Novell buys VM management vendor Platespin
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‘Virtual sprawl’ deterrent to boost data centre management suite
Software provider Novell has got its hands on technology that helps organisations manage their increasingly complex virtual environments by agreeing to buy Canadian vendor Platespin for $205 million.
The cost-savings and capacity improvements that virtualisation affords have seen businesses enthusiastically adopt the practice. But many have found that adopting virtualisation has created a whole new set of systems management challenges.
Tools that help to keep order in virtual environments and help to contain the phenomenon known as 'virtual sprawl’ are now highly sought after. Some analysts predict that, in the virtualisation space, the real money will be made by the management tools vendors.
“With the addition of the PlateSpin product portfolio,” said Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian, “we will have the most comprehensive workload management solution that allows customers to monitor and analyze what to virtualize, provide the tools to seamlessly virtualize and unvirtualize workloads, automate the management of workloads, and provide the leading open-source platform from which to run virtualized work.”
PlateSpin is a privately-funded company that was founded in 2003. It has 4,500 customers worldwide.
Further reading
The rise of virtual sprawl The challenges of systems management are about to grow with the proliferation of virtual machines.
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