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What's the next challenge for your organization's data center? Improve service levels? Simplify management? Tighten security? Reduce operating costs? Are expensive UNIX-based legacy systems an obstacle? Novell Data Center solutions provide everything you need to build an open enterprise service infrastructure that's scalable, affordable, manageable and ready for the future.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server provides an open foundation for any type of server workload, from edge and infrastructure services to enterprise databases and mission-critical applications. Get real efficiencies with virtual servers. SUSE Linux Enteprise Server features integrated virtualization with Xen software, letting you consolidate workloads and reallocate capacity quickly and responsively.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server - The Novell open source platform that delivers a scalable, high-performance foundation for secure enterprise computing.
Novell AppArmor - An application security solution that protects your Linux operating system and applications from the effects of attacks, viruses and malicious threats.
ZENworks Linux Management - Policy-driven management for Linux servers that reduces the costs of integrating Linux into your network and brings a wealth of advanced, centralized management capabilities to Linux.

Leveraging Linux and virtualization technology to improve system performance and maximize resources.
Utilizing worldwide support, training and consulting for enterprise Linux.
Redeploying server assets quickly as your computing needs change.

Gain security and peace of mind by:
Building a reliable data center infrastructure based on open source and open standards.
Using centralized systems management to automatically deploy servers and to keep your servers up-to-date.
Leveraging Novells unique integrated security software to keep your data safe.

Significantly reduce IT costs by:
Taking advantage of commodity 32-bit and 64-bit hardware - including blades, clusters or any other server architecture.
Reducing your number of operating systems and using Linux's capabilities to consolidate servers.
Moving to a technology platform where you have real choice about vendors, support and maintenance.

Sentinel provides a real-time, holistic view of security and policy compliance activities across your IT environment. Sentinel monitors, responds to, and reports on security and compliance events for virtually any data source - including proprietary and custom devices, systems and applications enabling you to manage risk more effectively.

Managing a distributed, heterogeneous IT security environment with conventional point tools is a tall order. Everything - including servers, databases, applications, firewalls, routers, switches, and intrusion detection and prevention systems - produces a flood of data that you must aggregate and analyze to get a clear picture of your organizations security and compliance health.

Sentinel

Sentinel replaces these labor-intensive manual processes with automated, continuous monitoring of security and compliance events and IT controls. Sentinel correlates and analyzes security and compliance events from all data sources in your environment to help you identify security events in real time and respond quickly. Automated incident response management enables you to document and formalize the process of tracking, escalating and responding to incidents and policy violations, and provides two-way integration with trouble-ticketing systems. Sentinel enables you to react promptly, resolve incidents efficiently and prove to auditors that your IT controls work as required.

Integrated, automated real-time security management and compliance monitoring across all systems and networks
A framework that enables business policies to drive IT policy and action
Automatic documenting and reporting of security, systems and access events
across the enterprise
Built-in incident management and remediation
The ability to demonstrate and monitor compliance with internal policies and government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA and others

The security and support issues of todays enterprise arise primarily from one major area: end users and their PCs. Malware, data leakage caused by removable media and spyware, and resulting regulatory compliance issues dominate enterprise ITs top concerns.

But most existing security solutions have been unable to stem the tide of ever-increasing security threats, chiefly because enterprise endpoints are porous and becoming more so as new hardware technologies and peer-to-peer applications multiply in the market. A few years ago, few would have considered an iPod a security risk, and the wave of boutique spyware explicitly crafted to target individual organizations might not have been anticipated. But now such threats are a daily reality.

Traditional security solutions are not designed to address such risks simply because they rely on signatures or some other means that react to symptoms after a threat has already appeared. SecureWave Sanctuary Suite provides the two critical components enterprises need to solve problems associated with endpoint executables and devices. Moreover, Sanctuary Suite works in a simple, unique way that puts control back in the hands of IT administrators.

Sanctuary Device Control extends control of I/O devices policies. Users can access only explicitly authorized devices. Sanctuary Device Control manages this by applying an access control list to each device type. To grant access, the administrator needs only to associate objects (organizational units, users or user groups) with the devices and/or device classes to which they should have access.

Sanctuary Application Control (Custom Edition) manages application execution by providing organizations with the capability of exercising total control over the execution of all applications on the network. Sanctuary Application Control works on the premise that the use of all executables is denied unless authorized. Unlike a blacklist approach, which can only prevent known malware from executing, a positive model listing all authorized executables affords protection against all unknown executable-based viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware and system monitors and prevents the use of unwanted (illegal or unlicensed) software.

Your workforce requires access to countless systems: the network, e-mail accounts, line-of-business applications and partner Web sites to name just a few. This poses some challenges. How can you eliminate users' password frustrations, secure your corporate resources and still comply with a growing list of regulatory requirements? Trust Novell to simplify the process. With Novell SecureLogin, your employees use only a single, secure login to authenticate to the corporate resources they need. Users quickly access the network, applications and secure Web sites with automated login and credential management. Novell SecureLogin eliminates users frustrations at having to remember and manage individual credentials for each of their applications. Plus, your IT organization can finally enforce consistent credential policies.

With Novell SecureLogin, you can:

Reduce password-related helpdesk costs
Simplify user access to multiple systems and applications
Increase user productivity and reduce the time users waste waiting for credential resets
Eliminate the need for sticky note lists users create to remember their passwords
Reduce your organizations risk exposure from simple, guessable or static credentials;
as well as credential sharing among users
Comply with government regulations for identity, privacy, policy enforcement, and audit and authentication services

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is a prime example of an information-disclosure regulation that organizations must satisfy to stay in business. To fulfill Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, publicly-
traded companies must generate accurate financial reports. Furthermore, they must enable auditors to understand and attest to how the company reliably initiates, authorizes, records, processes and reports on its financial data.
Recently, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), which governs the Sarbanes-Oxley auditing process, issued clarification that helps organizations and auditors understand what to focus on in ensuring compliance while minimizing auditing costs. PCAOB outlines a top-down approach that includes the following three steps:

These recommendations highlight the critical role that integrated and automated network monitoring plays in the compliance process.
A companys ability to address these requirements is closely linked to the security and access controls defined for its information technology infrastructure and business applications, as these are what enable the financial-reporting process and related activities.
Any unauthorized access to the financial data stored and processed on computer systems and applications can threaten the companys ability to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley.
Because of the key role that technology plays in storing and enabling access to financial data, and because Section 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley requires the CEO and CFO to personally attest to the accuracy of their companys financial reports, the executive office now essentially mandates that the CIO does the following:

Enable the CEO and CFO to confidently stand behind the accuracy of data presented in financial reports (Section 302)
Control and secure access to documents, records and financial data (Section 404)
Store electronic documents and records for seven years and ensure their integrity (Section 103)
Audit (log and report) all network access that may impact financial applications and financial data (Section 404)
Enable real-time reporting of events that could materially impact enterprise profitability

Novell Resource Management Solution

As business needs change, IT environments become more complex. Customers are adding new operating systems, devices, applications and other IT resources. These diverse environments are increasing costs and demands on IT staffs, who already have limited resources. They want to find an IT expense management solution that will not only save them money but that will also allow them to work on more strategic initiatives.

Organizations are spending a significant part of their IT budgets on hardware, software and other IT resources. Due to these costs, they want to know that they are getting a significant return on their investment. Not only do they want to know that they are getting a significant return on their investments, they also want to ensure that the resources can be used to their maximum ability. For example, a laptop that may no longer be able to support the latest operating system might be used for a temporary worker or for tracking application usage and re-allocating the license if a user isn't utilizing the software.
Security management isn't just a smart business practice, in many cases it's regulated by law. This includes the ability to track and enforce policies that govern their businesses. These demands are also coming from regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA that require companies to document and prove policy enforcement. The solution that provides a complete and accurate view of hardware and software installations and license compliance is Novell Zenworks Asset Management. You can do with it an intelligent asset recognition which prevents over-counting and lowers compliance risks, fully automatically.

Novell ZENworks makes it easy to deploy, manage and maintain IT resources in today's diverse IT environments. By providing an integrated set of cross-platform tools that automate management across the lifecycle of desktops, laptops, servers and handheld devices, ZENworks lets customers eliminate administrator effort and reduce IT costs while delivering the IT resources that users need, when they need them - all based on identity.

Novell ZENworks provides an automated, intelligent way to manage the complex platforms and systems that makeup today's IT environments. By automatically applying and enforcing business policies, ZENworks dynamically manages IT resources based on user and device identities. Only ZENworks provides this identity-based, Policy-Driven Automation solution. Novell ZENworks is a complete IT Resource Management solution.

Novell ZENworks gives companies complete choice over the operating systems in their environment, which allows them to integrate client and server systems that meet both current and future business needs.
With support for Windows, Linux, Novell NetWare, Novell Open Enterprise Server, Novell Linux Desktop, Palm, Windows CE, Pocket PC and RIM BlackBerry platforms, as well as directory integration with Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory, ZENworks significantly enhances the management of complex, diverse IT environments.

Are IT costs outpacing your budget? Todays business climate forces you to strike a fine balance. You need a cost-effective solution that enables your people to stay productive. And you need your business to be secure yet flexible enough to capitalize on innovations that drive business advantage. As an open, low-cost alternative to Windows-based options, the Novell Open Workgroup Suite helps you achieve these objectives.

Novell Open Workgroup Suite provides your organization with a secure, flexible and cost-effective IT infrastructure and a proven set of workgroup services. Unlike a rigid Windows-centric product stack, Novell Open Workgroup Suite is made up of flexible, standards-based software. As a complete infrastructure and productivity solution, it includes the following components:

Novell Open Enterprise Server - industryleading enterprise networking services
Novell GroupWise - secure and reliable collaboration solution
Novell ZENworks Suite - cross-platform systems management tool
Novell Linux Desktop - open source desktop
OpenOffice.org for Linux and Windows - open source productivity suite
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server - open source server for applications

Lower IT Costs

When it comes to streamlining management costs, Novell Open Workgroup Suite is unmatched. Most organizations run a mix of operating systems, including Windows, Microsoft pricing-based on Enterprise Agreement level A Linux, NetWare or UNIX. The consolidated foundation of Novell Open Workgroup Suite simplifies administration across these platforms, and the suites Novell ZENworks component automates most resource management tasks. Whatever your infrastructure, Novell Open Workgroup Suite helps you keep operational costs to a minimum.

With Novell Open Workgroup Suite, your end users will stay productive with features and functionality like Web access, self-service file and print tools, reliable collaboration, instant communication, mobile support and a robust office productivity suite. Novell Open Workgroup Suite also relieves IT burdens. Your team can rely on centralized, browser-based management for flexible administration; health monitoring to avert unplanned downtime; easy migration tools to speed implementation; advanced clustering capabilities to facilitate constant uptime; and automated provisioning and updates to servers, desktops and applications to simplify administration workloads.

Novell Open Workgroup Suite delivers solid security. It features identity based authentic and access control so only authorized users can view and use key resources. You also get support for encrypted file systems, easy-to-use certificate authority and management, virtual private networking, integrated firewall and proxy services.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is the only enterprise-quality Linux desktop that truly meets the demands of basic office business computing. Its market-leading usability and seamless interoperability reduce costs, improve security and enhance operational reliability. SUSE Linux includes all of the latest desktop productivity tools to help you with your most common home computing tasks. Whether it's instant messaging and communicating with friends, creating and designing graphics, or organizing digital picture and music files, you'll find what you need on our easy-to-use desktop. And to make finding things even easier, we've included a preview of the latest version of the new Linux desktop search technology: Beagle Desktop Search. Beagle is the powerful new open source search engine that puts all of the content in your personal information space at your fingertips. Plus, to keep your desktop secure, SUSE Linux includes powerful built-in tools for spam blocking, virus scanning and application-level protection.

SUSE Linux comes ready to connect to your home wireless network. Plus, for advanced home networks, you can use the latest versions of open source networking services like Samba, Apache, DNS and DHCP. These power robust home networks that include Web hosting, centralized printing and media workstations. With special features to speed everything from server setup and configuration to software updating, SUSE Linux contains the most comprehensive set of tools ever included in a retail Linux package.

No matter where an attack originates - internally or externally - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ensures data integrity while reducing system administration costs and preventing downtime.
Maximizing uptime can mean the difference between winning and losing business. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server maximizes the probability that your systems will remain up and running.

Xen-based virtualization helps you increase server utilization by consolidating physical servers and applications, lowering hardware, maintenance and electrical costs.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the first enterprise-class Linux distribution to deliver a fully integrated, high-availability (HA) storage foundation at no additional cost.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server offers a comprehensive set of administration, configuration and deployment tools that ease the burdens of system maintenance. The new Novell Customer Center combines innovative tools and automated services to ensure licensing compliance, simplify patching and updating, and reduce systems management costs.

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