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Novell Announces Beta Availability of Novell Cluster Services Novell Cluster Services for NetWare 5 Dramatically Increases Application Availability PROVO, Utah — March 31, 1999 — Novell®, Inc. today announced the open beta availability of directory-enabled Novell Cluster Services for NetWare® 5, which provides highly available access to mission-critical data for e-business storefronts and other transaction-oriented industries, and reduces the risk and cost of unplanned downtime due to hardware or software failures. The multi-node cluster solution leverages Novell Directory Services® (NDS™) to improve manageability of clustered resources within the enterprise network. Used in conjunction with NetWare 5, Novell's powerful platform for conducting Internet-enabled business, Novell Cluster Services ensures that customers can reliably make e-business transactions or access network resources anywhere and anytime. Novell Cluster Services uses shared disk array technology to reduce downtime by allowing other server nodes in the cluster to take over services and applications from failed servers. If a clustered server fails, applications running on that server are automatically restarted on another server in the cluster. Users attached to a clustered server that fails are transparently migrated to another server in the cluster. International Data Corporation reports that the clustering services market will grow to over $1 billion in 2002. At its annual BrainShare conference last week, Novell demonstrated two 12-node cluster services configurations running on the NetWare 5 Internet operating system and servers from clustering partners Compaq and Hewlett-Packard respectively. "Novell Cluster Services dramatically increases the availability of Web and Internet application servers and transparently migrates Internet applications and users from a failed server to other servers in the cluster," said Michael Bryant, director of marketing, Novell. "By providing a solution that ensures Internet applications will always be available, Novell continues to provide solutions that form the intelligent infrastructure of e-business on the Web."
Novell Cluster Services NDS Integration and Features Novell Cluster Services directly leverages NDS by storing all cluster configuration information within the directory. Instead of using scripts to determine the response to a server failure, cluster services uses NDS to store and distribute failover scenario information, which is available through the directory to all servers in the cluster. Additional features in Novell Cluster Services include:
Availability Novell Cluster Services for NetWare 5 is currently available for beta testing. Customers can download this open beta version from Novell's Web site at http://support.novell.com/beta/public/.
About Novell Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL) is the world's largest network software company and the leader in directory-enabled network solutions. Novell solutions give businesses total control of their private networks and the Internet, simplifying the management of user access and identity. Novell's worldwide channel, developer, education and technical support programs are the most extensive in the network computing industry. For information on Novell's complete range of products and services, contact Novell's Customer Response Center at (888) 321-4CRC (4272), or visit Novell's Web site at www.novell.com. Press may access Novell announcements and company information on the World Wide Web at www.novell.com/pressroom. Novell, NetWare and Novell Directory Services are registered trademarks and NDS are trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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