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Novell

Company Overview:
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers infrastructure software for the Open Enterprise. Novell is a leader in desktop to data center operating systems based on Linux* and the software required to secure and manage mixed IT environments. Novell helps customers around the world minimize cost, complexity and risk, allowing them to focus on innovation and growth. For more information, visit www.novell.com.

Current Focus:
Novell is currently an active Contributor Member of The Green Grid to help advance energy efficiencies in the data center and business computing ecosystems. Novell is a strong promoter and contributor of virtualization and virtualization management solutions that allow organizations to pool and share resources to reduce costs and optimize utilization in the data center.

Virtualization is a proven IT technique that can reduce the power, cooling and space requirements of the data center. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell with built-in Xen virtualization improves services, availability and resource utilization while doing more with less hardware and infrastructure. Novell's ZENworks Orchestrator and virtual machine management software provides an automated, policy-based solution that reduces data center complexity and can increase the 'green' benefits of virtualization by shutting down machines when they're not in use, as well as distributing virtual (and physical) workloads across the data center for maximum efficiency.

Vossel Solution GmbH

Company Overview:
Vossel Solution GmbH offers consulting services for companies to optimize the energy efficiency of their IT infrastructure, and help customers to plan and build energy efficient data center. More information is available at http://www.vossel-solution.com.

Current Focus:
Vossel Solution GmbH helps companies to raise the energy efficiency of their data centers. This efficiency burst helps for climate protection as well as the reduction of data center costs. Following the Vossel Solution Consulting Methodology, we combine in an optimum way the ecological thinking with the economic necessity.

Vossel Solution GmbH supports companies by:

- measuring power consumption, airspeed and temperature of the data center
- measuring the real performance of server and infrastructure
- informing companies of the technical possibilities to maximize energy efficiency
- planning the consolidation of servers, storage and infrastructure
- conceptualizing and planning the optimized data center
- calculating the necessary investment and savings volume
- project management and realization
- providing workshops and trainings

to change their resource consumption and work against the growing energy costs.

Vossel is a General Member of The Green Grid and participates in other pertinent industry initiatives aimed at improving energy efficiency and reducing the overall environmental impact of electronic equipment.