Novell Storage Manager
Automated Life Cycle Management for User and Group Network Storage
Features & Benefits
- Lower costs
- Generate quick ROI by automating storage tasks. If you have a large, dynamic user population, Novell Storage Manager can help you generate a substantial return on investment (ROI). That's because provisioning rights settings, renames, storage transfers, vaulting, disposition, and reassignments are addressed automatically. More +
- Provision storage automatically
- Make life easier for your IT department. Rather than burdening your IT help desk personnel with completing single instance user and group storage tasks, let Novell Storage Manager perform these tasks automatically. Based on user identity, role, and policies that you set up, a user home directory can be set up and provisioned with any files and group storage access needed for a particular role in the organization. Novell Storage Manager then continues to manage the storage quota, storage content, storage disposition or archiving, and much more. More +
- Enforce compliance
- Policies you create in Novell eDirectory™ or Microsoft Active Directory enforce storage compliance automatically. Whether it's the removal of files not permitted for storage in the network home directory (such as MP3s), or the strict adherence to industry or government regulations pertaining to storage archiving, Novell Storage Manager assures that your storage compliance needs are met. More +
- Manage storage on multiple platforms
- Mixed environment? No problem. Novell Storage Manager provides automated, identity-driven storage management to Novell and Microsoft networks via eDirectory and Active Directory respectively. Supported file systems in Novell networks include Novell NSS, Novell Traditional, EXT3, and Reiser, and in Microsoft networks Windows 2000 and 2003. More +
- Migrate storage transparently
- Move data without any impact on users. Whether it's consolidating servers or moving archived data to less expensive storage, data migration projects are a fact of IT life. Fortunately, Novell Storage Manager can automate storage migrations quickly and easily through the policies that you create. Moving storage from one device to another is as simple as changing a policy path and then initiating the migration request. More +
- Allocate storage by role
- Different roles in an organization oftentimes require different storage needs, including network home directory storage space needed for the organization's various roles. Additionally, a user's role in the organization will determine what group storage areas the user will need access to. Novell Storage Manager not only automates the creation of user storage based on role, but automatically grants access to collaborative storage areas. More +
- Control storage by file type
- Prevent people from storing specific file types. Most organizations have written policies stating what types of files can and cannot be stored on network storage resources. Unfortunately, because enforcement of these policies must be done manually, enforcement actions are oftentimes delayed or not addressed at all. Novell Storage Manager lets you create and store policies which include allowable file types—in Novell eDirectory or Microsoft Active Directory-and then removes unallowable file types automatically. More +
- Deal with directories when people leave
- Don't lose intellectual property when people leave the company. Novell Storage Manager lets you set up policies for automating the transition of home directories of employees that leave the company. You can configure rules to automatically vault storage, defer the cleanup of storage for a set number of days, or queue the storage to a defined manager. There are also options for moving a former employee's status to inactive. More +
- Track and locate moved data
- A constant challenge among network administrators is assuring the availability of network storage disk space. This oftentimes means the movement of older data from more expensive primary storage devices to less-expensive secondary or tertiary backup storage devices. Over the lifetime of a network-stored file, it can reside in many different physical locations. More +
- Take a green approach to storage management
- Join the green IT movement by reducing hardware and power consumption. Full life cycle management of user and group storage includes the ability to automatically move and dispose of storage content—in essence, recycling network hardware disk space. Novell Storage Manager requires no additional hardware, keeping your network server power consumption at a minimum. More +
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