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Novell Continues Its Commitment to Advance Its Industry-Standard NetWare Directory Services PROVO, Utah -- September 13, 1995 -- Continuing its commitment to advance NetWare Directory Services# (NDS#) as the de facto standard for networks of all sizes, Novell, Inc. today announced the availability of the NDS Enhancement Pack. This pack is a collection of updates and utilities to increase the performance and manageability of NetWare# 4 networks. Free of charge to NetWare 4 customers, the pack features updated NetWare Directory Services to improve performance and to extend the distributed database's functionality, adding maintenance, status and repair utilities. When implemented, the pack lets NetWare users benefit from faster log-in and authentication to network services, speeding access to NetWare resources through NDS. Network administrators can manage and monitor directory environments more easily with newly created utilities that expose additional NDS status information, making NDS easier to support in enterprise environments. NDS is fast becoming the de facto world standard for distributed network directories -- a combination yellow and white pages that enables network users to easily identify, access and connect with information resources and other people. NDS also provides network managers with a single point of administration for the entire network. Other benefits include dramatically reduced network ownership and administration costs for businesses of all sizes. NDS is being leveraged by over 22,000 developers to create applications that take advantage of its global distributed database. "While competitors' directories are either too complicated or operate in a limited name service mode, Novell's NDS has set the standard for ease-of-use and time/money savings," said William Donahoo, senior director of product marketing for Novell's Operating Systems Division. "Novell will continue to aggressively advance our NetWare services by evolving NDS and delivering innovative products such as this NDS Enhancement Pack." "The NDS Enhancement Pack adds functionality to the industry's de facto directory service," said Sandy Stevens, Novell Operating Systems Division senior product manager for NetWare Directory Services. "In response to customer requests for additional NDS status information, we've updated the NDS infrastructure to extend its reporting capabilities. We've also begun creating utilities that leverage NDS's new information to streamline management tasks. Novell will expand the Enhancement Pack's new utilities in future versions of NetWare 4." Superior Performance, Data Synchronization The new Directory Services NLM affords superior performance and eases user access to NetWare's Directory Services by updating information more quickly and accurately across enterprise environments. Enhanced data tracking and synchronization processes allow an administrator to monitor replication information across servers. These updated processes record network events that affect directory synchronization and integrity, such as the temporary failure of a wide-area communication link. The NDS Enhancement Pack features utilities to let administrators easily manage and monitor NDS databases. These utilities track and display the newly exposed NDS synchronization information so administrators can quickly determine the status of the NDS database. These prototype utilities provide the same functionality as upcoming Novell NDS management tools. The NDS Enhancement Pack features the following NetWare server components and client utilities in addition to comprehensive documentation:
Availability Beginning this week, the NDS Enhancement Pack will be available free of charge through the NetWire# forum on CompuServe (GO NETWIRE) and the Internet's World Wide Web (http://www.novell.com). Customers can also obtain the NDS Enhancement Pack from Novell authorized resellers, Novell systems engineers and the Networks Support Encyclopedia (NSEPro), the company's technical support CD-ROM.
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