“In the trenches” product management - Jo De Baer’s blog

As a colleague of mine (Mike R.) just pointed out : “you can know the content of a release, or the release date, but not both”.

Introduction to PlateSpin Orchestrate
PlateSpin Orchestrate installation and configuration
Introduction to PlateSpin Orchestrate VM Client
Building VMs with the PlateSpin VM Client
Performing general VM related management tasks
Working with VM repositories, templates and clones
Advanced infrastructure debugging with the PlateSpin Orchestrate Development Client

Full story here. Enjoy.

Latest product presentation is here, trial version can be downloaded here and here is the documentation. Enjoy …

As I had to create this jpeg anyway I thought I’d post it here too … can be found in the product presentation which is regularly made available to PlateSpin Orchestrate partners.

As announced on www.platespin.com, “Novell ZENworks Virtual Machine Management” will from now on be called “PlateSpin Orchestrate”, starting with the upcoming new release. Our partners were notified and already could download an updated product overview slide deck, but I’m also posting it in my “Public presentations” page, and you can quickly grab it here too.

If anyone wants to know why I’m in New Zealand that often … the New Zealand Supercompting Centre uses Novell and PlateSpin technology to power its cloud computing offering. It’s public now, enjoy the read !

I’ll be back in Belgium on November 28 - after about two months of constant travel. One more stop in Tokyo - and I’m done in APAC for 2008. Looking forward to seeing our new office in Brussels ; ). I hope my car is still where I left it.
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