Novell Promises No More Private Cloud Lock-In With Cloud Manager
After months of prep, Novell (NSDQ:NOVL) on Monday officially made available Cloud Manager, its cloud computing creation and management tool, a product the Waltham, Mass.-based company said will help cloud hopefuls avoid the vendor lock-in trap.
Novell’s Cloud Manager, which had been in beta, helps customers build and keep tabs on their private cloud computing environments as if they are an extension of existing data center resources, the company said.
Partners have awaited the general availability of Cloud Manager for on-demand private cloud provisioning.
“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,” the company said in a statement.
The official launch of Cloud Manager continues Novell’s path into cloud computing, which includes its WorkloadIQ product roadmap, a series of products targeting the need for “intelligent workload management” solutions that help companies use their existing IT assets to save money and leverage the benefits of cloud computing and virtualization and to manage those services across physical, virtual and cloud environments, said Richard Whitehead, Novell’s director of intelligent workload management.
Whitehead called Cloud Manager “one of the cornerstones of [Novell's] cloud strategy.”
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