Business Reasons for Adding Linux
to Your NetWare® Environment

Alan Hall

Novell, Inc.

Agenda

Linux – is it ready for prime time?

How Novell helps make it ready

Easily Add Linux to your NetWare environment with Novell Open Enterprise Server

Questions and Answers – need your feedback

Things to Remember

1. Enterprise customers are adopting Linux

2. Novell has a strong commitment to supporting Linux in the Enterprise

3. Open Enterprise Server makes it easy to introduce Linux into your NetWare environment

Is this how you feel when you consider moving to Linux?

Why add Linux?

Linux has momentum

Open Source development model works

Novell makes Linux ready for the enterprise

More secure than Microsoft

Great Application Platform

Adding Linux can save you money

Gives you more flexibility

Consolidate operating systems

With Novell ... It's additive and easy to deploy

Novell backs you up

Linux Has Momentum

Majority of application development is focused on Linux. One report – 40% of the 550 surveyed focus development on Linux

Linux market to grow to over $35 Billion by 2008

Linux server shipments to grow 24% annually

Linux PC shipments and redeploys to grow 30% annually

WW market for software on Linux to exceed $14 Billion by 2008

Installed Linux servers – 9.7 million by 2008

A few quotes – Linux is ready

“When all manifestations of Linux operating systems are counted, Linux is clearly a mainstream solution. Today, IDC sees a shift where Linux server operating environment deployments are moving to favor the use of enterprise server hardware. This transition is being driven by the increasing robustness of Linux, and the increasingly critical nature of the applications deployed on Linux.” -Vernon Turner, group vice president and general manager of Enterprise Computing research at IDC.

“...it's not surprising for us to see that the adoption is far ahead of even some of the most optimistic estimates...Linux is forecast to be the fasted growing server operating system environment, and the overall Linux solution stack is growing at a commensurate rate...What this research shows is the significant and increasing influence of Linux on the enterprise IT marketplace.” - OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen

*OSDL report, DesktopLinux.com

Linux Is Growing
Faster than Windows and UNIX Combined ...

Source: IDC

What’s Driving Linux Adoption?

Drivers

Run on a variety of hardware supported by all IHV’s

Supports more users with less hardware

Grid and Cluster computing

Increased uptime

Uptime measured in years rather than days

Easier scaling

Linux is inherently more secure than Windows

Amazon, FedEx and Google have been using Linux for years

Same OS image can run on a variety of hardware

Fewer distinct OS to support

Substantial cost savings

Low cost software solutions

Leading ISV’s developing software on the Linux OS

IBM, PeopleSoft, Novell, SAP, Oracle, Sybase

Flexibility

Security

Reliability

Control and Agility

Cost Reduction & Productivity

The Foundation — Open Source and Linux

Open Source Development

“By 2008, 95% of Global 2000 organizations will have formal open-source acquisition and management strategies (0.9 probability).” - *Gartner

“By 2010, Global IT organizations will consider open-source products in 80 percent of their infrastructure-focused software investments (0.7 probability).” - *Gartner

“Positions 2005: Open-Source Solutions Will Restructure the Software Industry”, Mark Driver,

Gartner Research, 23 February 2005

Open Source Development Model Works

Why does this model work?

There is pressure from inside and outside the organization

Low acquisition cost

Time to market and agility

Focus on collaboration

Focus on standards

Software quality

Political motivation

Flexibility

Novell is involved

~600 Projects at forge.novell.com

Novell has Key involvement in multiple projects

Apache foundation board member

MySQL project

Direct involvement in the kernel

Eclipse – Open Source dev. framework

Mono, Novell iFolder®, Hula...more

Novell
Make Linux Ready for the Enterprise

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server is ready for enterprise use

12+ years of development experience

Novell adds vast experience working with enterprise customers solving their specific needs

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 9
Overview

A secure, reliable platform for Linux and open-source
computing in the enterprise:

Robust application support

for third-party and line-of-business applications

Strongest security capabilities

ensures data privacy

Industry-leading scalability and reliability

enables mission-critical deployments

Unmatched manageability

lowers the cost of ownership

Backed by Novell

empowers business to deploy Linux with confidence

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server

Pure Linux kernel 2.6 environment

Complete NUMA support

Hyperthreading

Direct and Async I/O

Certified for Oracle 9i and 10g deployments

Certified for SAP

Unix performance and stability at a fraction of the cost

Unmatched Security Support

Virtual Private Networking

Certificate Management

Support for Encrypted File System

Fact: SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server received the highest level of security and operations certification ever reached in the Linux market, Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4

Reliability, High Availability
and Failover

Hotplug services

Support for latest reliable hardware

Heartbeat infrastructure

Fact: SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 is reliable. It meets or exceeds the industry standards for data center Linux and carrier grade Linux

Failover and load balancing clusters

Certified base for IBM DB2 ICE (Integrated Cluster Environment)

© January 27, 2004 Novell Inc, Confidential & Proprietary.

Industry Leading Performance
and Scalability

Kernel 2.6 performance

Flexible and pluggable I/O schedulers

Native Posix Threading Library

Fact: SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 was recently used to set the Linux world record for the TPC-C benchmark.

Hyperthreading

Non-uniform memory management

Infiniband

© January 27, 2004 Novell Inc, Confidential & Proprietary.

Linux Manageability

Yet another Set-up Tool (YaST)

AutoYaST

YaST Online Update (YOU)

SLP

Fact: The suite of deployment, configuration and management options in SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 dramatically reduce implementation and maintenance time while reducing TCO.

LDAP Support

CIM Support

Enabled for ZENworks® Linux Management

The Novell LINUX Offerings
Share a Common Foundation

SUSE LINUX
Enterprise OS

SUSE LINUX
Enterprise
Server 9

Novell Open

Enterprise

Server

Novell
Linux

Desktop

SUSE LINUX
Enterprise OS

SUSE LINUX
Enterprise
Server 9

Novell Open

Enterprise

Server

Novell
Linux

Desktop

Offerings Extend Across The Enterprise

Open source server and development packages

Novell
Enterprise-
class Services

on Linux

End-user

productivity

suite/Novell integration

Not Just Linux, Enterprise Linux

Open Source
Community

Common Code Base

AutoBuild

Quality Assurance
and Testing

3,000+ Packages

millions of
lines of code

~6,000+ Patches

thousands of
lines of code

x86

Intel 64

AMD64

POWER

S/390

zSeries

Automated System identifies incompatibilities

Automated
Regression

Manual
Regression

Feature Test

Novell
SuperLab

Fixes

Supported Software

SUSE LINUX

Enterprise Server 9

SUSE LINUX

SDK 9

More Secure Than Microsoft

2004 survey – 92% of those surveyed had never had their Linux systems infected by a virus.

US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT)

39 of the first 40 entries for Microsoft were above threshold for severe alert

6 of the first 40 entries for Linux were above the threshold for severe alert

47 of the top 50 web sites with longest run times run Apache. None of top 50 sites run IIS

“ICAT classified 67% of Microsoft's vulnerabilities as high severity, placing Microsoft dead last among the platform maintainers in this [high severity] metric.”

Strong Application Support
Now you have a choice

Linux

Applications

AMP

Applications

J2EE/.NET

Applications

Application Services

You can:

Have an alternative to current application platforms

Deploy any application certified on SUSE LINUX

Deploy open source applications with support for Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP

Deploy J2EE applications

Deploy .Net applications on open source Mono

Backed by a Robust Set of Partners

Software Partners

Hardware Partners

More on partners

This time last year – 42 technology partners in our PartnerNet program

Now 531 and growing – 90% new partners

This time last year – 203 products in Partner Product Guide

Now more than 1,600 products listed

792 “YES” certified, 455 “Ready” products – SUSE LINUX

"Our relationships with key Alliance Partners such as IBM, HP, Dell, Intel, SAP and Oracle/PeopleSoft have greatly expanded our reach and go-to-market opportunities in the past year. Market leaders and up-and-comers such as McAfee, Adobe, BEA, Bakbone, CA, Bull, Tarantella, Astaro, Polyserve, and others have broadened our customer offerings with their support of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server."

- Jack Messman, Novell CEO

Adding Linux Can Save You $$

Runs on lower cost hardware

Low or no cost applications

You are entitled to it if you have Maintenance/Upgrade Protection for NetWare

Eliminate unnecessary MS licenses

You can run file and print

...and you can run applications

Eliminate time and resources necessary to plug MS security gaps, reboot, eliminate downtime, increase productivity

Limitations of Linux
for Network Infrastructure

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server makes it easy to configure and run Linux for networking, however:

Services use different configuration techniques

Performance and scalability limitations of the services themselves

Clustering still limited to simple fail-over

Turning and package selection entirely manual

Multi-sever management requires manual scripting

Making Linux Ready for the Enterprise

Require world-class ecosystem

Staff must be educated on Linux

Require common platform for IHV & ISV certification
and support

Must be reliable, secure and manageable

The Road Leading to
Novell Open Enterprise Server

Novell Open

Enterprise

Server

SUSE LINUX Acquisition

Ximian® Acquisition

NLS 1.0

NetWare 6.0/6.5

“The Services”

+

The Glue

L

N

“The Services”

+

Open Source

N

L

“The Services”

(Subset)

Novell Open Enterprise Server

Unmatched Enterprise Security

Common Management

Reliable, Scalable, Enterprise Services

Thousands of Applications

Greater Choice and Flexibility

Realize Benefits from Open Source

Only Novell Open Enterprise Server
Offers Choice and Optimization

Avoid single operating system platform lock-in

Upgrade from NetWare, Windows and UNIX on your own terms

Benefit from the freedom of Linux and open source

Get more out of existing IT resources and skills

Expand your use of Linux for network infrastructure

Upgrade your business without disrupting your users

Optimization

“The Consolidation Utility is an excellent tool to move servers into a SAN environment. It has saved myself numerous hours for each server I have moved into our SAN.”
- Jeffrey Johnson, Georgia State University

Novell Open Enterprise Server
Services Available on Linux and NetWare

Novell Open

Enterprise

Server

Net Storage, Virtual Office

Novell Client for Linux

RPM, ZLM update manager

Novell iManager

Novell eDirectory™, IdM2

Novell iPrint

Novell Clustering

CIM

Novell iFolder, NSS

NW 6.5 SP3 OS

SLES 9 SP1

OES Services

The Value is in the Services

Novell Networking services

Add to the existing capabilities of Linux and NetWare

Enable seamless transition from NetWare to Linux

Novell Open Enterprise Server

It's Additive

Open Enterprise Server lets you introduce Linux at your own pace

Fits into your existing NetWare environment

Multiple new features for immediate benefit

No rip-and-replace

Visit the Migration/Installation Depot – try it out and win some stuff

An Easy Migration from NetWare

Supported Sources

NetWare 4.2, 5.1, 6.0, 6.5

Windows NT 4

Windows 2000/2003

Supported Destinations

OES-NetWare

OES-Linux

Migration Capabilities

Users (including user space restrictions)

Groups

File System (trustees and ownerships)

Containers (users and groups)

Printing

A Seamless Upgrade from NetWare

Works with directly attached storage

NetWare to NetWare

Rolling Upgrade

In-place Upgrade

Upgrades for NSS based clustered SANs

Zero down time

NetWare to NetWare

NetWare to Linux

Coexistence—No Rip and Replace

NetWare

OES

Linux

NetWare 4.2

NetWare 5.1

NetWare 6.0

NetWare 6.5

Win 2000/3

Win NT

Seamless file services integration (Windows, NetWare, UNIX, Linux)

Directory interoperability (NT, AD, Novell eDirectory, etc)

Directory Services Additive

NW 4.x: NDS 6.21

NW 5.x: NDS 7.62c, 8.58

NW 6.x: eDirectory 8.7.0, 8.7.1

Linux and Windows desktop support

* “Hype Cycle for Real-Time Infrastructure”, Thomas J. Bittman, Donna Scott, Debra Curtis, Robert E. Passmore, Ronni J. Colville, Milind Govekar, Gartner Research, 16 June 2004

Adding Value to Linux
Novell Open Enterprise Server

Novell Open Enterprise Server adds value to Linux in five key IT Infrastructure areas:

1. Management Scalability

2. Global Security

3. End-User Productivity

4. Deployment Agility

5. Business Continuance

IT Infrastructure, a collection of client devices, servers, storage, networks, databases and middleware supporting the delivery of business applications and IT-enabled business processes. -*Gartner

Novell Open Enterprise Server
Expands the Capabilities of Linux

Novell Open Enterprise Server

File access
through eDirectory

Deploy scenarios from

pre-configured images

iPrint enhances CUPS

Server Health Management network-wide view

NSS

Mount NSS

Open standard services, systems, and configuration

Preserving the Novell Experience
When Introducing Linux on the Server and Desktop

Novell Linux Desktop

Novell Client32™ for Windows

OES (NetWare)

OES(Linux)

Global Authentication

Login Scripts

Map Drives

Personal Files Backup

Shared Printing

Secure, scalable experience resulting from two decades of innovation

eDirectory on Linux server

NSS on Linux server

NCP™ on Linux server

iPrint Server on Linux

iFolder Server on Linux

Novell login script support on Linux server

Background authentication on Linux desktop

Novell login script support on Linux desktop

iPrint Client on Linux desktop

iFolder Client on Linux desktop

Linux printer drivers on NetWare

NCP support on Linux desktop

Capabilities of (2) and (3) combined

1

2

1

4

4

2

3

3

Gives you more flexibility

Choice of hardware

Choice of Platforms (NetWare or Linux based Open Enterprise Server or both)

Choice of applications (commercial or open source)

Introduce at your own pace

add new

upgrade

coexist

Flexibility and Choice

Lower capital investment

Reduced maintenance & support cost

Rapid deployment

Strong central management

Quick updates

Flexibility and standards

Interoperability

No rip and replace

CxOs

IT
Operations
Personal

In-House
Developers

Consolidate Operating Systems

One purchase provides support for file/print, networking infrastructure and applications

Same Linux code is in your data center, workgroup servers, and desktops

Consolidate skill set (you probably have resources who know Unix already)

Tap into a larger pool of professionals

De Montfort University

Approach

Situation

Business Results

23,000 students, 3,500 staff

Infrastructure built at dept. level

Range of OSs, varying support levels

Multiple Ids/ passwords

Consolidate IT infrastructure

Will be one of the first to deploy OES

Migrate Windows File and Solaris system to OES - Linux

Nsure IDM2, eDirectory and ZENworks

Centralized management

Expect to consolidate servers by 50%

Eliminate redundant admin.

Distribute updates 10 times faster

“We have been working with Linux for some time, but Novell brought many of the networking pieces that had been missing. Novell’s Open Enterprise Server is a perfect fit for us.”
De Montfort University

Customer and Press Response

“This is great! OES combines the world's best directory service 'eDirectory' with the world's best operating system 'Linux'!”
- Al Hidalgo, University of New Mexico Hospitals

“I really don't think the general press has given Novell's upcoming Open Enterprise Server the attention it deserves...it's a package unlike anything we've seen before. It's a full set of network services that will sit atop either of two vastly different computing kernels – the choice of which is yours.”

- Dave Kearns, Network World

“The Consolidation Utility is an excellent tool to move servers into a SAN environment. It has saved myself numerous hours for each server I have moved into our SAN.”
- Jeffrey Johnson, Georgia State University

Open Enterprise Server on Linux is simply an amazing product...has the potential to replace every Microsoft server in our enterprise which will simplify administration and reduce risk.
- Roger Fenner, Comair

Infrastructure Support for OES

Backup

VERITAS are targeting support for early Q2 2005

CA are targeting backup support for May ~ June 2005

Syncsort are targeting support for late Q1 2005

and will be issuing a press release during LinuxWorld Expo - Boston 2005

Infrastructure Support for OES

Backup

BakBone are targeting support for late Q1 2005

and will be issuing a press release during LinuxWorld Expo - Boston 2005

Legato are targeting support for Q2 2005

CommVault are targeting support for late Q1 2005

and will be issuing a press release during LinuxWorld Expo - Boston 2005

Infrastructure Support for OES

Anti-Virus

McAfee are targeting support for early Q2 2005

and will be distributing beta copies of their software for OES during LinxWorld

CA are targeting anti-virus support for late Q1 2005

Trend Micro are targeting support for Q2 2005

What does your environment look like?

You've got some multiple NetWare servers

Unix in your data center

NT for some applications – maybe file and print

You are managing a mixed environment

I Have NetWare. Why Upgrade?

Add Linux to your environment in a non-disruptive way

Gain access to new applications on Linux

Maximize hardware investments without replacing existing software

Reinvigorate your IT staff and attract new IT talent

Protect your NetWare investment by gaining access to new applications on Linux

Why Should I Leave Windows
for Novell Open Enterprise Server?

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

Lower IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across hardware platforms

Why Should I Ignore Red Hat?

Only Novell offers advanced services for deploying Linux in large enterprises

Novell has deep experience in servicing large enterprises; one of our core competencies is
technology migration and management

Novell has the ecosystem to support the needs of a global enterprise

RH

Novell Linux Framework

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server

Novell Open

Enterprise

Server

Novell Small
Business Suite

SUSE LINUX

Retail Solution

Data

Center

Solutions

Data Center

Computing

Novell Linux

Desktop

Enterprise

Desktop

Workgroup

Computing

Small Business

Computing

Retail POS

Applications

High Performance

Compute Clusters

Massive

Computing

Solutions

Resource Management (ZENworks)

Identity Management

1

Backed by Novell

Strategic Partnerships

Technical Support

Business and IT Consulting

Legal Protection

Training & Certification

Only Novell provides
the global ecosystem to truly support the needs of enterprise-class customers.

Value-Added Software

More details on the ecosystem

Over 100 local Novell offices

800+ Dedicated Linux support professionals

1,100 Novell Authorized Education Centers

4,800 Solution Provider Partners

200,000 Affiliated Developers

368 Hardware and Software Technology Partners

Only billion dollar Linux distribution company

Novell Open Enterprise Server
Reduces Your IT Costs

Use Linux without retraining your IT staff

Upgrade on your time schedule

Avoid “rip-n-replace” upgrades

Deploy the same code base from desktop to mainframe

Novell Open Enterprise Server
Reduces Infrastructure Risk

High availability reduces downtime

Lower vulnerability to viruses and security threats

Business continuity ensures your business can run

Enterprise-class support provides peace of mind

Novell Open Enterprise Server
A Strategic Platform for Growth

Gain flexibility for server consolidation

Build off a flexible platform that changes as your business changes

Leverage complete software stack from Novell

Legal protection through UNIX copyrights & patents

Things to Remember

1. Enterprise customers are adopting Linux

2. Novell has a strong commitment to supporting Linux in the Enterprise

3. Open Enterprise Server makes it easy to introduce Linux into your NetWare environment

Questions?

What is still too hard?

What is still too expensive?

What doesn’t work, but should?

What one thing that if you had would make a huge difference to your organization?

These are the seven problems that OES addresses for today’s IT executive.

There is no good way to back-up data, so when users PCs crash, they lose weeks of work. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an automatic back-up tool that captured all changes in a near real-time manner and archived them on a central server? That way, the user gets his data backed up, and you don’t have to worry whether he is doing it or not.

Network printing is still too expensive and difficult. How many helpdesk calls do you get each week asking for assistance with printer installation and drivers? How many senior execs just decide they can’t be bothered with network printers, so they just buy their own, thus adding one more printer to the hundreds or thousands that you already have to support?

Users are more mobile than ever – and they’re more demanding than ever. They expect to be able to access their data no matter where they are and in a format that works for the device they are currently using. You have to make it work, and you have to make sure it’s secure.

Related to this point, secure access is no longer optional. There are more hackers, more disgruntled employees, and more corporate spies than ever before. And then there’s all this new regulation, like Sarbanes-Oxley. How are you supposed to secure all this data?

Everyone knows disaster recovery is important, but where’s the disaster recovery solution that is customized to your business? Maybe you’re a Wall Street bank, where you need instant disaster recovery – and you’re willing to pay for it. But maybe you are a small manufacturing concern, where you can wait a couple hours for the system to get back up. Why should you pay the same price as that Wall Street bank?

More functionality at a lower price. This one is so obvious that we almost didn’t put it on the slide. Everyone is being asked to do more with less.

Finally, people are trying to simplify their lives, and IT executives are no different. By consolidating servers, vendors, and operating systems, you reduce the number of opportunities for things to go wrong, and when they inevitably do go wrong, you at least have a single throat to choke.

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

Don’t spend a lot of time on this slide

Punchline: Windows is going down, while Linux is growing & getting bigger & bigger pretty fast

More than just acquisition cost is driving Linux adoption

Flexibility – get to choose vendor, hardware, ISVs, grid, etc

Reliability -- points aren’t necessarily against NetWare, but rather showing how we’ve made Linux ready for prime-time

Security comes from security by transparency – everyone sees the code, so everyone can identify and fix security problems

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

SLES9 is an ideal foundation for Linux and open source computing in the enterprise.

Key features:

Unique management features
SLES9 makes it easy for IT to support Linux

Industries strongest security certification
Our security processes and capabilities have resulted in the industry's highest security certification.

Industry leading scalability and reliability
SLES9 reliability, performance and clustering capabilities which enable it to scale to meet changing user demand.

Robust application support
SLES9 can run third party ISV and custom, line of business applications

Backed by Novell
SLES9 is the only Linux server backed by a global ecosystem of support personnel, consultants, systems integrators/VARs and hardware and software vendors. Novell empowers businesses to deploy Linux with confidence.

SLES9 is an ideal foundation for open source computing in the enterprise.

Key features:

Unique management features
SLES9 makes it easy for IT to support Linux

Industries strongest security certification
Our security processes and capabilities have resulted in the industry's highest security certification.

Industry leading scalability and reliability
SLES9 reliability, performance and clustering capabilities which enable it to scale to meet changing user demand.

Robust application support
SLES9 can run third party ISV and custom, line of business applications

Backed by Novell
SLES9 is the only Linux server backed by a global ecosystem of support personnel, consultants, systems integrators/VARs and hardware and software vendors. Novell empowers businesses to deploy Linux with confidence.

Focus on the security that comes with EAL 3+ and the CCB

EAL 3+ is the most that everyone tries for

Be sure to mention that EAL 3+ was achieved on the xSeries in conjunction with testing and support from IBM.

Independent corroboration and audit of our dev process & code, represening insurance policy & confirmation that this is good, good stuff

CCB looked at sources of code, monitor dev process with integrity code through dev & test & release

CCB is an international body that continues to set the bar for development

Goes beyond security & goes to technical excellence

SLES9 has all the things you need for top-notch security (encryption, VPN, etc.) -- don’t take our word for it, take the word of someone else

In early 2004, SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 received the highest level of security and operations certification ever reached in the Linux market, Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 3+. The new SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 meets all of the requirements for the next certification level, EAL4+, and is on track to receive certification in the near future.

Benefits to Customers

Backing of independent, objective certification body

Worldwide acceptance by 14 nations

Easy comparison and measurement of functionality and procedure background

Linux buyer's job insurance

Today's buyer wants to know that as they deploy new hardware and applications, that they can ensure high performance and scalability.

SLES9 features key 2.6 Linux kernel capabilities offering far better throughput, memory management, resource allocation and clustering. SLES9 also supports the latest drivers for modern hardware which feature new performance features.

High reliability and fail-over ensures limited application downtime. SLES9 features reliability, availability and serviceability features meeting the most stringent demands.

Mission critical applications require zero downtime.

Heartbeatlets one node take over quickly when another fails, under a second in some cases.

NEW IN SLES9 - Hotplugservices let you add hardware just by plugging it in. Devices have a unique ID (not their mount point) so admins can refer to a specific piece of hardware iaf they need to.

NEW IN SLES9 - Cluster IP aliaslets a whole cluster use a single IP, so you don't have to change your applications to be cluster aware.

NEW IN SLES9 - Linux virtual server and User-Mode Linuxlet you run several instances of Linux at once.

DRDB: Builds a single disk from a group of networked disks. Like RAID1, but over a network. DRBD takes over the data, writes it to the local disk and sends it to the other host. On the other host, it takes it to the disk there. Improvement over Network Block Device (NBD) which can be hard to manage.

Differentiator:

EVMS lets you manage raid, drdb, logical volumes, and other disk-related tasks from a single tool.

DB Cluster file system support – Coming soon with ISV certification.

High-availability for oracle or SAP

Standards bodies like OSDL working on specs for DCL & CGL and SLES is built to meet or exceed both of the standards in each of those areas

Hotplug services for changing hardware

Talk about DCL & CGL

3rd party specifications

Meet with the core criteria – group 1

Like EAL, these are extensive specifications

We meet the core criteria for both of them

Suitability for this product to be platform that you can depend on

Clustering/hotplug help in the data center

Do two-node failover today

Benefits of being in a pure kernel 2.6 environment

Competition uses 2.4 environment with backported features

Not as clean, not as scalable

We scale orders of magnitude greater than a 2.4 base system

IT buyers need to know that Linux servers can scale to meet changing user demand. Mission critical systems must scale across processors and across machines.

SLES9 highlighted Kernel 2.6 scalability features include:

NPTL, the Native POSIX Thread Library, improves performance for heavily threaded applications.

Hyperthreading means a single CPU can pretend to be 2. This enables the system to dynamically tune system performance. Ideal for blade servers.

NUMA means faster access to various chunks of memory. Ideal for large-scale system deployments.

Infiniband – enables companies to build virtual machines out of commodity components

Wire together processes peripherals and storage

Looks like it is one virtual machine

Taking components building one large machine out of them that appears to be one large machine to the application

SLES9 delivers more business value from the same hardware. SLES9 enables IT to use sophisticated high-performance hardware features.

SLES9 is the first commercially supported Linux server to support native kernel 2.6 features. We've put a ton of engineering resources into kernel development.

SLES9 supports more processors: up to 512 in some cases. More devices: up to 32,000 disks. Up to 4 billion unique users. Over 65,000 user processes at once (and more in the kernel). Faster devices: Serial ATA, FireWire, USB2.

Flexible I/O scheduling for performance tuning to meet application need:

CFQ is completely fair queueing. it's the default. It provides extremely low latency and good throughput. Ideal usage: most cases

Deadlinesets a maximum time for any request, and provides extremely low latency and good throughput. Ideal usage: large databases.

Anticipatory is like CFQ, but it tries to guess what the system will want in the future, providing better throughput and latency. Ideal usage: file and web servers.

No-Opmeans it does nothing-- this assumes the disk is doing its own scheduling. Ideal usage: complicated storage device.

SLES9 features unique I/O tuning

Raw I/O is good to have for huge databases on a dedicated system.

Multipath is for high throughput and fail over. lets you pull from a disk through two channels at once, and if one fails you still have the other.

Build a product that you can deploy & manage across the enterprise. Get your updates

SLES9 is the foundation of OES, then Linux migration is the foundation of deploying Linux across your enterprise

Deploying something across 5 machines is different than 500 machinees

Centrally deploy & manage software

CIM support is for 3rd-party stuff

IT buyers often express concern that the cost benefits will be outweighed by the lack of Linux management capabilities. In fact, most analysts surveys report that this tops the list of CIO concerns for broader Linux deployments.

SLES9's YaST family of management tools and its compatibility with ZENworks Linux Management (ZLM), formerly Red Carpet Enterprise, give IT buyers unparalleled manageability features.

Novell has many Linux offerings, but the foundation of all of them is the SUSE LINUX Enterprise OS – It's a rigorously developed, strenously tested, enterprise operating system. It's a completely open source OS, developed and supported by Novell and guaranteed for five years or maintenance and code updates from the time of release (August 2005).

SUSE LINUX Enterprise sits underneath each of our task specific stacks and solutions.

Now why is this important? Why not just get Linux off the internet?

I mentioned our major products before, all build on SUSE LINUX Enterprise. Each of these products fits into a different part of your organization, and performs a different task. SO each product includes a different stack of packages that run on top of the SUSE LINUX Enterprise OS.

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server includes a stack of opensource tools for server management, clustering, security and development. We think it's the worlds best application hosting platforms

Novell Open Enterprise Services includes several open source components plus the propritery suite of enterprise-class services that you've come to depend on – File/Print; eDirectory; iFolder, Indentity, etc.....

And Novell Linux Desktop contains a blend of open source and freely distrubuted proporietary packages designed to for end user computing across the enterprise.

This is a diagram of the development processes that go into SUSE LINUX Enterprise (and all other Novell Linux offerings). We start by doing exactly what I described earlier. We get Linux and important Linux packages off the Internet. That the bue box on the left – Linux off the Internet.

Lots of packages, developed by lots of diferent people, not integrated, and not nearly ready for enterprise compuiting.

Novell/SUSE take the packages and refine them, fix them, integrate the and eventually create a common code base of packages that all work together seamlessly. Thousands of bug fixes and patches are created as part of this process and of course – this is open source – all those patches and fixes are returned to the community.

The unique Autibuild methodology takes this common code base and delivers executable packages for all the major enterprise plaforms – When we delivered the SLES 9 packages to IBM for certification, they told us it was the first time any vendor had delivered all the packages for all the platforms simultaneously.

Then we begin to test. Our testing, which features both automated and manual regression elements, was built in conjunction with IBM, Oracle and Intel. That way we're not only meeting our acceptance standards, we're meeting the acceptance standards of those key vendors. Then, when we think it's ready, we give it to the Novell SUPER Lab and they pound on it. Only when the Novell SUPER Lab says it's ready do we give it to you.

So... getting Linux off the Internet is a little like staying in the blue box.... Enterprises need more, and now they can have it.

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

Open Enterprise Server provides very strong application support and is a real alternative to other platforms available today.

Within Open Enterprise Server you have SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (Intel-based x86 platform) and the ability to deploy many applications that are certified on this platform

The open source community provides many applications that run on the AMP (Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP) foundation

You can also deploy any number of J2EE applications

With the open source Mono architecture, you will be able to run any Microsoft .Net application on Linux

With this broad range of application support, you have many choices and more flexibility to provide the application services that support your business.

What if your only choice is to run a Microsoft application. Even in this situation, Open Enterprise Server can help by supporting that application through a scaleable, secure and reliable storage environment for application data.

SUSE technology partners develop software, business applications and vertical solutions based on SUSE LINUX. They agree to check their developments in regular intervals for functionality and performance. Numerous hardware vendors also support the SUSE LINUX operating system.

A list of certified applications for SUSE LINUX is available on Novell PartnerNet.

Expansion of world of things that you can do with Novell because of whom Novell brings to the table

See that the software you currently run on NW has upgrade path

Gain access that you can run on a Linux kernel without having to give up the software that you already use and trust New software is that they can now access

The hardware vendors

Market power & value proposition that expands when you look at the hardware vendors who have signed up to support SLES.

When was the last time that HP, IBM, Dell had a Novell bundle on their price list?

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

WHY CHOOSE NOVELL FOR LINUX-BASED SOLUTIONS?

While customers are actively considering Linux in the data center and remain keenly curious about the viability of Linux at the desktop, they cite concerns in four areas that must be addressed before they are convinced that Linux is enterprise-ready:

Linux must be surrounded by a world-class support ecosystem

It must be clearly reliable, secure and manageable

Their staff must be educated on Linux

Their other major platform suppliers must interoperate seamlessly with Linux

Novell answers these concerns in full. With the completion of the SUSE acquisition, we will be the only major software company with a Linux distribution and the worldwide ecosystem to support it. As a pioneer company in business network systems, Novell has both the enterprise experience and infrastructure systems required to make Linux viable for the high-end enterprise services.

Novell’s Linux offerings, including Nterprise Linux Services, are designed to run on the leading commercial Linux distributions, Red Hat and SUSE Linux. However, the completion of the acquisition of SUSE Linux will complete the stack of Novell solutions which now span from the desktop to the datacenter – including servers, a comprehensive desktop with an office productivity suite, systems management tools, a standards-based development environment, and security and collaboration solutions - the most complete open source application stack available. We’ll continue to offer services on the NetWare kernel to customers who want that or who are not interested in migrating away from NetWare at this time. But we’re offering an alternative to those who want to take a Linux path.

Novell’s Linux offerings build upon the security, reliability and global enterprise-level support Novell is known for to give customers the freedom of choice, access to the rapidly growing number of open source applications on the market, and lower total cost of ownership provided by Linux.

The server that solves all of these problems.

OES is the collection of the same great NetWare services that you know and love – and we’ve added a few new ones to the collection.

We’ve taken the services and abstracted them away from the platform.

Now you can run those same services on a NetWare kernel, a Linux kernel, or any combination of the two

It’s your choice

You can implement Linux in your organization on your time schedule, and it will seamless to your end user. You’ll even gain access to all the new applications that are being written for the Linux platform.

Or you can ignore Linux altogether and just keep running the latest and greatest NetWare services.

Combine the best of open source & commercial technology

Deploy enterprise networking services on your choice of kernel – NetWare or Linux or both

Leverage identity driven management tools

Exploit the strengths of SUSE LINUX Server 9 as an application server and open source platform

Introduction

• Increasingly, businesses are seeking to expand their use of Linux and open source, and reap the benefits of these technologies in more complex, mission-critical environments.

• Novell brings a complete enterprise software ecosystem to Linux, providing technical support, training, consulting, indemnification and an extended partner ecosystem IT buyers demand when deploying a strategic platform.

• Novell’s SUSE LINUX products are built for performance and reliability and offer unsurpassed manageability and security capabilities.

• With hundreds of software engineers, support staff and consultants dedicated to Linux and open source, Novell’s commitment to ensuring our customers’ success is unparalleled.

• Novell is changing the industry, empowering businesses to deploy Linux and open source with confidence.

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

It’s easy to uprade from NetWare to OES

Even better, it’s transparent to your end users

No disruptions to end user experience

End users keep drive mappings, printing, network access

Upgrade is seamless

New services just “become available”

You can even upgrade from NW to OES, and the introduce Linux in a managed fashion that works for your organization, if you want to do it.

Open Enterprise Server makes it easy for you to upgrade your environment. These seamless upgrades are made possible due to Novell Storage Services (NSS). There is no need to move your data. All your meta data is preserved (file rights, trustee assignments, use quotes, etc. You can perform in place upgrades from NetWare to NetWare or from NetWare to Linux.

In the clustered environment, services (including NSS volumes) fail over to other servers in the cluster. After upgrading the server, the administrator can use iManager to move those volumes back to the original server with no disruption to users. This means you can perform NetWare to NetWare or NetWare to Linux upgrades with no downtime.

Coexistence - No Rip and Replace

The option to deploy Open Enterprise Server services on NetWare or Linux is certainly an important value prop by itself. Open Enterprise Server goes beyond that by guaranteeing that these services can coexist side by side in the same tree or environment, enabling hybrid systems. This ability enables agile deployment of Open Enterprise Server services when you need them on the platform of your choice that makes sense to you. This full benefit is realized through Open Enterprise Server technology that enable common experiences.

Linux can be used for two things

Application platform

IT infrastructure

Linux is great at application hosting/serving

IT infrastructure still isn’t mature enough to handle the needs of the complex enterprise.

This is where OES comes in, by bring NW services to the Linux platform in five key areas

Management Scalability

Global Security

End-User Productivity

Deployment Agility

Business Continuance

This slide gets to the core of OES

It’s what Novell can offer and no one else can

Not Red Hat

Not Microsoft

It takes Linux and adds the enterprise-class networking services that you need to manage a complex infrastructure

Moving Clockwise from the top

Mount NSS (Novell Storage Services) to have secure, highly available access to your data

Use iPrint to expand upon the CUPS-based printing that you know works, but maybe isn’t the most intuitive interface for your end users

Leverage open standards and configurations to customize your environment to your needs

Use Server Health Management to view all the servers on your network and check their health at a glance

Deploy preconfigured images that do what you need to them to do, instead of selecting a bunch of different packages and having to design a server yourself

Manage access to files at a granular level through eDirectory – the most robust, powerful directory available

All of this is tightly integrated with both the Linux kernel and the NetWare kernel.

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

INCREASING BUSINESS AGILITY THROUGH FLEXIBILITY AND CHOICE

Business and IT executives and staff will find Linux to be an attractive alternative to existing proprietary systems.

CIOs will appreciate the combination of Linux with Intel-based machines (costing a fraction of proprietary Unix machines), they can dramatically reduce costs while providing equivalent or superior performance. However, cost benefits are not completely dependent on replacing hardware. In fact, Linux enables an organization to re-purpose their existing hardware while simultaneously significantly reducing license and maintenance costs. In addition, the increased number of available support options will also enable CIOs to garner an appropriate level of support services at a competitive price.

IT Operations personnel will recognize Linux’s ability to provide an infrastructure that is standardized, reliable, secure, stable, and provides good price performance. Linux enables rapid deployment and strong centralized control, with update packages readily available at Internet speeds.

In-house applications development personnel will appreciate Linux’s ability to support a loosely coupled topology, allowing companies to rip out undesired elements without harming the entire infrastructure, minimizing disruption. Also, open source software is standards-based and freely available, helping to increase interoperability.

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

CB Richard Ellis – The perfect example of simplifying branch office management and reducing IT costs

CB Richard Ellis is the world’s largest commercial real estate firm with 250 principal office and between 400-500 satellite offices. They were spending about $300,000 a year for outsourced IT support for these many offices. They were also spending heavily for tape backups at these offices and still didn’t have a solid disaster recovery plan in place.

CB Richard Ellis chose NetWare and Nterprise Branch Office, included in NetWare. With Nterprise Branch Office they were able to centralize their directory and simplify the process of managing the authentication of branch office users as well as the services provided to them. Printing in branch offices is now a snap thanks to Novell iPrint, also included in Nterprise Branch Office. Management is now centralized and backups to the data center are automatic.

With NetWare and Nterprise Branch Office in place, CB Richard Ellis no longer needs to rely on outsourced IT support and installation expenses in the branches have dropped 60%. By centralizing and automating the backup, CB Richard Ellis expects to save $840,000. They anticipate a return on their investment in 3-6 months.

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

So as you can see, Novell has an ecosystem in place that can meet the challenges of virtually any enterprise..

Implement Linux and open source technology with enterprise-class software and support

You’ve probably deployed Linux already for applications

Extend the benefits of Linux to IT infrastructure

Escape from the repeated Windows security problems

Patch of the month is very expensive and also expensive if you don’t apply in time

Avoid Rip-n-Replace. non-disruptive transition to Linux, open source

Avoid “rip-n-replace” in upgrading

With LDAP-based services, you can leave your current infrastructure in place and add new services on top

Lower your IT staffing costs by consolidating skills across multiple hardware platforms

Proven history of reliability

Thousands of “open source eyes” review the code and respond quickly to problems

More than 70,000 open source applications available

Partner with today’s industry leaders – and tomorrow’s

[ASK] How many of your customers have Linux deployed somewhere in their enterprise? What are they using it for? A web server? An application server? What about other open source software like Apache?

Today we want to look at your expanding service opportunities around Linux and other open source software. As more and more of our customers adopt more Linux and open source applications in their enterprise, your knowledge and support is critical.

Today we want to look specifically at the challenges our customers are facing in this arena as well as the opportunities that Novell provides you to help solve these challenges.

The entire presentation today should take about 3 hours--with breaks! We do have house rules: TURN THE SOUND OFF ON YOUR CELLPHONES, HOLD QUESTIONS TO THE END and HAVE FUN!

Transition: Let’s start with Novell as a company.

Business Reasons for Adding Linux to Your NetWare Environment

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