OHM Spring 2010

The Open Horizons community is very proud to present the tenth edition of the Open Horizons Magazine. On this page you can find selection of articles from this exciting new magazine for public viewing. Like always most of the articles of our Spring edition are publicly available, subscribers of the magazine can login above to access the following articles:

This is the Index & Information page of the Open Horizons Magazine

Novell BrainShare is back! Not just once, but twice! While in 2009 BrainShare was canceled for a number of reasons, in 2010 Novell is back and not just with one BrainShare in Salt Lake City (US), but also with a European BrainShare in Amsterdam (NL). That is great news for the many BrainShare fans around the world, or not, as some of them now will have to make a choice, should I go to Salt lake City or to Amsterdam? Or both?

Open Horizons is a community organisation that has as its main goal the interests of its members. We promote the use of Novell and supplementary software solutions in the Novell ecosystem through the publication of the Open Horizons magazine, events like the annual EMEA and regional summits as well as numerous other events, including the IT in Action Tour in EMEA locations from South Africa to Bulgaria.

Flexibility. This is a word that you will often hear used by Endpoint Management vendors to describe the deployment and management of their solutions. However, what does it really mean, and how many of our competitors can actually lay claim to this term?

As a Senior Product Manager for SUSE Linux Enterprise, I would like to provide a brief insight into the planning and decision making process that led to the upcoming Service Pack 1 of SUSE Linux Enterprise.

Your administrators need root access to OES2 and Linux systems in order to perform their jobs. Providing this access whilst protecting your data from malicious or accidental damage can be a challenge. To address the challenge, you need superuser privilege management; you need Novell Privileged User Manager (PUM). This article will give you a short introduction to PUM.

The January release of the Novell File Management Suite was the catalyst for a number of storage analysts to begin discussions with Novell on its approach to a vexing problem in organisations today— the exponential growth in file-based data. Analysts at Forrester, IDC, Gartner, and other research organisations have been intrigued to learn how the Novell File Management Suite ties policies, identity, and directory events to automate storage cleanup, tiering, archiving, and more.

Have a look at this success story from Novell about Royal Danish Defence College. Securing a nation which is spread over many islands surrounded by seas and rivaling neighbours is no easy task. It is therefore not so strange that in Denmark they take this task very seriously. All over the country you can find remnants of the past, ranging from ancient Viking strongholds and medieval castles to more modern fortifications, like the Kronborg Castle.

The Collaboration Portfolio within Novell continues to expand and accelerate. We have more products and solutions shipping, or scheduled to ship, than ever before. Engineering is working closely with Product Management and Product Marketing to make sure we understand each deliverable and its impact on other groups and our customers and partners.

Previous releases of GroupWise have always followed the pattern of releasing new functionality in major releases with bug fixes delivered in minor releases or service packs (e.g. GW 7.0.1, 7.0.2 etc). GroupWise 8.0.2 is different. With this SP2 release Novell has responded to significant customer requests as well as lined up with the shorter release cycle of Novell Teaming.

Novell Data Synchronizer is one of the essential elements of the Novell Open Collaboration Platform, as it will collect data from many different sources and synchronise this data to other sources using so-called connectors. This would for example allow you to synchronise your contacts from SugarCRM to the GroupWise Address Book or the other way around, changes made in GroupWise data such as contacts, appointments and email can be synchronised to almost any other solution.

You may have heard or read that phrase before. You might have seen the demonstration at the Enterprise 2.0 show in San Francisco last November where Novell was on stage with Google, demonstrating how well Pulse integrates with Google Wave. Novell has done quite a bit of marketing buzz around Pulse which has been well received across the board.

By the time this article is published, Teaming 2.1 will have been available for several weeks. Novell Teaming 2.1 provides some great new functionality, the most notable is the new mobile user interface. The 2.1 release is the first quick release after version 2.0 became available in mid 2009 and shows that we are executing on the strategy we've been communicating around Teaming. For those of you that are not aware, through 2011, Novell will be releasing a new version of Teaming about every 6 months. Instead of one big release and some support packs, we are bringing improvements to you much faster. Each update will include bug fixes as well as product improvements.

Collaborative workspaces provide collaboration and information services for self-directed groups. They facilitate teamwork among distributed employees and offer integrated alternatives to the proliferation of stand-alone collaboration tools.

When this directive first came out I did not pay too much attention to it, but subsequently two incidents changed my mind and made me search for a solution. Incident one was a call from one of my customers asking me if EU Directive 2006/43/EC had consequences for his IT environment. The second experience was a personal one: I survived a tax examination by the Austrian government. Both incidents have

As I was born as a man, I will never experience the pain and joy of giving birth to my own child. At least, that is what my wife says. However, when as parents, you see that delightful gift lying in the cradle, you might not immediately recognise how much time and energy you will spend on changing dirty diapers, ensuring that they are well feed, keeping them healthy, picking up the pieces after their first lost love and then seeing them leave the nest to begin a life on their own. Small children grow up quickly and you can only do so much to help them mature and become happy adults. Now as this is not a parenting magazine, you might wonder why I am bringing this up?

Let's be honest: when we started our community in February 2004, the main focus was on GroupWise and that why this original project was called GroupWiseR. When we changed that name to Open Horizons a few years ago the goal was to step into other solution areas as well and that is exactly what has happened. I must confess that this Open Horizons magazine has a few articles about areas that are “not my cup of tea”.

Arriving in Stockholm, I realised that the next two days were going to be unlike anything that I had experienced before. Amongst other things, one of the reasons for this trip was to interview Soren Bergmark, who is President of Open Horizons Sweden.

In the old days, an administrator had to read a license file to be able to work with his favourite server operating system. Nowadays, when working with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and its derivatives, you need to go on-line and register your server in the Customer Centre. The procedure by itself is not too hard, but if things go wrong, it may get tough. In this article you'll learn what happens when you are register a server and what to do if things go wrong.

In the old days, an administrator had to read a license file to be able to work with his favourite server operating system. Nowadays, when working with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and its derivatives, you need to go on-line and register your server in the Customer Centre. The procedure by itself is not too hard, but if things go wrong, it may get tough. In this article you'll learn what happens when you are register a server and what to do if things go wrong.

Have a look at these advertisements from several partners.

Have a look at this back cover advertisement by Novell.