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Welcome to the second installment of the Ingres podcast in which Liz Padula, senior marketing manager at Novell, speaks with Deb Woods, vice president of Product Management at Ingres Corporation, about some of the benefits Ingres has experienced with the SUSE Appliance Program.

Ingres is leveraging the SUSE Appliance Program for its open source database management system, which is used by more than 10,000 customers worldwide. The SUSE Appliance Program enables independent software vendors to rapidly build, update, configure and go to market with fully-supported software and virtual appliances built with SUSE Studio and based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The Ingres Database also enhances appliance development by giving system integrators access to enterprise-ready features not typically available in open source databases.

 

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Today we are introducing the first in a series of podcasts featuring the SUSE Appliance Program and our ISV partners. In this debut podcast, Liz Padula, senior marketing manager at Novell, talks with Deb Woods, vice president of Product Management at Ingres Corporation. As a leading participant in the SUSE Appliance Program, Ingres is fostering the growth of this new form of application delivery – the software appliance.

Ingres is a leading open source database management company with more than 10,000 customers worldwide. Ingres is leveraging the SUSE Appliance Program to provide technology, support and go-to-market resources for systems integrators looking to build fully-supported and easy-to-manage software solutions. Through the use of the SUSE Appliance Program in conjunction with the Ingres database, systems integrators can radically improve total cost of ownership for their customers and reduce appliance setup and build times by 75-80 percent.

Listen to the podcast and check back soon for the second installment of the Ingres podcast, when Liz Padula and Deb Woods will discuss SUSE Studio – the new arrow in the quiver to target opportunities with software appliances.

 

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In this podcast, Novell’s Community Manager, Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier, talks with Andreas Jaeger, about his responsibilities as the openSUSE program manager, the history of the project, the challenges and opportunity of cultivating the community as well as what’s coming up in the future releases for openSUSE. Take a listen.

 

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On July 21 Novell announced its Cloud Security Service offering that is currently in development and slated for release later this year. The service will enable cloud providers and software as a service (SaaS) vendors to ensure their offerings meet the strict security and compliance standards required by global businesses.

As part of our beta group, Novell is working with PivotLink, a provider of business intelligence solutions delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS). Early results of this collaboration effort were demonstrated at a Cloud Single Sign-On (SSO) interoperability event at Catalyst Conference North America on July 29, 2009. Participants included SalesForce.com, Google Apps, eXpresso Corp, WebEx and others.

By working with Novell, PivotLink can better support their customer’s security standards and policies in a cloud computing environment. This is done by integrating PivotLink’s existing business intelligence application and database security with Novell’s access management technologies so PivotLink can deliver secure single sign-on to its enterprise customers.

In this podcast, Dale Olds, distinguished engineer at Novell, and Mike Van Gorkom, program manager at PivotLink, discuss the results of the interoperability event at Catalyst.

SSO is one aspect of Novell Cloud Security Service, more can be found on our website: www.novell.com/cloud.

 

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Novell’s Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier sat down with Paul Krill, editor-at-large at InfoWorld and Ross Turk, community manager for Source Forge at OSCON in July to discuss the show, what’s happening with open source communities and companies these days and how to build an effective community. They even touch on what open source projects and journalism have in common.

 

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