“Customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) of all sizes have the ability to run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 on Amazon EC2, paying only their operating hours” was announced by Novell in a press release on Aug 18.

Amazon EC2 cloud hosting customers get maintenance subscriptions directly on Amazon EC2 without having to sign in advance a separate license agreement. With this program, SUSE Cloud’service providers’c an also optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise Server offering technical support from Novell or their own support services strengthened by the expertise of Novell.

“Over the next several years, IDC expects that enterprises will deploy a mix of physical, virtual and cloud computing resources,” said Mary Johnston Turner, research director for Enterprise Systems Management Software at IDC. “To make the most effective use possible of this dynamic and heterogeneous infrastructure environment, IT teams will need to shift to a more policy-based, automated approach for managing the building, provisioning, migration, monitoring, measuring and securing of corporate workloads. Intelligent workload management is an emerging market concept that addresses this complex set of needs by integrating a number of important technologies.”