Novell and Fujitsu have entered into a partnership to deliver new cloud offerings, which the companies claim will provide customers with the flexibility to scale IT infrastructure needs based on business demand.
Under the contract, Fujitsu will run its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for Server offerings using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell, to deliver mission-critical computing for its physical, virtual, appliance and cloud deployments.
In addition, Fujitsu will leverage Intelligent Workload Management (IWM) software from Novell for its Dynamic Infrastructure services. The cloud resources will be available across Continental Europe, Africa, Middle East and India.
Novell’s approach to intelligent workload management integrates identity and systems management capabilities into an application workload, increasing the workload’s security and portability across physical, virtual and cloud environments, the companies said.
Rolf Kleinwächter, head of infrastructure-as-a-service at Fujitsu, said: “Customers want a more flexible server infrastructure that scales with their changing business needs.
“By providing the interoperability and high availability platform capabilities offered by SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell, our joint customers and partners will be able to purchase on demand and managed data centre services that cover the entire range of servers, memory systems and networks for the computing centre.”
