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"The Internet and Beyond: Novell Rocks the Net" Remarks as Prepared For Delivery By: Denice Gibson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Internet Products, Novell, Inc. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York NEW YORK -- May 19, 1997 -- Denice Gibson of Novell, Inc. today addressed a gathering of customer executives, IT analysts, and media at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Her remarks are as follows. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is one of the finest facilities of its kind in the world. Thanks to Novell software, the Guggenheim also is one of the most technically advanced art museums in the world. This past weekend, the museum's network was upgraded to the latest versions of Novell's key technology platforms ... what we call our Power Brands. The Guggenheim's enhanced network infrastructure includes all the technologies you need to establish a full service intranet ... ... all the technologies you need to leverage the value of the Internet to meet real business problems. And this all happened over the weekend ... with No "rip and replace." The museum's intranet capabilities and Internet connectivity rest on foundation stones laid with Novell's Power Brands:
In a few minutes, Novell Chief Scientist Drew Major will explain the technology behind Novell BorderManager ... highlight the benefits this new product can bring to any organization that needs to do business on the Internet ... and demonstrate its capabilities. With facilities in Venice, Italy, and Bilbao, Spain, the Guggenheim museum is a natural candidate for Novell BorderManager technology. The Guggenheim decided the easiest way to get an intranet ... and take full advantage of the Internet ... was by upgrading to IntranetWare. A few weeks ago ... we told Len Steinbach, the Guggenheim's director of information technology, about Novell BorderManager. Since the Guggenheim is an international institution, the virtual private network (VPN) capabilities in BorderManager really caught Len's attention. Len quickly realized Novell services at the border had the potential to use the Internet for low cost ... yet highly secure ... "private" connections between the museum's international sites. It's a perfect example of putting the Internet to work as a business tool. It also represents a key reason why the Internet/intranet market is growing so rapidly. Novell BorderManager offers tremendous security and management capabilities driven through Novell Directory Services ... the same way NDS provides granular management of ALL network resources. I'd like to focus on NDS for a moment because I can't stress enough how NDS increases the value of IntranetWare ... UNIX ... NT ... and so much more. NDS ... free to users on IntranetWare and most major UNIX platforms ... provides a single, global view of all network information and resources through a single log-in. NDS has Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP, support ... which means NDS is the only directory a business really needs. NDS is LDAP! With more than 20 million users and a significant technological advantage ... NDS is the directory of choice for the world's largest business networks. NDS customers include Deutsche Telekom, AT&T and NTT. These companies operate networks that literally support millions of users ... now that's scalability! We've evolved NetWare to IntranetWare ... turning it into a platform customers can use to build intranets ... or convert existing systems into intranets. IntranetWare is a natural extension of our installed base of 60 million NetWare users. It leverages what businesses already have. There's no need to rip and replace. With a relatively simple IntranetWare upgrade ... combined with GroupWise, NDS and ManageWise ... customers gain the business benefits of a full- service intranet solution. While many vendors talk about intranet and Internet products and solutions ... Novell is delivering high- quality solutions ... now. A full-service intranet. Today. You can't talk about networking without talking about collaboration and groupware. With more than 8 million users, GroupWise is the second most widely used collaboration product today. A recent study by independent research firm Creative Networks showed that GroupWise saves $469 per employee each year over Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange. The study also found that GroupWise administration and management is far more efficient than Notes or Exchange. We'll deliver new collaboration solutions over the next six months. In the third quarter, we'll release the latest version of WebAccess, our web-based client ... with enhanced Internet support. We'll also release the Mac and UNIX clients for GroupWise 5.1. Later this year, we'll provide Web document management and imaging for our GroupWise platform. GroupWise provides common administration and management that significantly reduce the cost of ownership. Training, management and deployment costs are lower with GroupWise ... and employee productivity is enhanced ... all of which explains why our GroupWise customer base is growing at 75 percent annually. Fully integrated with NDS, GroupWise provides integrated scheduling, calendaring and E-mail. Even if you're traveling overseas, you can use these collaborative functions over the Internet through GroupWise Web Access. ManageWise is a key part of a full-service intranet solution ... helping lower networking costs. In fact, it takes ManageWise less than 20 days to pay for itself in terms of reduced administration costs. Maybe that's one reason ManageWise won Network Magazine's 1997 Product of the Year award ... and this slide shows some other, more technical, reasons it's a winner! It already manages more than 5 million network nodes, and we're improving it all the time. We just enhanced ManageWise to include support for remote downloading of software across networks. Using NDS-based security and administration ... Novell Application Launcher allows administrators centralized control ... to automatically distribute applications to the desktop. This substantially lowers customers' overall desktop cost of ownership. In the second half of 1997, ManageWise will gain Java capabilities for management over the Internet. The Guggenheim's network upgrade is part of Novell's "Taking it to the Streets" program ... it's all about building intranets for customers ... ... upgrading networks in the most cost effective way possible ... leveraging the power of the robust networking capabilities of IntranetWare ... using GroupWise, ManageWise and Web tools ... all centered on and administered through NDS. Integrated messaging ... management ... administration ... browsing ... and of course BorderManager ... ... Novell brings structure to the Internet and makes it a serious business tool. The Novel BorderManager suite isn't the only new technology Novell is delivering. With IntranetWare HostPublisher, standard Web browsers can provide cost-effective access to data and applications on IBM host systems. HostPublisher delivers mainframe data on corporate intranets with a high level of security, thanks to the power of NDS. We'll deliver a number of other key products later this summer ...
Information is only valuable if it's accurate ... and available to the people who need it. That's what NRS is all about ... and there's nothing else like it on the market. For example, in a one-way configuration, NRS could allow vital corporate data to be replicated among servers at regional or branch offices ... whether they're across town, or across the ocean. NRS supports two-way replication, so information or changes generated at remote offices ... or by business partners ... is available wherever it's needed on the network. NRS can control costs since only files that have changed are replicated ... and you can schedule synchronization to take place during lower cost, off-peak hours. Also, combining NRS with the VPN capabilities in Novell BorderManager reduces cost by leveraging the Internet. One other important feature of NRS is that it's available next week! Novell has always been recognized as the leader in delivering highly scalable, enterprise solutions. Combined with the robust capabilities of Novell's Power Brands, these new technologies will extend Novell's lead in delivering mission-critical, scalable solutions. And speaking of scalability ... when we introduced IntranetWare late last year, it was supported for installations up to 1,000 users on a single server. Novell eliminated that ceiling in an announcement just last week. Already, a number of customers have thousands of users on a single IntranetWare server. For example, San Diego-based Qualcomm ... a leading supplier of digital wireless communications products and technologies ... grouped three thousand users on one IntranetWare server. Qualcomm's Kevin Workman reports: "IntranetWare's scalability allows us to get more for our money." For several months, insurance provider Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania has been running an IntranetWare server averaging between 2,400 and 2,700 users. According to Ray Hricik, LAN services manager, "Without Novell Directory Services, we could never support this many users on one system." No other network OS in the industry can scale to meet enterprise demands like that! Internet/intranet technology puts computing at the very core of the enterprise ... and Novell technologies will be at the core of this market because of the values they represent. Novell offerings adhere to four basic values:
Throughout 1997 and beyond ... Novell will deliver exciting new technologies ... support for Intel's new 64-bit chip for improved performance ... advanced file system support, being delivered as Novell Storage Services, to enhance capabilities to meet mission-critical enterprise requirements ... And the next release of IntranetWare ... code named Moab ... will bring together many advanced services and technologies ... delivered along with open, standard IP. Moab also will include a highly scalable kernel with memory protection. All these new technologies will bring still greater capabilities to IntranetWare ... already the industry's most scalable networking platform. Looking farther down the road ... another exciting area is Novell's technology development project code named Wolf Mountain ... Leading the industry in 1993, Novell delivered a high availability, fail-over solution with SFT III. A multi- million dollar business for Novell for four years, it also provides automatic client switchover ... and it does it on industry standard hardware. If Microsoft's public statements concerning Wolf Pack are accurate, they'll be catching up with Novell technology in these areas late this year ... but Novell isn't standing still. The Wolf Mountain project is developing technologies that ... when incorporated in Novell offerings ... will deliver solutions that support open industry standards like Intel-based hardware, network adapters, cluster interconnection devices, and Java. Wolf Mountain is developing advanced technology that will bring real benefits to business ... Greater system availability provides increased reliability ... ... load balancing across the cluster improves performance, allowing you to get maximum return on your IT investments ... the power of NDS and a "single system image" for the cluster ensures the most complete and robust management capability possible. You can see a demonstration of a 12 node cluster -- incorporating 48 Intel Pentium Pro processors -- here today. The 12 server node cluster is actually on the low end of what we have running in the lab. But as you can see, we just couldn't fit a bigger demonstration into the room! The new technologies we're delivering this summer ... and advanced development projects underway ... mean today's most reliable server OS is getting even more reliable. IntranetWare provides customers the most reliable, most scalable network environment available. And Novell BorderManager is extending those capabilities into the Internet ... and beyond. These technologies ... from replication services to advanced storage ... from clustering to Java ... from groupware to directory services ... represent the most Internet friendly ... mission-critical-ready ... and scalable set of networking solutions in the industry.
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