Novell news from Network World

Microsoft, Novell toast anniversary with tools, support coupons

John Fontana — 2008-11-19T00:00:00Z

Marking the two-year anniversary of their partnership, Microsoft and Novell said Wednesday they were releasing tools to help users manage and support SUSE Linux.

Novell bolsters GroupWise 8

John Fontana — 2008-11-17T00:00:00Z

Novell Monday shipped GroupWise 8, adding interface and administrative upgrades to its messaging and calendaring platform.

Novell lays out Red Hat attack plan

John Fontana — 2008-11-11T00:00:00Z

Novell Tuesday took aim at rival and Linux market leader Red Hat with a migration service designed to help move Linux users onto Novell's Suse enterprise servers.

Lenovo targets new netbook at students

John Cox — 2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

Lenovo this week unveiled a netbook PC designed to be the first mobile PC for K-12 students and a "secondary device" for college students.

Novell's Managed Objects' BSM buy spurs industry discussion

Denise Dubie — 2008-10-29T00:00:00Z

Novell's bid to acquire business service management (BSM) software maker Managed Objects caused many in the industry to stop and take notice. Some commend Novell's investment in the smaller management player, but others worry Novell could fail to exploit Managed Objects' technology to its maximum potential.

The challenge of managing mixed virtualized Linux, Windows networks

John Fontana — 2008-10-27T00:00:00Z

The growth of Linux, virtualization and services are fueling efforts by corporations to tune their management tools to accommodate mixed Linux, Windows and cloud environments.

Novell, Aveksa unveil Novell Access Governance Suite; Quest details NetPro roadmap

Dave Kearns — 2008-10-22T00:00:00Z

There have been quite a few product announcements recently which I haven't gotten to as yet but I wouldn't want you to think they aren't important, or at least useful. So today I'll give a quick rundown of them with pointers to where you can find out more. The announcements involve Novell Access Governance Suite, Sun's Identity Compliance Manager, Courion's PasswordCourier Jump Start, and a roadmap for NetPro.

Novell, Sun, Oracle crank out identity and access wares

John Fontana — 2008-10-21T00:00:00Z

Novell, Sun and Oracle have announced updates to their identity-management platforms.

Security information and event management: Finding the proverbial needle

Sandra Gittlen — 2008-10-09T00:00:00Z

As SIEM tools evolve, information security specialists are getting closer to the day when making sense of and taking action on disparate security events gets quick and easy.

Novell gets into NAC

Tim Greene — 2008-10-02T00:00:00Z

Recently Novell decided to get into NAC with an OEM offer from StillSecure.

Is your data center ready for tomorrow's applications?

2004-04-12T00:00:00Z

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