PlateSpin Journal

PlateSpin Ltd. announced an innovative disaster recovery hardware appliance for protecting physical and virtual server workloads using VMware infrastructure as a foundation for the solution. PlateSpin Forge is a purpose-built consolidated recovery solution that includes prepackaged and preconfigured hardware, software and virtual infrastructure to dramatically accelerate deployment, simplify configuration and reduce total cost of ownership. PlateSpin Forge's unique combination of simplicity and cost-effectiveness makes it ideal for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as departmental or branch office use within larger enterprises. "Traditional recovery infrastructures have failed to keep pace with business requirements," said Stephen Pollack, founder and CEO of PlateSpin Ltd. "Organizations often have had to choose between costly and complex clustering and hig... (more)

PlateSpin to Support Citrix XenServer Virtualization Customers

PlateSpin reaffirmed its commitment to support Citrix XenServer across the PlateSpin product line. XenServer support is a key element of PlateSpin's multiplatform strategy, which aims to offer enterprises a unified suite of solutions for managing heterogeneous data center environments and making physical and virtual infrastructures work as one. "As a Citrix Technology Partner, PlateSpin is committed to working with Citrix to offer customers simple, efficient and interoperable solutions to virtualize servers and better manage their XenServer environments," said Stephen Pollack, C... (more)

Novell Completes Virtualization Vendor PlateSpin Acquisition

Novell announced it has completed its acquisition of PlateSpin. PlateSpin allows the movement of workloads between physical and virtual environments regardless of platform or operating system. These capabilities, combined with Novell's systems management solutions, enable customers to fully leverage their virtualization investments and reduce both costs and server sprawl in their data centers. "The addition of PlateSpin to Novell's existing enterprise IT management and Linux solutions will give customers the capabilities they need to build their next generation data center," sai... (more)

Novell Reminds Folks It Bought PlateSpin

Novell is repositioning the virtualization widgetry that it bought for $205 million this spring when it bought PlateSpin and now claims to be the only kid on the block who can support 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux servers, as well as all the leading hypervisors. It ticks off Citrix’ XenServer, Microsoft’s Hyper-V and Virtual Server, VMware’s ESX and ESXi and the Xen integrated in its own SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Known collectively as PlateSpin Workload Management, the new-style PlateSpin Recon, Migrate, Protect and Orchestrate products enable customers to profile, migrate... (more)

PlateSpin Helps Make Green Computing a Reality

PlateSpin announced major enhancements to its best-in-class data center planning and analysis solution that will help organizations achieve new operational efficiencies while accelerating the path to environmental responsibility. In addition to providing advanced planning, analysis, modeling and forecasting for consolidating, protecting and optimizing the data center, PlateSpin PowerRecon 3.0 now offers medium and large data centers a profitable course to green computing by providing organizations with the unique ability to analyze and report on power and cooling requirements a... (more)