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February 2010 Highlights - Novell Professional Resource Suite

Novell Technical Subscriptions

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Your Novell Professional Resource Suite shipment for February is a treasure trove of excellent resources and updates to help you fine tune your Novell products. It features 12 new and updated bonus utilities, 1 new technical white papers, 99 new or updated guides, 544 Support Knowledgebase documents (TIDS), 50 ReadMe files and patches, 76 new Cool Solutions articles, and 256 YES Bulletins. Check it out today and make the most of your subscription.

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.

New and updated software includes:

  • PlateSpin® Recon 3.6.1

  • PlateSpin® Portability Suite 8.1.2

  • PlateSpin® Orchestrate 2.0.2

  • Open Enterprise Server 2 SP2a

Advanced Resources

Technical White Papers

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.

  • In Novell File Reporter. Discover. Analyze. Automate, learn how to inventory file systems to get a clear picture of storage resource usage across multiple categories--including user identities.

Bonus Utilities

Make February your month to discover bonus utilities. This month's shipment includes 12 of these power-packed little programs that can save you work and time. Give some of them a try today! For example:

  • Read NSS Rights to PDF File is a Bash Script to read/collect trustees and inherited rights filter across multiple folder trees.

  • Show All SLP Services in Linux will write all the services to your screen and allow you to scroll up and down the list at will. You can quickly grab the results from multiple computers for comparison.

Support Resources

Latest Files and Patches

The February shipment includes 50 ReadMe files and patches to help you keep your software running at its peak. Our patches are pretested and can help you with bug fixes, graphic replacements, usability and performance. Just take a few minutes to download and apply them-you can search our database using many different parameters so you can find exactly what you need.

Technical Information Resources

Product Documentation

For our February shipment here is just a small sample of the new and updated documentation included:

  • Designer 3.5 for Identity Manager / Understanding Designer for Identity Manager

  • iFolder Open Source / Novell iFolder 3.8 Administration Guide

  • Open Enterprise Server 2 / OES 2 SP2: Domain Services for Windows Administration Guide

  • SUSE Studio / Deployment And Administration Guide

  • Sentinel 6.1 / Sentinel 6.1 Installation Guide

  • ZENworks Endpoint Security Management 3.5 / ZENworks Endpoint Security Management Installation Guide

New Support Knowledgebase Documents (TIDs)

Do you like to dig deeper? Then your February shipment will give you plenty of shovels. It includes 544 new Support Knowledgebase Documents (TIDs). TIDs include detailed information and important solutions for your technical questions about Novell products. Our improved search utility allows you to search the database in many ways to find exactly what you're looking for. Check out our new and updated TIDs today.

Cool Solutions Articles

The Cool Solutions online community gathers all the innovative tips about your Novell products in one spot. This month you will find 76 new Cool Solutions articles, which means you get 76 ways to make IT work as one-written by Novell engineers and users just like you. We think it's the best source around for tips, tricks, and high-octane tweaks for your Novell products. Stop by today and download free tools, share your expertise and see what else you can learn from this outstanding community.

YES Bulletins

What can you do with the 256 new YES Bulletins shipping in February? You can see which applications are newly certified to to be compatible with your Novell products. Our YES-certified partners include companies you rely on every day to do business, and the large number of YES bulletins this month means you're closer than ever to making IT work as one.

What's New and Upcoming

Say Hello to Novell Training and Support Bundle!

We've renamed the Novell Elite Services Pack to the Novell Training and Support Bundle, combining the Novell Professional Resource Suite and the entire contents of the On-Demand Training Library. This new offering has been created in response to the growing demands on Novell experts in an ever-more competitive IT market. If you've already subscribed to the Novell Professional Resource Suite, then you know how helpful it is to have such a complete set of tools at your fingertips.

Meet Us in Salt Lake City in 2010

Don't forget to book your tickets to Salt Lake City for Brainshare 2010, March 21-25. Meet peers, learn about our upcoming technology, and take the time to get the training you need to best meet your customers' needs. If you can't make it to Salt Lake City, don't forget that Brainshare will be in Europe May 18-21 in Amsterdam.

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