Tech Talk 2 By Bill Tobey
BrainShare 2008: The Strategic Takeaways
Novell has a consistent core strategy
April 2008
Features
- Tech Talk 01 With all your data in your OpenOffice.org Base database, how do you access it to help make decisions? Query your database to help you analyze your data
- Tech Talk 02 If you didn't make it to BrainShare or just want a recap of the keynote messages this article is for you. The Novell executives walk you through the latest and greatest in Novell strategy and technology.
- Tech Talk 03 Attention Web enterprise developers: Mono is ready to take on the Microsoft-dominated ASP.NET stack. You can now deploy your software on Linux-based servers without the powers that be feeling a thing.
- Tech Talk 04 Lengthy release cycles are a thing of the past. We want to know what you want, and we want to deliver it to you now.
Departments
- Proof Point As a non-profit organization, Sesame Workshop has a small IT staff with a big job. They've found the extra help they need with Novell ZENworks Asset Management and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
- Trend Talk Are tightening budgets forcing you to consider other options? Start considering other office productivity suites (and some are online offerings) to release the strangle hold proprietary vendors might have on you-and your budget.
Open Platform Solutions
- Development plans were announced for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. New products within the desktop-to-data center platform will include an appliance and accompanying toolset for specialized image creation. A new embedded version of SUSE Linux Enterprise is also planned that will support OS virtualization in embedded systems. Novell also plans optimized versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise for specific independent software vendor (ISV) stacks, and new virtualization technology that will decouple desktop computing environments from the underlying hardware for anywhere, anytime use.
Partnerships
- Novell and SAP AG announced an expansion of their long-standing relationship. Under the new initiative the companies will work together to enable SAP's industry-leading enterprise applications to work with SUSE Linux Enterprise and Novell's virtualization and identity management technologies to provide new data center options for customers. In addition, the companies plan to optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP's data center infrastructure requirements, further promote SAP Business All-in-One solutions based on SUSE Linux Enterprise, and collaborate within the SAP Enterprise Services Community program to help strengthen customer's positions related to the SAP governance, risk and compliance (GRC) practices.
- Novell and Atos Origin are partnering to deliver new joint compliance and governance solutions. Atos Origin is an international information technology services company with 50,000 employees in 40 countries and annual revenues of EUR$5.8 billion. The partnership will initially focus on identity and security management and will be in major European countries. The three areas of initial focus will be identity management and provisioning, access management, and security information and event monitoring.
- Novell also announced that seven new vendors have joined its identity and security management technology partner ecosystem. New partners Aveksa, Blackbird Group, Eurekify, Layer 7 Technologies, LogLogic, Quest Software and SailPoint Technologies were selected to become Novell identity and security management partners because of their expertise in specific security technologies. These vendors extend Novell's partner ecosystem beyond its global strategic alliances with companies like Honeywell, Microsoft and SAP, and its PartnerNet program with hundreds of independent software and hardware vendors.
See All the BrainShare Demos Online!
Missed a product demo you really wanted to see? Never fear, all the general session keynotes and product demos are available as Webcasts at http://www.novell.com/brainshare/general-sessions-2008.html. To find a particular topic just follow the general session agenda.
Monday
- Ron Hovsepian, Jeff Jaffe and Pat Hume Keynotes
- Jim Ebzery, Identity and Security Management Solutions
Wednesday
- Kent Erickson, Workgroup Solutions
- Joe Wagner, Systems and Resource Management
- Roger Levy, Open Platform Solutions
Friday
- Open Platform Solutions
- Workgroup
- Systems and Resource Management
- Identity and Security Management
