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February 2010

February Shipments

Technical Information Resources

Ensuring you are kept up to date with all the latest technical information, February's shipment includes 544 Support Knowledgebase documents (TIDs), 76 Cool Solutions articles and 256 YES Bulletins.

Notes & News

Brainshare 2010
Don't forget to book your tickets to Salt Lake City for Brainshare 2010 March 21-25. Take advantage of the early bird pricing of $1,395, which ends February 19.

For our customers and partners in Europe, don't forget that Brainshare EMEA will be taking place May 18-21 in Amsterdam.

With more than 450 hours of training and demonstrations, you'll be able to make the most of your Novell products, meet peers, meet the engineers, and of course, meet the Technical Subscriptions team.

For more information, check out http://www.novell.com/brainshare/.

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Updated Software

We have exciting news for our subscribers. The February 2010 release now includes three products from our PlateSpin portfolio.

PlateSpin® Recon 3.6.1 can help your bottom line with higher consolidation ratios and lower resource contention through advanced workload profiling, analysis, and planning features. This version enhances the existing comprehensive platform support with the addition of support for VMware* vCenter Server 4, VMware ESX 4.0, and VMware ESXi 4.

PlateSpin® Portability Suite 8.1.2 with PlateSpin® Migrate helps reduce business risk through workload and server optimization and uses PlateSpin® Protect to provide the most flexible, reliable and cost-effective solution for protecting physical and virtual workloads in your data center.

PlateSpin® Orchestrate 2.0.2 helps administrators simplify administration, maximize utilization, and assign resources dynamically to meet shifting workloads with techniques such as virtualized computing, shared storage and distributed resource management.

To ensure our subscribers have the most up-to-date product, we are including Open Enterprise Server 2 SP2a which includes the latest security patches.

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Licenses for 2010

Don't forget to update your software licenses to ensure continuity in your environment. Log in to the Subscriber Portal to download what you need.

Advanced Resources

Novell White Papers are crucial in helping our customers and partners understand best practices around Novell products. As we move towards releasing Novell File Management Suite, you can get the scoop on how to best use Novell File Reporter to manage network storage through discovery, analysis and automation.

Also check out the 12 new and updated Bonus Utilities—power-packed programs to help you get the most from your Novell software. Here are a couple of samples:

Bonus Utilities

Support Resources

Your February subscription features 50 ReadMe files and patches to keep your Novell software running at its peak, including Novell GroupWise, Novell Identity Manager and much more.

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