The document summarizes Novell's File Management Suite, which intelligently manages file storage for business benefit. It addresses challenges of explosive unstructured data growth and rising storage costs. The suite enhances existing solutions through identity-driven policy automation to optimize storage, reduce costs, and ensure compliance. Case studies show customers saving hundreds of thousands in storage costs through automated data movement and management.

1. Novell ® File Management Suite Intelligently Manage File Storage for Maximum Business Benefit Sophia Germanides Product Marketing Manager [email_address] Bill Calero Product Manager [email_address] Norman Toro Solutions Specialist [email_address]

2. Agenda Customer Challenges Novell ® File Management Suite Novell File Reporter Novell Storage Manager Novell Dynamic File Services Summary

3. The Iceberg in the Data Center Could It Sink You? structured data unstructured data 80 % of all digital data is unstructured Increasing cost to manage growing storage resources Unstructured data resists categorization, utilization, and reuse

4. Customer Challenges Explosive growth of unstructured data (files) Regulatory compliance Storage admin tasks highly manual and redundant Costs in hardware, power, cooling, administration More electronic collaboration = more files Hidden value deep in file systems Upgrading to Open Enterprise Server Where to start? Buy More!

5. Or, Get Smart Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Save money and man hours Enhance existing data center solutions Use your resources for more strategic projects Business Benefits of Novell ® File Management Suite

6. Do you know...? How many orphaned folders are on the network? How many TB of MP3s? How many documents haven't been accessed in the six months? The last year? How many redundant files are stored? Do you know how much space the files above take up on your network? How much does it cost to power and cool? How much time are you spending backing up? Understanding your data better is the first step to rationalizing it

7. Novell ® File Management Suite

8. NFMS Enhances and Complements A Universal Solution with Plug-and-Play Architecture Novell File Management Suite Traditional “ Storage Resource Management” File Block Automated and Identity-Driven File System Mgmt Directory Services / Policy File System Operating System / Driver Storage Resource Management Virtual Device Management Volume / LUN Physical Device Management SAN / NAS / DAS

9. Novell ® File Management Suite Provisions and controls users' network storage resources automatically, using customizable policies, reducing manual administration and ensuring compliance Optimizes the use of network storage resources by directing less relevant files to Tier-2 storage devices, maintaining user experience while driving back-up and storage efficiencies Inventories network share file systems to expose the “junk in the garage”, delivering information that can be used to set policies for automation Discover Manage Move Novell Storage Manager Novell Dynamic File Services Novell File Reporter

10. What Makes it Great? Differentiators: Identity, Policy, Automation Identity The value of a file is related to “who” (created it, uses it) Manages user storage based on user identity at the source: the directory Ties data to users throughout life of files Policy Robust, customizable policies based on your business Enforce and ensure proper governance of network file storage Operate at the file, folder, and file system level Automation Automate tasks along the full lifecycle: from provision to delete or vault Events in directory drive automation of storage tasks All with a plug-and-play architecture that complements existing solutions

11. Novell ® File Reporter Discover

12. Benefits File Assessment Practice Discovery Easily turn reports into automated policies Don't react to storage needs; Plan for them Rationalized storage infrastructure saves money

13. Do You Know…? Has there been a significant increase in users? In what group? Are there lots of redundant files? Where? Who has them? Is space being abused? By whom? Are we at risk? Are we keeping old files too long? What are typical usage patterns? When were these files last used? Who owns them? Are they relevant to our business? And what is the risk of not knowing?

14. Novell ® File Reporter Agents for fast, immensely scalable reporting Report on volumes, or on policies you create Built-in cost reporting Supports SAN, NAS, DAS, and NCS clusters

15. Novell ® Storage Manager Manage

16. Automate thousands of hours of manual work on mundane and redundant tasks, and reduce errors Assure that users have the space they need whenever and wherever they need it Enable user productivity from Day 1, and cut rights to data upon termination Attach data to the user based on role and group Have the confidence that data is secure and available should an organization need to prove compliance with government or industry regulations Novell ® Storage Manager Benefits

17. Identity-driven and Policy-based File Management File Systems Identity-Driven Data Management Identity Novell ® eDirectory ™ Microsoft Active Directory Provisioning De-provisioning Role-based management Provisioning De-provisioning Lifecycle File Storage Management Automate manual processes Business alignment based on policies Storage Hardware Platforms Storage Area Networks Network Attached Storage Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2003 Open Enterprise Server (Linux) and NetWare ® Novell Storage Manager Event Event Policy Policy

18. NSM Policy-Driven Automation Provisioning/Placement Load-Balancing Restructuring Migration De-Provisioning/Vaulting Renaming Tiering BOS-2K8 BOS-Policy SFO-Policy SFO-2K8 BOS-2K3 SFO-VaultServer

19. Lifecycle Storage Management Based on Identity and Policy

20. Novell ® Dynamic File Services Move

21. Transparent Tiered Storage Reduce back-up windows and associated administration costs Not all users' data is created equal; why treat it that way? Benefits

22. Novell ® Dynamic File Services Provides Tiered File Storage - Automated policies to relocate unstructured files to a lower cost storage devices Policies based on: Age of File Size of File File Type Access/Modification Times User Experience: Merged view of information automatically provided for the end user. No agents on the desktop Administrators can maintain different backup/restore policies for their primary and secondary storage locations

23. Novell ® Dynamic File Services BEFORE AFTER

24. Why This is Different? Drives efficiency with folder- and file-level management, as opposed to block/volume Enhances and complements existing block storage solutions Automates manual tasks using customized policies Leverages identity to connect data to users throughout the file lifecycle Manages data based on relevance to the business (the who ) Only the Novell ® solution does all this:

25. Where to Start

26. Heard on the Street “ NSM is a great product both in 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” “ Novell Storage Manager and Dynamic Storage Technology (Dynamic File Services) are well positioned to address emerging challenges. “ The world must know about this technology…..” Noemi Greyzdorf, IDC “Novell Delivers a Way of Intelligently Managing Organizations’ File-based Data”

27. Novell ® Storage Manager Customers

28. Still Thinking About It? Get the full benefit of Novell ® File Reporter in order to get a handle on your file storage environment 60 days to assess your current state Design future state Contact your Novell partner for more information File Reporter Assessment

29. Learn More www.novell.com/nfms Ross Chevalier, CTO Use Case Presentation ROI Calculator Whitepapers and Technical Guide Podcasts with Product Managers Novell Training Services SNIA Storage Network World, Dallas 2010 Novell ® File Reporter Assessment with RDA

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32. Summary

33. Upgrade to the Suite Novell File Management Suite NSM NDFS NFR NSM NFR

34. Business Issues Workloads Novell ® and Partner Solution Results Ohio Court of Claims File Storage Management The Court of Claims moved its court case records online, exploding their storage needs The SAN volume consumed 12 high-speed drives, at high cost Backup exceeded 14 hours Upgraded to Novell Open Enterprise Server running SLES Deployed Novell Dynamic File Services (Dynamic Storage) Moved stale data from high-speed SAN to ATA-RAID with 4 low cost drives Saved $142,000 in storage management costs in the first year Moved more than 1 TB of stale data to low-cost storage Reduced hardware costs alone by 60% Reduced annual tape consumption by 90% Freed up the SAN Fibre Chassis for other uses

35. Business Issues Workloads Novell ® and Partner Solution Results Arvest Bank (to come) File Storage Management The Court of Claims moved its court case records online, exploding their storage needs The SAN volume consumed 12 high-speed drives, at high cost Backup exceeded 14 hours Upgraded to Novell Open Enterprise Server running SUSE ® Linux Enterprise Server Deployed Novell Dynamic File Services (Dynamic Storage) Moved stale data from high-speed SAN to ATA-RAID with 4 low cost drives Saved $142,000 in storage management costs in the first year Moved more than 1 TB of stale data to low-cost storage Reduced hardware costs alone by 60% Reduced annual tape consumption by 90% Freed up the SAN Fibre Chassis for other uses

36. Customer Success

37. The Common Thread: Identity HIPAA Sarbanes-Oxley Privacy Act Audit Requirements NCLB / AYP Fast employee ramp-up Do more with less Team Collaboration Eliminate redundant administration tasks Reduce helpdesk burden Trend Analysis Reduce Complexity Consistent storage policies De-provision access to critical data File Rights Analysis Intellectual Property Identity-driven Storage Management Regulatory Compliance Productivity Cost Reduction Data Security