Novell to Develop Cross-Platform Data Center Tools 36
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."
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Me Too! (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Re:Me Too! (Score:4, Informative)
You can also check out this recent article [informationweek.com] in InformationWeek for an example of someone using it successfully.
-Steve
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Novell has one advantage in developing such a tool: They don't have a proprietary OS anymore to cloud their direction in deciding which aspects are cross platform and which are platform specific.
Their forte and fortune with Netware was always their administration. It seems perfectly reasonable to try to leverage that experience and redirect it to something with more of a future. They also have existing relationships with pretty much every major OS player, putting them at a distinct advantage over an o
Cross platform tools? (Score:4, Funny)
The moral of the story is that some people just like to forego the benefits of cross platform browsers and use platform-based tools to do their network management.
This is a digital technicolor yawn (Score:4, Informative)
IMHO, they're squatting on what's already done and regurgitating it as cutting edge emerging technology. But because they're huge, its news. I use this stuff daily and cross platform management is not rocket science.
Wow, setup "roles" and "scenarios" and write scripts to change gears based on demand? Sorry but that's not anying 'novel', Novell. Ever heard of ssh key pairing? (sigh). Ever heard of low level portable C? (double sigh). The practice of centralizing control over many servers is as old as Slashdot itself.
Perhaps they'll make things a little more intuitive. I'm not saying its a bad project, I'm saying market things for what they are and stop squatting on open source.
Cross-platform development (Score:3, Informative)
For Linux fans read this LXer article (http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/54009/index
O. Wyss
Re:Cross-platform development (Score:2)
Thanks, Miguel... I'm sure that
Don't get me wrong, Mono sounds great in theory - cross-platform, ECMA-based code would be ideal. The problem is, the implementations I've seen to date (cough, cough, Beagle, cough) have serious resource-consumption issues.
Market-speak (Score:4, Insightful)
Dilbert's "mission statement generator"... (Score:1, Interesting)
Sorry (Score:2)
virtualization
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Heck, this UID isn't more valuable than any others really! However, I'd be posting from my other one (in the low 100k's), but I save that one for special occasions
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Another day, another press release (Score:2)
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Well, aren't they?
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Buzzword Bingo (Score:1, Funny)
"..bingo! I get to leave the meeting early!" *hands in Buzzword Bingo card*
"Aw, spit! I'm still missing 'paradigm'."
They couldn't manage their OWN systems (Score:1)
Don't get me wrong, I've been a Novell fanboi for a long time -- started with NetWare 2.15b, have multiple CNE certs, etc., etc. But they could never make up their own damn minds: Rconsole, NWAdmin, ConsoleOne (yeah, on a workstation, or on a server? Java apps which were "cross-platform" but different), iManage, shit, who knows what else? A pathetic mess pretty much forever.
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Only 26 comments ? (Score:1)
I take every announcement I read with a grain of salt. Sometimes the whole salt shaker.
Novell has shifted gears so many times in the past it's hard to get excited about anything.
Typically, I find that the number of buzzwords used in the marketing hype is inversely porportional to the ability of the product to do what they actually claim.
At least they've moved nearly all the server services over to the linux kernel though; that's a good base t
Ready already (Score:1)