Novell to Support Virtual Iron Data Center Virtualization and Management Platform

Novell to Support Virtual Iron Data Center Virtualization and Management Platform

Novell and Virtual Iron Software today announced that Novell’s SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 9 now supports Virtual Iron’s data center virtualization and management platform. Novell is shipping a pre-configured kernel with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to allow businesses to leverage the Virtual Iron technology for rapid deployment and configuration of enterprise-class computing workloads in the data center. As a result, organizations have the ability to improve overall data center management, reducing operating costs and increasing IT operating flexibility and responsiveness.

“The Virtual Iron offering provides an important new alternative for clients looking to virtualize their open source platforms such as Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server,” said Juhi Jotwani, director of BladeCenter Solutions, IBM Systems and Technology Group. “IBM BladeCenter customers running Linux will benefit from this integrated system-level virtualization which complements the broad portfolio of IBM virtualization solutions.”

Virtual Iron is the first paravirtualized solution to be supported on commercial Linux*. The software offers enterprise-class data center virtualization and policy-based management solutions that deliver maximum flexibility to production-level applications such as J2EE* application servers, databases and high-performance computing. The Virtual Iron solution increases resource utilization through pooling and sharing of data center resources, and it improves IT agility via dynamic and flexible infrastructure, rapid provisioning, rapid reconfiguration and capacity-on-demand capabilities.

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