Novell is reshaping its cloud management solution to make it more specifically engineered for the heterogeneous reality of real world IT environments. The latest version of Novell Cloud Manager is designed to manage private clouds that support all leading hypervisors, operating systems, and hardware platforms. With enhancements to import existing physical and virtual infrastructure into the cloud, the company wants this product to be recognized as an accelerated transition route to cloud computing

Novell Cloud Manager also provisions workloads on demand, with the ability to incorporate organizational approvals to ensure security and compliance.

"With Novell Cloud Manager, customers can leverage the flexibility and cost savings of cloud computing, without the security and compliance risks inherent in public clouds," said Jim Ebzery, senior vice president and general manager of security, management and operating platforms at Novell.