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NetIQ Updates PlateSpin Virtualization and Workload Management Solutions
To enable IT organizations to better respond to growing business demands and reduce risk across the data center, NetIQ (News - Alert) today has enhanced its PlateSpin Virtualization and Workload Management products -- PlateSpin Forge, PlateSpin Protect and PlateSpin Migrate.
According to a press release, PlateSpin Forge, PlateSpin Protect and PlateSpin Migrate are being upgraded with user-configurable bandwidth throttling and compression capabilities for shorter backup windows and streamlined migrations across overloaded LAN and costly WAN connections to cater the ever-increasing strain on customer network infrastructure.
PlateSpin versions further simplify the ongoing management of mixed data centers with enhanced support for Windows, Linux and now Novell (News 
- Alert) OES2 workloads residing on either physical or virtual infrastructure.
Jason Dea, manager of Product Marketing at NetIQ, said, “Enterprise customers continue to require virtualization management solutions that can meet variable business demands and maintain consistent, dependable IT service delivery their organizations demand. With the recent improvements in our PlateSpin family, we give customers the tools and capabilities to migrate and protect multiple platforms without having to make drastic changes to existing infrastructure investments surrounding hardware, operating systems or even the network. Our goal is to help them continue to reduce their management costs, improve IT service delivery, and best protect server workloads with ease and tremendous flexibility.”
The new PlateSpin Virtualization Workload Management product capabilities include PlateSpin Forge 3.1, PlateSpin Migrate 9.1, and PlateSpin Protect 10.1.
PlateSpin Forge 3.1 is an all-in-one, out-of-the-box hardware appliance that protects both physical and virtual servers and now includes user-configurable bandwidth throttling and compression to reduce network strain and reduce replication windows.
PlateSpin Protect's capabilities for rapid recovery of virtual and physical server workloads from a single point of control in the data center now include improved network utilization controls, support for virtual clusters, protections of OES2 workloads and enhanced.
PlateSpin Migrate's ability to decouple server workloads from their underlying hardware and enable anywhere-to-anywhere migration over the network between physical servers, virtual hosts and image archives now includes support for the migration of Novell OES2 workloads.
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