Novell to Develop Cross-Platform Data Center Tools

Anonymous Coward writes to tell us eWeek is reporting that Novell is currently working on a new suite of tools that will assist in the management of data centers across Windows, Unix, and Linux environments. From the article: "The tools also help users maximize server utilization by setting up a series of workload policies based on the business application resources required. The project, currently titled "The policy-driven adaptive data center," will leverage virtualization, identity management and resource management to deliver a flexible and adaptive data center."

Me Too!

[loony]

Hey! I also develop a cross platform tool... Its the thing to do - everyone else does it this week!

Seriously, why would I do that? We have all those management tools that exist already and none of them work... Not even monitoring works. The tools we have (fortune 15 company) cost us millions, and none do what we need. We can't even monitor servers running vmware! VMWare servers have been out now for what? 3 years? And the only one that even claims they can do it is HP - and their stuff is still far from painless.

Grid, Utility Computing, server solsolidation efforts and whatever you want to call them - it has never worked... and now we have yet another try... *shrugs* Sorry if I'm not excited...

Peter.

Dilbert's "mission statement generator"...

[Anonymous Coward]

...has the word "virtual" in the list of adjectives, but not exactly the word "virtualization"... http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/games/career /bin/ms_adj.cgi [dilbert.com] Maybe the Novell marketing team is using Mission Statement Generator v2.0