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Novell Identity Manager 4 Standard Edition
Novell announced the availability of Novell Identity Manager 4 Standard Edition to help customers secure the enterprise while controlling costs and meeting regulatory demands. Part of Novell’s WorkloadIQ portfolio, Novell Identity Manager 4 Standard Edition delivers a consistent, cloud-ready framework for managing identities across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
Novell Identity Manager 4 Standard Edition is the second offering in the Identity Manager 4 family, a portfolio of solutions developed to address each customer’s unique identity management challenges. Simple systems integration and automation capabilities continue to be a major consideration for IT organizations. Novell Identity Manager 4 Standard Edition combines automated, rule-based user provisioning with current-state reporting, enhanced scalability and tight integration with Microsoft SharePoint and SAP ERP systems. This integration also helps to secure the cloud by connecting to services such as Salesforce.com* and GoogleApps. Novell Identity Manager 4 Standard Edition enables organizations to be open and agile across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Read more
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1
Update offers enhanced virtualization, improved high availability and more flexible maintenance and support options
Novell today launched SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 (SP1), which delivers the industry’s broadest virtualization capabilities, powerful advances in high availability clustering, and more flexible maintenance and support options. As a result, customers can take advantage of the latest open source technologies to run their mission-critical services cost effectively on any platform – physical, virtual or cloud – today, as well as in the future.
“As an Air Traffic Control service provider, we naturally place the highest demands on the quality and reliability of the software products we use,” said Dr. Stefan Schimanski, Head of Linux Competence and Service Center, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung. “SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 fully meets these requirements, which makes it our strategic choice for mission-critical systems. With Service Pack 1, Novell continues to improve the already rock-solid basis while making new and innovative features ready for the enterprise.” Read more
Likewise Software Ships with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 from Novell
Integrates SUSE Linux Desktop with Microsoft Networks
Likewise announced that its Likewise Enterprise offering will ship as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 from Novell.
Likewise Enterprise securely connects computers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 with Microsoft Active Directory — making it easy to authenticate users, control access to applications and data, centrally manage settings with group policies and create reports for regulatory audits.
“Likewise is seeing acceleration in the number of our Linux desktop projects,” said Barry Crist, CEO of Likewise. “Novell is a natural partner for us as it has been a pioneer in the area of Linux desktops with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. The company clearly understands the widespread demand to offer better integration into Active Directory environments.”
The group policies in Likewise Enterprise let system administrators manage the security settings of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop computers and users from a central system. Likewise Enterprise also includes GNOME group policies to control SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop user and computer settings — policies that are based on the GNOME GConf project to define preferences like the default web browser or when to lock down a desktop.
“Likewise helps us meet the requirements that our customers demand; the need for advanced Active Directory integration including support for AD security settings and group policy,” said Guy Lunardi, director for Client Preloads at Novell. “SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 is the most interoperable Linux desktop in the industry and in combination with Likewise Enterprise offers a highly-scalable enterprise solution for large Linux desktop deployments.”
Under the terms of the agreement between Likewise and Novell, all Novell customers who buy SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 will get Likewise Enterprise, and it will be part of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop software repositories.
“Many organizations are integrating their Linux systems into Active Directory because of the centralized identity and policy management capabilities, with the added benefits of enhanced authentication and sign-on reduction,” noted Mark Diodati, senior identity and security analyst at Burton Group. “The embedding of the Active Directory component into the Linux operating system should simplify enterprise deployments.”
Likewise Enterprise addresses the authentication, auditing, and reporting needs of companies running multiple operating systems in their network. Likewise Enterprise is a simple upgrade for customers who have installed Likewise Open and want to use group policies to manage their mixed environment and use the auditing features of Likewise Enterprise to view access reports. The auditing features help companies comply with regulatory requirements, such as those of Sarbanes-Oxley.
Source: Likewise