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09-11-2008, 10:10 PM
Evidencing the ongoing collaboration between two formerly bitter rivals, Microsoft and Novell on Tuesday announced a joint virtualization solution optimized for customers running mixed-source environments.
The latest product to hit the virtualization market taps Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server configured and tested as an optimized guest operating system running on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
"The availability of this virtualization solution from Novell and Microsoft further proves that the two companies can and are continuing to deliver on the promises of their collaboration," said Janet Waxman, vice president for hardware channels and alliances at IDC. "This offering is a net win for the channel partners, who now can offer their customers a fully supported and optimized virtualization solution for mixed Windows and Linux environments."
Mixed-Source Success
The companies are billing the solution as the first complete, fully supported and optimized virtualization solution to span Windows and Linux environments, building the promised bridge between proprietary and open-source software.
"For customers standardizing on Microsoft's hypervisor who also have a mixed-source IT environment, this virtualization solution gives that choice," said Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing for Microsoft. "For channel partners who need a cross-platform hypervisor offering, our work with Novell gives them an easy starting point."
According to the companies, the new offering represents more than 18 months of technical collaboration between Microsoft and Novell in response to customer demand for a virtualization solution that provides high performance and ease of deployment, and is tested and supported. Both companies' channel partners, including Dell, are fully supporting the solution.
"Virtualization radically simplifies IT, providing greater flexibility and helping our customers focus their resources on innovation instead of maintenance," said Rick Becker, Dell's vice president of software and solutions. "By supporting this new solution from Microsoft and Novell, we can provide our customers running mixed...
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The latest product to hit the virtualization market taps Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server configured and tested as an optimized guest operating system running on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
"The availability of this virtualization solution from Novell and Microsoft further proves that the two companies can and are continuing to deliver on the promises of their collaboration," said Janet Waxman, vice president for hardware channels and alliances at IDC. "This offering is a net win for the channel partners, who now can offer their customers a fully supported and optimized virtualization solution for mixed Windows and Linux environments."
Mixed-Source Success
The companies are billing the solution as the first complete, fully supported and optimized virtualization solution to span Windows and Linux environments, building the promised bridge between proprietary and open-source software.
"For customers standardizing on Microsoft's hypervisor who also have a mixed-source IT environment, this virtualization solution gives that choice," said Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing for Microsoft. "For channel partners who need a cross-platform hypervisor offering, our work with Novell gives them an easy starting point."
According to the companies, the new offering represents more than 18 months of technical collaboration between Microsoft and Novell in response to customer demand for a virtualization solution that provides high performance and ease of deployment, and is tested and supported. Both companies' channel partners, including Dell, are fully supporting the solution.
"Virtualization radically simplifies IT, providing greater flexibility and helping our customers focus their resources on innovation instead of maintenance," said Rick Becker, Dell's vice president of software and solutions. "By supporting this new solution from Microsoft and Novell, we can provide our customers running mixed...
More... (http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=61826)