Implement low-cost, scalable business-continuity services and consolidate your environment. Included with NetWare 6.5, Novell Cluster Services™ prevents server failures from bringing your network down. And at no additional licensing cost, you can deploy unlimited two-node server clusters in diverse geographical locations: if disaster strikes your primary location, your business-critical services automatically failover to a secondary location—without interruption.

NetWare 6.5 also supports Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), enabling you to consolidate storage in an affordable, easy-to-manage Storage Area Network (SAN) that leverages your existing Ethernet infrastructure. (iSCSI can save up to 90 percent of the costs associated with implementing a Fibre Channel SAN.) To help you migrate existing storage to your SAN, NetWare 6.5 includes an easy-to-use server migration wizard and server consolidation utility.

Also included is Novell Nterprise Branch Office™, which enables you to centralize storage and provide enterprise-class services for branch offices. (NetWare 6.5 ships with Nterprise Branch Office 1.0.2. For information on the latest version of Nterprise Branch Office, see http://www.novell.com/products/branchoffice/.) Because branch office data and services are replicated to a central data center, where you can easily back them up, you can also easily restore these resources if branch office hardware fails. Like other Novell Net services products, Nterprise Branch Office works with your existing network and the Internet. In fact, this remarkable product uses a standard Internet connection-as opposed to a costly wide area network (WAN) link-reducing branch-office connection costs by up to 50 percent.

Managing all aspects of your network just got easier. Your NetWare 6.5 license entitles you to a 250,000-user license of Novell eDirectory, a high-end directory service that simplifies the management of identities and security access for employees, customers and partners. NetWare 6.5 also includes Novell iManager, a convenient browser-based administration tool. iManager provides a global view of your network, no matter how widely dispersed it is. Your IT staff can now focus on projects that are more strategic for your business.

iManager also provides a convenient tool for managing the Novell DirXML® Starter Pack, which is included with NetWare 6.5. This award-winning data-sharing service simplifies-and significantly reduces the cost of-managing multiple user accounts in your mixed networking environment. The DirXML starter pack includes drivers for Microsoft Active Directory to eDirectory, Windows NT domains to eDirectory, and eDirectory to eDirectory, along with password synchronization. (For information on the latest version of DirXML, now called Novell Nsure Identity Manager, see http://www.novell.com/products/nsureidentitymanager/.)

Finally, with NetWare 6.5 advanced snapshot technology, you can back up your consolidated store of critical information any day, at any time without interrupting network access.

Cambridge Networks work with Novell's core products primarily Netware, Groupwise, Bordermanager and Zenworks. Novell have several other components available to corporate companies and where possible we partner with a Novell business expert Simply Networking Solutions. Between us we can provide the right solution for you.