News broke yesterday that Attachmate was buying up Novell.\u00a0 \u201cWho cares?\u201d was my original thought.\u00a0 Linux admins are very wary of Novell so SLES does not have the usage of RHEL (corporate) or CentOS (hosting).\u00a0 As for XenWorks \u2026 hmm.<\/p>\n
But, Virtualization.Info posted an article<\/a> that made me pay attention.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the highlights: Novell own Platespin and they make a really good virtualisation assessment tool.\u00a0 Microsoft\u2019s MAP is OK (currently 5.5 release) but the data it produces is a bit basic and hidden away for my liking.\u00a0 Averages are misleading.\u00a0 Standard deviations are more useful.\u00a0 I\u2019ve found the Platespin reports to be quite useful for host sizing.<\/p>\n And it appears that Novell has done quite a lot of work on cloud and workflow automation across multiple hypervisors.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know that.\u00a0 The original article<\/a> mentions trouble with Opalis.\u00a0 I\u2019m yet to see a good MS explanation on it.\u00a0<\/p>\n But here\u2019s the really interesting bit \u2026 Microsoft might be able to get its hands on some of the assets.\u00a0 Check the original article for more details<\/a>.\u00a0 This could really add some clout to the MS offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" News broke yesterday that Attachmate was buying up Novell.\u00a0 \u201cWho cares?\u201d was my original thought.\u00a0 Linux admins are very wary of Novell so SLES does not have the usage of RHEL (corporate) or CentOS (hosting).\u00a0 As for XenWorks \u2026 hmm. But, Virtualization.Info posted an article that made me pay attention.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the highlights: Novell own … Continue reading “The Novel Acquisition May Be More Relevant To Microsoft Customers Than You Originally Thought”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[185],"class_list":["post-10978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-microsoft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t