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Virtualization and Workload Management solutions from Novell can help. “Novell Cloud Manager allows Confront Data Center dramatically reduce purchase, provisioning us to simplify and automate Challenges Today and maintenance costs by consolidating bus- many of our business processes, If deployed incorrectly, virtualization and iness applications and services on a limited accelerate IT service delivery as cloud computing solutions can wreak havoc number of highly scalable and reliable enter- well as provide visibility and cost on a business. Whether your organization is prise-class servers. However, virtualization transparency to the business. just starting out with virtualization, or already goes beyond simple server consolidation. Strategically, this will provide has a mature virtual infrastructure and is As knowledge about virtualization grows, us with a competitive edge.” looking to the cloud, Novell has the products, the value proposition of virtualization shifts Ryan Klose toward new capabilities like cloud computing, experience and best practice knowledge Chief Information Officer to help you succeed. Novell is uniquely self-service, standardization, rapid deploy- Premium Wine Brands for Pernod Ricard positioned to help businesses realized the ment and disaster recovery. There is a tre- promise of virtualization, cloud computing mendous opportunity to leverage the value and an agile data center by providing a of cloud computing and virtualization. vendor-agnostic management approach. Unlike other vendors in the market, Novell Cloud computing and virtualization are provides a complete infrastructure manage- probably the hottest topics in today’s ment suite for virtualization, cloud computing data centers and are at the top of many and workload management from one source. organizations’ IT agendas. Thousands of organizations around the world are using Private Cloud virtualization to reduce IT costs while increas- The rapid adoption of virtualization has ing the efficiency, utilization and flexibility of allowed organizations to vastly improve how their existing data centers. Virtualization can they optimize their data centers by freeing IT organizations the flexibility to reconfigure Novell provides comprehensive and applications and systems to increase server heterogeneous solutions so you can utilization without affecting performance. manage physical, virtual and cloud Our core strength in virtualization is our infrastructures simply and more efficiently— ability to assess, plan and move physical workloads into virtual machines and test with a single vendor. those virtual machines with minimal down- time and risk of failure. Virtualization and workloads from specific hardware. With the Workload Management solutions from newfound flexibility to shift workloads from one Novell can help you: physical system to another, organizations are now looking at cloud computing as a way to Perform an assessment reduce infrastructure costs, simplify manage- Create an optimized consolidation plan ment, and make IT more agile and responsive Perform a live workload migration to the business. Public cloud providers make Test a target server while the source good economic sense, but how can you take is running advantage of their capabilities while main- Synchronize the source and target server taining the security, compliance and control that you have over your own data center? Disaster Recovery Private cloud computing is the answer. In today’s on-demand environment, downtime is costly. Business suffers when server work- The private cloud allows you to build the loads are not consistently available. And the policies, controls and capabilities to handle damage due to downtime can also extend workload mobility (a key to cloud computing) beyond financial issues into key areas such as within the safety of your own data center, customer loyalty and market competitiveness. before you are faced with the inevitable need To avoid this, your data center must recover to ship critical enterprise workloads outside quickly from all downtime, whether planned or your own firewall. Novell is uniquely positioned unplanned. Employing virtualization solutions to help you in this journey, with integrated for business continuity lets you get more out solutions for cloud management, identity man- of your virtualization investment. With the right agement, compliance management, security management tools, there is a tremendous management and workload management. opportunity for agility and efficiency. Server and Data Center Consolidation Infrastructure Assessment and Discovery Regardless of the size of your enterprise, Data center infrastructures are getting more you want to get the most value from your IT complex by the day, and IT organizations investments and improve efficiency at a lower must often support physical and virtual infra- total cost of ownership. structures side by side. Achieving a holistic view of the infrastructure including both With integrated solutions from Novell, you physical and virtual servers—as well as other can virtualize Linux* and Windows* servers, storage and network hardware—is critical to and consolidate them on fewer enterprise- optimizing the data center and successfully class systems, with the broadest hardware realizing the expected ROI for virtualization and operating system support in the industry. and consolidation products. 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