Novell has just presented Novell Identity Manager 4, which enables secure and accelerate the creation of applications on virtualized or cloud.

Novell Identity Manager 4

This new offering is part of the new strategy of the editor who talks about "intelligent management of the workload. Novell Identity Manager 4 will allow companies to easily integrate the identity management and security measures directly in applications hosted on the Web or used in a VDI environment.

Safety and cloud company

Scheduled for mid next year, the software will work in close collaboration with Novell Cloud Security Service and Suse Appliance Toolkit while both scheduled for 2010, which are intended to facilitate the creation and deployment of virtual appliances (not requiring an application a thin client). The goal is to simplify the transition from one physical server to a cloud environment.

The security company should be the new buzz word in 2010 when IBM has also announced its software in 2010 and made acquisitions in this direction (see "From the safety of your virtual environments") and "IBM and the security of its databases.)