Novell has kicked off its annual
BrainShare user
conference in Salt Lake City with a number of product
announcements.
As well as cementing its new marketing and technology
relationship with Microsoft, by inviting senior Redmond
representatives to the conference for the first time, Novell has
enhanced its Linux and identity management offerings.
On the Linux front, Novell upgraded its desktop-to-data centre
offerings with the release of the public beta of SUSE Linux
Enterprise 10 Service Pack 1, and the introduction of the new SUSE
Linux Enterprise Thin Client.
Novell said Service Pack 1 delivers significant enhancements to
SUSE Linux Enterprise in terms of virtualisation, high-performance
computing, security, interoperability and system management.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Thin Client is a channel-enabled solution
consisting of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and an image-creation
tool kit that channel partners can use to provide a finished
thin-client solution to customers.
Novell also launched the open beta of Open Enterprise Server 2,
which supports Novell workgroup services on SUSE Linux Enterprise,
while helping long-time customers maintain their NetWare systems
through virtualisation of NetWare on Linux.
Novell also unveiled Novell Teaming and Novell Teaming +
Conferencing, two new team workspace and real-time collaboration
solutions that complement Novell GroupWise and the Novell Open
Workgroup Suite.
In addition, the new Identity Manager 3.5 features tighter
integration with authentication, single sign-on and event
management solutions. It offers improved functionality to ease the
complexity and lower the cost of deploying an enterprise-wide user
provisioning and password management system, said Novell.
The new Sentinel 6.0 offers new capabilities for automating
real-time monitoring of the enterprise security environment,
identifying and resolving security incidents, and documenting
regulatory compliance.
On the systems management front, Novell ZENworks 7.2 Linux
Management gives customers a new option to manage enterprise Linux.
It supports both SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, as well as policy-based full lifecycle management to help
customers deploy, manage and maintain their Linux resources.
Novell to focus on Microsoft collaboration
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