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June 30, 2008
Novell Issues First Major PlateSpin Product, PowerConvert 7.0
ORLANDO, Fla., June 23 -- PlateSpin ULC, a
Novell company, today announced the launch of PlateSpin
PowerConvert Version 7.0 with new backup and recovery features and
expanded multi-platform support to help enterprises migrate and protect
server workloads across heterogeneous physical and virtual IT
environments. The first major product release since the company was
acquired by Novell in March 2008, PowerConvert 7.0 gives customers a
true enterprise-class solution to simplify the management of server
workloads in their heterogeneous datacenters.
"Since implementing PlateSpin PowerConvert, we have realized
tangible benefits and savings," said Steve Houghton, infrastructure
solutions architect at Norwich Union IT Solutions, an Aviva company.
"We
have seen a significant improvement in the performance of the
datacenter with scheduling and remote management tools at our
fingertips
and an increase in productivity with over 1,000 virtual machines in
operation. PowerConvert has been instrumental to ensuring the
day-to-day running of business functions and has given us the
opportunity to reduce emissions, cut costs and increase efficiencies
across the board."
With extended support for Linux and Windows-based workloads,
PowerConvert provides new image-based disaster recovery capabilities
and migration speed enhancements for large-scale implementations. In
addition to providing enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise support,
PlateSpin PowerConvert now provides broader support for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, as well as support for critical 64-Bit Microsoft
Windows Server-based workloads and Citrix XenServer environments.
PowerConvert provides the flexibility to optimize datacenters by
decoupling server workloads from the underlying hardware and streaming
them over the network between physical servers, blade infrastructures,
virtual hosts and image archives.
"Since Novell's acquisition of PlateSpin in March, the two
organizations have worked closely to put in place a datacenter
strategy and product roadmap to help customers achieve an agile
enterprise in which business services can span physical and virtual
environments," said Stephen Pollack, chief executive officer of
PlateSpin, a Novell company. "To build the next-generation datacenter
infrastructure, organizations need enterprise-caliber multi-platform
workload portability, robust and scalable workload protection and
reliable policy-based orchestration, PlateSpin PowerConvert 7.0 is
designed to help customers achieve this flexibility and maximize their
investment in virtualization."
New PowerConvert 7.0 Features:
- Linux "anywhere-to-physical" migrations -- Powerful physical-to-physical (P2P) and virtual-to-physical (V2P) capabilities enable migration of Linux workloads across physical or virtual boundaries for 32-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, giving customers the ability to accelerate datacenter initiatives including server consolidation, hardware lease migration and datacenter relocation.
- Windows 64-bit support -- Windows 64-Bit physical-to-virtual (P2V) migration for critical Windows Server 2003 workloads with support for various transfer methods, including Take Control, Live File Transfer and Snapshot for VMware ESX 3.x, 3.5 and Citrix XEN Enterprise 4.1, offers customers an effective migration option in a single solution.
- Enhanced Citrix XenServer support -- Support for anywhere-to-virtual (X2V) and virtual-to-image (V2I) workload migrations for Citrix XenServer Enterprise 4.1 including 32-bit Windows XP, 2000, 2003 and 64-Bit Windows Server 2003 allows customers to accelerate and simplify integration and maximize their IT investment.
- Incremental imaging capabilities -- Flexible imaging support brings greater workload protection while enabling significant savings in terms of staffing time, bandwidth and storage costs. Superior image import and export capabilities and automation enable organizations to more easily create and manage an image-based repository of server workloads for backup and disaster recovery and reduce imaging costs.
- Enterprise-class speed and reliability -- Dramatically improved transfer speeds for workload migrations over a wide range of network types from Gigabit Ethernet networks to high-latency WAN environments -- all with reliable enterprise-class workload migration functionality including Server Sync, job automation and post-migration testing capabilities that minimize downtime while maximizing the integrity of the workload migration. PowerConvert's enterprise-caliber reliability reduces overall migration project times, lowers business risk and accelerates time to value for large- scale datacenter initiatives.
PlateSpin, a Novell company, provides a unified suite of solutions
to help enterprises adopt, manage and extend their use of server
virtualization in the datacenter. PlateSpin's Workload Portability
technology liberates workloads from hardware platforms, allowing data,
applications and operating systems to be migrated over the network
between any physical or virtual host. The ability to migrate, protect,
provision and optimize server workloads across physical and virtual
environments helps enterprises reduce cost, complexity and risk. With
integrated workload profiling and planning, PlateSpin solutions improve
the speed and quality of datacenter initiatives and ease the burden of
managing mixed IT environments. For more information, visit www.platespin.com/.
About Novell
Novell Inc. delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a
portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers
around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our
infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell
harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and
technology to work as one. For more information, visit www.novell.com/.
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Source: Novell Inc.
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