The Novell File Management Suite is a solution that helps organizations intelligently manage file storage using identity-driven policies. It utilizes Novell Storage Manager to automate storage policies connected to user identity, Novell File Reporter for file discovery and reporting, and Novell Dynamic File Services for auto-tiering of data without impacting users. The suite helps control storage costs, understand data better, automate administration, and unlock hidden value in file systems.

1. Novell File Management Suite
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Use Cases
Ross Chevalier Greg White
CTO - Americas, Novell Sr. Technology Specialist
President, Novell Canada gwhite@novell.com
rchevalier@novell.com

2. Agenda
Novell File Management Suite Overview
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Business Benefits
Use Cases
Summary
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3. Introducing the Novell File ®
Management Suite
• The Novell File Management Suite is a solution to the
universal pain of growing data storage costs and chaos.
NFMS helps organizations intelligently manage their data
resources based on identity driven policies, using three
major Novell technologies:
1. Novell Storage Manager
> Automated storage policies that can be connected to user identity and source-
specific data
2. Novell File Reporter
> Comprehensive file discovery and reporting capabilities applied to users and
groups
3. Novell Dynamic File Services for Windows Servers
> Auto tiering of data to less expensive storage areas, without degrading the user
experience
> Support for Windows Server 2003 / 2008 and Microsoft Active Directory
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4. File Management Suite Differentiators
• Until now, organizations have had to manage files the same but not every
file has the same value to the organizations.
• Now, with Novell File Management Suite, organizations can manage their
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file storage intelligently: the least important files don't need to be treated
the same as the most important files
• Unique characteristics unique to Novell File Management Suite include:
– Identity Foundation – Automates the management of file-based storage using
identity-based policies
– Granularity – Addresses data storage challenges at the file (and not simply the block
or volume) level
– Transparency – Streamlines storage practices without impacting the end user
– Interoperability – Works across Linux, Windows and NetWare , helping customers
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manage the their Novell and Microsoft storage infrastructure from a single point
– Scalability – capable of handling upwards of 80 million files in disparate file systems
across multiple platforms
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5. The Iceberg in the Data Center
Could it sink you?
structured data
unstructured 80% of all digital
data data is unstructured
Unstructured data
is growing by 60%
CAGR
Unstructured data
resists utilization
and reuse
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6. The Novell Way to Manage Storage ®
Novell Storage
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Manager provisions
storage based
on Identity Novell Dynamic
and Policy File Services
Novell Dynamic
File Services
Novell Storage Novell File allows seamless
Manager Reporter tiering of storage
infrastructures
based on policy.
File Reporter policies Novell File Reporter produces storage
govern life-cycle inventory reports that the administrator
automation and can use to initially construct and later
compliance with regard fine-tune policies in Dynamic File
to file system data. Services and Storage Manager.
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7. NFMS Alignment
--- Collaboration --- --- Storage ---
Secure/
Create Locate Access Share Manage Monitor
Recover
-- Workplace Productivity Apps -- • Device Mgmt • Auditing • Back-up
-- Content Creation Apps -- • Provisioning • Reporting • Recover
-- Messaging/ICE -- • Tiering/HSM • Restore
-- Traditional File Sharing -- • Data Lifecycle Mgmt
-- Teamsites -- • Archiving
• Grooming
-- Web 2.0 -- • Information Lifecycle Mgmt
-- New Sharing Models -- • De-duping; single-inst
Intelligence Policies
Identity/
Edirectory – Active Directory
Directory Svc.
Data NSS – Posix – NTFS Team Sites/
E-mail
Residence File Systems Web 2.0
Block Device/
EMC – NetApp – Xiotech – HP – Dell
File System
Vendors
SAN – Simple Server
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8. Business Benefits
• Understand your data better (aka Know Thyself)
• Enhance your existing file management with easy
implementation and administration, even in mixed
environments
• Automate your data storage administration in today’s
regulated business environment
• Control your data by its relevance to your business
• Unlock hidden value that’s buried deep in file systems
to enable collaboration
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9. Use Case 1: Unchecked Data
Proliferation
Over time, it is very typical for file systems to be
ignored despite other architectural redesigns to
accommodate an organization's growth. A large
organization (LE) is likely to still maintain one huge
volume for all its file storage. Typically an organization
will add 10% of its storage capacity each year through
disk purchases. The ability to eliminate that annual
purchase by merely understanding the data picture
better, and intelligently allocating existing hardware
resources will result in immediate (year 1) savings.
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10. Use Case 2: Security and Compliance
Requirements
In distributed environments, file storage is often
granted and managed based on local administration,
not centralized policies. This creates problems for
security and compliance officers who must
demonstrate consistency and logic to meet business
requirements. Being able to centrally compile,
analyze, plan and execute data retention policies will
be a very valuable capability for many organizations
under regulatory pressure.
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11. Use Case 3: Data Migration
When data must be migrated for hardware refreshes,
software upgrades or migrations, or other reasons,
there are costly and inconvenient administration
challenges, such as scheduling windows within
which to move the data. Employing a storage
management solution that can actually migrate data
in the background without requiring a scheduled
maintenance window would be a huge benefit to
business and IT.
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12. Use Case 4: Rapid Headcount
Turnover
Case Study 1
– A regional bank with 230 offices and 5000 users
used to take up to 5 days to provision a new
employee with file storage. With Novell Storage
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Manager, that set up was reduced to under one day.
Although turnover at the company is insignificant,
employees do relocate to different branches and
into new roles. NSM was able to simplify migration
of user data and storage through policy-driven
actions associated with the user's identity.
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13. Use Case 4: Rapid Headcount
Turnover
Case Study 2
– A large Texas school system ascertained they
were spending $5 to set up a new user and $2 for
every change to the system. After deploying
Novell Storage Manager, the cost to deploy a new
user dropped to under $1.
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14. Use Case 4: Rapid Headcount
Turnover
Case Study 3
– The Data Center of today is increasingly virtualized
and intelligent, allowing for automation to drive
efficiencies in hardware, power and cooling. Data
Center owners are planning to utilize cloud
computing for further efficiencies. A suite of policy-
driven file management tools can support the
intelligent data center.
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15. Customer Testimonials
“We live and die by Novell storage solutions. The
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Dynamic Storage Technology component of Novell
Open Enterprise Server enabled us to easily move
more than a terabyte of less frequently accessed data
to inexpensive hardware, reducing our hardware costs
alone by 60 percent. That’s a huge payoff right there.”
Michael Glenn, Sr. IT Manager, Ohio Court of Claims
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16. Customer Testimonials
“The Novell Storage Manager and Dynamic
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Storage technology are well positioned to address
emerging challenges. The world must know about
this technology.”
Noemi Greysdorf, IDC “Novell Delivers a Way of Intelligently
Managing Organizations’ File-based Information.”
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17. Customer Testimonials
“Novell Storage Manager is a great product both in
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terms of its functionality and its simplicity of use…
NSM is powerful on its own, but comes into full
fruition when deployed in conjunction with Dynamic
Storage technology, also from Novell.”
Jon Toigo, Enterprise Systems Journal
“Novell Storage Manager Strikes Data Management Gold.”
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