Novell unveils service-driven data center

BANGALORE, INDIA: Novell, a provider in IT services, today announced the launch of service driven data center vision and a portfolio of integrated products designed to help customers increase agility while reducing cost, complexity and risk.

The service-driven data center would provide solutions to build, manage and measure the next generation data center so IT executives can deliver the business services that end users need through a flexible, automated and cost-effective infrastructure, said a press release.

"We've talked to hundreds of customers and partners, and the one thing we've heard from everyone is that IT exists to meet business needs, to deliver the services that business demands," said Jeff Jaffe, chief technology officer and executive vice president of business units at Novell.

He added that the service driven data center delivers an agile, cost-effective infrastructure through a combination of modular yet integrated solutions for enterprise Linux, virtualization and workload management, and business service management.

The service-driven data center is the first step toward delivering on the vision of managing that heterogeneous, multi-sourced capacity in a secure and compliant manner, the release added.

Built on an ITIL blueprint, the data center removes execution risk and manages complexity by establishing a secure, controlled, repeatable and efficient data center service model that delivers measurable results.

Designed to work in a heterogeneous environment, the data center leverages intelligent management and automation tools to measure performance of a complete IT service against business objectives, the release added.