Novell Adds Ingres DB to SUSE Studio Online
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A new template for the Ingres database eliminates the burden for IT managers of managing the life cycle of the operating system or the middleware database component within their appliances.
SAN FRANCISCO-Novell and open-source database provider Ingres March 18 announced that they have hooked
up to make the long-established, enterprise-class Ingres DB available in
Novell's SUSE Studio.
SUSE Studio is a toolkit used by independent software vendors to build virtual
machine-based application appliances that can run across various kinds of data
center environments. These self-contained appliances are fundamentally made up
of an operating system, a database and a specific Web-based application.
As part of the new agreement, announced at the Open
Source Business Conference, Novell and Ingres will jointly support and
market the specially designed-and lengthy named-SUSE Studio Appliance Template
for Ingres Database to ISVs looking for an easier way to build these appliances.
"We've made it such that if you want to build an appliance, you log on to
Novell [SUSE] Studio, get SUSE Enterprise Linux and the Ingres database, and
then can add your application on top of it," Deb Woods, vice president of
product management at Ingres, told eWEEK.
"This way, you can port it very quickly to a virtualized environment, a
cloud environment-or whatever your needs may be."
The new template for the Ingres database eliminates the burden for IT managers
of managing the life cycle of the operating system or the middleware database
component within their appliances, Woods said.
Services to Be Shared by Ingres, Novell
Services have been worked out so that either the Novell or the Ingres help desk
can work with a customer on solving a problem that may arise anywhere in the
appliance, Woods said.
"We've got handoffs within the team to support the customer," Woods
said. "It's really, really easy to get started, and you can literally
build an appliance in like 5 minutes."
The SUSE Studio Appliance Template for Ingres Database is available now within
SUSE Studio Online. SUSE Studio Online is available here.
For more information about the SUSE Appliance Program, go here.
Chris Preimesberger was named Editor-in-Chief of Features & Analysis at eWEEK in November 2011. Previously he served eWEEK as Senior Writer, covering a range of IT sectors that include data center systems, cloud computing, storage, virtualization, green IT, e-discovery and IT governance. His blog, Storage Station, is considered a go-to information source. Chris won a national Folio Award for magazine writing in November 2011 for a cover story on Salesforce.com and CEO-founder Marc Benioff, and he has served as a judge for the SIIA Codie Awards since 2005. In previous IT journalism, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. His diverse resume also includes: sportswriter for the Los Angeles Daily News, covering NCAA and NBA basketball, television critic for the Palo Alto Times Tribune, and Sports Information Director at Stanford University. He has served as a correspondent for The Associated Press, covering Stanford and NCAA tournament basketball, since 1983. He has covered a number of major events, including the 1984 Democratic National Convention, a Presidential press conference at the White House in 1993, the Emmy Awards (three times), two Rose Bowls, the Fiesta Bowl, several NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments, a Formula One Grand Prix auto race, a heavyweight boxing championship bout (Ali vs. Spinks, 1978), and the 1985 Super Bowl. A 1975 graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., Chris has won more than a dozen regional and national awards for his work. He and his wife, Rebecca, have four children and reside in Redwood City, Calif.Follow on Twitter: editingwhiz
