NetWare® 5 Product Brochure

The #1 Network for Internet-Enabled Businesses

Novell

1998

YOUR NETWORK IS CRITICAL TO YOUR BUSINESS.

MEETING YOUR ORGANIZATION’S NETWORKING DEMANDS IS CRITICAL TO YOUR JOB.

As if fighting scads of daily fires just to keep your users happy isn’t enough, you also have to grow your network to keep your company competitive. You face a steady barrage of demands. Tough demands. Demands that keep you awake at night.

In meeting these demands, the last thing you need is marketing hype and promises. You need a proven solution. One that is hardened by lots of pounding in environments like yours. One that is developed with the kind of savvy that only years of networking experience can bring.

With NetWare 5 you can rest easy. NetWare 5, the number 1 network for Internet-enabled businesses, helps you tackle the challenges you face and meet the demanding expectations of your organization. Best of all, it’s safe because it’s built with the benefit of Novell’s more than 15 years experience in networking technology. Today, NetWare is used on more than 4 million servers and 81 million workstations worldwide.

When you add it all up, NetWare 5 adds value to your business while reducing your total cost of networking. And it enables you to leverage the significant investment you’ve made in your existing network. Best of all, NetWare 5 is backed by Novell, the industry leader in networking.

With NetWare 5, you can:

• Increase the productivity of your staff by simplifying management of your increasingly complex network.
• Tap the full power of intranets, extranets and the Internet, using the fastest, most secure access available.
• Gain a competitive edge with next-generation application support.
• Boost user productivity and lower cost with field-hardened reliability, performance, scalability, and unparalleled security.

INCREASE THE PRODUCTIVITY OF YOUR STAFF BY SIMPLIFYING MANAGEMENT OF YOUR INCREASINGLY COMPLEX NETWORK

As your network expands, it is becoming more and more complex. And managing it is becoming more and more difficult. Your network administrators are already stretched to the limit. And now they must support new network services and capabilities—including intranets, extranets, the Internet, new distributed applications, and a growing number of application servers.

To meet this challenge you have to simplify the management of your network and eliminate administrative redundancies. And the best way to do that is enable your administrators to manage your entire, global network—with its multiple operating systems, protocols, applications, and desktops—all from a centralized location.

Your tasks are cut out for you.

That’s where NetWare 5 with NDS™ (Novell Directory Services™) comes in. NetWare 5 with NDS is unique in that it enables you to manage your entire, heterogeneous network as a single, unified entity…all from a centralized location…including multiple operating systems, protocols, applications, and desktops.

NetWare 5 dramatically increases the efficiency and productivity of IT personnel. As a result, you can handle the growing demands of your network with your existing staff. Plus your staff will spend less time on repetitive and unproductive tasks and more time on critical and strategic issues. What’s more, you’ll dramatically reduce your overall networking costs.

Industry analysts are praising the power of NDS and its ability to simplify network management and reduce costs. A 1998 Gartner Group report states, “Through 2000, a 2,500-user NetWare 4 enterprise that uses NDS for NT rather than creating a duplicate domain structure will save at least 40 percent in duplicative administration and management costs per year.”

When you add the savings from remote desktop management and administration with Z.E.N.works™, NetWare 5 can cut network management and administration costs by an average of 69 percent over managing the network with nondirectory-based servers. And that has a dramatic impact on the total cost of network ownership.

Gartner Group reports that management and administration costs represent 78 percent of the total cost of owning and operating a network.

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• Include everything—NT workstations and servers; Unix servers, Windows 95, 98, NT and Macintosh clients; dial-in clients; the Internet; printers, protocols…
• Make sure administrators can make changes to the entire network quickly and easily…and without error.
• Reduce administrator travel to user sites
• Support NT as well as NetWare from the same directory

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• Eliminate administrator travel to desktops for software updates and help desk support
• Provide users with the latest software and quicker problem resolution

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• GUI-based tools integrated into one easy-to-use console
• Same tools for servers and workstations

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• Need firewall-level protection
• Make sure we can manage Internet connections from same central location as rest of network
• Protect network from internal as well as external intruders

TASK: Make the network more efficient to take full advantage of intranets, extranets and the Internet

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• Implement a pure IP network within the next year
• Migrate in phases to eliminate disruptions
• Keep current IPX™ applications running throughout the move

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• Make sure WAN connections are standardized and efficient

TAP THE FULL POWER OF INTRANETS, EXTRANETS AND THE INTERNET WITH THE FASTEST, MOST SECURE ACCESS AVAILABLE.

The Internet has come into its own as a mainstream business medium. Just look at the explosive growth of the Internet, and Internet based applications such as intranets, extranets and e-commerce. To maintain your competitive edge, you need to position your company to leverage the new Internet way of doing business. That means you need to integrate your network securely and efficiently with the Internet.

But integrating with the Internet poses many problems. Internet connections are notoriously slow. Even worse, the Internet can open the door to hordes of hackers. You need to integrate in a way that provides high-speed access and tight security. You also have to ensure that you can tap the full power of the Internet through conformance to open Internet standards.

NetWare 5 is the #1 network for Internet-enabled businesses. With NetWare 5 you can move to pure IP, (no tunneling or broadcasting as with NT servers) the standard protocol of the Internet. And you can do it easily, inexpensively, and without disrupting your users. The high efficiency of pure IP frees up to 30 percent more bandwidth (throughput) from your existing network. Plus, you cut administrative costs because you manage only a single protocol.

NetWare 5 supports open Internet standards. That keeps your options open in a variety of areas, allowing you to implement best-of-breed Internet solutions across the board. Open standards ensure greater interoperability with today’s applications and protect your network investment and infrastructure into the future.

In addition, with the combination of NetWare 5 and Novell BorderManager™ (sold separately), you can add the highest level of security and management to all of your Internet borders. At the same time, you’ll increase the speed of Internet access—up to 10 times—to boost the productivity of your users.

GAIN A COMPETITIVE EDGE WITH NEXT-GENERATION APPLICATION SUPPORT

One of the primary functions of a network is to provide people with the data, applications, and services they need to do their jobs. This means ensuring that users can continue to run the applications they have come to rely on plus ensuring that they can take advantage of new distributed applications based on Internet technologies. Only in this way can you grab and maintain a competitive edge.

NetWare 5 offers the most robust and scalable support available for the next-generation applications you need to run your business. It combines a scalable kernel with the best Java development and deployment environment and the world’s leading database to provide the best network server platform on which to run Oracle8 database applications and Java solutions.

In addition, through NDS and NDS for NT, you can manage all your application servers easily, as one unified network. NetWare 5 gives you the freedom to deploy and easily manage server-based applications that integrate best-of-breed solutions—that includes NetWare, NT, and Unix solutions—at all levels of the network. And your users can get to the applications they need quickly with a single login. The result is lower administrative costs and higher user productivity.

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• Support all important industry standards
• Give users the distributed databases and applications they need now, including Oracle8, Java, and the new Java servlets
• Keep our application and database choices open in the future

TASK: Implement open application development environment

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• Support all major technologies…C/C++, Java, NetBasic, Perl 5, Rexx, JavaScript
• Make sure developers can use their favorite tools such as JavaBeans

TASK: Implement centralized application management

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• Get a directory-based network

TASK: Build a scalable network that accommodates growth

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• The storage system must handle the flood of information coming from the Internet
• Make sure our network can accommodate growth without incurring a lot of costs

TASK: Meet agreed-upon service/performance levels
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• Servers must support large growth in users without appreciable performance degradation
• Solve the Internet bandwidth problem!

TASK: Minimize downtime

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• Look for field-proven software
• Make sure we can get support, especially in our remote locations
• DON’T TAKE CHANCES!!!

 WHAT USERS SAY…

Matt Rice, vice president and senior network administrator at USTrust Bank in Cambridge, Mass., said his company favored converting fully to Windows NT a year ago, but the pendulum now has swung back toward NetWare. “NDS and NDS for NT are compelling reasons for sticking with it. Everything we do is cross-platform. Without a uniform directory, I’d have a networking Tower of Babel on my hands,” Rice said.

Matt Rice
Vice President and Senior Network Manger, USTrust Bank
“NetWare 5 beta renews interest in Novell,” Computerworld, 4/27/98, p.10a

“NetWare 5.0 pushes things into a new area for us in that they add pure IP,” Easter says. “We are 100% IP (with) a lot of locations coming over typically 56K lines. Being able to provide true NetWare services over that wire is going to be a real advantage to us.”

Phil Easter
Technology Strategist, Greyhound Lines, Inc.
“Don’t mess with their NetWare,” Network World, 7/20/98, p.24

“A move to Windows NT would mean tripling my support staff, and I’d have to upgrade a lot of equipment. By contrast, NetWare 5.0, since it has just 10 million lines of code, can run on a 486 server with 64Mb of RAM.”

James Graham
Network Architect, BellSouth Business Systems, Inc.
“NetWare 5 ready a month early,” Computerworld, 8/7/98, p.8

Rich Ingram, network administrator at Turck, Inc. in Minneapolis, a supplier for the automotive and manufacturing industries, said he wants applications that use NDS because they save time. “We’re driven by technology that can solve our problems right now. And NDS, NetWare 5 and the applications do that. The combination cuts at least 15 hours out of my workweek,” Ingram said.

Rich Ingram
Network Administrator, Turck, Inc.
“Interest renewed in Novell Apps,” Computerworld, 5/4/98, p. 63

“I have a lot of friends around who have NT, and they say it’s a nightmare,” Pembroke says. “My NetWare servers run until I take them down to refresh them or do something else. Knock on wood, they never go down.”

Bob Pembroke
Corporate Network Manager, Cabot Creamery
“Don’t mess with their NetWare,” Network World, 7/20/98, p.24

Bob Sakakeeny, an analyst at Aberdeen Group, Inc. in Boston, said he estimates a, “30% to 40% cost increment associated with managing NT domain directories. The time and resources presently needed to configure and manage NT for the enterprise are prohibitive. This includes the cost of adding servers, network management personnel, new switches and routers.”

Bob Sakakeeny
Analyst, Aberdeen Group, Inc.
“NetWare 5 ready a month early,” Computerworld, 8/7/98, p.8

“ZenWorks could help me cut my management time in half by letting me administer desktops through NDS,” Seerattan said.

Oswald Seerattan
Systems Engineer, Electronic Data Systems Corp.
“NetWare 5 delivers the goods, but slowly,” Computerworld, 5/25/98, p.24

“It’s all great stuff, especially the (Novell Directory Services) for NT product, which is crucial in our mixed NetWare and Windows NT networks,” Senior said.

Marcus Senior
LAN and Client Development Manager, Kaiser Permanente, Inc.
“NetWare 5 delivers the goods, but slowly,” Computerworld, 5/25/98, p.24

“But I look at it this way: NetWare 5.0 has to have fewer bugs than the upcoming Windows NT 5.0 because the new release of NetWare has only 10 million lines of code vs. about 32 million for NT.”

Scott Webster
MIS Manager, Canadian Occidental Petroleum Corp.
“NetWare 5 delivers the goods, but slowly,” Computerworld, 5/25/98, p.24

BOOST USER PRODUCTIVITY AND LOWER COSTS WITH UNMATCHED RELIABILITY, PERFORMANCE, AND SCALABILITY

Competition today is fierce. So it’s essential that your company run at peak productivity. That means critical network services must be available when and where users need them. It means the fastest possible network performance, so people can accomplish tasks quickly. And it means that the network has to handle explosive growth in storage, applications, and the number of users—without a drop in performance.

You can’t bank on vendor promises. You need a network that has proven reliability, performance and scalability…in all services…including those strategic file and print services that have become so critical to your business.

The result…your administrators spend less time dealing with failures. Your users can get the network services they need, and they can get their work done faster. Most importantly, your telephone is no longer ringing off the hook with angry users and frustrated network administrators. So you can spend more time moving your network forward and less time fighting fires. If you do need help, Novell is behind you with its more than 500,000 training and support professionals worldwide. Including Novell’s Enterprise partners, the most informed consultants anywhere.

• Significantly more server uptime for your users compared to running your network with application servers.
• Significantly more users per server, saving you significant hardware costs.
• The largest data storage capacity of any file/storage system.
• Intelligent print services delivering next generation distributed printing.
• Up to 10 times faster Internet access.
• 2-1/2 to 5 times faster Java execution than competing servers.

PROTECT YOUR NETWORK WITH UNPARALLELED SECURITY

Your network is already an essential component of your business. And users are putting more and more critical information on the network every day. In addition, you are opening up your internal network to the Internet, which is rife with hackers and vandals. That means your exposure to intrusion is increasing rapidly.

Your job is to protect your network with the best security you can find.

The answer? NetWare 5 with NDS. Built on NetWare 4.11, the only C2 (international standard for network security) certified network, NetWare 5 carries a tradition of unparalleled security and its security and authentication are vastly superior to those of other networks. In addition, by controlling server access rights through NDS, you can implement a consistent, universally applied security policy across your enterprise. In fact, NDS is the industry’s only global directory that is capable of providing secure, manageable access to applications in highly diverse and distributed multivendor networks.

With NetWare 5, you can expand your business to the Internet and still feel safe, knowing that your network is protected by the best security system available—at the desktop, across the wire, and at the servers (including your web servers). It incorporates the latest in Internet security—such as public/private key security, support for international cryptographic formats and secure authentication services—delivering higher levels of data integrity and privacy across public networks. With the addition of BorderManager (sold separately), administrators can control access to the Internet as well as access to the internal corporate intranet—all from a centralized location.

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• Need a strong security infrastructure
• All security should operate from a single directory
• Include the Internet as well as internal network security policies

TASK: Protect against Internet intrusion and internal attack

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• Need the latest functionality for Internet security

TASK: Control what employees access on the Internet

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• Need flexibility
• Easy administration is a must

TASK: Make network software Year 2000 Ready

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• Make sure all network components can handle date rollover correctly

TASK: Make applications Year 2000 Ready

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• Need an easy way to roll out application updates

MAKE YOUR NOVELL NETWORK AND APPLICATIONS YEAR 2000 READY

The Year 2000 is now on the fiscal horizon. And unless you update your software with Year 2000-ready versions, critical business applications may stop processing completely or produce erroneous, perhaps even disastrous results.

Novell products are designed so they are not sensitive to date problems, such as those posed by the Year 2000. NetWare 5 is no exception. It’s Year 2000 Ready today. NetWare 5 will handle date situations without a problem when the Year 2000 arrives, so you can move into the new millennium with Novell products that are trouble free.

What’s more, with NetWare 5, you can prepare applications and workstations for the Year 2000 with a minimum expenditure of time and money. Not only will your network be Year 2000 Ready, but you can also use Z.E.N.works to update your workstations with all necessary Year 2000 application patches and software fixes—quickly, easily, and inexpensively. 

GET THE HIGHEST TOTAL VALUE NETWORK FOR YOUR BUSINESS

NetWare 5 is the only network that lets you meet today’s networking challenge while leveraging the investment in your network infrastructure—including hardware, software, training, and support. It’s the only networking environment that allows you to manage your entire, heterogeneous network from a centralized point of control. Its open, standards-based architecture positions you to take advantage of exciting new and best-of-breed technologies, those available now as well as those on the horizon. And it provides the critical security your business needs in today’s Internet climate.

Unlike application servers that have evolved from desktop operating systems, NetWare 5 has been designed from the ground up to run networks. It delivers the most benefits to your business while giving you the ability to achieve over 60 percent lower cost of network ownership compared to running your network with nondirectory-based application servers. In all, NetWare 5 is the number one network for Internet-enabled businesses—delivering the best networking solution for the future. And it’s available today for businesses that simply cannot afford to wait.

ENHANCE YOUR BUSINESS WITH OPTIONAL NOVELL SOLUTIONS

Novell offers a broad array of products that help you enhance the productivity of users and administrators and reduce your networking costs:

• GroupWise™, Novell’s premier group collaboration product, combines e-mail with powerful communication and work processing capabilities.
• BorderManager is the industry’s first integrated family of directory-based network services for managing, securing, and accelerating user access to information at every network border.
• ManageWise® allows customers to better manage a mixed server and desktop environment, including remote management and virus protection.
• Z.E.N.works is Novell
  s desktop management suite for secure remote workstation administration, including application management, software distribution, software installation, desktop management and maintenance, and remote diagnostics and repair. (NetWare 5 ships with Z.E.N.works starter pack)
• NDS for NT enables Windows NT domains to use NDS, thereby upgrading domains to a true directory service.
• Netscape Enterprise Server for NetWare, a high-performance Web and application server, enables customers to share information inside and outside the organization.
• NetWare for SAA™, Novell’s LAN-to-host connectivity solution, integrates IBM host resources with local area NetWare networks.

© 1998 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
Novell, NetWare and ManageWise are registered trademarks; Novell Directory Services, BorderManager, NetWare for SAA and GroupWise are trademarks of Novell, Inc.
All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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