Novell Cloud Manager Offers Greater Flexibility For Private Clouds

Novell has announced the availability of Novell Cloud Manager, a new solution that enables customers to create and securely manage a cloud computing environment as a seamless extension of existing data centre resources.

Unlike competitive solutions that lock customers into proprietary technology stacks, Novell Cloud Manager is designed for the heterogeneous reality of most IT environments, giving users the freedom and flexibility to create and manage private clouds which support all leading hypervisors, operating systems and hardware platforms. Novell Cloud Manager lets IT administrators package, price and present IT services on-demand through a customisable interface.

Built from the ground up as a cloud computing management platform, Novell Cloud Manager is one of the few cloud management products to offer a single, comprehensive console that all stakeholders – business unit leaders, application teams and IT management – can use to request, approve, manage and report on IT services across their entire infrastructure. It is hypervisor-agnostic, which is becoming more important as today’s enterprises increasingly deploy a mix of hypervisors in their data centres.

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“Customers want to be able to securely manage cloud environments as a seamless extension of their existing data centre, and they are looking for solutions that avoid vendor lock-in and interoperate across a broad range of technology stacks,” said Jim Ebzery, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Security - Management and Operating Platforms, Novell.

“We’ve optimised Novell Cloud Manager for the heterogeneous reality of most IT environments, delivering on the promised flexibility and agility of cloud computing and providing the rich management capabilities IT administrators’ need. Further, Novell can offer credibility, breadth of portfolio, award-winning support and strong industry relationships to customers, partners and service providers,” said Ebzery.

Novell Cloud Manager Benefits:
Supports the industry’s leading hypervisors and operating systems
– enables customers to leverage their existing IT resources.

Delivers IT services faster with automated, on-demand workload provisioning - beyond simply managing the request and approval workflow, Novell Cloud Manager automatically creates and deploys workloads into the virtual environment based on a service catalog of predefined workload templates.
Controls virtual sprawl with cost visibility
- exposes the real costs of workloads, resources and service levels, allowing business service owners to select only what they really need. Costs can be linked to nearly all items relevant to a business service: workloads, associated resources (virtual CPUs, memory, virtual network cards and disk space) and service levels.
Creates a secure and compliant environment
- enforces an organisation’s internal approval process, as well as best practices like ITIL. Security profiles can be configured at the user, group, workload and business service levels, ensuring consistent application of security policies and rights management.
Integrates with best-in-class security and business service management products
- A built-in connector to Novell Sentinel allows security managers to correlate events from Novell Cloud Manager with other events detected in the cloud or any other Sentinel-aware location providing visibility into who has done what in the cloud.