Novell Announces BorderManager - New Product to Extend Corporate Networks to the
Internet
Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel Announce Support for BorderManager
NEW YORK -- May 19, 1997 -- At a customer event held at New York City's
Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum, Novell, Inc. today unveiled Novell® BorderManager, a new
product
formerly code-named Border Services. To be available in the third quarter of 1997,
BorderManager will
enable businesses to extend their corporate networks and intranets to the Internet and to leverage
the resources
of the Internet while preserving the security, manageability and performance required for
mission-critical
operations.
At the event, Novell demonstrated several of its intranet solutions including Novell Replication
Service,
which will be available this month via the World Wide Web. In addition, industry partners
Compaq, Dell,
Hewlett Packard, IBM and Intel announced support for BorderManager.
"BorderManager represents a significant and strategic step for Novell as it continues to help
customers
extend the power of the Internet and their intranets as business tools," said Dr. Eric Schmidt,
chairman and
CEO of Novell. "Most importantly, this product brings together the public and the private worlds
of
networking and reconciles the differences between the two in security, management, performance
and other
network services."
"For us, the key is providing users with secure and seamless access to the Internet," said Phil
Easter,
technology strategist, Greyhound Lines, Inc. "The integration of BorderManager and Novell
Directory
Services will allow us to easily manage Internet access to the individual user. For users, that
means fast,
easy access to the Internet and all of its resources. For me, BorderManager means minimizing
costs and
trouble and maximizing security."
At today's customer briefing, entitled "The Internet and Beyond: Novell Rocks the Net," Schmidt,
chief
scientist Drew Major, and executive vice president Denice Gibson outlined Novell's
intranet/Internet
strategy and demonstrated product advances for business executives attending the event. As the
venue for
today's event, the Guggenheim Museum also provides a working example of the power of
Novell's solutions
with a recently installed Novell intranet and a closed beta version of Novell BorderManager. (See
related
press release, "Guggenheim Museum Selects Novell's Internet and Intranet Solutions to Expand
Global
Presence," May 19, 1997.)
The name BorderManager conveys many of the benefits to be associated with Novell's new
product.
BorderManager provides infrastructure at the junction or the border between the Internet and the
corporate
network to reconcile the disparities in security, management and performance that exist between
the two
environments. It also serves to provide security at the boundaries or borders within a corporate
network.
For example, BorderManager could be used to secure employee payroll records from all internal
and
external users except the finance department while allowing authorized users convenient access to
those
records via the company intranet.
BorderManager includes advanced firewall security, proxy/cache, circuit gateways, Virtual
Private
Networking (VPN), routing and remote access capabilities and a runtime version of IntranetWare
as the
server operating system.
Vendors Support BorderManager
Compaq, Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM and Intel have each recognized the potential benefits
BorderManager
provides for maximizing customer investments in both hardware and software. Novell's
technology
demonstrations at today's event will be conducted on hardware from each of the five supporting
vendors.
"Today's announcement of BorderManager mirrors IBM's continuing commitment to the
Internet," said
William F. Colton, general manager of IBM PC Server. "There is a growing trend among small,
medium
and large-size businesses to conduct commerce through the Internet, and IBM's broad suite of
systems will
help them take advantage of Novell's BorderManager and other technologies."
"We're excited to see Novell developing technologies that will extend our customers' investments
in their
PowerEdge network servers," said Lary Evans, vice president, Dell Server Group. "We see
BorderManager
as a technology that will greatly improve customers' ability to leverage the power of the Internet
in a secure
and manageable fashion."
"As Compaq continues to provide ever more powerful enterprise solutions for our customers, we
see
network computing via the Internet as the most promising connectivity technology of the future,"
said
Ronnie Ward, vice president System Software Division, Compaq Computer Corporation.
"Compaq has
worked closely with Novell to develop, test and support this new product. Novell BorderManager
on a
Compaq ProLiant server offers businesses the lower cost of ownership and enhanced productivity
of the
Internet and intranet connectivity, while simultaneously delivering new levels of performance and
security."
"BorderManager, most dramatically the proxy server, delivers very high performance on Intel
Pentium
Pro processor-based servers," said Sally Fundakowski, director Business Commerce
Developer
Group, Intel Corporation. "It has been optimized by Novell to deliver even higher performance on
servers
that use Intel's new Pentium II processor."
"HP is a leading provider of Internet server systems," said Duncan Campbell, worldwide
marketing
manager of HP's Network Server Division. "Security must be maximized and performance
enhanced for
businesses to use the Internet as a viable business tool. Now, with Novell's BorderManager and
HP
NetServer systems, our customers will have that security and performance wrapped in a reliable
and
manageable solution."
Availability
Novell BorderManager will be available to customers in the third quarter of this year. Pricing
details are
not yet available.
Novell Replication Services will be available to customers later this month. (See press release,
"Novell
Replication Services for IntranetWare Available on World Wide Web, " May 19, 1997.)
About Novell
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, as well as the network computing industry's most comprehensive
education and
technical support programs. Information about Novell and its complete range of products and
services can
be accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com.
Novell is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. IntranetWare, NDS, Novell Directory Services
and Novell
Replication Services are trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other company or product names are
trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Press Contact:
Katrina Larson
Novell, Inc.
801-861-5593
Internet: kalarson@novell.com
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