The first product release to ship following Novell's acquisition of Managed Objects is Novell Business Service Manager 4.6. Delivering on Novell's commitment to providing the industry's best business service management solutions this product delivers significant quality, interoperability and currency enhancements.
Business Service Manager 4.6 also marks a milestone in the integration of Novell's PlateSpin workload and virtualization management solutions with our business service management solutions — a new PlateSpin Recon adapter is now available for customers to integrate PlateSpin virtualization information into the Business Service Manager analytical and dashboard environment. Now, using a single dashboard environment, customers can visualize virtual and physical infrastructure workload components—create an inventory of both physical and virtual machines—and profile server workloads and evaluate their performance.
In addition, Business Service Manager 4.6 has added support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, as well as Microsoft Windows 2008 Server.
Novell Business Service Manager is a strategic component of Novell's vision to deliver a service-driven data center.
Interesting to see how they will continue the roadmap for MO. One of the best lines I ever heard at a Gartner Data Center conference referenced Novell's purchase of SUSE. When asked to comment the guy on stage said "We'll have to wait to see if Novell can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory". Guess we'll have to wait and see on this one. Doug, how do you see Novell's BSM offering as it compares to TBSM?