Novell to Develop Cross-Platform Data Center Tools

Anonymous Coward writes to tell us eWeek is reporting that Novell is currently working on a new suite of tools that will assist in the management of data centers across Windows, Unix, and Linux environments. From the article: "The tools also help users maximize server utilization by setting up a series of workload policies based on the business application resources required. The project, currently titled "The policy-driven adaptive data center," will leverage virtualization, identity management and resource management to deliver a flexible and adaptive data center."

Comments

Market-speak

[Bill_Royle]

If I hear the word "virtualization" one more time today, my head will explode.

Re:They couldn't manage their OWN systems

[Ruprecht the Monkeyb]

And yet, after going from a Novell environment to a Windows environment, I'd trade certain body parts to have some of the Novell tools back in lieu of the crap that Microsoft ships. It's amazing how much stuff you could do even in pre-3.11 Netware out of the box that you still can't do with native Windows tools.

Re:Let me guess

[LanRx]

Though you're obviously entitled to your opinion, eDir is easily head and shoulders above AD in every aspect of a directory's usefulness. I actually had a Microsoft guy tell me that replication can take 90 minutes to occur globally. Hope like hell that change wasn't important.