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FILA Standardizes Its Growing Global Network on Novell's IntranetWare Novell Directory Services Manages FILA's Expanding Network; IntranetWare Provides Superior Reliability, Scalability PROVO, Utah -- July 8, 1997 -- FILA, a $700 million leader in the sports footwear and apparel market, today announced that it has chosen Novell's IntranetWare as the global networking platform to serve 1,300 of its employees in eight locations worldwide for file sharing, printing, e-mail and a variety of applications. As a rapidly growing company, FILA says it chose IntranetWare primarily because the industry-leading global directory, Novell Directory Services (NDS), is the only directory service that can provide scalable and cost-effective network management. This decision marks a dramatic turnaround from the company's original plan to standardize on a competitive platform. With revenues increasing from $100 million to $700 million in just over two years, FILA needed a networking solution that could manage multiple sites efficiently and cost-effectively, and would expand as rapidly as the company continues to grow. FILA had begun deployment of a competitive server operating system before moving to its new corporate headquarters in Maryland late last year. Once the deployment was underway, however, FILA discovered that it needed the single-point, centralized administration and scalability of IntranetWare and NDS to handle the company's growing network. FILA is now in the process of replacing the seven servers it installed to manage its pilot network of 500 corporate users, with two IntranetWare servers to manage the same environment. "With FILA growing so rapidly, we needed networking technology that could keep up with our expanding needs," said John Eby, manager of Personal Computing at FILA. "IntranetWare is a strategic choice for FILA. It allows us to manage our current network of multiple sites around the world efficiently, while offering the features necessary for us to incorporate critical new technologies at our own pace. From an IS perspective, using IntranetWare reduces the number of people who need to be involved in managing the network," said Eby. "Not having a centralized directory was a big constraint for us in managing our growing network. NDS solves all of that by allowing us to manage everything centrally, no matter how much the company grows." As well as leveraging NDS to manage its global, heterogeneous network, FILA benefits from several other key IntranetWare features to meet its networking needs. IntranetWare's multiprotocol router handles all routing between the company's Maryland, Hong Kong and Italy sites. FILA also uses the IntranetWare Client 32 for Windows 95 to give its 1,000-plus Windows 95 desktops complete access to all network resources. The company also has plans to install ManageWise, the only comprehensive, integrated management solution that lets businesses successfully manage and optimize their networks, to control its growing network. "There's no doubt that IntranetWare offers our customers the most complete networking solution shipping today, with all the features they need to run networks of every size," said Coleman Barney, vice president of marketing at Novell. "FILA is a perfect example of how a growing organization can leverage the incredible strengths of IntranetWare and NDS to manage its entire network, while enjoying the flexibility to integrate special-purpose servers into its environment." 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; and IntranetWare, ManageWise and NDS and Novell Directory Services are trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other registered trademarks and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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