, flexible and cost-effective solution for protecting physical and virtual workloads in the datacenter.

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PlateSpin Forge - PlateSpin Forge is a disaster recovery hardware appliance that provides out-of-the-box protection for server workloads. In the event of production server downtime or a disaster, protected workloads can be rapidly recovered and continue to run on the PlateSpin Forge appliance until they can be restored to the production environment. Available in either a 10 or 25 workload protection model, PlateSpin Forge allows enterprises to cost-effectively match their recovery investment with the size of their data center. The latest version provides SAN integration, support for 64-bit Windows workloads and multiple recovery points for greater flexibility and workload integrity.

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