Novell收购虚拟管理软件厂商PlateSpin
时间：2008-02-26 来源：linux论坛
Novell公司本周一宣布，他们目前已经正式收购了PlateSpin软件公司，此次收购通过2.05亿美金的现金完成的，后者是一家位于加拿大多伦多的虚拟管理软件和相关服务的供应商。
这是Novell公司在两周来的第二起收购业务，在本月13日，这家位于麻省Waltham的软件公司收购了开源协作软件供应商---SiteScape，后者是开源协作软件项目ICEcore的发起人。
此次收购的PlateSpin公司，目前专注于数据中心管理软件，这些软件使得那些运行于不同操作系统上的业务流可以轻松的转移，而不用在乎这些软件是否运行在不同的物理或者虚拟设备上。
Novell总裁和CEO Ron Hovsepian在会议上告诉记者、分析人员和投资者们，这两起收购将填补Novell产品线缺失中的关键部位。
Consolidation in the virtualization sector continues.
Novell announced Feb. 25 that it will acquire Toronto-based virtualization management software and services provider PlateSpin Ltd. for $205 million in cash.
It was the second acquisition Novell has revealed in 12 days. The Waltham, Mass.-based enterprise software maker bought open-source team collaboration software provider SiteScape -- founder of the ICEcore open-source collaboration project -- on Feb. 13.
Five-year-old PlateSpin specializes in data center management software that enables workloads to run smoothly across varying types of systems, whether on physical or virtual servers.
Novell President and CEO Ron Hovsepian told a conference call of reporters, analysts and investors that these two acquisitions fill key missing elements in Novell's product lineup.
"This is a great marriage of technologies and people, with no overlaps," Hovsepian said. "PlateSpin brings a powerful set of products and some big customers [such as British Petroleum], and we bring our own great technologies plus our strong partner capabilities to the equation.
"The PlateSpin acquisition will be a cornerstone of our two-pronged enterprise Linux and IT management software strategy," Hovsepian said.
PlateSpin's operating system-agnostic, consolidation-planning and performance-monitoring tools fill a hole in Novell's product line, Joe Wagner, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Novell's Systems and Resource Management business unit, said.
"Independent of whatever hypervisor a system is using, PlateSpin's tools can give a data center more efficient use of its resources, cost savings due to drawing less power for servers and cooling, and much better efficiencies of scale," Wagner said.
Novell and PlateSpin already have partnerships with VMware, Citrix Xen, Unisys, Virtual Iron and Microsoft (for the upcoming Hyper-V). All of both companies' server software works with all of those hypervisors, Wagner said.
"Flexible, automated management products that fully leverage server resources and allow the movement of workloads are necessary for optimizing the data center," said Stephen Elliot, an analyst and research director at IDC.
"Over the next three years, heterogeneous virtualization architectures will be the norm for most IT organizations; as such they must purchase data center management solutions that offer an ongoing opportunity for lowering operational costs as well as integrating and managing VMs across both server and storage infrastructures for greater control and visibility between hardware and the virtual software tiers."
PlateSpin's product suite automates the assessment and migration phases of data-center initiatives, such as server consolidation, data-center relocation and hardware upgrades. The company's disaster-recovery software uses virtualization to protect both physical and virtual servers in the data center, and its provisioning software gives users a single approach to imaging and configuring physical and virtual workloads -- regardless of platform.
PlateSpin's optimization and management software automatically monitors and makes infrastructure adjustments based on server availability and workload demand, in order to increase server utilization and availability.
Stephen Pollack, founder and CEO of PlateSpin, will remain with Novell, as will all 125 of its employees.
"When I founded PlateSpin five years ago, I never suspected that we would eventually become the center of such a powerful trend [data center virtualization]," he told the conference.
The acquisition is expected to close during Novell's second fiscal quarter 2008.
[ 本帖最后由 Send_linux 于 2008-2-29 17:34 编辑 ]
这是Novell公司在两周来的第二起收购业务，在本月13日，这家位于麻省Waltham的软件公司收购了开源协作软件供应商---SiteScape，后者是开源协作软件项目ICEcore的发起人。
此次收购的PlateSpin公司，目前专注于数据中心管理软件，这些软件使得那些运行于不同操作系统上的业务流可以轻松的转移，而不用在乎这些软件是否运行在不同的物理或者虚拟设备上。
Novell总裁和CEO Ron Hovsepian在会议上告诉记者、分析人员和投资者们，这两起收购将填补Novell产品线缺失中的关键部位。
Consolidation in the virtualization sector continues.
Novell announced Feb. 25 that it will acquire Toronto-based virtualization management software and services provider PlateSpin Ltd. for $205 million in cash.
It was the second acquisition Novell has revealed in 12 days. The Waltham, Mass.-based enterprise software maker bought open-source team collaboration software provider SiteScape -- founder of the ICEcore open-source collaboration project -- on Feb. 13.
Five-year-old PlateSpin specializes in data center management software that enables workloads to run smoothly across varying types of systems, whether on physical or virtual servers.
Novell President and CEO Ron Hovsepian told a conference call of reporters, analysts and investors that these two acquisitions fill key missing elements in Novell's product lineup.
"This is a great marriage of technologies and people, with no overlaps," Hovsepian said. "PlateSpin brings a powerful set of products and some big customers [such as British Petroleum], and we bring our own great technologies plus our strong partner capabilities to the equation.
"The PlateSpin acquisition will be a cornerstone of our two-pronged enterprise Linux and IT management software strategy," Hovsepian said.
PlateSpin's operating system-agnostic, consolidation-planning and performance-monitoring tools fill a hole in Novell's product line, Joe Wagner, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Novell's Systems and Resource Management business unit, said.
"Independent of whatever hypervisor a system is using, PlateSpin's tools can give a data center more efficient use of its resources, cost savings due to drawing less power for servers and cooling, and much better efficiencies of scale," Wagner said.
Novell and PlateSpin already have partnerships with VMware, Citrix Xen, Unisys, Virtual Iron and Microsoft (for the upcoming Hyper-V). All of both companies' server software works with all of those hypervisors, Wagner said.
"Flexible, automated management products that fully leverage server resources and allow the movement of workloads are necessary for optimizing the data center," said Stephen Elliot, an analyst and research director at IDC.
"Over the next three years, heterogeneous virtualization architectures will be the norm for most IT organizations; as such they must purchase data center management solutions that offer an ongoing opportunity for lowering operational costs as well as integrating and managing VMs across both server and storage infrastructures for greater control and visibility between hardware and the virtual software tiers."
PlateSpin's product suite automates the assessment and migration phases of data-center initiatives, such as server consolidation, data-center relocation and hardware upgrades. The company's disaster-recovery software uses virtualization to protect both physical and virtual servers in the data center, and its provisioning software gives users a single approach to imaging and configuring physical and virtual workloads -- regardless of platform.
PlateSpin's optimization and management software automatically monitors and makes infrastructure adjustments based on server availability and workload demand, in order to increase server utilization and availability.
Stephen Pollack, founder and CEO of PlateSpin, will remain with Novell, as will all 125 of its employees.
"When I founded PlateSpin five years ago, I never suspected that we would eventually become the center of such a powerful trend [data center virtualization]," he told the conference.
The acquisition is expected to close during Novell's second fiscal quarter 2008.
[ 本帖最后由 Send_linux 于 2008-2-29 17:34 编辑 ]
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