News Novell and Microsoft extended Linux Management Solution

Article title: Novell News brings Microsoft's extended Linux management solution. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

Novell recently announced its cooperation with Microsoft to develop advanced Linux management solutions so that users can simplify the management of hybrid IT environments. Based on the existing technical cooperation agreement between the two parties, Microsoft and Novell will use industry standards and open-source components to standardize management capabilities. The two parties joined hands to leverage Novell's leading edge in the open-source Linux Management Market to maximize user investment in IT infrastructure.

"Today's customers are looking for solutions that allow them to manage heterogeneous IT environments. We are very happy to extend Microsoft's system Center suite, provides management of Linux releases such as SUSE Linux Enterprise." Brad Anderson, general manager of Microsoft's management and service department, said. "Microsoft is not only using the public information model Object Manager (CIMOM) of the OpenPegasus project, but also contributing to enhancing this manager and providing it to open source code Community interoperability providers, so that they can collect and manage data and enable the management service to use the data."

As part of the collaboration, Novell will use its expertise in Linux system management to work with Microsoft and further enhance the cross-platform extension of the Microsoft System Center Operation Manager 2007. The operation manager of the Microsoft System Center extends the use of industry standards and open-source software such as WS-management to provide Linux and UNIX management. Using collaboration with Microsoft, industry standards, and open-source software, Novell plans to develop advanced Linux management packages for System Center Operation Manager 2007. In addition, Novell plans to use open source code interoperability providers to expand the Linux management capabilities of its ZENworks system management product. These management solutions will make the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server the Best Managed Linux release.

"Novell has previously outlined in its blueprint for system and resource management, and intends to support open-source and open-standard use in its ZENworks solution, to simplify and standardize system management." Said Joe wner, senior vice president and general manager of Novell system and resource management. "By working together to expand the Linux management capabilities of the system center operation manager, Microsoft and Novell are providing superior management capabilities for the hybrid IT environment based on standard and open source code. Collaboration will provide customers with a unique portfolio of management software for heterogeneous IT environments and provide them with sufficient flexibility ."