A couple of announcements that may have slipped under the radar – two security partnerships at BrainShare:
SecureWave – providing removable device lockdown and security, application white and blacklisting – all tied in to Novell Identity
Third Brigade – providing a smart, small, host based intrusion detection system.
Press here from Third Brigade. I’ll add SecureWave when it hits the wire.
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I have been asked many times during Novell BrainShare for examples of how Novells Identity, Security and Access Management products will integrate with Novell ZENworks – our cross platform management solution.
One example I have been giving is that of a customer looking to deploy a new Line of Business application – typically a complex multi-tiered client-middleware-database infrastructure.
Written at: BrainShare 2006, Salt Lake City, UT
The non-Novell way of doing this is to deliver an application to the desktop; create user identities within the new application – and give the end user another login and password to remember. Certainly not a good experience for the user; and not cost effective for the enterprise.
Using Novell Identity Management solutions you see a very different story. ZENworks can deliver the client application components to the desktop – cleanly and consistently; Novell SecureLogin can enable Enterprise Single Sign-on to the application; and Novell Identity Manager can provision the correct users, their password and their credentials into the identity store for the application.
The differences are striking. Lowered costs of deployment, increased agility, less challenges for the helpdesk during deployment – and ultimately a simple experience for the user – just click on the application icon and it ‘just works’.
This is another real-world example of how Novell is integrating solutions – from security, access, identity and resource management.
Let me know how you are dealing with these challenges.
Written at: BrainShare 2006, Salt Lake City, UT
Day 2 (for me) of BrainShare 2006.
Today has been pretty intense – listening to the keynote while testing our session; then session presentation; then an afternoon of Press events.
Tonight it’s a private event in the Technology Lab for Novell’s financial and industry analysts; a handful of us are presenting ZENworks and Identity solutions.
I’m tired. Still to go – rehearsal and prep for tomorrows analyst summit.
Written at: BrainShare 2006, Salt Lake City, UT
Today was an analyst day.
I went to the spa with a group – the ones who didn’t want to ski or snowmobile – and talked about Novell and the IT landscape. Yes – I had a pedicure – my feet are now lovely 😉
In the evening was an analyst dinner; my usual challenge at BrainShare is eating somewhat healthily and not gaining a dozen pounds!
I’m now in downtown Salt Lake City for the week of BrainShare. It’s raining – but the BrainShare banners are everywhere, attendees are starting to arrive, hotels are full (or even overbooked!) and already there is a definate buzz building.
I’ve been down to the Technology Lab already; dropped off my demo servers for the keynotes; checked everything looks ok.
Tonight is a catchup with the team; tomorrow is an all day analyst event. I’m off to the spa 🙂
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I wrote last week about ZENworks Server Management in the real world.
In that post I described how a deployment of ZENworks can deliver some rapid benefits – namely patching and updates for NetWare and its associated services.
Next I want to cover the second major benefit of ZENworks Server Management – Tiered Electronic Distribution. Using TED will save you time, money – and shoe leather!
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Tiered Electronic Distribution has been part of ZENworks since ZENworks for Servers was first released; it allows ‘content’ to be moved across your infrastructure (WAN and LAN) efficiently, between servers and sites, supporting multiple platforms.
The ‘content’ can be of multiple types – I quickly covered NetWare updates, but any type of file content can be moved using TED. We have customers moving all imaginable data using this technology.
One of the most cool uses of TED is integration with ZENworks Desktop Management – moving desktop applications from a development/test/staging area – to production – and then out across a campus, departmental or branch infrastructure.
We have many customers using this type of infrastructure today – and seeing huge benefits.
How do you know this will work in your environment – just ask a few simple questions:
If these questions trigger uncomfortable answers then maybe you should look at using Tiered Electronic Distribution in conjunction with your NAL applications.
Typically once the ZENworks Server Management infrastructure is deployed you will see payback in weeks; some customers have paid for their deployment projects with their first deployment.
I’ll leave this post for now – I will point people to Erin Quill’s session at BrainShare. TUT 350 covers using ZENworks in this manner – as well as other high availability ideas. There is also an Advanced Technical Training Session at BrainShare – ATT 345 – as well as a Technical Tutorial – TUT 347 – covering advanced application management.
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