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Field Memo: Windows 7 Support on EUC Products

rbartsch — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:50:14 -0700

Podcast: Windows 7 Support on EUC Products
Randal covers which End-User Computing products currently have Windows 7 support and when others will support Windows 7. He also gives you some tips on how you can support Novell's customer communication effort around Windows 7. Want to listen to podcasts on your BlackBerry? Check this out.
Your Time Investment: (4:44 audio)
Localized: No

Good Selling,
The End-User Computing Enablement Team

Partners, visit our Wiki where you can find everything you need to be enabled on selling End-User Computing Solutions!
EUC Enablement Resources:
Wiki: http://tr.im/novell_euc

End-User Computing

Field Memo: Novell Pulse Announcement

rbartsch — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:33:11 -0700

Podcast: Novell Pulse Announcement
Randal covers yesterday's announcement of Pulse (formerly Cockpit) and how to talk to customers about it. Want to listen to podcasts on your BlackBerry? Check this out.
Your Time Investment: (5:00 audio)
Localized: No

Good Selling,
The End-User Computing Enablement Team

Partners, visit our Wiki where you can find everything you need to be enabled on selling End-User Computing Solutions!
EUC Enablement Resources:
Wiki: http://tr.im/novell_euc

End-User Computing

PartnerNet How To Documents

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:46:36 -0700

How to PartnerNet Portal Quick Tour
How to Join PartnerNet
How to Access Free Self Study Kits
How to Access On Demand Training
How to Allocate your Certification to the Right Location
How to Complete Specialist Certifications
How to Create a Novell User Name
How to Enter a Product into the Partner Product Guide
How to Log a Technical Support Request and Obtain CIDs
How to Manage Contacts
How to Manage your Company Compliance
How to Update Your Company Information and Your Partner Locator Listing
How to Use Technical Support – User Guide
How to View Partner Revenue Reporting

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Novell Demo Systems adds Twitter to communication channels

cneal-novell — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:32:21 -0700

The Demo Systems team has added to its social media participation by getting a Twitter account. If you're a Twitter user please follow @novelldemo to get the latest demo news and views faster.

If you don't yet have a Twitter account setting one up is really easy. You can find our profile at http://www.novell.com/novelldemo .

While we're on the subject now is probably a good time to summarise the various communication channels we use, so that you know how to receive our news updates, ask us questions, and give us feedback on how we're doing.

Primary support channel is via the Novell Support Forums
http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-fo...

General questions and comments can be sent to us direct via email: demosystems@novell.com

Our Facebook page is at http://www.facebook.com/novelldemosystems . Become a fan!

Finally -- and for Novell employees only -- our internal mailing list: utopia@lists.novell.com

We get lonely when you don't talk to us. Get in touch!

Chris

Cool Solutions

Novell Pulse Unveiled at Enterprise 2.0 Event

KariWoolf — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0700

At the Enterprise 2.0 show in San Francisco today, Novell previewed Novell Pulse, the first real-time collaboration platform for the enterprise. Code-named “Cockpit,” Novell Pulse began as a breakout project in late 2008. Since that time, the Novell Pulse development team has brought the vision to life, creating a unique combination of e-mail, document authoring and social messaging tools with robust security and management capabilities.

Because Novell will be one of the first major Wave providers in the industry, Google invited Novell to share the stage during today's Enterprise 2.0 keynote on “Integrating Google Wave into the Enterprise.” Andy Fox, Novell Vice President of Engineering, delivered a demonstration of Novell Pulse and a technology preview of the product leveraging the Wave Federation Protocol. This was an exciting proof point of Novell's commitment to interoperable enterprise collaboration—one that will enable Novell Pulse users to communicate in real time with users of any other Wave provider.

Novell Pulse is scheduled for a select beta in early 2010 and a release mid-year. The initial release will be for cloud deployments, with an on-premise option coming in a subsequent release. Customers interested in receiving information about Novell Pulse availability can register at http://www.novell.com/pulse.

For more details on Novell Pulse, please visit the following links:

> Novell Pulse Press Release: http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-unveils-re...
> Novell Pulse Web Site: http://www.novell.com/pulse
> Novell Pulse in the Enterprise 2.0 Conference Keynote: http://www.e2conf.com/e2tv/
> Novell Pulse Demo: http://www.novell.com/media/media.php?media=novell...

End-User Computing

Gradenko, ActiveSync, GroupWise, Teaming and a Webinar!

dlythgoe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:03:24 -0700

The engineering team is working on several product releases over the next several months. It is important that we keep you informed about our progress and what is coming. It also allows you to participate in the many activities surrounding a product release. Those activities include product requirements, design reviews, BETAs, Lighthouse programs and final shipments. So here goes:

Gradenko (DataSync):

Gradenko is currently in authorized BETA. We have had several beta calls including beta calls for the SDK. Gradenko includes the following components:

- Sync Engine
- GroupWise Connector
- SDK
- Salesforce.com Connector
- SugarCRM Connector
- Sharepoint Connector

BETA2 is scheduled for later this month. Engineering is focused on installation, configuration and scalability. We are listening to our beta sites and gathering input from our internal testing and superlab experiences. Gradenko is the foundation for ActiveSync and for all of our 3rd-party integrations. Continue to watch this space for updates on our progress, schedule and final release.

ActiveSync

First of all, I refer you to Alex Evans' blog. This was posted back in September and provides some excellent background on the feature set, architecture and what will be available in this first release. http://www.novell.com/communities/node/9006/active...

ActiveSync BETA is scheduled for this month as well. Great progress has been made within the team over the last several weeks. The ActiveSync project is being head up by Jay Parker and they have implemented several aspects of the agile development model. As part of this methodology, the team demonstrates to interested team members the progress made during each 'sprint'. On Thursday, October 22nd, the team provided a demo of their Sprint 5 work. Several iPhones and iTouches were handed out to the audience and we were given several tasks to complete. Scheduling an appointments, sending an email, accepting an appointments, creating a contact, etc. There were a few delays and a few hiccups as several in the audience were all using the same account, but overall, things went very well. Engineering is now focused on performance, scalability, install, troubleshooting and documentation. We are anxious to begin the beta process and work out the final details.

GroupWise 7 and GroupWise 8

GroupWise 7.0.3 HP4 was released in September. Feedback so far on this release has been very positive. We do plan to release GroupWise 7.0.4 and that will be our final release of the GroupWise 7.0.x product line. We expect to release that final version of 7.0.x in roughly 6 months or so. GroupWise 8.0.1 was released in August. We are currently evaluating and planning a Hot Patch for 8.0.1. Our next support pack for GroupWise 8 will be 8.0.2. This is currently scheduled about mid-year 2010.

The vast majority of the feedback on 8.0.1 has been very positive. We continue to listen and evaluate the progress as our customers adopt and roll out this significant version of the product. Support has brought 6-10 issues to our attention, which we have addressed and provided specific customers relief. We plan to make these and other fixes available in a Hot Patch currently scheduled for December/January.

Cortez (Teaming 2.1)

Cortez is the next major release of our award winning product Teaming. As you may know, Teaming is a product that we are pushing as a 'rapid release' product. We plan to have new versions of this product available every 6-9 months. Teaming 2.0 was released in July and Teaming 2.1 was currently scheduled for January. It has a very specific and finite set of features and will be entering BETA also in the month of November. To see the design documents, participate in the user interaction mock ups and provide your input, please visit the project on kablink.org. A full list of the changes, features and roadmaps are all available as we engage our customers and partners in this project. Cortez includes:

- Import and Export capability
- Undelete
- Data quotas
- Mobility access
- Landing Page Editor
- Extension Administration
- Task/Calendar Improvements
- maybe a couple more :)

So watch for the BETA, check out kablink.org and download the 20 user Starter Pack.

Last note: There is a Webinar this Thursday, November 5th, "GW8 & M+Archive: Your email collaboration solution" I will be presenting with Messaging Architects. They will be presenting their stubbing solutions and I will be talking about GroupWise, Teaming, DataSync, etc. Tune in!

Here are the details:

GW8 & M+Archive: Your email collaboration solution - November 5, 2009 - 3:00PM EST

Both leading IT publications and end users alike agree GroupWise 8 brings collaboration to the next level with next-generation web technology and the latest productivity-enhancing tools featuring a highly customizable email client, as well as improved calendaring, contact and task management. Besides the enriched email client, one of the most important improvements in the GroupWise 8 release is a new Stubbing API that enables tight integration of GroupWise with email retention solutions and gives end users transparent access to their archives.

During this Webinar, Dean Lythgoe, Director, GroupWise Engineering, will discuss GroupWise 8 features, roadmap futures, mobility direction and the new DataSync technology. He will give a sneak peak at what is available today and what exciting new things are on the horizon in 2010.

Ranjit Sarai, Product Manager for M+Archive will then demonstrate the stubbing feature of M+Archive, currently the only product that offers this feature for GroupWise. After attending this Webinar, you will know how GroupWise with M+Archive will help you achieve an enterprise-class secure and compliant collaboration environment while helping you reduce overall cost, increase system performance and ensure a superior end-user experience.

BONUS: Registrants will receive a complimentary white paper written by Novell and Messaging Architects, which will give you more in depth information about how GroupWise works with stubbing.

Date: Thursday, November 05, 2009
Time: 3:00PM EST / 12:00 PM PST
Speaker(s): Dean Lythgoe, Director, GroupWise and Teaming + Conferencing Engineering at Novell & Ranjit Sarai, Product Manager for M+Archive at Messaging Architects

Register Now: https://messagingarchitects.webex.com/messagingarc...

Dean

Workgroup Cool Solutions

Virtualization... Hurry up already

jasondea — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:59:35 -0700

In the process of cleaning out my desk I've discovered that I'm a bit of a pack rat when it comes to industry whitepapers, and documents sent to me by various analysts.

Came across a rather interesting one from September 2007, from Gartner.

"US Datacenters: The Calm Before the Storm"

According to Gartner, “by 2011, more than 70% of US enterprise data centers will face tangible disruptions related to floor space, energy consumption and cost”. In fact they also predict that “infrastructure demands and increasing energy costs mean that IT costs could double by 2012”.

Quite alarming if you ask me. Now that we're 2 years past when the article was first published, I wonder if IT is still tracking to hit those "milestones" or if the rapid adoption of virtualization has helped stave off this disaster.

From what I've seen in the front lines, enterprises are gobbling up virtualization at an incredible rate, even still, most statistics will show that less than 20% of today's x86 servers have been virtualized. Transforming IT infrastructure is always a long process, but more than ever as we come closer and closer to those deadlines laid out by Gartner, I predict that this evolution from Physical to Virtual will accelerate.

Vendors like Novell, with our PlateSpin Workload Management suite of solutions, should be well positioned to help move things along.

Data Center

Field Memo: Dynamic Storage Technology Success Story

rbartsch — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:46:48 -0600

Success Story: Court of Claims of Ohio OES DST (2 pages)
This success story describes how the customer used Dynamic Storage Technology to reduce hardware storage costs by 60 percent and slash annual tape consumption by more than 90 percent...just the kind of thing that Ken Muir describes Novell is building on in our Collaboration strategy (38 min. webcast).
Your Time Investment: (2 pages)
Localized: No

Good Selling,
The End-User Computing Enablement Team

Partners, visit our Wiki where you can find everything you need to be enabled on selling End-User Computing Solutions!
EUC Enablement Resources:
Wiki: http://tr.im/novell_euc

End-User Computing

Novell SecureLogin 7 -- New Sales Resources to Help You Close Deals

partnerguys — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:08:37 -0600

If you've not yet checked out Novell SecureLogin 7 -- Gartner just gave it their highest rating for Enterprise Single Sign-on solutions in their MarketScope report -- you need to.

With an application wizard that speeds implementations, fast ROI for your customers, and great services pull for you, SecureLogin 7 provides great opportunities. And now you have an excellent set of sales resources to help you close deals.

New SecureLogin 7 Sales Resources

Identity and Security

Podcast: Reducing Appliance Software Development Time by 75 to 80 Percent

rholder — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:50:51 -0600

Novell® partner Ingres is a software company that helps system integrators (SIs) boost profit margins and speed product development. Using SUSE® Studio in combination with the Ingres* Database, system integrators can slash appliance setup time and deliver value-added solutions faster and with less risk than ever before.

Check out the following podcast to learn more: http://www.novell.com/recording/openpr/2009/ingres...

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