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New: Merchandise Transfer Form in the Teaming Library

Teaming_Library — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:33:18 -0700

New Form in the Teaming Library: Merchandise Transfer

The Library is excited to add a form that will not only aid efficiency but add security control to your business process. The Merchandise Transfer form is a simple way to request, record, and respond to transfer of goods inside of your organization.

To Download the form visit the Library by clicking 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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Building Your Virtual Landscape Without Messy Disruptions

coolguys — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:40:51 -0700

Building Your Virtual Landscape Without Messy Disruptions: Using PlateSpin Solutions to Implement and Test Your Virtualized Data Center
by Jason Dea and Valentin Mihai
Novell Connection Magazine - November 2009

Here's an excerpt:

This is the second article in a three-part series on how to best assess, deploy and refine your virtual infrastructure using PlateSpin Recon and PlateSpin Migrate products.

In the first article we laid the groundwork for success with tips and tricks for consolidation planning in your virtualized data center using PlateSpin Recon 3.7.

This article picks up with us breaking ground on automating the actual implementation process using PlateSpin Migrate. In this article, we will also discuss the vital role that testing plays in ensuring a successful implementation.

PlateSpin Migrate

Whether you’re looking to consolidate a large number of business-critical servers or simply minimize your downtime moving individual workloads, PlateSpin Migrate is your workload migration solution. What exactly comprises a workload? At the most basic level, a workload encapsulates the data, applications and operating systems that reside on a physical or virtual host.

PlateSpin Migrate allows you to move server workloads over a local network, wide area network or the Internet via TCP/IP. PlateSpin Migrate decouples the underlying server hardware and transfers workloads to and from physical servers, virtual hosts or image archives—what we call “X2X.” Most competing products limit you to just physical-to-virtual (P2V) migrations.

PlateSpin Migrate provides organizations with a mature, proven solution for testing, migrating and balancing workloads across infrastructure boundaries—from desktops to servers.

PlateSpin Migrate: The All-Purpose Solution

Read the article here

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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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NEW: Community Use of Public Facilities Application Form

Teaming_Library — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:22:40 -0700

New Community Use of Public Facilities Application Form on Teaming Library.

This week we bring you a workflow inspired by our users in education. Many businesses or organizations have large rooms or facilities that they make available for community use. Wouldn't it be great to not worry aobut the paperowrk for making a reservation? The Community Use of Public Facilities Application form simplifies the approval process by ensuring that the form (filled out online or by an administrative assistant) is automatically placed in the hands of those who need to approve it.

Thinking outside the box: Let's say you have some trucks or other equipment that you want to begin leasing out on weekends. With a simple modification, this form can be a rental request for that unused equipment. We encourage you to download this form and workflow and be creative.

Click Here for the link.

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Need Training on Teaming? Attend ATT Live 2009: Las Vegas

coolguys — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:58:28 -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 Teaming 2.0: Customizing and Enhancing the User Experience
Securing Novell Teaming 2.0
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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Early Bird Discount: Save $300 on BrainShare

mattclayton — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:31:43 -0700

Novell has taken steps to make BrainShare more affordable by dropping the full price of the conference from US$1,895.00 to US$1,695.00. You can save an additional $300 with the "early bird" registration. The "early bird" rate of US$1,395.00 will be available until February 19, 2010. Learn more at http://www.novell.com/brainshare

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