Novell to Deliver Replication Services for IntranetWare and NetWare 4
Novell Delivering Beta of First Distributed Network Replication Services
OREM, Utah, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) today
announced Novell Replication Services(TM), the industry's first and most
effective network tool for replicating, distributing and synchronizing
information across a network of geographically dispersed servers. Now in beta,
Novell Replication Services allows network administrators to improve
consistency and availability of data across wide area networks (WANs) and
intranet Web servers. With Novell Replication Services, businesses can meet
their mission-critical needs to implement cost-effective corporate intranets
and provide users with immediate access to the most up-to-date network
information.
Leveraging capabilities in Novell Directory Services(TM) (NDS(TM)),
Novell's industry-leading global directory service, Novell Replication
Services helps organizations manage their information and distribute it
throughout enterprise networks and corporate intranets. Novell Replication
Services provides organizations with the ability to distribute files,
including Windows documents, HTML files, software updates and utilities,
graphic images and audio and video clips. Novell Replication Services allows
network administrators to selectively replicate groups of files from an
IntranetWare(TM), NetWare(R) 4 or NetWare Web Server(TM) 2.5 to any number of
other servers in the same NDS tree. Novell Replication Services is easy to
install and manage as a single NetWare Loadable Module(TM) (NLM(TM))
administered through a "snap-in" enhancement to the NetWare Administrator(TM)
(NWAdmin(TM)) tool.
"As the first company to offer true distributed network replication
services, Novell has reinforced its direction in providing essential tools for
managing and building corporate intranets," said Marc Epstein, vice president
and general manager of the Network Services Division at Novell. "Novell
Replication Services will also be available for UNIX and Windows NT
environments in the future, meeting customers' requests for Novell's
industry-leading network services across multiple platforms."
Benefits of Novell Replication Services
Novell Replication Services enables organizations to improve user access
to information across corporate intranets, and significantly reduce the cost
of network administration by automating replication processes, allowing
companies to make more productive use of both network administrators and
expensive WAN links.
As corporate intranets continue to grow in popularity, businesses have
developed a critical need to relieve the loads on their network servers,
improve access to information and help their employees effectively collaborate
on projects. By allowing easy replication of intranet servers, Novell
Replication Services ensures that information is consistent among multiple Web
servers while providing improved remote access. Replicating Web sites across
intranet servers locally or remotely also helps in network and server load
balancing.
With Novell Replication Services, network administrators can easily
provide consistent and immediate software updates and utilities across
networks, ensuring that employees always have the latest tools necessary to
improve productivity and efficiency, while reducing costs related to
administering these updates.
The powerful synchronization capabilities in Novell Replication Services
eliminate the need for network administrators to spend time searching and
tracking updated files for replication and writing batch files or scripts.
Thus, Novell Replication Services offers an innovative and cost-effective tool
for easy bi-directional replication and synchronization of data across
enterprise networks. Novell Replication Services detects changes made in any
of the directories and automatically replicates only changed files, creating a
fully synchronized file and data image at each designated server. With
powerful scheduling capabilities, replica synchronization can be scheduled for
as often as every minute to ensure real time consistency throughout the
network or during off-peak hours for better management of network resources.
This creates a highly scalable replication architecture that gives network
users uniform access to network data regardless of their location.
Because information can be replicated to remote locations, information is
closer to end users, freeing WAN bandwidth for other critical applications and
minimizing reliance on WAN links. With access to important information
available at local area network (LAN) speeds, users can more effectively
collaborate, using the most recent sales figures, business plans, company
information and documentation, as well as engineering documents and software
and code changes. Thus, Novell Replication Services reduces WAN traffic and
allows better utilization of existing equipment, telephone lines and network
connections so that organizations can more effectively leverage their existing
network and WAN capacity.
"Novell Replication Services is an important product that will allow us to
significantly improve consistency of information throughout our network," said
Stephen Pierleoni, network administrator at KPMG. "Early in-house beta testing
has proven that Novell Replication Services promises to be a reliable and
powerful tool for replicating software, address books and files. It will
provide unprecedented ease of use when distributing critical information to
our branch offices throughout southern England."
Pricing and Availability
Novell Replication Services will be available during the first half of
1997 as a stand alone add-on for NetWare 4 and IntranetWare. The beta of
Novell Replication Services is currently available on Novell's early access
CD. Pricing is not yet available.
Founded in 1983, Novell is the world's leading provider of network
software. The company offers a wide range of network solutions for distributed
network, Internet, intranet and small-business markets. Novell education and
technical support programs are the most comprehensive in the network computing
industry. Information about Novell's complete range of products and services
can be accessed on the World Wide Web at novell.com.
NOTE: Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks, and IntranetWare,
NDS, NetWare Administrator, NetWare Loadable Module, NetWare Web Server, NLM,
Novell Directory Services, Novell Replication Services and NWAdmin are
trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other registered trademarks and trademarks are
the property of their respective holders. |
