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PlateSpin PowerConvert 7.0 delivers most comprehensive multi-platform support for Windows and Linux in mixed data center environments

ORLANDO, Fla. (Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit)— 23 Jun 2008— 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 data centers.

Executive Breakfast with Novell & Mavenspire - Saving IT Budget with Linux

• May 20, 2008 @ Baltimore MD
• Part of the “Maximizing IT Value” Executive Breakfast Series
• Is your IT budget getting tighter? If so, come join us for breakfast and learn how you can leverage enterprise-grade Linux to save costs while maintaining high levels of service and availability. You’ll hear from industry professionals with decades of IT and data center experience—and squeeze in the most important meal of the day while you’re at it. Our experts will share their ideas about how Linux and its complementary solutions can help you stretch your IT budget. We’ll help you learn how to do more (with Linux) for less.
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From the press release,

SALT LAKE CITY, March 20, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — Novell BrainShare 2008 — QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leader in networking for storage and high performance computing (HPC), today announced that it is the first HBA vendor to ship production ready N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) solution for a shipping Linux distribution. Enterprise Linux customers can now get NPIV-capable Fibre Channel HBAs for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1 (SP1), the latest Linux platform from Novell that features significant enhancements in virtualization, high performance computing, security, interoperability and system management. QLogic(r) market-leading 2400 series HBAs provide hardware-assist features that enable dynamic provisioning and flexible usage of HBA resources, helping IT managers to extend SAN best practices into virtualized data centers.

Have you been wondering how PlateSpin’s technologies might fit into the Novell and the data center automation solutions?  Here’s a glimpse…

Together, Novell and PlateSpin offer the only heterogeneous data center automation solutions on the market that provide customers the flexibility to manage mixed IT environments. This is another key step as Novell builds out its strategy as a leading infrastructure software company that can make interoperability a reality. Customers can now fully manage the lifecycle of their data center. First, analyzing which workloads to virtualize with PlateSpin PowerRecon*. Next, converting the workloads from physical to virtual machines, as well as virtual back to physical, with PlateSpin PowerConvert*. Finally, converted workloads can be inventoried, categorized and provisioned with Novell ZENworks® Orchestrator. This comprehensive approach continually monitors the data center and responds to demands automatically, ensuring the most effective and efficient IT infrastructure, while maintaining service level objectives.

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If a server goes down, essential services don’t have to shut down along with it. To prevent downtime, Linux administrators can set up a Heartbeat cluster on Linux. Heartbeat adds the advantage of a cluster to Xen virtual machines (VMs), thus maintaining VMs’ uptime when a server crashes.

This series explains how to configure and use a Heartbeat cluster on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server using a storage area network (SAN) and a Xen VM as a cluster resource. I’ll also discuss the Linux Heartbeat project, whose mission is improving critical services availability in the network environment at critical times. In this, the first installment, I cover installation of a SAN. In the next tip, I’ll cover the configuration of the Oracle cluster file system (OCFS2).

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