Novell reported that it made significant enhancements to its PlateSpin® Workload Management solution. The new solution enables customers to profile, migrate, protect and manage server workloads between physical and virtual infrastructures in heterogeneous IT environments.

The company said that PlateSpin Workload Management is the only solution on the market to support 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Linux servers, as well as all leading hypervisors including Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Server, VMware ESX and ESXi and Xen integrated in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

The solution enables data center administrators to optimize the distribution of workloads to provide the best performance for users and applications across both physical and virtual machines. The Novel says that as a result of this "customers can transform their IT environment into a more efficient and resilient next-generation data center".

More about PlateSpin Workload Management can be found on Novel's website.

December is a good time to go shopping for website related services and products. Most providers launch promotional campaigns or announce significant discounts and instant rebate offerings. Here they are in VPS Hosting:

1. 1&1 said it upgraded Virtual Private Server offerings. The web host that claims to be "the world's largest web host by known servers", has fourfolded RAM quotas for Windows VPS and added twise more RAM to Linux VPS. 1&1’s Windows VPS packages now come with 512 MB RAM. Linux VPS now have 256 MB of RAM with up to 4 GB of "burstable" RAM.

2. Host Color, a quality provider of Virtuozzo VPS Hosting has announced its annual Christmas specials. The web host offers 25% instant rebate on VPS Hosting. The company's VPS Power virtual private server that features 1 024 MB RAM, 50 GB disc space and 350 GB data transfer per month now cost only $52.46/month for the first 3 months of service. Standard monthly fee of $69.95 applies after.

3. Crucial Paradigm now offers 75% off the price of the first VPS hosting service month with coupon "VPS75OFFFIRST". The company offers Xen powered virtual servers.