Novell this week will lay out an ambitious plan to secure applications across heterogeneous virtualization platforms at customer sites and off-premises, an effort designed to play off Novell's strengths in network and identity management.
Novell's Intelligent Workload Management initiative will be designed for the creation of application workloads, described by the company as portable, self-contained units of work built through the integration of the operating system, middleware and application, to run on server virtualization products from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix, among others. Under the plan, workloads will maintain security and compliance policies, along with real-time reporting and monitoring capabilities, wherever they go.

The company says it will roll out eight products over the next year to support the plan.

"It's somewhat revolutionary," said CEO Ron Hovsepian during an interview with Network World. "[In the core trends around virtualization and the cloud] what's bogging down the CIO? Security."

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