Novell and Vodacom Business, majority-owned by UK-based Vodafone Group, have entered into a partnership to integrate much of Novell’s Intelligent Workload Management portfolio including, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Platespin Virtualization and Workload Management, and Identity and Security offerings into the network provider’s cloud hosting offerings.
The new partnership is aimed at helping businesses across Africa provision, manage and monitor multi-tenant applications deployed from Vodacom Business’ cloud infrastructure.
Under the partnership, Vodacom Business is using Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Virtualisation and Workload Management offerings including PlateSpin Recon, PlateSpin Migrate and PlateSpin Protect to improve server workload performance, reduce energy consumption and lower costs.
In addition, Vodacom Business will leverage Novell’s identity and security management offerings to give customers the ability to treat their cloud assets as an extension of the data centre. A core tenet of Intelligent Workload Management offering is the integration of identity and security management into cloud resources.
Richard Vester, executive head of hosted services at Vodacom Business, said: Cloud computing will change the way companies do business. The service delivery model is vastly scalable and less resource and energy intensive, enabling organisations to purchase robust and reliable infrastructure and application services for a reduced cost.
“Our partnership with Novell enables us to deliver infrastructure and application services that can support our customers’ specific security policies and regulatory compliance requirements.
