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Novell sold to Attachmate and Microsoft consortium

Novell, one of the earliest names in networking, has agreed to a $2.2 billion buyout by software company Attachmate as well as a sell-off of $450 million worth of intellectual property assets to a consortium organised by Microsoft.
Seagate unit, Microsoft partner for disk-to-disk to cloud service

Seagate has tightly integrated its EVault backup software and cloud storage service with Microsoft's Data Proteciton Manager disk-based backup appliance to offer multi-vendor application backup managed through a single dashboard.
Novell rejects hedge fund takeover

Novell's CEO on Saturday notified customers that the open source software company has rejected hedge fund Elliott Associates' roughly $2 billion bid to take it private.
Hedge fund has Novell in its sights

A hedge fund has announced a bid to take over Novell
Overland Storage unveils iSCSI SAN first

Overland Storage, which is trying to remake its identity from a tape library company into a full storage systems company, has released its first iSCSI SAN that is claims is easy to deploy and offers robust management capabilities.
VMware updates Fusion Windows virtualisation

VMware, the maker of desktop and server virtualisation tools has announced VMware Fusion 3, a way to run Windows on the Mac.
Kaspersky Lab releases anti-virus beta for Linux

In another sign of the security threats facing open source software, IT security firm Kaspersky Lab has released the beta version of its anti-virus software for Linux.
CA looks to cut cost of storage

CA has launched storage software that it claims can reduce the cost of administration while also improving data protection.
Government commits to open source procurement

The UK Government has embraced open source software after publishing a new policy designed to "make sure of a level playing field" for open source software during procurement.
Anti-virus vendors in scrap over flaws

Security company ISS has publicly blasted rival Trend Micro for not patching reported bugs in its enterprise-grade, server-side anti-virus software.

Latest Features

No demand for Windows 8 tablets? Don't trust predictive surveys

The surveys says... wait. You can't trust surveys, according to Rob Enderle. He offers some historical lessons on why you can't believe their predictions.
5 IT skills that won't boost your salary

Technical skills may never die, but areas of expertise wane in importance as technology advances, forcing companies to evolve and IT staff to forsake yesterday's crafts in favour of tomorrow's must-have talents.
EMC's CLARiiON call for iSCSI

EMC has introduced a new CLARiiON, the AX4, which replaces the entry-level AX0-150 with up to five times more disk drives. It's cheaper than Dell's EqualLogic and LSI-sourced MD3000i arrays, terabyte for terabyte. Dell's SMB storage pricing looks confused.
New net admin tools focus on the business

Network Instruments, Entuity and Netuitive all agree that network management needs to take a business service view.
Is FCoE the emperor's new trousers?

Everyone involved is saying such nice things about it that a cynic might start to wonder where the catch is...
Should Symbian worry about Windows Mobile?

Symbian still has 72 percent market share in smartphones. Why should it worry about Windows Mobile? Because of the view from the US.
Voice networking vs data

The more valuable skills are no longer the data ones.
New players entering online storage backup market

More companies are entering or looking to enter the online data protection and vaulting space.
Server virtualisation: doing more with less (part 1)

Virtualisation has gone mainstream. Given the technology?s upside, it?s easy to see why.
Red Hat, Novell and some words about virtualisation

The good news is that Novell is now competing with a company whose marketing savvy is even worse than its own. Can Red Hat claw back its credibility?

How-tos

Case Study: Giant steps are what you take

How to handle legacy data in a service-oriented architecture

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Case Study: Xserve it right

Network management frameworks

Network managers share troubleshooting tools

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Solid Business, Flexible Platform

The story is simple. NetWare has always been rock-solid and secure, allowing organizations to do more for less. Companies worldwide have relied on this solid networking platform to run many of their business-critical operations, but now they need more. NetWare 6.5 delivers the same solid, trusted foundation, but also solves many of the new business challenges facing organizations today.
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Novell® Small Business Suite

Small business networks shouldn?t be deprived of services available in a corporate net. Users in small offices need access to the same resources at the same speed and with the same reliability and security as an enterprise network.
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MANAGEMENT SOLUTION FOR 9TH-GENERATION POWEREDGE SERVERS RUNNING NETWARE 6.5

The main goal of this architecture is to provide a method for the instrumented PowerEdge server and its internal storage to send SNMP alerts. The architecture separates the server from the storage and details instructions specific to each of the two subsystems.
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Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backups with Retrospect 7.5 for Windows

This solution has been designed to be easy to set up and manage on an ongoing basis. Retrospect?s patented technology automates many common backup tasks. After Retrospect has been set up, it performs backups and adjusts ongoing operations to react to changing network situations without the need for manual intervention.
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Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backups with Retrospect 7.5 for Windows

This paper describes how to configure EMC Retrospect backup and recovery software to deliver optimum performance with disk. It recommends best practices for using Retrospect to stream backups to disk and then copy data to tape at a later time.
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