Novell Architectural Foundations
A Technical Vision for Computing and
Collaborating
with Agility
If you talk to CIOs today, they’ll tell you that their IT infrastructure is anything but agile, and above all else, they want complete flexibility to deploy their IT resources to meet their business objectives. Delivering on this promise—IT flexibility and agility—is at the core of the Novell® Architectural Foundation, a technical vision for computing and collaborating with agility.
Novell assembled some of the top thought leaders in the company, including Novell Fellows and Distinguished Engineers, to define this vision which focuses on managing IT resources across multiple systems in rapidly changing environments due to emerging trends in virtualization, cloud computing, appliances, complex regulations, consolidated communication, ubiquitous mobile devices, and ever more powerful computing resources.
This document describes the technologies necessary to deliver and agile, responsive, reliable, and interoperable IT environment that solves the real business challenges faced by many IT organizations today: growing revenue while cutting costs; dealing with governance, risk and compliance; reducing
time to innovate and getting to market more quickly; enforcing better security and access control; dealing with heterogeneous workplace and IT environments; and managing information flow. These challenges call for greater agility through coordinated design and integration efforts in the technology areas of Identity, Policy, Compliance, Linux, Storage, Virtualization, Orchestration and Collaboration. These are integrated using the ideas of adaptability, interoperability, and usability.
The new infrastructure supports and enables orchestrated access to storage, processing, and services as well as rich collaboration without regard to physical location. Also key is the effective use and enablement of the various service delivery models including Web 2.0, Software as a Service (SaaS), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), mashups, appliances (hardware, software, and virtual), thin clients, grid computing, and cloud computing. These cooperating technologies enable workloads to move from single, specific, isolated operating systems to multiple, coordinated systems each executing optimized portions of the overall orchestrated workload.
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