Virtual Workloads

Following its acquisition of virtualization company Platespin, Novell has embarked on a countrywide training program for its partners.

Starting October, the vendor will conduct advance training programs in five major cities—Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai—on Platespin virtualization products.

Sandeep Menon, Country Head, Novell India, said, “The technical program will include hands-on training on installing, configuring and working with Platespin products on Novell platform. We recently completed the first phase of this program for large system integrators like Wipro, Pentagon Communications, GT Enterprises and Frontier Business Systems. In the second phase, we will target mid-size partners”

Novell acquired Platespin in March for $205 million. A 5-year old company, Platespin provides virtualization management software and services.

“Addition of Platespin makes our virtualization portfolio stronger. Platespin solutions provide conversion of workloads from physical to virtual machines and vice-versa, which compliments Zenworks range of products that help in categorizing and provisioning virtual workloads and backing it up thus providing disaster recovery control. Our partners have expressed excitement about the strong synergy between the two product lines,” added Menon.