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With the acquisition of PlateSpin, Novell will offer a full solution stack with a powerful virtualization platform and a best-in-class heterogeneous management solution. From operating system support for Linux, Windows and UNIX , to virtual platforms from the leading vendors, to blade servers and rack servers and desktops – PlateSpin truly takes a heterogeneous approach to workload lifecycle management. Together, Novell and PlateSpin will solve many of the data center challenges that you face today under four fundamental workload lifecycle management categories – Relocation, Protection, Provisioning and Optimization. Relocation: PlateSpin provides a completely integrated product suite that automates the assessment and migration phases of data center initiatives, like server consolidation, data center relocation and hardware upgrades, to help you reduce costs, power consumption and space in the data center. Server Consolidation: With Virtualization from Novell, customers can consolidate...

Its been a long time that I covered Platespin, but anyways here it is! Announced today, PlateSpin Forge consists of a dual-processor Dell server equipped with 2.5TB of SATA RAID storage, VMware ESX Server virtualization, the underlying PlateSpin PowerConvert P2V software, and the PlateSpin Forge user interface. Together, these components can protect up to 25 “workloads,” running either Windows or Linux, within a VMware Virtual Machine Disk Format or Virtual Hard Disk format or on a physical box. “To us, a workload is a workload,” said Cadman Chui, PlateSpin vice president of marketing. Forge, Chui explains, simply takes an image of the workload and saves it as a virtual machine (VM). Then, on a scheduled basis, Forge takes the incremental changes that have happened on the VM and applies them. How often Forge takes an image of the workload depends on its criticality. Recovery, meanwhile, can take place directly on the Forge hardware appliance or back on another virtual or physical host ...

In this webinar, you will learn: • How Virtual Iron and PlateSpin products support virtual infrastructure • Introduction to PlateSpin LiveConvert technology embedded within Virtual Iron • Why data centers are moving “beyond P2V” to adopt unified workload management • How anywhere-to-anywhere workload migration ensures optimal efficiency • Using virtualization to achieve affordable consolidated disaster recovery

David reporting: Long time virtualization application provider PlateSpin announced an updated version of its award-winning PowerRecon data center planning and analysis solution. And although only a dot release increase, it offers powerful new features for managing, billing and optimizing VMware Infrastructure environments. The key features of PowerRecon Virtual Infrastructure Edition include: Virtual Machine Growth Reporting – The practice of quickly and easily creating a new virtual machine to address almost any requirement can result in rapid proliferation of virtual machines. PlateSpin PowerRecon enables organizations to better monitor and manage the growth of VMware Infrastructure without having to implement restrictive IT policies or lengthy approval procedures. By providing greater visibility into how the dynamic virtual infrastructure is growing and changing, IT directors gain a deeper understanding of how many virtual machines are deployed, who owns them and how they use availa...

Details are here: Title: Best Practices for Optimizing Physical and Virtual Infrastructure Date and Time: March 7, 2007 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET Presented By: Chris Barclay Director of Product Management Virtual Iron John Stetic Director of Product Management and Services PlateSpin Register