PlateSpin is preparing the second generation of fully integrated hardware appliances for consolidated workload protection and recovery.

PlateSpin Forge offers any organization the ability to extend fast, reliable disaster recovery protection to every important server workload simply and affordably, without duplicate hardware or redundant software licenses. It eliminates the high cost hurdles of hardware clustering and high-end replication, and the labor-intensity of imaging, tape backup and manual restoration.

Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server seamlessly facilitates almost 85,000 daily insurance quotes

Red Hat released the second update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. As with earlier minor releases, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 comes with a broad set of bug fixes, updated hardware support capabilities, quality improvements, and a set of new software features that have been backported from upstream open source projects to the Enterprise Linux 5 code base.

Enterprise Linux 5.2 Highlights

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 enhancements are primarily focused in six areas:

* Virtualization
* Laptop and Desktop improvements
* Encryption and Security

May 2008 — Novell today announced the availability to customers worldwide of SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2), containing enhancements in virtualization, management, hardware enablement and interoperability. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 is the only Xen-based virtualization solution with full support from Microsoft for Windows* Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 guests and live migration of those guests across physical machines. Several improvements specific to SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10 are also included in SP2.

April 2008 - Securelinx is pleased to confirm its membership as a Professional Partner in the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Partner Program ("VIP"). With both VMware Sales and Technical professional accreditations achieved within the organisation, Securelinx staff are ideally placed to advise and guide virtualisation choices within this growing IT solutions area.

The maturation of virtualisation solutions in the x86 and UNIX realm has opened the door to an endless array of choices. More choices offer organisations greater flexibility, but they can also introduce confusion and complexity.

By implementing Novell ZENworks Asset Management, Sesame Workshop reduced inventory administration time by 70 percent and can better comply with auditing requests and leasing contracts.

"A key factor in our decision was the consistent, long-term relationship between Novell and SAP," said Michael Gebauer, solution architect for Siemens IT Solutions and Services. "SAP applications run seamlessly on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and we get excellent technical support from Novell." Read the official press release - Siemens Software and Services.

WALTHAM, Mass.— 25 Feb 2008 Novell today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PlateSpin Ltd. The acquisition will deliver a full solution stack with a powerful virtualization platform and a best-in-class heterogeneous management solution to solve many of the data center challenges that customers face today including; relocation, provisioning, potection and optimizataion. Read More...

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