Novell Filr Presentation GWAVACon 2012

1. Novell Filr ®
Secure Mobile File Access for the Enterprise

2. How users used to access files
• Mostly in the office and inside the firewall
• Sometimes remote using a slow VPN connection
• All file sharing managed by IT
• Users turned e-mail into a file server
Now I got 82
e-mails about
this document
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3. Then two things happened …
Users got exposed to what file sharing
can be like – and they loved it!
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4. New challenges for IT
• Corporate files copied to cloud services
• Inside the firewall access controls don’t apply
• Potentially exposing sensitive information
• Regulatory compliance at risk
Our
confidential
files are all
over the net
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5. Cloud services challenges
• Outages = NO file access
• Potential security breaches
• High bandwidth consumption
• Time consuming up/downloads
• Additional management efforts
• Regulatory compliance issues
Conclusion: cloud file services
are not viable for most enterprises
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6. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
• 90% of employees do it already
• IT cannot stop this trend
• Cost savings and productivity gains
• Cannot be left un-managed
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7. Mobile device management (MDM)
• Used to secure, monitor, manage and support devices
• Helps minimize cost and downtime
• Reduces risk
What about
file access
and sharing?
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8. Strong demand for a file solution
• Easy access to corporate files
• The ability to freely share
• A Dropbox-like experience
• Files stay in the datacenter
• Sharing has to be managed
• Current file locations exposed
• Existing access controls honored
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9. Use case examples
The flex guy
Bob is on the road and need to make some
urgent changes to a document using his iPad
The team lead
Tina needs to setup a new project folder for
her team to share all related documents
The marketeer
John needs to tweet a link to the latest partner
program guide
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10. Introducing Novell Filr
Only Novell Filr provides
secure mobile device
access to files stored on
your file servers
Home directories
and server folders
integrated, with
access controls and
quotas honored
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11. Novell Filr overview
Clients Filr Servers
• Soft appliance on VMware
• Self contained VM option
• External MySQL db and Search VMs
• Windows XP, 7, 8 • OES 2 SP3, 11 SP1
• MAC* OS X 10.7, 10.8 • Web based management • Windows Server 2003,
• LDAP user/group provisioning Windows Server 2008 R2
• iOS 5.x, 6.x (iPhone, iPad)
• Shared folders and home directory • File system rights and
• Android 2.3, 4.x
integration quotas honored
• Web access
• Policy controlled sharing • No server agents or schema
extensions required
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12. File access in Novell Filr
Consistent experience
Your personal The files and • Windows XP, 7, 8
files (can be folders you are • MAC* OS X 10.7, 10.8
mapped to your currently sharing • iOS 5.x, 6.x (iPhone, iPad)
home directory) with others
• Android 2.3, 4.x
• Web access
See what’s new Files and folders Shared folders
(new shares, other users have assigned to you
updates, shared with you by the IT admin
comments) (G:Finance)
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13. Novell Filr timeline
2012 2013
Novell Filr v1 Tech Preview (December) Beta FCS v1 (April)
• Initially a select set of • Open to anyone who wants • OES customers are
customers and partners to test-drive Filr entitled (equal # of users)
• Expanding to a larger group • Product has gone through • Standalone product
over time initial Q/A testing on pricelist
• Product is code complete • Lighthouse deployments • 1-User 1-Year
Subscription License +
• Build refreshes will be Priority Maintenance
provided
• Price to be announced
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Changes are periodically made to the information herein. These changes may be
incorporated in new editions of this document. Novell, Inc. may make improvements
in or changes to the software described in this document at any time.
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