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Novell To Deliver Replication Services For IntranetWare and NetWare 4 Novell Delivering Beta of First Distributed Network Replication Services OREM, Utah -- October 1, 1996 -- Novell, Inc. today announced Novell Replication Services™, the industry's first dedicated tool for replicating, distributing and synchronizing information across a network of geographically dispersed servers. Now in beta, Novell Replication Services allows network administrators to improve consistency and availability of data across wide area networks (WANs) and intranet Web servers. With Novell Replication Services, businesses can meet their mission-critical needs to implement cost-effective corporate intranets and provide users with immediate access to the most up-to-date network information. Leveraging capabilities in Novell Directory Services™ (NDS™), Novell's industry-leading global directory service, Novell Replication Services helps organizations manage their information and distribute it throughout enterprise networks and corporate intranets. Novell Replication Services provides organizations with the ability to distribute files, including Windows documents, HTML files, software updates and utilities, graphic images and audio and video clips. Novell Replication Services allows network administrators to selectively replicate groups of files from an IntranetWare™, NetWare® 4 or NetWare Web Server™ 2.5 to any number of other servers in the same NDS tree. Novell Replication Services is easy to install and manage as a single NetWare Loadable Module™ (NLM™) administered through a "snap-in" enhancement to the NetWare Administrator™ (NWAdmin™) tool. "As the first company to offer true distributed network replication services, Novell has reinforced its direction in providing essential tools for managing and building corporate intranets," said Marc Epstein, vice president and general manager of the Network Services Division at Novell. "Novell Replication Services will also be available for UNIX and Windows NT environments in the future, meeting customers' requests for Novell's industry-leading network services across multiple platforms."
Benefits of Novell Replication Services Novell Replication Services enables organizations to improve user access to information across corporate intranets, and significantly reduce the cost of network administration by automating replication processes, allowing companies to make more productive use of both network administrators and expensive WAN links. As corporate intranets continue to grow in popularity, businesses have developed a critical need to relieve the loads on their network servers, improve access to information and help their employees effectively collaborate on projects. By allowing easy replication of intranet servers, Novell Replication Services ensures that information is consistent among multiple Web servers while providing improved remote access. Replicating Web sites across intranet servers locally or remotely also helps in network and server load balancing. With Novell Replication Services, network administrators can easily provide consistent and immediate software updates and utilities across networks, ensuring that employees always have the latest tools necessary to improve productivity and efficiency, while reducing costs related to administering these updates. The powerful synchronization capabilities in Novell Replication Services eliminate the need for network administrators to spend time searching and tracking updated files for replication and writing batch files or scripts. Thus, Novell Replication Services offers an innovative and cost-effective tool for easy bi-directional replication and synchronization of data across enterprise networks. Novell Replication Services detects changes made in any of the directories and automatically replicates only changed files, creating a fully synchronized file and data image at each designated server. With powerful scheduling capabilities, replica synchronization can be scheduled for as often as every minute to ensure real time consistency throughout the network or during off-peak hours for better management of network resources. This creates a highly scalable replication architecture that gives network users uniform access to network data regardless of their location. Because information can be replicated to remote locations, information is closer to end users, freeing WAN bandwidth for other critical applications and minimizing reliance on WAN links. With access to important information available at local area network (LAN) speeds, users can more effectively collaborate, using the most recent sales figures, business plans, company information and documentation, as well as engineering documents and software and code changes. Thus, Novell Replication Services reduces WAN traffic and allows better utilization of existing equipment, telephone lines and network connections so that organizations can more effectively leverage their existing network and WAN capacity. "Novell Replication Services is an important product that will allow us to significantly improve consistency of information throughout our network," said Stephen Pierleoni, network administrator at KPMG. "Early in-house beta testing has proven that Novell Replication Services promises to be a reliable and powerful tool for replicating software, address books and files. It will provide unprecedented ease of use when distributing critical information to our branch offices throughout southern England."
Pricing and Availability Novell Replication Services will be available during the first half of 1997 as a stand alone add-on for NetWare 4 and IntranetWare. The beta of Novell Replication Services is currently available on Novell's early access CD. Pricing is not yet available. Founded in 1983, Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) is the world's leading provider of network software. The company offers a wide range of network solutions for distributed network, Internet, intranet and small-business markets. Novell education and technical support programs are the most comprehensive in the network computing industry. Information about Novell's complete range of products and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com. Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks, and IntranetWare, NDS, NetWare Administrator, NetWare Loadable Module, NetWare Web Server, NLM, Novell Directory Services, Novell Replication Services and NWAdmin are trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other registered trademarks and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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