Novell President Bob Flynn

I am very excited to announce the release of Novell Filr. Novell Filr is a file-sharing solution that gives users access to their home folders, shared network folders and personal files from anywhere via desktops, laptops or mobile devices.

We know that you’re struggling with cloud-based file access solutions like Dropbox that put your data in insecure third-party storage. Novell Filr leverages our heritage as a leader in file and print solutions to provide mobile file access and sharing that keeps your data on-premise and IT in control. By leveraging your existing, on-premise file systems and associated access right, Novell Filr delivers enterprise-class security that the competition simply can’t.

Together with Novell ZENworks Mobile Management and Novell iPrint, it is also an important part of our mobility solution. Very few of our competitors offer such a comprehensive set of mobile capabilities—and fewer still with an enterprise focus.

Novell Filr is a standalone product that works with directory services such as Microsoft Active Directory and NetIQ eDirectory, meaning you don’t need a Novell infrastructure to enjoy all the benefits of Novell Filr. Please take a minute to learn more at Novell Filr. Then download an evaluation and see how it can help your organization offer easy, mobile file access and sharing that keeps IT in control.

We look forward to showing you what Filr can do.

Bob Flynn

‘Enterprise mobility’ is no longer perceived as a phenomenon in the workplace; as BYOD has become normal procedure, even the phrase ‘enterprise mobility’ has become redundant and the practice has taken on a life of its own.

IT departments, who at one time worked only with standard-issue company hardware, now have the day-to-day task of dealing with a variety of operating systems on a wide range of devices, including laptops, iPhones, Android devices and tablets. It’s essential that the IT community take note of the ‘death of the idle enterprise’ and implement mobile policies which will complement these developments and ensure the efficiency of the BYOD enterprise.

New mobile trends will inevitably surface alongside these changes –

- See more at: http://www.businesscomputingworld.co.uk/dont-let-byod-be-the-death-of-the-it-department/#sthash.aRzDATBp.dpuf

Here are the two articles:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/epic-uptime-achievement-can-you-beat-16-years/

http://www.zdnet.com/a-lesson-for-the-cloud-100-percent-uptime-achieved-for-16-years-7000013449/

We're proud of our heritage and the direction we're headed in the near future.

He looked for a mobile device management solution that would be able to:

• Control what students could access over the Internet
• Manage the mobile apps they could use
• Enforce school security policies
• Automatically alert IT staff to problems or setting changes
• Quickly deploy applications to students
• Wipe or disable the mobile tablets
• remotely
• Support different mobile devices and platforms
• Scale to manage thousands of devices

Enter Novell ZENworks Mobile Management

Here is a byline article from Novell's Justin Strong:

As with any new market focus, there are a lot of conversations regarding mobile device management (MDM), often stating that you must have a solution – or else. Then there are the naysayers claiming that it will not make any difference, and it’s unnecessary. The truth is that neither bold claim is accurate. Similar industry chatter has occurred about broad client management and other established markets as well and, like others, the key for MDM is finding what’s best for your company’s individual needs.

For MDM, reasonable customer profiles do exist to help organizations determine the MDM structure they need to consider adopting. In any case, it’s critical to implement the MDM solution that disrupts the enterprise the least. It’s naïve to think that security doesn’t come at a price of productivity, but the best solutions optimize both and consider the level of security necessary.

To read the whole article click here.

Adding to the existing Novell File Management Suite, Novell File Reporter 2.0 integrates with both eDirectory and Active Directory to simultaneously report on Novell and Microsoft network folder and file data and corresponding file rights.  Most notable among the new product capabilities arepermissions reports which can specify all users who have access to a selected network folder, and all of the network folders a specific user can access.

"The exploding growth of file-based data, coupled with compliance to data governance initiatives calls for organizations to make data management proficiencies a requirement," said Dave Wilkes, vice president of engineering at Novell.  "In order to achieve significant and lasting improvements, organizations need to intelligently comply with industry, government and corporate regulations. Novell File Reporter 2.0 gives them the ability to report on who is storing files, what files users are storing, where files are stored and who has access to any particular file."

For more info visit the Sacramento Bee.

Novell President Bob Flynn

If you ever find yourself wondering what it might take to reinvent your business or career, Bob Flynn, president of Novell–the company Eric Schmidt left for Google–has some advice for you.

Bob had the chance to sit down with Fast Company's Kaihan Krippendorf before BrainShare 2013 to discuss the direction Novell is headed and here's what was said: click here.

As consumers, we’re bombarded with apps for every conceivable function — whether it’s texting customer service, online banking, hailing a cab, scanning a code, tracking fitness and about a million other things.  If you can think of something to do, there’s an app for it.

We continue to download apps at a rapid pace; according to ABI Research, app downloads hit 81 billion at the end of Q3 in 2012. This is happening for two very specific reasons — one being that it’s easy and the other is that these apps improve or simplify our everyday tasks.

Read more here…