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How does he know if you've been naughty or nice? He uses Novell's identity management solutions.

Amie Johnson — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:33:39 +0000

In what could be the world's largest deployment of an identity management solution, find out how the "big guy" manages six billion identities around the globe to ensure he can fulfill the wishes of all good boys and girls.

Enjoy this fun video and see how Novell can help customers meet their mission-critical demands during the holiday season.

Happy Holidays!

Because knowing is half the battle

Kerry Adorno — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:37:50 +0000

Did you know that since 1995, nearly 220,000,000 records containing sensitive customer information have been exposed through security breaches? And that corporate damage due to malware was over $13 billion last year? In these uncertain times, one can be sure these threats will continue to grow.

To help address the ever increasing security threats organizations face, this week Novell unveiled a new tool to help IT managers assess their threat level. To learn more about how thumbsuckers, podslurpers and run-of-the-mill malware can wreak havoc on your business, and what you can do to protect against these menaces, check out the threat assessment tool here.

A secure and productive desktop on a teacher's salary

Kerry Adorno — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:20:59 +0000

HP today announced that it is extending its partnership with Novell to preload SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on their dc5850 line. This cost-effective, secure desktop computing solution is ideal for both business and educational partners.

In addition, working with HP, Novell is providing a repository of more than 40 open source educational applications to run on the dc5850 (available here) – giving students, teachers and administrators tools for meeting educational needs on budget.

DesktopLinux.com covers more of the details. To read more go here.

Small business gets a head start

Kerry Adorno — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:18:31 +0000

There are many IT challenges that small businesses face, including protecting systems from security issues, remaining competitive, keeping productive, ensuring positive ROI from software investments … and the list goes on. To help customers address these challenges, we are offering the Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition Starter Pack beginning today. The Starter Pack includes 5 free licenses customers can order from any of our Partner resellers.

With this Starter Pack small business users can deploy up to five physical servers to host collaboration services, install an unlimited number of virtualized SUSE Linux Enterprise server guests, and provide workgroup services to five users or to users of up to five devices. It gives end users and IT staff the tools they need to be productive—all at a fraction of the cost of alternative solutions. A great solution for our channel partners to help them customers get up and running without the large up-front costs required for new licenses or upgrades demanded by other computing software. Partners can get more information here.

Simply put: It’s affordable IT innovation. And we’re happy to announce that it's available today.