This document provides an overview of Micro Focus's Open Enterprise Server product roadmap. It discusses the vision and strategy for file and print services, highlights recent releases including OES 2015 SP1, and outlines upcoming releases through 2017. Key points include improved Active Directory integration, SMB protocol support, large storage capabilities, and integrating iPrint appliance features directly into OES. Release dates are subject to change based on market factors and customer requests.

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Open Enterprise Server
- in a Windows world
Madhan P
Sr. Product Manager
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Praveen Kumar S
Engineering Manager
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David Shepherd
Sr. Solutions Consultant
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2. • Portfolio Vision and Strategy
• Recent Releases
• OES in a Windows world and TCO
• Upcoming releases
• On the Radar
• Q & A

3. Portfolio Vision and Strategy

4. File and Print Services Vision and Strategy
Vision Strategy
Provide enterprise-class file
services across Windows, OES,
and storage platforms to make
storing, accessing and printing
enterprise files easy, secure and
affordable.
● Advance File and Print solutions by providing new, high quality
value to our valued customers
● Continue the evolution of File Management offerings to
become a leader in File Analysis
● Deliver superior solutions in secure, file sync & share that
integrates seamlessly with existing file servers
● Provides best platform agnostic printing solution for customers
who wants secure, on-demand printing that works seamlessly
with their existing fleet of printers

5. Open Enterprise Server
File and Print Services
Open Enterprise Server:
• Enterprise File and Print services
• More choice and flexibility through
support for Active Directory, new
Windows clients, and increased
storage capabilities
• Offerings that simplify IT
environment through single
Identity store
• Compelling reasons to move to
latest OES for all customers
Dynamic Storage
Technology
(Storage Tiering including
Cloud storage tiering)
Mobile File Sharing
(Filr- entitlement)
iPrint
Desktop
(entitlement)
Clustering and
Scalability
4 Node cluster promotion
eDirectory
Active Directory
Support
Storage
Services
(NSS)
> 8 ExaBytes
Support
Domain Services
for Windows
(AD emulation)
File
&
Print
Support Being Added
Improved
OES 2015 Promotion
Multi-Protocol
Support
SMBv2 Support

6. Recent Releases
Disclaimer: This section provides an overview of future releases; due to market changes, customer
enhancement requests, and other factors, product themes and timings are subject to change.

7. OES 2015 SP1
• Feature Themes:
• Micro Focus Branding and Platform Currency (based on SLES 11 SP4)
• File Services
• End user file recovery of deleted files without helpdesk intervention over CIFS
• Improvements in Mac interoperability and performance with CIFS
• Policy-based clean-up / purge of deleted files (based on time and file extension)
• Reduced disk fragmentation using improved disk storage allocation policies
• Enhancements to file system access audit (vigil) log filters
• Active Directory Support Improvements
• Allow access to NSS resources for users in multiple trusted AD Forests
• Ability for Active Directory users to access NSS over FTP in addition to CIFS
• User Right Map tool enhancements
• Simplified upgrade experience – introducing channel upgrade support for upgrading from OES
11 SP2 to OES 2015 SP1
Targeted Availability:
Shipping

8. Open Enterprise Server 2015
• NSS for Active Directory
• Native access to NSS for AD Users
• Benefits of NSS rights model to AD users
• OES server joins AD Domain – no copy of AD users
• Almost all existing backup and antivirus software work without any changes
• Large Storage Support
• Removal of 8 TB Limit
• NCP protocol updated
• Access supported over AFP, NCP & CIFS
• SMBv2 Support
• Beginning of a continuous steady stream of improvements to SMB stack
• Significant improvement in performance over SMBv1
• DFS Junction Management and other reliability and stability improvements
• iPrint enhancements – Direct print accounting and Browser Independent end user operations
Targeted Availability:
Shipping

9. OES 11 SP3
• Feature Themes:
• Platform currency (based on SLES 11 SP4)
• Better hardware and driver support
• Bring the improvements in base SLES to OES
• Quality updates
• Roll up of OES11 SP2 patches and customer defect resolutions
• Minor changes due to Java version change
• Recommended upgrade path for OES11 SP2 is still OES 2015 SP1
Targeted Availability:
Shipping

10. OES in a Windows world and TCO
Disclaimer: This section provides an overview of future releases; due to market changes, customer
enhancement requests, and other factors, product themes and timings are subject to change.

11. Technologies enabling OES in a Windows World
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• Traditional (NetWare and OES Initial Releases)
• NCP and Client for OES (Novell Client) – File Access
• Login Scripts, Mapped Drives
• Salvage / Purge – Self service file recovery
• iPrint – Self service Printing
• iFolder – File sharing and Desktop backup
• NetStorage
• CIFS / SMB 1.0

12. Technologies enabling OES in a Windows World
12
• Recent (in addition to existing ones)
• Domain Services for Windows – AD Emulation for common authentication needs
• SMB 2.0
• Native NSS and AD Integration
• Getting nightmares about switching to NTFS ?
• You don’t need to any longer
• Salvage / Purge over CIFS for eDirectory and AD users
• Rights management over CIFS for AD users

13. Technologies enabling OES in a Windows World
13
• Coming Soon
• Client for OES (Novell Client) and AAF Integration (Multi-factor authentication)
• SMB 2.1 and 3.0
• Large packet transfers
• SMB Signing
• End to end encryption
• Domain Services for Windows – 2008 R2 and 2012 Schema Support
• Rights management over CIFS for eDirectory users

14. The TCO Angle
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• Cost benefits of managing NSS filesystem vs NTFS are very well known
• Less administrators
• Efficient storage management
• Native storage tiering options
• Performance and Scalability
• More connections per server
• Better throughput on file access
• Better Security and Rights model
• Dynamic ACL’s
• Automatic SEV refresh – don’t ask users to logout and login for changed
permissions to take effect

15. An NSS AD Case Study
Disclaimer: This section provides an overview of future releases; due to market changes, customer
enhancement requests, and other factors, product themes and timings are subject to change.

16. Real-world Case Study
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• Customer is in the process of evaluation of IT Systems and consolidation
• Consolidate Identities on AD
• Previously this mean moving file services to NTFS as well
• Not anymore, with NSS AD Integration
• Wants to evaluate the cost of moving to NTFS vs adopting NSS AD
• Next few slides speak for themselves
• Summary : Don’t bring file service migration into a Identity consolidation
project (you don’t need to anymore). Keeps the costs low.
• Save on not just the one time migration cost, but the long term TCO as well

17. • Novell File and Print Estate
• 4 customer corporate sites connected via 100MB fibre:
• 1 x 6 Node Novell OES11 SP2 Cluster
• 24 Clustered Resources (Volumes) connected to the Clustered Nodes.
• 50TB of data help in clustered volumes (25 million files approx.).
• 12 other Novell Servers over the 4 customer sites fulfilling other requirements.
• 3000 Novell Workstations connected both to Novell and an existing AD Domain.
• IDM in place to sync users and groups between Novell and Active Directory.
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Current IT Infrastructure

18. • Existing AD Domain is out of date (Windows 2008) and needs updating
• Need to simplify workstation build and to get rid of the Novell Client.
• “Does the company need two Directory’s” (AD and Novell).
• Application support for the Directory of choice.
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The need for AD migration

19. • Traditional OES to AD Migration
• Based on the sample site at least 6 weeks work
• Risk to the line of business
• Requirement to move workstations as soon as volume is migrated
• OES2015
• Based on the sample site 1 weeks (worst case) for volume migration.
• Minimising risk to the line of business
• No immediate requirement to move workstations.
• Full access to AD Clients to files on the NSS Volume.
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Summary of Approaches

20. • NSS is seen as native AD Storage conceptually the same as a NETAPP or
other device.
• Clustering, Storage Tiering and DFS (Novell) are fully supported.
• 4 additional cluster licences available at zero license cost (just pay
maintenance for these additional nodes)
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Benefits of OES2015

21. Some large NSS-AD deployments
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• Australian State Govt Health Agency - 400+ servers / 30,000+ users
• French Government Agency - 1000+ Servers / 50,000 users
• UK Media Company - 20,000+ users / spread across Europe
• It’s READY.

22. Upcoming Releases
Disclaimer: This section provides an overview of future releases; due to market changes, customer
enhancement requests, and other factors, product themes and timings are subject to change.

23. 1H 2016 2H 2016 1H 2017
Open Enterprise Server Roadmap
New and Upcoming Releases
CommittedShipping Planned
‒ Micro Focus branding
‒ File system improvements to increase
performance and enhance disk utilization
‒ Enhanced Active Directory integration
‒ CIFS / SMB stack improvements
‒ Automated upgrade channel introduced
‒ Recommended upgrade path for OES11
SP2
OES 2015 SP1
‒ Platform currency – SLES11 SP4
‒ Rollup of bug fixes and customer patches
‒ Recommended upgrade path for all
customers is still OES 2015 SP1
OES 11 SP3
‒ Win 2008 / 2012 Schema Update
‒ Release vehicle – Patch for OES2015 SP1
DSfW Update
‒ Platform and ecosystem currency
‒ SLES 12, eDirectory 9
‒ Unified update channel
‒ SMB Updates (2.1,3.0, Mac Salvage, etc)
‒ NSS Improvements
‒ Cloud storage integration for “cold” data *
OES ‘Vega’
‒ iPrint Appliance features on OES *
‒ Release vehicle – Add-on to OES2015 SP1
‒ Pricing / Licensing Model remains the same
as with iPrint appliance
iPrint Update

24. Updates to OES 2015 SP1
• Feature Themes:
• DSfW Update
• Support for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 Schema
• Beta planned to start around Oct 2016
• iPrint Update
• Deliver iPrint Appliance capabilities as add-on to OES
• Now you can use the appliance capabilities with your existing OES iPrint infrastructure
• Mobile Printing
• Email Printing
• WalkUp Printing
• No Pricing / Licensing / Entitlement changes
Targeted Availability:
Q1 2017

25. Open Enterprise Server ‘Vega’
• Platform and ecosystem currency
• Newer hardware platform and technology support – SLES 12
• Update OES to include the updated version of eDirectory – eDirectory 9
• No separate add-on media. Only Integrated DVD media.
• Enhancements to SMB stack – relevant capabilities of SMB 2.1 and 3.0
• Improved performance ; end to end encryption support ; password management
• Lower TCO
• Unified OES update channel – SLES and OES updates from a single repository
• NSS Improvements
• Better Storage allocation ; Support for online defragmentation * ; Exponentially increase the limit on number of files
• Adding support for secondary cloud tier for storage of “cold” / back up data *
• iFolder Status - Update
• Additional enhancements from OES community submitted via IDEAS Portal
• Client for OES (Novell Client) for Mac ? No, but native shell extension supporting Salvage /
Purge, Rights Management for Mac in phases.
Targeted Availability:
Q3 2017

26. Other Updates
• BCC Support for OES 2015 and OES2015 SP1
• iFolder Status
Targeted Availability:
Q3 2017

27. What’s on the Radar

28. File and Print Market Opportunities
Relentless attention on decreasing total cost of ownership
Enable ability to leverage new storage models and technologies
Authentication improvements for stronger interoperability
Security and compliance demands from regulated industries
Community driven requirements and enhancements (IDEAS)

29. On the Radar… (OES)
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• Improving support for heterogeneous and mixed environments
• Storage Services
• File Access – performance and ease of access improvements
• Management - improvements and performance
• Simplify install, deployment, upgrade and management experience
• Appliance form factor; Docker and other container support
• Reduce training needs and learning curve
• Hosting OES in the cloud – Azure, Amazon, …
• Lower TCO
• Deeper integration with cloud and object storage for specific use cases
• Investigate support for SUSE Storage, CleverSafe, etc.

30. Q & A

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