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IT TechTalk at BrainShare 2010

mattclayton — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:29:13 -0700

One of the most popular and attended events at BrainShare is back! IT Tech Talk (formerly known as “Meet the Experts”) will take place Wednesday night from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. As always, you’ll be able to mingle with our product engineers giving you an opportunity to discuss current and future product features and technologies. Heavy hors d’oeuvres and an open bar will be available.

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Balancing Act: Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management – Balancing the Needs of Mobile Security and Agility

coolguys — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:41:19 -0700

Balancing Act: Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management – Balancing the Needs of Mobile Security and Agility
by David Ferre
Novell Connection Magazine - November 2009

Here's an excerpt:

The deployment of more laptops than desktops has been a rising trend at most organizations for a number of years. The primary driver for this trend is that mobility tends to increase end-user productivity. In spite of this increased productivity, the mobility of users creates significant security hardships for most organizations. Since users need access to their data while they’re on the move, they end up either copying the data to their local laptop drives or they access their data over network connections that are not managed by the organization. As a result, their tends to be a polar relationship between security and the increase in productivity that mobility provides. The further your data moves from the protective boundaries of your physical operations, the more you increase the level of risk associated with protecting that data and preserving system health.

Fortunately, ZENworks Endpoint Security Management delivers the data, access and device protection that laptops need no matter where they go. The solution provides the necessary security defenses, safeguards and controls you need to neutralize the polar affect of giving users the agility they need to be productive while on the move.

Mobile Data Protection

There are a number of vital questions that if organizations leave unanswered in terms of mobile data protection, they open themselves up to serious profitability, credibility and liability consequences. (See Threat Assessment) In terms of mobile data protection, a few of these questions include the following. Do your users ever store on their laptops or remotely access sensitive data, such as intellectual property or customer data? Can users attach and access removable storage devices on their laptops, such as thumb drives, CD burners or iPods? If a laptop or removable storage device is lost or stolen, can its sensitive data be compromised? These are just a few questions you need to answer to ensure the security of the data on your mobile devices.

Read the article here

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Deep Dive at BrainShare 2010

mattclayton — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:22:03 -0700

This year Novell is enhancing and expanding two of the most popular attractions at BrainShare - the Installation and Migration Depot and Novell Advanced Technical Training (ATT). Diving Deep is all about helping you take advantage of more in-depth, hands-on technical training opportunities that can have an immediate impact on how you do your job. Swim on over to this new Connection Magazine article to read more: http://bit.ly/bsdeepdive

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Session Voting Begins Today!

mattclayton — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:15:58 -0700

The time has come to begin voting on the session proposals for BrainShare 2010 in Salt Lake City. Voting will be open from now until December 4th, 2009 (5:00 PM MST). Please take the time to review the proposed sessions and vote for the sessions you believe will be of most value to you and the other conference attendees.

To access session voting go to http://bit.ly/bssessionvoting and create an account, if you do not already have one created. Please take the time to vote on each session as your votes will help to determine the sessions that will be presented at BrainShare 2010.

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Share Your Opinions on Novell Training Certifications

coolguys — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:21:55 -0700

Give Us Your Opinion on Potential New Novell Training Certifications

Take the Survey by November 23rd and you could win an Apple iPod Touch!

Take the Survey Now

Employers are increasingly requiring tangible proof that IT staff and professionals have the technical knowledge and experience required for their specific areas. Novell Technical Training Services is currently conducting a research study into potential certifications that would benefit our customers in key product and solution areas. As an IT professional who works with these Novell products, we invite you to participate in the study to share your opinions on if these new certifications would be of benefit to you. Your feedback will help shape future certification offerings from Novell. The short survey should take only 3-5 minutes to complete depending on the range of Novell products and solutions you have experience with. In recognition of your valuable time, upon submission of a completed survey, you will be entered to win one of three Apple iPod touches.

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GroupLink is Offering a Great BrainShare Promotion

mattclayton — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:33:59 -0700

GroupLink has created a great promotion to help get you to BrainShare. The details of the promotion are listed on Novell Cool Solutions (http://www.grouplink.net/redir.asp?id=2009111101).

The first 30 people who purchase GroupLink's everything HelpDesk, before the end of this year, and mention this e-mail will receive a free BrainShare pass! This offer is for new customers only. Minimum purchase of 3 user licenses, cannot be combined with other offers.

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Share Your Favorite BrainShare Memory and You Could Win an HP 2140 Mini Notebook!

mattclayton — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:26:17 -0700

Share your favorite BrainShare memory and you'll be entered in a drawing for a chance to win an HP 2140 Mini Notebook! All you need to do is post it on this moderated forum (http://tinyurl.com/yljt8kz) by November 30, 2009. We will announce one lucky BrainShare fanatic on December 2nd!

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Great ZENworks Training! Attend ATT Live 2009: Las Vegas

coolguys — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:16:35 -0700

Start: 14 Dec 2009 - 7:00am

End: 17 Dec 2009 - 5:30pm

Timezone: US/Pacific

Attend ATT Live 2009: Las Vegas

Imagine 4 days of intense, hands-on training delivered by engineers for engineers. Attend Novell's only Advanced Technical Training Conference. Choose from over 50 technical sessions rarely offered at other events including:

Novell ZENworks Patch Management In a Nutshell
Keep Your Hands Off My Port! Securing Your Workstations with Novell ZENWorks Endpoint Security Management
Advanced Deployment and Troubleshooting of Applications with Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization
Customizing the Novell ZENworks 10 Disconnected Imaging Environment
Migrating a Traditional ZENworks Environment to Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management
And more

Plus, as a Cool Solutions subscriber, you can get a 10% discount by using ATTL09-CoolSolutions when prompted to use a coupon code during registration.

Register or find out more at www.novell.com/training/attlive

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Call for Participation Ends November 13th

mattclayton — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:01:08 -0700

BrainShare Call for Participation is opened through Friday, November 13th. If you have a proposed topic that you believe would be of value to our attendees, please submit it by going to http://www.novell.com/brainshare/session_proposals... and clicking on the "Submit a Session Proposal" link.

Please note: BrainShare will have a strong emphasis on technical sessions. Preference will be given to the sessions that are more technical in nature and are focused on an intermediate-to-advanced audience.

We are excited to review your session ideas and are confident that this upcoming event will be the best ever!

If you have any questions please contact us at news@novellbrainshare.com.

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Webinar - The Novell Integrated Help Desk and Free BrainShare passes for eligible purchases

GroupLink1 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:07:51 -0700

Are you planning on attending BrainShare this year and can't quite get the budget to attend? Are you in need of a help desk that integrates with your Novell environment? GroupLink would like to help you out!

GroupLink's everything HelpDesk solution, the Novell Integrated Help Desk Solution, features critical Novell integration:

- Schedule appointments, tasks and receive email notifications with GroupWise email and calendaring integration
- Manage your assests with NEW! powerful ZEN 10 integration
- Authenticate your users with essential eDirectory integration
- Lower overall costs by leveraging your current Novell technology

The first 30 people to purchase at least 3 technician licenses of everything HelpDesk before the end of the year, will receive a free BrainShare pass*. To kick off this great promotion and to learn more about how this solution can benefit your organization we have planned a special webinar. This webinar will feature Angie Veach, from Carrol Consolidated School Corp. She will discuss how this Novell integration has helped her organization be more effective and lower overall costs.

Date: December 3
Time: 11:00 am Eastern
Link: http://www.grouplink.net/redir.asp?id=2009102902

If you have any questions about this promotion, or would like any further information, contact Casey Trujillo at ctrujillo@grouplink.net or 801-335-0708

* for new customers only, cannot be combined with any other promotion or discount.

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