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Novell Demonstrates Wolf Mountain Clustering at BrainShare Australia and Announces New Partners Fujitsu, IBM and HP Join Novell in Development of Scalable, Highly Available Networks Provo, Utah -- July 10, 1997 -- Novell, Inc. will demonstrate its Wolf Mountain technologies for advanced distributed computing, including a clustering capability that brings new levels of availability, scalability, and manageability to customer networks at its BrainShare '97 conference in Sydney, Australia, July 9 through 11. This first demonstration of Novell's clustering technology in Australia includes the participation of two new Wolf Mountain partners who are working with Novell on cluster-enabled hardware and software: Hewlett- Packard and IBM. Novell and its partners are focusing on creating a highly available, scalable solution that runs a variety of applications on industry-standard hardware and operating systems. Additional Novell partners in the Wolf Mountain initiative include Compaq/Tandem, Cheyenne, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, Fujitsu, G2 Networks, Intel, Mitsubishi/Apricot, Olivetti, Oracle, Siemens Nixdorf and Unisys. "We are excited to be working with Novell to help make Wolf Mountain part of the high availability solution that HP brings to our IntranetWare customers," said Gabe Gotthard, world wide product marketing manager for HP's Network Server Division. "IntranetWare customers need a comprehensive solution and growth path for their mission-critical, Intel-based environments, in which high availability and scalability play a key role." "Fujitsu Group is pleased with Novell's Wolf Mountain technology and its ability to bring a scalable, highly available solution to the mass market on an Intel-based hardware platform," said Isao Katayanagi, Director of Software Division, Fujitsu Limited. "We will work together with Novell to assure that the Wolf Mountain technologies are tuned to scale on Fujitsu's server offerings." The Novell demonstration features the truly distributed Wolf Mountain clustered server environment configured with 12 high-power, Intel processor-based network servers, or nodes. The cluster consists of servers from several Novell partners, showing the ability of a variety of Intel processor-based servers to interoperate in a unified environment. In addition, each server has from one to four Pentium Pro processors, demonstrating the flexibility to leverage mixed processor platforms in the cluster to create a virtual single system. "Novell is leading the industry with the development of Intel processor-based clustering technologies for a highly networked environment," said Dr. Glenn Ricart, Novell's chief technology officer. "Our new clustering capability, support for Intel's future 64-bit architecture, and other advanced technologies will keep our customers ahead of the technology curve through the end of the century and beyond." By integrating the processor, memory, storage systems and network connections of several network servers in a cluster configuration, customers can create a highly available, scalable and easily managed network. Such systems not only ensure the network has no single point of failure, but also combine the processing and networking power of the interconnected network servers. These benefits build on the success of Novell's high-availability, scalable solutions such as SFT III, ABEND Recovery, Novell Storage Services (NSS), Novell Replication Services (NRS), Novell Directory Services (NDS), and Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP). In addition to high availability, Wolf Mountain also provides load balancing capabilities to enhance performance enabling customers to better utilize the resources of the network. In addition, the clustered environment enables the system administrator to view a single system image, allowing all the servers to be managed as a unit. This also enables network users to view and work on the system as a single entity making it easy to find and use applications and information. 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 and IntranetWare, are trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other registered trademarks are the property of their respective holder.
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