November 2011 Highlights - Novell Software Evaluation & Development Library
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Your Novell Software Evaluation and Development Library shipment for November is a treasure trove of excellent resources and updates to help you fine tune your Novell products. This month's release includes the latest edition of PlateSpin Migrate, PlateSpin Recon and LibreOffice for Windows.
Updated Software
PlateSpin Migrate 9.1
PlateSpin Migrate is a workload portability solution that automates the movement of server workloads—operating systems along with their applications and data—over the network among physical servers, virtual hosts, and image archives. PlateSpin Migrate remotely decouples workloads from the underlying server hardware and streams them to and from physical or virtual hosts, all from a single point of control.
PlateSpin Recon 3.7.3
Successful data center initiatives such as server consolidation and capacity management require planning, analysis, and ongoing monitoring to ensure a maximum return on investment. Novell PlateSpin Recon is a sophisticated planning and analysis solution that helps enterprises to optimize the data center by collecting hardware and software inventory for all workloads and remotely gathering workload utilization statistics for a clear and concise picture of what is running in the data center and how resources are being used.
LibreOffice 3.4 for Windows
LibreOffice for Windows is a full productivity suite supported by Novell, which provides word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database capabilities. With LibreOffice for Windows, enterprises can dramatically lower costs, maximize productivity, while gaining the key functionality of Microsoft Office and interoperability with Microsoft Office file formats.
Novell ZENworks 11 SP1
Novell ZENworks 11 SP1 provides comprehensive management of Windows and Linux servers and workstations, collectively referred to as devices. The architecture of ZENworks 11 SP1 is built on Web services technology and provides industry-leading desktop, laptop, and handheld server management, all administered through a Web browser. ZENworks 11 SP1 uses a single adaptive agent for all services and uses a database to store all ZENworks information while still leveraging your corporate directory for user-based management. By using LDAP, ZENworks 11 SP1 can natively provide both device-based and user-based management to the existing directory customers (both Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory), without the need to migrate and manage the user objects. ZENworks also provides fully integrated Asset Management, Patch Management, and Endpoint Security Management services.
Novell Access Manager 3.1.4
Novell Access Manager 3.1 SP4 is a comprehensive access management solution that provides secure access to Web and enterprise applications. It also provides seamless single sign-on across technical and organizational boundaries, based on industry standards including Secure Assertions Markup Language (SAML) and Liberty Alliance protocols.
Access Manager 3.1 SP4 combines simplified deployment and administration with advanced capabilities, such as multi-factor authentication, role-based access control, Web single sign-on, data encryption, and SSL VPN.
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