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Novell recently published a press release of a solution deployment at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) that included Novell Storage Manager. You can read how the university "...reduced storage management time from 40 days to one day."
We posted earlier that Kanaka for Mac 2.0 would be available in April. Well, we've moved the release date to May 4. We'll be posting plenty of news about the new product next week.
It was just a little over three months ago that we
introduced Novell File Reporter 1.0 during the launch of the Novell File
Management Suite. Following the release, we immediately set to work on making
Novell File Reporter be able to report on the file-based data stored on NAS devices
in Active Directory and file-based data in server clusters in eDirectory and
Active Directory. Released today, Novell File Reporter 1.0.1 does this through
the introduction of proxy agents that work in conjunction with NFR Agents.
If you have Novell File Reporter in a network environment with Novell Storage Manager, you will need to update to Novell File Reporter 1.0.1 as well as the new Novell Storage Manager 2.5.2 (also released today) to utilize proxy agents.
We’re pleased to announce our plans for releasing Kanaka for Mac 2.0 this month!
Kanaka for Mac 2.0 will provide Macintosh OS X workstation users automated single login access to Novell eDirectory storage resources through flexible login options. As with previous versions, the Kanaka Plug-in component will allow users to simultaneously log in to the workstation and mount storage resources through a single username and password. Kanaka’s newest component, the Kanaka Desktop Client, will allow users to access network storage resources after they have logged in as a local user to the Mac OS X workstation.
Additional product enhancements will include an updated Kanaka Plug-in Console (formerly known as the Kanaka Dashboard), and support for Macintosh OS X “Snow Leopard” including 64-bit support.
For those of you who did not get a sneak peek of Kanaka for Mac 2.0 at BrainShare, here is a look at the login screen for the new Kanaka Desktop Client.
The Kanaka Desktop Client is something that some of our
customers have been wanting for a long time. In fact, a few select customers
are using it now and love it.
If you’re a Kanaka customer and up to date with your Maintenance agreement, you’ll be getting the new version real soon.
If you are tired of painful manual configuration process involved in integrating your Macs in your Novell network, then Kanaka is for you! Learn more about Kanaka by visiting our product website.
The IT Central lab assignments at Novell BrainShare 2010 last week had Condrey
Corporation people dispersed among the three tables and six workstations
showing components of the Novell File Management Suite. As the author of the Novell File Reporter documentation, I was asked to work at the eDirectory and
Active Directory Novell File Reporter demo workstations.
In a very short amount of time, it was easy to show the power of Novell File Reporter with its ability to generate reports among the server volumes of large enterprises, so that administrators could access information such as duplicate file reports, owner reports, access date age reports, filename extension reports, and more.
I recall talking to one woman who worked for a state government. Among all of her responsibilities, she had a task of periodically going through peoples’ home directories, determining which files were non-work related files and then removing them. I asked her how long this takes, and she didn’t want to say, but responded that she had now learned who the biggest storage abusers were and really focused on those individuals’ home directories, so it didn't take as longs as it used to take. She said that a few people had a real problem of storing a large amount of JPEG files.
I then asked her if she wanted the ability to quickly see how many JPEG files were being stored and where they were located. In no time, I showed her how to generate a filename extension report using Novell File Reporter. I then asked her if it would be useful to know what all of her workers were storing. She replied that this would indeed be useful, so I showed her how to generate a user report showing what all of the users in our demo network were storing.
She is just one of the many people who requested that I get back to them this week on Novell File Reporter.
To learn more about Novell File Reporter click here.
BG
