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GroupWise: Email is Changing!
BETA Announcements, email discussion and April Fools!
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Fri. 04.01.2011
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing, All Tech, All the Time
Topic: All-Tech GroupWise, Collaboration
Product: Conferencing, Data Synchronizer, GroupWise, Vibe
Tearing Down the Barriers to Building Private Clouds
How times have changed—and in such little time. Just one short year ago, industry analysts were stating how IT managers would have to cobble together a hodgepodge of third-party, open-source and homegrown solutions in order to run a private cloud inside the data center.
Submitted by: rwiltbank on Fri. 04.01.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Technology Partners
Topic: Cloud, Novell Channel
Field Memo: ZEN Den webcast featuring ESM Inside Of ZENworks 11
In this 28:57 webcast recording, Bob Reynolds tells you how to make your customers configured & secured with endpoint security management inside of ZENworks 11. Topics covered:
- Strained Security Personnel?
- User-Centric Approach
- Layered Approach
- Creating Conversations
Read more for the link to this resource.
Submitted by: rbartsch on Tue. 03.29.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Technology Partners, End-User Computing
Topic: Partner Enablement, Partners
Product: ZENworks, ZENworks Configuration Management, ZENworks Endpoint Security Management
Field Memo: EUC Field Webcast featuring Novell Vibe Cloud
In this 53:38 webcast recording, the End-User Computing Team shared about Novell Vibe Cloud, Novell's new vision for enterprise social collaboration!
Offering a combination of real-time co-authoring tools, social messaging, file sharing and synchronization in one secure application, Novell Vibe has everything your customers need to work more efficiently as they embrace collaboration in the cloud. It will also provide many Novell partners with a compelling reason to extend their collaboration business into the cloud, as well as generate ongoing services and subscription renewal revenue streams. You will learn how to position this application in the marketplace and gain an understanding of the impact it can have on productivity.
Upon viewing of this session you will also be prepared to:
- Identify opportunities in your customers' environments
- Engage in conversations to highlight the value Novell Vibe Cloud will bring to your customers
- Develop and deliver a solid, results driven justification of this solution for your customers
Read more for the link to this resource.
Submitted by: rbartsch on Tue. 03.29.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Technology Partners, End-User Computing
Topic: Partner Enablement, Partners
Field Memo: "Novell Partner Excited About Service Desk" SalesTalk
Randal speaks to Jacques Sauve, President of Novell Partner Adaris, about Novell Service Desk.
Listen for:
- why Novell Service Desk has convinced them to get into the Service Desk business
- how Jacques uses Novell Service Desk to convince customers that ITIL is necessary and doable
Read more for the link to this resource.
Submitted by: rbartsch on Tue. 03.29.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Technology Partners, End-User Computing
Topic: Partner Enablement, Partners
Product: Service Desk
20 Years and Still Not at Service Level Nirvana
Why aren’t we at Service Level Agreement (SLA) nirvana? I mean really, we have had SLA tools for 10, 15 years or more. You probably have 1 or 10 or more tools that measure SLAs, of which most probably aren’t used. Why aren’t all of our data centers, applications, servers and everything else just numbers on some dashboard that we just glance at to make sure everything is good to go and that we are open for business?
Submitted by: mhudnall on Tue. 03.29.2011
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Data Center, Business Service Management Cool Solutions
Topic: Business Service Management, IT Management, Monitoring
Product: Business Service Management, Operations Center
Field Memo: Collaboration Connection webcast featuring Data Sync & NotifyMDM
In this two part 57:03 webcast recording, the topics and presenters are:
- Bryce Romney, Data Sync Product Manager - Connector Marketplace and Chinook features
- Paul DePond of Notify Technology Corporation - NotifyMDM (Mobile Device Management)
- Doc Hodges, Novell Demo Systems - New Demo Systems Portal (extra videos are at http://is.gd/s6Szkh)
Read more for the link to this resource.
Submitted by: rbartsch on Mon. 03.28.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Technology Partners, End-User Computing
Topic: Partner Enablement, Partners
Product: Data Synchronizer
Five Questions Channel Partners Need to Ask about the Cloud
Channel partners who are serious about cloud computing need to mine the opportunities and then stake their claim.
Submitted by: rcastanon on Wed. 03.23.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Technology Partners
Topic: Novell Channel
Field Memo: "Novell Service Desk" SalesTalk
Randal speaks to Jon Giffard, Novell Service Desk Product Manager, about Novell Service Desk.
Listen for:
- the benefit your ZENworks customers will derive from implementing their free license entitlement to Novell Service Desk for Incident Management
- upsell opportunities to the bigger edition
- just a touch of levity
Read more for the link to this resource.
Submitted by: rbartsch on Wed. 03.23.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Technology Partners, End-User Computing
Topic: Partner Enablement, Partners
Product: Service Desk, ZENworks, ZENworks Configuration Management
Field Memo: "Managing Unstructured File Space using Novell File Management Suite" ChalkTalk
Doug Clower shows you how to explain to your customers what Novell File Management Suite does. Learn how to describe to a customer how to manage unstructured file space–on a whiteboard, a napkin, or the back of an envelope using simple diagrams.
Read more for the link to this resource.
Submitted by: rbartsch on Wed. 03.23.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Technology Partners, End-User Computing
Topic: Partner Enablement, Partners
Product: File Management Suite, File Reporter, Storage Manager
Go from 7 to 11 - From Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management to Novell ZENworks 11 Configuration Management that is!
Take your endpoint management from 7 to 11 - Learn to migrate a Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management environment to Novell ZENworks 11 Configuration Management with this 4-hour, no cost online training for Partners!
Submitted by: lmccarter on Tue. 03.22.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Technology Partners
Move up to Novell ZENworks 11 Configuration Management with Online Partner Training
Sign up for this 4-hour online training to find out what it takes to move from Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management to Novell ZENworks 11 Configuration Management!
Submitted by: lmccarter on Tue. 03.22.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Technology Partners
Want to Accelerate Cloud Opportunities? Got 10 Minutes?
Learn how in less than 10 minutes, the Vodacom Business team was able to add a virtual server; configure required operating systems, databases and applications; and set access and security levels as well as compliance rules.
Submitted by: rwhitehead on Fri. 03.18.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Technology Partners
Topic: Cloud, Intelligent Workload Management, Novell Channel
Field Memo: ZEN Den webcast featuring Service Desk for ITIL Service Management
In this 29:55 webcast recording, Rob Kraczek revisits how to sell Novell Service Desk. Topics Covered:
- What can Novell Service Desk do?
- Novell Service Desk Editions
- How do I sell it?
Read more for the link to this resource.
Submitted by: rbartsch on Wed. 03.16.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Technology Partners, End-User Computing
Topic: Partner Enablement, Partners
Product: Service Desk
Business Service Management Tool Buyers Check List
Business service management is a practice many organizations try to achieve with many IT management tools. There are many tools that contribute to a successful practice, but it is the integration platform that stitches it all together to make sense of it in real time. Quite simply put, a good business service management practice enables you to communicate service performance while maintaining control over the environment.
Submitted by: mhudnall on Wed. 03.16.2011
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Data Center, Business Service Management Cool Solutions
Topic: Business Service Management, IT Management
Product: Business Service Management, Operations Center
The Cloud and Compliance: Not Mutually Exclusive Concepts
While security is still a major impediment to cloud adoption, many organizations have not addressed another substantial barrier to adopting the public cloud model: compliance.
Submitted by: rwiltbank on Sun. 03.13.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Technology Partners
Topic: Novell Channel
Field Memo: Collaboration Connection webcast featuring Pcounter
In this 45:54 webcast recording, James Machado of A.N.D. Technologies gives an update of the latest version of their Pcounter solution. Pcounter has been available since 1992 and is the leading print/copy auditing and printing/copy control for NetWare and now OES. Not only that but, Pcounter is the only solution that is integrated into iManager. Listen to find out more about the extremely popular printing and copy add-on to OES. James' topics include:
- What is Pcounter?
- How to work with the folks at Pcounter
- How to displace Windows Server with OES if a customer is serious about print job tracking
Read more for the link to this resource.
Submitted by: rbartsch on Fri. 03.11.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Technology Partners, End-User Computing
Topic: Partner Enablement, Partners
Product: iPrint, Open Enterprise Server
Demo Systems Logo (square)
Submitted by: cneal-novell on Fri. 03.11.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Great Demo!
Top 10 Reasons a CMDB Implementation Fails
Published on behalf of Tobin Isenberg
Here are a few of the most common reasons that CMDB implementations fail. They are in no particular order.....read on
Submitted by: mhudnall on Sat. 03.05.2011
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Data Center, Business Service Management Cool Solutions
Topic: Business Service Management, Configuration
Product: Business Service Management, Operations Center
Novell Demo Systems Logo
Submitted by: cneal-novell on Fri. 03.04.2011
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Great Demo!









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