Acquisition Final
Novell adds Managed Objects® to Data Center offerings®.
Visualizing and controlling your data center just got easier.
Novell has acquired the business service management leader Managed Objects. The Managed Objects products complement and extend Novell's existing systems, resource and virtualization management solutions by adding flexible service modeling, advanced analytics and unique Web 2.0-based visualization technology.
When applications fail and outages or slowdowns occur, the business top-line suffers – often dramatically. Recently, for example, an appliance manufacturer attributed $64M in lost revenues to a 3–day outage of its in-store Inventory Reorder Kiosk. Managed Objects and Novell helps you effectively monitor and manage availability and performance of the applications and services they deliver to the business, so there are no surprises.
With new capabilities in service management from Managed Objects both IT and business managers will have improved visibility into how their information systems deliver business services across physical and virtual environments, so managers can make better decisions to ensure availability and quality of service (QOS) while improving agility and lowering the total cost of data center management.
By providing a unified view of data center workloads across any physical or virtual environment, system administrators can understand and respond to issues in a business context reactively, pro–actively, or automatically – Making IT work as One.
Press Buzz
"The acquisition also is in line with Novell's plans to make strategic acquisitions to flesh out its offerings, having worked for years to expand from its origins in networking into enterprise infrastructure software and services."
-- Internet News
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"The key technology Novell is picking from its purchase of Managed Objects up is a CMDB (configuration management database), which is becoming a trendy item for IT companies to have in their tool chests because it brings order and control to rapidly changing data center environments."
-- eWeek
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"...the acquisition will enable it to add service modeling, configuration management data base, CMDB, technology, analytics, and web 2.0-based visualization technology to its workload management and virtualization products to provide a unified view of all information and workloads."
-- ComputerWire
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Analyst Buzz
"Novell has announced its acquisition of Managed Objects, one of the two market leaders in business service management (BSM). This represents an excellent opportunity for Novell to create visibility in one of the most dynamic and business-relevant areas of IT management software."
-- Forrester Research, Novell Buys Managed Objects: Is This A New "Routes To Value" Or "SMARTS" Revisited, Thomas Mendel, Ph.D, October 15, 2008
"With most acquisitions, the thing you're always worried about is overlapping technology and that something will be eliminated. But Novell bought something they didn't have."
-- Redmonk analyst Michael Coté, in a Network World article titled, "Novell Buying Managed Objects for BSM" October 14, 2008
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