OHM Summer 2010

The Open Horizons community is very proud to present the eleventh 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: 04 Managing Resources In A Pacemaker Cluster - Sander van Vugt - Subscibers ONLY

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

People working in the IT industry know this to be true - within our world the only constant is “change”. Big changes, like the shift of power from IBM to Microsoft and then from Microsoft to something new, and smaller changes, like the fading away of NetWare into the background and the growth of SUSE Linux as its successor.

Whilst attending the Nordic Open Horizons Summit, I met Tommy Mikkelsen. In a relaxed setting with a view on the fjord near the hotel, we talked about Tommy's involvement in the Open Horizons community. It was a bit tough getting started, but after a few short questions and answers, it became an interesting conversation.

In Identity Management, what counts is to manage the different entities within an organisation in a smart way. Novell is one of the major players in this area, along with Oracle, IBM and Computer Associates. Currently, Identity Management accounts for 30% of Novell’s revenues and so the announcement of the new Identity Management 4 release is an important event for Novell. Recently I interviewed Johan Rosius,
Vice President Identity and Security for Novell in EMEA. This is the man who is ensuring that Identity Management is a success in Europe.

For over 80 years the Uvex brand has been synonymous with top-quality and innovative products providing head-to-toe protection for sports, leisure and work. Founded in 1926 and still a family run enterprise, the manufacturing expertise in the north Bavarian town of Fürth is built upon decades of experience and the consistent application of new technologies. For example, the lightest safety glasses in the world, the “uvex super g”, weighing just 18 grams.

The TTP is an international group of schools, colleges and universities that have made a substantial commitment to campus IT implementations using Novell technology. TTP was started in the early 1980’s with 3 universities whose goal was to share their networking experiences in order to leverage the knowledge of their diverse campus computing environments. The group has now grown to be a more comprehensive group of several thousand loyal Novell education customers from around the world who share information with each other and with the software developers and business units at Novell. Perhaps no other group has more  influence on software development at Novell than the TTP members.

2010 is shaping up to be an exciting year for Collaboration at Novell, with a number of major releases scheduled across a number of products. We have already seen the release of Teaming 2.1 in February, and Novell Conferencing at BrainShare EMEA in May. A number of BrainShare attendees are already using Novell Pulse in beta, and we launched the new Mobility Pack Technical Preview during BrainShare Salt Lake City in March.

Novell and the Linux Professional Institute announced during February 2010 that a new agreement will allow all certified LPIC-1 candidates to automatically qualify for the Novell Certified Linux Administrator  certification as well. This benefit is extended to all candidates without any additional examinations and free of any costs. Under this agreement Novell also agreed to add the LPIC-1 learning objectives to the current Novell CLA certification course. This agreement again highlights the quality of the Novell certifications and reaffirms the importance of the certification step in skills development. Numerous research surveys have shown that technical staff who complete certification tests have a higher earning potential than those not certifying, even if the skill level and experience levels are the same.

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.

Have a look at this back cover advertisement by Novell.