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A Successful Relationship With the Attachmate Group Through Historic Engagements With Novell & PlateSpin
Longtime Novell partner Computacenter decided to build a services practise around PlateSpin products, effectively bundling PlateSpin Recon and PlateSpin Migrate as a virtualisation assessment and consolidation service. They successfully rolled this out over a five year period into over 100 customers, ranging from medium size companies to large enterprises.
Submitted by: coolguys on Mon. 11.07.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Data Center Specialists, Data Center
Topic: Partners
Product: PlateSpin
Rise of BSM 2.0 from the Fiery Failure of BSM Marketecture
What is Business Service Management simply and why does it appear to have waned in discussion and answer the question has it failed, is the concept required, what's new? Yes, the number one complaint in the market is still that IT does not understand the business, the level of frustration is rising and fuels the fire driving cloud computing and hosted services.
Business can buy easily, don't hear about operational processes, technology and why things don't work. They hear a service, price and value delivered. So what is BSM and why did it fail and why is it still the fuel driving the outsourced market.
Submitted by: mhudnall on Sat. 07.09.2011
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Data Center, Business Service Management Cool Solutions
Topic: Business Service Management, Intelligent Workload Management, IT Management
Product: Business Service Management, Operations Center
Launch of Novell Operations Center 5.0 - The First Social Configuration Management System is Here!
We are pleased to announce the release of Novell Operations Center 5.0. Many customer enhancements have been addressed and this is the highest quality release to date and the team is very excited about the crisp new look and feel to the solution.
Submitted by: mhudnall on Mon. 05.16.2011
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Data Center, Business Service Management Cool Solutions
Topic: Business Service Management, IT Management
Product: Business Service Management, Operations Center
The Attachmate Group Acquires Novell, INC
Special Announcement: A Letter to Our Partners
Submitted by: ntroia on Tue. 04.26.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Identity and Security, Technology Partners, End-User Computing, Data Center
Novell Operations Center 5.0 - The Eagle has Landed!
All development cycles/projects have code names until such a time a version number can be assigned to the release. This release was code named Eagle and thus the title! I must first say it has been a fast and furious year for the Novell Operations Center team filled with much change. Many thanks go out to the supporting cast of characters that delivered the product this year. The product has a fresh, clean look, a new name, improved quality and usability and many enhacements. As part of the updated brand a couple of integrations that are already available have never been called out on their own.
Submitted by: mhudnall on Mon. 04.25.2011
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Data Center, Business Service Management Cool Solutions
Topic: Business Service Management
Product: Business Service Management, Operations Center
German Executive Spotlight - April Edition - Führungskräfte im Blickpunkt
Partner-Newsletter für Europa
Führungskräfte im Blickpunkt
Jürgen Müller
April 2011
Cloud-Computing verändert die Branche – und vielleicht auch Ihr Geschäftsmodell
Submitted by: ntroia on Wed. 04.06.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Identity and Security, Technology Partners, End-User Computing, Data Center
ZEN Den
Dear Novell Partner or Employee:
The Americas End-User Computing Leadership Team is proud to sponsor the ZEN Den, a bi-weekly webcast for the entire EUC team. This call is held in an informal style, presented by the Americas Endpoint Management TSS (Technical Sales Specialist) Team. The structure of the webcasts is informative, interactive, collaborative, and the results are actionable topics and messages that we as Novell partners and employees can take to our customers. We look forward to you joining us on Mondays at 3:00 PM Eastern Time!
Read on for the complete schedule and to view past recordings.
-Novell Americas Endpoint Management TSS Team
Submitted by: rbartsch on Tue. 04.05.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Identity and Security, Technology Partners, End-User Computing, Data Center
Topic: Partner Enablement, Partners
Product: ZENworks, ZENworks Application Virtualization, ZENworks Asset Management, ZENworks Configuration Management, ZENworks Endpoint Security Management, ZENworks for Desktops, ZENworks for Servers, ZENworks Handheld Management , ZENworks Linux Management, ZENworks Network Access Control, ZENworks Patch Management
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
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
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
New to Novell? Get Started with a Sales Guide
Novell newbies, your sales guides are here!
Submitted by: gwhitaker on Tue. 03.01.2011
Filed Under:
Solution Provider, Identity and Security, End-User Computing, Data Center
Top 10 Business Service Management Guiding Principles
What is a simple explanation of what Business Service Management (BSM) is and does – let’s take the BS out of the speak. I simply describe it as the ability for IT to communicate service performance (value) aligned with business objectives, while maintaining control over the infrastructure.
Submitted by: mhudnall on Mon. 02.28.2011
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Data Center, Business Service Management Cool Solutions
Topic: Business Service Management
Product: Business Service Management, Operations Center
Less than ONE week to go - Watch out for TUX at CeBIT
If you attend CeBIT, you might meet people that ask you: "Hey - did
you happen so see that BIG penguin on that HUGE fridge at the IBM booth?" Well - tell them "you discovered Linux on IBM System z" ...
Submitted by: chabowski on Thu. 02.24.2011
Filed Under:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Bid Management, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Data Center, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z
Business Service Management Value - The Business Case
What do you think it costs you to not be managing services versus technology silos? I'll tell you - 2% of revenue at a minimum annually. Check this out and these slides to see how and how to build your business service management business case.
Submitted by: mhudnall on Sun. 02.13.2011
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Data Center, Business Service Management Cool Solutions
Topic: Business Service Management
Product: Business Service Management, Operations Center
Baby talk and the cost of disaster recovery...
My son just turned 20 months old. It’s funny how at that age we measure age in so much detail, rather than just saying he’s almost two. Nevertheless at this age his little brain is developing at an amazing pace. As such he’s reached what some have described to me as the most terrible phase of life… the “What’s that?” and “Why?” stage. Everywhere we go and everything he sees, he’ll inevitably ask me “Dada what’s that?” and if my explanation doesn’t satisfy him he follows up with a “Why Dada?”...
Submitted by: jasondea on Fri. 02.11.2011
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Data Center, PlateSpin Cool Solutions
Topic: Best Practices, Cloud, Virtualization
Product: PlateSpin, PlateSpin Forge, PlateSpin Protect
Super Sunday and Business Service Management - Who's Making the Most of Marketing Spend?
The perfect IT storm hits this weekend in the States - Super Bowl Sunday, $3M 30 second ads, web traffic and opportunity to go To the Cloud! Victoria's Secret as an innovator already has the war wounds of 1999 and took almost 10 years for their next Super Bowl ad spend in 2008. So what does this have to do with Business Service Management?
Submitted by: mhudnall on Fri. 02.04.2011
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Data Center, Business Service Management Cool Solutions
Topic: Business Service Management, Cloud, Intelligent Workload Management, IT Management
Product: Business Service Management, Operations Center
Classify Your Services - The Golden Key to Business Service Management
Starting any project is daunting and Business Service Management as an initiative is often thought of as big, hard and complicated. My personal opinion is that stems from the fact that it cuts horizontally across the data center and does not reside in one sphere of influence. However, as a long time product marketing / product manager I find it can be quite simple. One service at a time, one service team at a time approach rather than boiling the ocean all at once. Let’s start at the top, the service, and work our way down and back up again in a series of posts.
Submitted by: mhudnall on Tue. 02.01.2011
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
Novell File Management Suite: Marketing Video!
Now this is great marketing! Check out this video about Novell File Management Suite!
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Wed. 01.26.2011
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing, Data Center, File Management Suite
Topic: Collaboration, File Management
Product: File Management Suite
'What has IT done for your business lately?'
Learn how to start a conversation with your customers about Novell Business Service Management solutions. A new sales guide is now available.
Submitted by: gwhitaker on Tue. 01.25.2011
Filed Under:
Data Center Specialists, Data Center
Topic: Partner Enablement
Product: Business Service Management
2011 - IT Transforms and Becomes One with Business or "To the Cloud"
No more IT and Business - 2011 IT powers the Business!
Start of a new year and just 2 weeks into what will be the year of The Cloud and service providers and I am already tiring of To The Cloud. I would say I'm adding a 5th prediction to my previous post, however, if you keep up with IT Management news, the topic of this also being a year of IT Transformation is pervasive. As with most things IT, we require some marketing and a clever IT rally cry for the year. I'll have to think on that one and come up with something clever. Read on for a quick snapshot of the year of IT transformation discussion.
Submitted by: mhudnall on Tue. 01.11.2011
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Data Center, Cloud Computing Cool Solutions, Business Service Management Cool Solutions
Topic: Business Service Management, Cloud, IT Management
Product: Business Service Management









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