Novell Introduces First File Management Suite Based on Identity and Policy
January 19 2010 - 8:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Helps businesses manage unstructured file systems with intelligence
and automation, boosting efficiency, ensuring compliance, and
lowering IT costs WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Novell
today announced the release of NovellĀ® File Management Suite, an
integrated file storage solution that provisions, moves, optimizes
and reports on file storage based on user roles and customized
business policies. For the first time, organizations, regardless of
operating system or existing storage management solution, can
intelligently manage file storage at its source, tying the file to
the user for the entire data lifecycle. Providing organizations
with a clearer picture of its data, Novell File Management Suite
enables an organization to plan for and deploy an efficient and
cost-effective storage infrastructure as well as execute on
compliance and governance requirements. "For years, customers have
faced the challenge of data management by saving everything -
paying the price for added disk space without really having a
logical way to find and access that information," said Costa
Speliakos, chief executive officer of EOS Systems. "With the Novell
File Management Suite, our customers now have the tools and power
to better understand and manage their information assets, while
reducing the administrative burden and cost of unstructured data."
Features Novell File Management Suite reins in the chaos of
unstructured data in typical file storage environments with
automated reporting, provisioning, decommissioning, relocating,
vaulting and tiering - all driven by organizational policies and
based on employee identities yet with no impact to the end user.
While existing storage solutions manage data at the block level,
without any intelligence on the file's context, relevance or
priority, Novell File Management Suite leverages identity so that
an organization's premium storage resources can be reserved for the
data that is most important to the business. This drives efficiency
in IT hardware, administration and ultimately enhances
collaboration between users. In addition, Novell File Management
Suite complements a business' existing storage resource management
solutions such as EMC*, HP*, Hitachi*, NetApp*, and others and
interoperates across Linux* and Windows* platforms. Novell File
Management Suite includes three products: -- Novell Storage Manager
- automates routine user and file storage management tasks
throughout the data's lifecycle, allowing IT resources to focus on
more mission critical projects. -- Novell Dynamic File Services -
tiers files and folders based on customizable policies. -- Novell
File Reporter - inventories file systems to uncover storage chaos,
so that organizations can design efficient file storage
infrastructures based on identity-driven policies. "Businesses
struggle with their file systems on a daily basis," said Colleen
O'Keefe, senior vice president and general manager of Collaboration
Solutions and Global Services. "For most organizations, file data -
whether stored in archive for compliance or locally for daily use -
is often inaccessible because it's not intelligently categorized in
relation to the user that created it. Novell File Management Suite
changes all of that by allowing an organization to take an
identity-aware approach to file management and manage data at its
source - the user. Not all files are equally important to the
business, so why store them the same way?" Availability and Pricing
Novell File Management Suite is currently available. Pricing is
$37.50 per user for the entire suite: Novell Storage Manager;
Novell Dynamic File Services; and Novell File Reporter. Novell
Storage Manager and Novell File Reporter are also sold
independently for $15 per user, each. Above prices include license
and maintenance. For more information on Novell File Management
Suite, visit http://www.novell.com/nfms. About Novell Novell, Inc.
(NASDAQ:NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable
Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software
that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and
risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of
partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments,
allowing people and technology to work as one. For more
information, visit http://www.novell.com/. Novell is a registered
trademark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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owners. DATASOURCE: Novell, Inc. CONTACT: Kerry Adorno of Novell,
+1-781-464-8042, ; or Kristin Conforti of PAN Communications,
+1-978-474-1900, , for Novell Web Site: http://www.novell.com/
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