Results tagged "Novell"
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Novell Jumps Into the Mobile Device Management Pool--Again
July 26, 2012 09:45 AM
Novell's new ZenWorks Mobile Management aims to help enterprises manage their own devices and BYOD policies. Here's a look at what it offers, and where it may fall short for some.Microsoft To Tough It Out In Virtualization Space
May 07, 2012 10:00 AM
As Microsoft works on carving out its spot in the virtualization space against industry leaders like VMware, a look at the company's technology history shows more hits than misses.Novell Cloud Manager: There's An iPhone App For That
December 08, 2010 09:23 AM
Novell has updated its Novell Cloud Manager cloud management tool with a number of new features, including an application for access from an Apple iPhone. Novell Cloud Manager 1.1 also adds an enhanced ability to import existing hosts and virtual machines into the cloud. Cloud Manager was introduced in September to help enterprises manage private cloud environments that they operate within their own data centers.Novell No More
November 23, 2010 10:00 AM
There are still 'Is' to be dotted and 'Ts' to be crossed, but for all intents and purposes, the deal is done for Novell. The company is credited with making the local area network popular. With a large helping hand from Xerox, the benefactors of Adobe, Apple and 3Com, among others - is being bought by Attachmate for approximately $2.2 billion, excluding intellectual property assets being sold to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft, for $450 million in cash.Novell Is Dead; Cause Of Death Is Lack Of Focus
November 22, 2010 01:26 PM
In yet another chapter of how the once mighty have fallen once dominant network operating system vendor Novell announced today that it's being acquired by long time mainframe connectivity vendor Attachmate. Twenty years ago we would have viewed this as a marriage made in heaven, or at least Maui, as Attachmate's 3270 and 5250 connectivity tools were key to connecting NetWare networks to the IT department's "Real Computers". Today the response seems to be AttachWHO?NetVision Announces Enhanced Access Rights Reporting, Netapp User Activity Monitoring
November 17, 2010 09:00 AM
The newest release of NetVision's access auditing and management suite features enhanced reporting on the state of access rights in the organization and support for user activity and permission changes in NetApp network attached storage (NAS). NetVision's suite is focused on activity monitoring and access rights status reporting, what Steve Coplan, senior analyst in The 451 Group's Enterprise Security Practice, calls this access auditing or access visibility auditing. It's focused on Active Directory, as well as Novell eDirectory as access control mechanisms to corporate file shares.Novell's Cloud Manager Runs Private Clouds
September 15, 2010 09:00 AM
Software maker Novell has introduced Novell Cloud Manager to help businesses create and then manage private cloud environments in their own data centers. Novell officials stress that their software is ideal for heterogeneous data centers populated by multiple brands of hypervisors, operating systems, application software and hardware, and that Cloud Manager will help private clouds serve as a stepping stone to adoption of public cloud computing down the road.Novell Delivers First Solution For Comprehensive Cloud Management
September 13, 2010 09:31 AM
Novell today announced the availability of Novell Cloud Manager, a new solution that enables customers to create and securely manage a cloud computing environment as a seamless extension of existing data center resources. Unlike competitive solutions that lock customers into proprietary technology stacks, Novell Cloud Manager is designed for the heterogeneous reality of most IT environments, giving users the freedom and flexibility to create and manage private clouds which support all leading hypervisors, operating systems and hardware platforms. Only Novell Cloud Manager lets IT administrators package, price and present IT services on-demand through a customizable interface. Customers can leverage the flexibility and cost savings of cloud computing, without the security and compliance risks inherent in public clouds.Novell Announces General Availability of Novell Cloud Security Service
August 24, 2010 10:06 AM
Novell today announced the general availability of Novell Cloud Security Service. Part of Novell's WorkloadIQ vision, Novell Cloud Security Service gives cloud providers the ability to deliver secure access and compliance in the cloud for their customers. Novell Cloud Security Service is a critical part of Novell's broader identity and security portfolio, which enables enterprises to have a consistent framework for managing identities across physical, virtual and cloud deployments. Novell is the only vendor to offer this integrated capability, which helps organizations manage complex security and compliance requirements through a cost-effective and easy-to-use suite of products.Oracle's New Identity Management Suite Adds Sun Technology
July 22, 2010 11:30 AM
Enterprise software giant Oracle has announced a new identity management suite that incorporates some of the technology from its recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems in the service of application security. Oracle Identity Management 11g consists of as many as nine different components that perform such tasks as identity management, access management, single sign-on capability, fraud prevention and administrator system management control. The suite works with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, the company's application infrastructure foundation product. Identity Management 11g has been developed in a service oriented architecture (SOA) design that provides developers with shared services for deploying various security features that simplify application security. Pricing information is not yet available.Best of the Web
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