Novell focuses on five offerings:
1. Desktop to Data Center Migration
Your enterprise needs to be ready for anything. Now you can be more than ready, with SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell. This enterprise-grade Linux delivers a complete open source platform for your mission-critical applications. So, whether you need a Linux solution with built-in virtualization, security and management tools, or a Linux solution that works with Microsoft Windows, SUSE Linux Enterprise is ready to get it done—desktop to data center.
2. Virtualization—Put the unused capacity in your data center to better use.
The average server utilization in an enterprise environment ranges from 5 to 40 percent, leaving at least 60 percent of the available capacity unused. With Virtualization from Novell, you can consolidate workloads running on multiple physical servers onto a single physical server and harness unused computing power. You can also reduce your total number of servers by migrating multiple environments on different physical machines to individual virtual machines hosted on a single server. As a result, you can increase your CPU utilization and the efficiency of your server hardware.
Key Benefits of Virtualization - Increased server utilization
- Lower server admin, maintenance and energy costs
- Reduced software and hardware costs
- Reduced complexity
- A smaller data center footprint with no reduction in scalability
- Reduce the size of your data center and increase utilization.
- Identity Management and Security
Novell and Microsoft—Working Together for You
In addition, Novell is collaborating with Microsoft to develop new solutions for virtualization that provide you with the best virtualization platform for Windows server consolidation. With interoperable Novell virtualization technologies, Linux and Windows can now reside side by side, sharing the same physical servers.
Furthermore, virtualization-related flexibility extends to today's increasingly heterogeneous production environments where Linux, Windows and UNIX all provide essential business services.
3. Identity Management and Security
Simplify business governanceIT is the oil in your well-maintained corporate machine. Unfortunately, inefficient practices, poor information flow, and isolated policies are like sand in an engine—they complicate even simple functions and threaten your “corporate” machine’s ability to work properly. The result is out-of-alignment IT policies, spiraling costs, and increased risk of litigation, loss, theft and fines.
The key to making governance an asset rather than a liability is automation and simplification. You need a simple way to ensure that business policy drives your technological goals, rather than your business goals being set by the limitations of your technology. Benefits of Automated Simplicity Simplifying governance means reducing the burden on your staff by automating repetitive processes. Eliminating manual tasks translates directly into cost savings because you’re reducing the number of hours required to equip users with the right equipment and the appropriate access rights.
As an added bonus, by making access rights dependent on your business policies, governance is no longer restricted by software capabilities. In short, simplicity puts governance in the hands of the people who know what their employees need. You will no longer have departments creating business policies for your users based on software parameters instead of company objectives. Automation and policy integration ensure that your business policies are enforced consistently. Our solutions work together to address the variety of management problems that your IT department faces, allowing you to spend your time and resources on what really matters to you—growing your business.
4. Systems Management
Your strategic IT project won't be approved if it doesn't support a business goal. Aligning IT to your business goals is more important than ever. Without that alignment it's difficult to get the attention your project deserves. So how do you turn IT into a productivity center rather than a cost center? The answer's simple: Systems Management Solutions from Novell. IT can support business goals rather than just keeping your organization running. How? By automating tasks that keep your IT staff busy, but not productive.
With our Systems Management solutions, you can automate the repetitive manual tasks your IT staff performs every day. Automation improves IT productivity, increases end user satisfaction and improves your return on IT investments. Freed from manual processes, IT staff can help drive business growth with innovative approaches to your business problems.
Your Systems Management solutions make it easy to adopt best practices, such as those recommended by ITIL and COBIT, so your processes are always repeatable, efficient and standards-based. What does that mean to you? It means your data center can respond to high demand on the fly and automatically. It means policies are consistently enforced on endpoints without user intervention. It means the right people get the right resources at the right time, every time, without IT staff involvement.
5. Collaboration
Closed collaboration is an oxymoron. Yet some claim that new collaboration innovations should only be available through old closed systems. Today’s best collaboration solutions require an open approach. Because that’s the only way you can bring people together and help them get things done—without barriers and without restrictions.
Novell offers a new model for technical and business innovation—and a more effective approach for bringing people and resources together. With the Novell approach, you gain the advantage of using open source development processes and open standards to create collaboration solutions that best match the needs of your business. You tap into a vibrant community of experts who can help you apply new ideas to tough collaboration problems. And you gain the freedom to interoperate and collaborate with any system or any group—regardless of which software platforms or tools they’re running.
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