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Business Service Management

Building a Configuration Management Database from the Ground Up

 Come see an overview of a configuration management database (CMDB), how data is federated and how it is used in an organization. The session will provide a live demonstration and discussion of the Novell CMDB solution. It will also show you how to determine the best data sources and the best level of detail to bring into the CMDB. In addition, the session will cover the automations that the Novell solution brings in to correlate and reconcile data sources to build the CMDB and later to keep the CMDB synchronized and accurate with the data sources of record. Various visualization techniques will also be covered based upon the role of the user.

Business Service Management on the Fly—In under 60 Minutes!

 Gain a view of the infrastructure logically and physically in this real-time demonstration - in under 60 minutes. The session will cover everything from the integration of infrastructure components that generate models of the logical and physical entities and relationships, to health and availability data, to the application of rules deriving state more granularly than red/green up/down, to rules triggering action proactively before a service impacting event, and will finish with dynamic visualization leveraging the latest SVG and Web 2.0 technologies. With these technologies, you can see large amounts of data in concise, actionable views without complexity. This session will prove that "a picture is worth a thousand words" by leveraging powerful techniques that simplify complex data.

Rules, Rules, Rules: Proactively Automate Management of the Service Infrastructure

 This session is an introduction to building rules into service models. Rules enable you to manage the definitions of severity and priority and automated actions, such as notifications. These rules also enable you to proactively monitor and manage the service infrastructure in real time. The solution provides more than after-the-fact reporting on technology performance and availability; it provides a view into the current trajectory of service performance and into potential service breaches before they occur. This allows IT to apply the proper resources to the highest priority services as required. The Novell solution also factors in multi-faceted rules and visualization. This allows you to prioritize performance against availability. An example of this would be raising awareness before an event that will affect performance while that service is still available. The Novell solution is a true "service" monitoring and management solution because of its ability to calendar business hours, and because use and demand are also factored in when calculating service awareness and breaches versus pure up/down availability. Finally, the session will discuss and demonstrate how these rules are configured; it will discuss best practices for configuring/defining, and the real-time multi-dimensional visualization of the service via the appropriate dashboards.

Making IT Work As One: Business Service Management from the Desktop to the Data Center

 This session covers desktop to data center monitoring, management and how the Business Service Management solution brings together data from many Novell sources and provides a single view. Integrations that will be demonstrated and discussed include, but are not limited to, PlateSpin Recon, Novell ZENworks suite, Novell ZENworks Linux Management, Novell ZENworks Configuration Management, Novell Sentinel and PlateSpin Orchestrate. This discussion will focus on the methods, mechanics and best practices of federating multiple data sources based on the intended use and audience. It will cover the technical aspects of the integration capabilities of the Business Service Management solution. It will also show how the Business Service Management solution provides a real-time view of data from its source, versus a solution that extracts, translates and loads data into a common repository that must be maintained. The Novell solution accesses the data in real time from the trusted management source and provides the most accurate, up-to-date view of federated data—turning it into actionable information.

Next Generation Business Service Management: Strategy and Roadmap

 This session covers the strategic direction of the Business Service Management solution from Novell within the data center, as well as the strategy moving forward.

Virtualization and Workload Management

Beyond Disaster Recovery: Restoring Production Workloads with PlateSpin Forge

 This session explores the two phases of restoring workloads and IT services from an outage or a full-blown disaster. Phase one is the disaster recovery itself, or automatic failover to run protected workloads in a recovery environment after a disruption. Phase two is often overlooked; it returns the protected workloads to the rebuilt or replaced production environment. During this session, you will learn how to configure PlateSpin Forge to handle both of these critical phases.

Accelerating Server Hardware Upgrades with PlateSpin Migrate P2P

 How long does it take to upgrade to a new server? Re-installing and configuring applications and patches is tedious, error-prone, time-consuming-and let's face it-boring. During this session, you will learn how physical-to-physical (P2P) conversions with PlateSpin Migrate can dramatically accelerate and automate this process, shorten the downtime window, and can even be scheduled to run unattended.

Adaptive Computing Using PlateSpin Orchestrate

 Adaptive computing goes beyond just intelligently utilizing available resources; it encompasses quality of service (QoS) targets, fault tolerance (high availability), monitoring, and iterative analysis of the resulting dataset to determine what corrective measures (adaptations) should occur at any given moment. As virtualization becomes widespread in the data center, the need for automating the placement and configuration of workloads (virtual machines) using an adaptive computing model becomes vitally important. This session demonstrates how to use events, introduced in PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0.2, to create rules that trigger workload provisioning, migration, and other virtual machine lifecycle operations. It will also offer a preview of new functionality included in the upcoming 2.1 release of the product.

Consolidation Planning: Getting the Most from Your Virtualization Initiative

 During this session, you'll get an in-depth look at the principles and best practices of planning a server consolidation project. You will learn how to ensure projects meet goals such as minimizing new hardware purchases or rack space, how and when to use different strategies such as scale up versus scale out, and how to prove those goals were met after the project is finished.

Virtualizing Mission-critical Workloads: The PlateSpin Story

 Explore the key roadblocks to virtualizing mission-critical workloads including SAP and Oracle. Discuss the potential benefits, in terms of performance and service-level delivery, in migrating these workloads to an internal cloud. Learn how PlateSpin solutions pave the way to migrating mission-critical workloads with little or no downtime, integrate non-disruptive testing in the virtual environment, and provide real-time workload protection and recovery.

Enterprise Linux Servers

Perfomance Tuning, Monitoring, Management: Getting the Most from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

 This session discusses and demonstrates the less-known tools and options in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. These tools, while perhaps less obvious, can be very valuable to the experienced user or administrator. This session will include an overview of: 1. Performance tuning 2. Kernel resource management 3. Built-in monitoring capabilities

UNIX to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server : Tools and Tips for a Successful Migration

 Tired of expensive, proprietary UNIX systems? Today's IT professionals are making strategic investments in Linux, preferring its open architecture and low cost to the proprietary-and very expensive-UNIX platform. This session will target all those who are looking to move their software application from UNIX to SUSE Linux Enterprise. We will cover the programming languages, developer tools, and programming APIs that are available for many software applications types. We will also discuss how to plan and structure a porting project for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Securing your Linux System

 This session provides a schematic overview of the security properties, architecture, tweaks and settings of a SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 installation. It will also deliver a systematic, hands-on experience for analyzing and adjusting these security properties. This session will cover both networked and non-networked security properties, and may be applied to both the desktop and the server use of the system.

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11: Support and Troubleshooting

 The SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension provides a solid and well-integrated foundation for deploying highly available services, including Web farms, databases, application servers or virtualization environments. Such distributed setups present unique challenges not encountered on a single node. This tutorial will provide a guide to the most common issues encountered during configuration and design, such as fencing, networking, dependencies and many others. Such distributed setups present unique challenges not encountered on a single node. This tutorial aims to provide a guide to the most common issues during configuration and design: fencing, networking, dependencies, and other aspects.

End User Computing

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Collaboration

Mobility Solutions for Novell GroupWise

 So much business happens on the go--in hotel rooms, airports, coffee shops, kitchens or anywhere else your users choose to work. Keeping their productivity at peak levels is an imperative for every organization. Attend this session to learn about Novell's new mobility strategy, focused on the ActiveSync protocol and our own soon-to-be-released data synchronization solution. This session will also cover the variety of third-party mobility solutions available for Novell GroupWise today.

Novell Teaming: Automating Business Processes with Forms and Workflows

 Find out how you can replace time-consuming, error-prone and manual business processes with simple, automated forms and workflows. In this session, we'll show you how easy it can be with Novell Teaming. End users can easily create workflows themselves using a simple graphical user interface. We'll also show you the easy-to-customize templates--covering a number of common business processes--found in the Novell Teaming Library.

Introducing Novell Conferencing

 Need to reduce the travel costs and lost productivity involved in face-to-face meetings? Online conferencing is the answer, and the technology is better than ever. Join us for one of the first looks at our upcoming conferencing solution. You'll see how its real-time video conferencing, desktop sharing and application sharing capabilities can make virtual meetings as effective as being there in person.

Novell Pulse: Redefining Enterprise Collaboration

 Innovation, efficiency and sound decision making happen when you can get to the right information and people--in real time and across corporate and system boundaries. Make it happen with Novell Pulse. There's nothing to deploy: just use your browser, sign up and begin collecting content, collaborating with colleagues and even co-creating documents. Attend this session to see how this new product--previewed to wide accolade last fall--can help your users connect with people and ideas to get work done.

Building a Novell Data Synchronizer Connector: A Developer's Guide

 Releasing in 2010, Novell Data Synchronizer will play a vital role in bringing together the people, tools and interactions that drive greater innovation and productivity. In this session, we'll introduce you to this bi-directional, many-to-many synchronization engine that connects disparate collaboration solutions, business applications and mobile devices. You'll also learn how to create your own connectors so you can integrate even more of your environment.

Novell Open Enterprise Server: Roadmap and Futures

 This session will include an in depth review of the OES Roadmap and features as well as a glimpse into the possible future enhancements that Novell is working on.

NSS File System Performance, Clustering and Auditing in Novell Open Enterprise Server on Linux

 In this advanced technical session, we'll discuss techniques for optimizing and troubleshooting the Novell Storage Services (NSS) file system in Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 on Linux. You'll also learn how to design, configure and troubleshoot a clustered NSS environment. Finally, find out how integration with Novell Sentinel in Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 SP2 opens the door to NSS file auditing.

Domain Services for Windows: Best practices for Windows Interoperability

 Attend this session to learn how Domain Services for Windows can help you enhance Windows interoperability. Find out how to design trees and forests for Domain Services for Windows, how to integrate it into existing eDirectory trees, how to leverage deployment methods that support application access, and much more. We'll also discuss how you can deploy Domain Services for Windows with Citrix, VMware and NetApp.

Lessons Learned: Novell Open Enterprise Server Upgrades Made Easy

 You've read the documentation, played in the lab, and now you're ready to jump in and upgrade your NetWare environment to Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 on Linux. Attend this session to glean a final few best practices and to learn how to make the most of the migration tools included in the product. You'll also learn about the various pitfalls encountered during real-world upgrades, as well as the solutions used to resolve them.

Novell File Management Suite: Intelligently Manage File Storage for Maximum Business Benefit

 File-based data is growing faster, consuming more space and being retained longer than ever before. Attend this session to find out how you can tame the file storage beast! You'll be introduced to Novell's unique new offering, Novell File Management Suite, and how it can help you reduce storage infrastructure costs, save man hours, enhance existing investments in storage hardware and software, and improve compliance.

Endpoint Management

Novell ZENworks Overview and Futures

 ZENworks technologies have been in use for over a decade, and the future has never been brighter. This session will focus on Novell ZENworks Configuration Management and the upcoming version 11 release. It will also cover new developments in the product line, such as Linux device management, advanced power management tools and integrated endpoint security capabilities. Finally, we'll provide a roadmap review that details upcoming releases for other products in the endpoint management (ZENworks) portfolio.

Novell ZENworks Configuration Management Design and Implementation Best Practices

 Getting the most out of the many features in Novell ZENworks Configuration Management starts with designing and implementing your configuration management infrastructure based on best practices. Attend this session to learn from the experts who wrote the Novell ZENworks Configuration Management Systems Deployment and Best Practices Guide, and make sure your design is ready for the real world.

Migrating from Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management to Novell ZENworks Configuration Management

 Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management is the latest release from the famed ZENworks product family. This new architecture builds on the success of Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management, taking its features and functionality to the next level. This session will provide a detailed description of the steps you need to take to migrate your existing ZENworks 7 Desktop Management infrastructure to ZENworks 10 Configuration Management and gives you the tools to ensure a smooth, successful transition.

Windows 7 Deployment with Novell ZENworks Configuration Management and ENGL Imaging Toolkit

 Deployment of a Windows desktop is more than just delivering an image. During this session, you will learn how to fully automate the Windows 7 deployment process using Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management and ENGL Imaging Toolkit - a third-party imaging and bundle delivery product. This session will also include demonstrations on Windows 7 build process creation, customization, driver management and deployment.

Protecting the Desktop with Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization

 Is deploying Windows desktop applications monopolizing your IT time and budget? Are failed installations, application incompatibilities, software and registry conflicts, and time-consuming testing weighing you down? If so, application virtualization is for you. Attend this session to learn about the business and technical value propositions of Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization and to see how easily you can virtualize applications in your organization.

Identity and Security

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Identity and Access Management

Simplify Access to Microsoft SharePoint and SaaS Applications with Novell Access Manager

 Identity federation has become the standard method for delivering access to services across organizational boundaries. More recently, federation has become the preferred method for managing user access within Microsoft SharePoint environments. In this session, you will get an overview of the federation capabilities in Novell Access Manager. Specifically, we will provide an introduction to identity federation, cover basic setup and configuration, and show you how to enable federated access to Microsoft SharePoint and Google applications. No previous knowledge of federation standards is required for this session. In this session, attendees will get an overview of the federation capabilities in Novell Access Manager. Specifically, the presenters will provide an introduction to identity federation, cover basic setup and configuration, and show how to enable federated access to Microsoft SharePoint and Google apps. No previous knowledge of federation standards is required for this session.

Securing Shared Workstations with Novell SecureLogin

 Kiosks are deployed in many industries, such as health care and manufacturing, to provide users with quick access to applications. But challenges often arise in these deployments when users don't close applications or simply leave the kiosk without logging off, exposing sensitive data to unauthorized users. This session will demonstrate the use of the Desktop Automation Services. We will show you how to build policy-based shared workstation protection at the workstation level, at the network level (using Novell Modular Authentication Service and eDirectory) and across Citrix sessions. We will also show you how to configure the policies to lock workstations when an authentication device is removed or when the user's session has timed out. Finally, you will see a real-world example of Desktop Automation Services working at Maine Medical Center. This session will demonstrate how to secure these shared workstations using the the Desktop Automation Services (DAS) in Novell SecureLogin. Presenters will show how to build policy-based shared workstation protection at the workstation level, at the network level (using NMAS and requires eDirectory) and across Citrix sessions. They'll also show how to configure the policies to lock workstations when an authentication device is removed or when the user's session has timed out. Finally, attendees will see a real-world example of DAS working at Maine Medical Center.

What's New in Novell Identity Manager 4.0

 This session will go into detail about the major features in Novell Identity Manager 4.0. It will give you the opportunity to get involved in a detailed discussion on the major new features in Identity Manager with the product management team. Hear more on the latest enhancements including role mapping administrator, advanced reporting capabilities, details of the embedded/preconfigured identity vault, single sign-on, resource model, REST services for custom user interface development, and much more. You will walk away with a solid understanding of the functionalities and business benefits provided by the new features.

Overview of Identity and Access Management Product Line

 Attend the two-hour foundation session on the Identity and Access Management product line from Novell and start your BrainShare right! This session will deliver a high-level overview of the full Identity and Access Management product line. It will highlight how the products work together as an integrated solution, and the session has a modular format so you can attend the product overviews you are most interested in. The session will provide real life examples of integration-focused benefits, followed by a 25 minute overview and update on each of the products: Novell Identity Manager, Novell Access Manager and Novell SecureLogin.

Novell Identity Manager Overview

 This session offers a business-oriented discussion about the "state of the union" of Novell Identity Manager. It will introduce Identity Manager 4.0 as a followup to the Monday keynote session, and will cover high-level differences between various versions of Identity Manager. Join this session to learn about the new features, pricing changes and upgrade paths from existing versions to the new Identity Manager 4.0. It also will introduce new connectors, previously called drivers, and will discuss the new approach Novell has to providing these connectors to customers in a business scenario-driven model. You will also learn about the total cost of ownership and the economic impact, as well as the product roadmap. These insights will help you gain visibility into the product strategy.

Novell Identity Manager Advanced Technical Discussion with a Focus on the Roles Based Provisioning Module

 The session will focus on the most commonly addressed topics in advanced configuration and management of Novell Identity Manager Roles Based Provisioning Module. You will learn how to utilize the Roles Based Provisioning Module's advanced workflow, roles facilities and REST services to customize and embed UI on a variety of platforms.

Novell Identity Manager Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

 This session covers the top tips, tricks and best practices for each component of Novell Identity Manager. You will receive experience by learning from the common mistakes made by others. The session focuses on the identity engine, connector set, Roles Based Provisioning Module and utilities that go into making any Identity Manager implementation easy. You will walk away with the knowledge of best practices for installation, configuration, and customization of Identity Manager. In addition, you will know how to create new policies to enhance your identity and access management solution by removing the barriers between applications, data stores and network platforms. A good understanding of Novell Identity Manager architectures and policies is highly recommended.

Compliance Management

An Identity-focused Approach to Compliance

 Come to this session to learn how Novell Compliance Management Platform addresses risk management, access management, and continuous controls testing and monitoring using an identity management based approach. See how Novell Identity Manager and Novell Sentinel provide an end-to-end solution for preventative and detective controls. We'll show you how to use the Role Mapping Administrator to manage roles-based access to authorizations in enterprise applications and how to use identity tracking to report on user activity across enterprise applications. We will deep-dive into identity tracking using the account tracking policies by showing you how reports leverage identity tracking data to enrich technical events with business-relevant data. Finally, you'll learn how reports correlate between events occurring in different applications.

Automate Compliance Enforcement and Risk Management with Novell Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP environments

 Managing processes, automatically testing controls within processes, and proactively managing risk through key performance/risk indicators are significant challenges to establishing GRC/IT-GRC practices. This session will focus on the current and future capabilities of Novell Compliance Management Platform that assist organizations with automating the enforcement of compliance and managing risk throughout the enterprise. We will provide specific examples with SAP GRC Access Control, Process Control and Risk Management. Specific examples will be provided with SAP GRC Access Control, Process Control and Risk Management.

Improve Your Compliance across UNIX and Linux Environments

 This session describes how to achieve compliance on your Linux and UNIX servers with Novell Privileged User Manager. Enterprises that want to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley data confidentiality, integrity and auditability requirements for privileged user activity will find out how easily it can be done with Novell Privileged User Manager. The session will feature an instructor-led demo highlighting the various aspects of Novell Privileged User Manager. It will also describe how to achieve compliance on Linux and UNIX servers. If you have ever had issues with audits or reporting on Linux root user accounts, then this is the session for you. Find out how easy it can be and how all of this fits in the Identity and Security space at Novell.

Integrating SAP HR and Business Process Driven Identity Management

 Learn how to use the SAP HR and SAP HR Business Logic drivers for Novell Identity Manager to leverage SAP HR as a source for employee information and employee-related business processes. Take a deep dive into the SAP HR data model and see how it is represented and interpreted in and by Identity Manager. In this session, you'll learn how easy it is to detect processes happening in SAP HR coming in to Identity Manager through the SAP HR driver. You will use standard functionality to deal with future events, and use organizational structure to determine an employee's manager, while learning about direct reports and other information important in an HR-driven identity management implementation.

Integrating Novell Access Governance Suite with Novell Identity Manager

 This session will discuss the reasons and methods for integrating Novell Access Governance Suite with your existing Novell Identity Manager implementation. You will learn how to implement the integration and what benefits you will realize from doing so.

Security Management

Implementing Distributed Novell Sentinel Environments: A Customer Case Study

 GaVI is an IT service provider for a number of German insurance companies. Due to EU and national regulations, it is required to retain data generated while running communications services. In the scope of the data retention project, a distributed Novell Sentinel environment was deployed and several custom collectors were developed to collect logs from fixed telephone, Internet access, Internet e-mail and Internet telephone devices. This session will discuss how you can use the enhanced event router features and Sentinel Link to implement a distributed SIEM solution in a high event rate environment. The session will finish with a lessons-learned section.

Introduction to Crystal and Jasper Reports for Novell Sentinel 6.1

 Novell Sentinel provides many useful reports right out of the box, but what do you do when you are looking for a custom report? This session will explore how to leverage and integrate the third-party reporting tools Crystal Reports and Jasper. We will introduce you to the Sentinel and Jasper reporting environments from setup to basic usage. You will also learn how to create and generate highly customizable reports that present the Sentinel normalized event data in a format that fits your environment. Session Benefits During the session, you will: Learn how to set up a Crystal Reports and Jasper reporting environment Create basic reports for Sentinel with reporting tools Become familiar with the Sentinel and reports environments Briefly overview the syntax to parse and manipulate normalized Sentinel data Demonstrate the use of iReport, the graphical report designer for Jasper, to customize existing templates

High Availability and Disaster Recovery with Novell Sentinel Log Manager

 Novell Sentinel Log Manager can be implemented in a high availability cluster using the SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 High Availability Extension. This approach, combined with Sentinel Log Manager backup scripts can be used to provide a solution for disaster recovery. This session will explain the architecture of the high availability and disaster recovery solution available with Sentinel Log Manager as well as implementation details.

How to Develop Content Using the Novell Sentinel Software Development Kit

 Novell Sentinel, Novell Sentinel Rapid Deployment and Novell Sentinel Log Manager provide many powerful features. These products enable you to collect data from security devices and applications, and automatically monitor your business's security and compliance status. In complex environments with custom applications and unique reporting needs, users will need to create customized content to get the most out of these products. The Novell Sentinel Software Developer Kit is designed to assist you in developing customized content. This session will explain the Sentinel Software Developer Kit, how to use it, and will provide examples of customizing collectors and reports.

How to Implement Cloud Security: The Nuts and Bolts of Novell Cloud Security Service

 This session will help you understand what cloud security is and how to implement it in your enterprise. It will discuss the technical aspects of cloud security and how we can help you secure the cloud while ensuring sensitive information always remains behind the firewall.

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