Novell Storage Manager 2.0

Your company stores data—lots of it—and everyone who uses that stored data has different needs. So how can you make sure their storage-related requests don't become your storage-management headache? Try the new storage solution that’s designed to save you time and money. Novell® Storage Manager is the industry’s leading cross-platform automated solution for managing personal and group storage.

Novell Storage Manager makes it easy to allocate, manage and clean up storage. This powerful identity-driven solution automates many common storage-related tasks, including quota management, directory renaming, migration, storage triage and archiving. You can use Novell Storage Manager to manage storage on Microsoft Windows, NetWare or Novell Open Enterprise Server–Linux platforms, leveraging their underlying directories. You simply set your storage policies in the directory—based on users’ identities and roles—and let Novell Storage Manager do the work.

With Novell Storage Manager, you help users stay productive. They get the resources they need while significantly reducing the inconvenience—and cost—associated with provisioning tasks. Using policies, you can predefine how much storage a user or group gets based on their roles within the organization. As an added benefit, Novell Storage Manager can pre-populate a new user’s home directory with the files they need to be productive on day one.

Without an effective storage-management solution, the risks could range from lost data to more serious threats like litigation or negative audit findings. Novell Storage Manager helps you minimize these risks with automated policy management, ensuring compliance with corporate and government regulations for secure data storage. Once you’ve set storage policies to meet regulatory guidelines, Novell Storage Manager delivers real-time enforcement and robust reporting to demonstrate compliance. It also protects your organization against liability by enabling you to limit the type of content that can be stored on the company’s storage area network. You control what users are permitted to store—and where and when they can store it.

In addition to Novell automated management, Novell Storage Manager offers new reporting and interface tools that simplify administration. You can use the enhanced storage report system to generate detailed reports on the ages, access patterns and types of files being stored on the network. Novell Storage Manager features dashboard-driven storage administration and Storage Health Check Monitoring across your entire enterprise.

Advanced administrative tools make it quicker and easier to navigate to the features you use most often. These tools eliminate the number of clicks required to run and return from check mode.