Virtual Machine and Server Consolidation Software Solutions
PlateSpin is a Novell Company

PlateSpin products allow organizations to adopt, manage and extend their use of server virtualization in the data center. With support for physical and virtual machines, as well as images, our products improve the speed and quality of server consolidation, hardware migration and disaster recovery initiatives.

 
Overview


Advanced Analysis and Planning for Enterprise Data Centers
PlateSpin PowerRecon provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center by collecting hardware, software and services inventory for all server workloads with absolutely no manual effort. PowerRecon remotely gathers workload utilization statistics for a clear and concise picture of the application services running in the data center and how their resources are being used. PowerRecon supports the green data center by allowing organizations to assess the potential cost savings in power, cooling and space that can be achieved through consolidation.

With broad support for today's distributed, multi-platform environments and unprecedented scalability to accommodate the world's largest data centers, PowerRecon provides a true enterprise-scale workload profiling and planning solution. When combined with PlateSpin PowerConvert, organizations gain a complete end-to-end solution with tightly integrated planning and execution for data center initiatives.
PowerRecon provides analysis and planning for:
  • Server Consolidation
  • Consolidated Recovery
  • Green Computing
  • Data Center Optimization
  • Capacity Profiling & Planning
  • Asset Management
  • Workload Profiling
  • Virtual Infrastructure Management
The Value Proposition
  • Collect inventory and utilization data across thousands of servers
  • Determine the optimal fit between server resources and workloads
  • Analyze power and cooling costs for green computing initiatives
  • Accelerate data center projects by generating executable plans
  • Manage virtual infrastructure growth on an ongoing basis
  • Allocate chargeback to business units based on IT resource usage
Green Calculator
Try the Power and Cooling Savings Calculator
PowerStore
Download PowerRecon Inventory Edition
Webinar
Save the Data Center. Save the World. (Replay)
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A NOVELL COMPANY
PlateSpin and Novell are helping organizations worldwide build more flexible, interoperable and cost-effective data center environments. The combination of PlateSpin and Novell products offers customers a powerful data center management platform with solutions for Linux, UNIX and Windows across physical and virtual environments. The global reach of the combined companies allows us to offer enterprises a full range of integrated solutions to make their IT work as one.