Interop Ability Blog

There's a lot of buzz out there around Federated Identity, but there are ways to demystify what you need to think about and how you approach implementing solutions that enable identity management.

The current economic climate is putting intense pressure on businesses to minimize costs and maximize resources, while increasing performance and service levels to maintain their competitive edge. Companies are looking to their IT vendors to help them through this tough economic period with creative solutions that increase efficiency, drive down costs, and improve their margins.

Per my last post on June 1, the momentum continues for our HPC program. Working with Adaptive Computing and Brasoftware, Microsoft and Novell signed a deal this week with one of Brazil’s largest energy companies (and one of the world’s largest companies) to deploy Adaptive’s Moab suite alongside SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing and Windows HPC Server.

I’m always excited to talk about interoperability, as I’ve seen firsthand how customers favorably respond to solutions that help them achieve greater efficiency while reducing costs within their IT infrastructure. In today’s economic environment, CIO’s are laser focused on delivering more results with fewer resources, so tools and support that help them leverage existing investments while improving performance are critical  - and in high demand.

Cloud computing is rapidly changing technology and business models by promising cost efficiency, scalability, security, access, enhanced management, and overall data center agility.

As many of you know for the past three plus years, Microsoft and Novell have been working together to help organizations around the world enhance and optimize their IT operations through interoperability between Windows and Linux.