Attachmate Corporation has agreed to acquire technology giant Novell for $6.10 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion. Attachmate is owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo.
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Novell Gets Purchased
Monday, November 22nd, 2010Cloud Manager
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010Novell announced the availability of Cloud Manager, a product designed to enable customers to create and securely manage a cloud computing environment as an extension of existing data centre resources.
Cloud Manager is designed for heterogeneous IT environments which, the company said, gives customers the flexibility to create and manage private clouds regardless of the mix of hypervisors, operating systems and hardware platforms.
Pernod Ricard’s chief information officer of premium wine brands is Ryan Klose who was an early adopter of Cloud Manager. “Cloud Manager will simplify our IT service provisioning by enabling us to treat our physical resources and virtual infrastructure as a seamless private cloud and gain a much clearer and more granular understanding of our IT use and costs,” he said. “Our BIS infrastructure team can be more responsive to changing business priorities. Cloud Manager allows us to simplify and automate many of our business processes, accelerate IT service delivery, as well as provide visibility and cost-transparency to the business.”
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 on Amazon EC2
Monday, August 23rd, 2010“Customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) of all sizes have the ability to run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 on Amazon EC2, paying only their operating hours” was announced by Novell in a press release on Aug 18.
Amazon EC2 cloud hosting customers get maintenance subscriptions directly on Amazon EC2 without having to sign in advance a separate license agreement. With this program, SUSE Cloud’service providers’c an also optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise Server offering technical support from Novell or their own support services strengthened by the expertise of Novell.
“Over the next several years, IDC expects that enterprises will deploy a mix of physical, virtual and cloud computing resources,” said Mary Johnston Turner, research director for Enterprise Systems Management Software at IDC. “To make the most effective use possible of this dynamic and heterogeneous infrastructure environment, IT teams will need to shift to a more policy-based, automated approach for managing the building, provisioning, migration, monitoring, measuring and securing of corporate workloads. Intelligent workload management is an emerging market concept that addresses this complex set of needs by integrating a number of important technologies.”
