Advanced Networking Infrastructure

Reduce the number of file and print servers in your environment, control skyrocketing storage management costs and make better use of existing skills and investments. This leads to more efficient infrastructure and the ability to devote budget and resources to projects with high business impact.

Need to Manage Rising IT Costs?

Many organizations are engaged in IT projects like deploying new business applications, consolidating systems after a merger or acquisition, managing the proliferation of unstructured data, and meeting storage policies mandated by government or industry regulations.

These projects nearly always result in infrastructure costs that tax available staff and budget.

UNIX cannot run the latest generation of IT services without significant—and expensive— upgrades to its proprietary hardware and software: costly upgrades, hardware vendor lock-in, no flexibility to choose most suitable hardware, money is bound for expensive hardware. Lack of performance, organizations needs systems.

Decrease your storage costs by 70%

Advanced Networking Infrastructure Capabilities

Create efficiencies in networking infrastructure and reduce costs by consolidating the number of file and print servers in your environment. Improve back-up windows and reduce storage costs up to 70% by transparently assigning inactive data to less expensive storage devices. Leverage existing investments in architecture, customizations, and administration skills.

Advanced Networking Services with All the Benefits of Linux

Only Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 offers a way to offload inactive files to cheaper storage with complete transparency to the end user. It also offers paravirtualization of NetWare®, so you can move to Linux where it makes sense. And with Novell Open Enterprise Server 2, you can use iManager to manage Linux servers, allowing you to take advantage of existing skillsets in your organization.

Administrators can take advantage of automated processes, streamlined network management and industry-leading security and uptime. And end users can easily handle routine tasks for themselves. This leads to the ability to keep all IT assets—people, software and hardware—productive.

IT Productivity Decreasing?

IT staff are often spending too much time on network administration and servicing end users. When inordinate time is spent on tasks like maintaining network uptime, backing up files and laptops, setting up printers and recovering lost files, organizations can't focus on higher value projects with greater business impact.

Enable end user self-service for routine networking tasks.

Advanced Networking Infrastructure Capabilities

End user self-service for routine tasks like setting up printers and recovering lost files saves IT man-hours. Additional cost savings are realized through the industry's highest server-per-administrator ratio. And network downtime is virtually non-existent with legendary security and reliability.

Streamlined Administration through User Self-service

Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 offers the most innovative self-service printer set-up utility, which reduces helpdesk calls for common printing tasks. The product also includes the easiest automated workstation back-up utility, which helps end users keep their critical files safe. And to reduce the administrative burden of restoring deleted files, Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 features a simple self-service file recovery utility.