Novell has announced that Red Hat has selected NDS eDirectory and Novell`s DirXML technology to provide the directory services infrastructure for Red Hat Network worldwide. Red Hat Network, announced earlier this week, is a secure Internet service for managing networks of Red Hat Linux systems. The business and scalability requirements to support several million Red Hat Linux systems on the Internet as well as the ability to seamlessly integrate with existing production systems drove Red Hat`s decision to deploy Novell`s eDirectory and DirXML.
"Providing the management infrastructure for Red Hat Network is an excellent example of our stated goal 3/4 to provide Net services software that secures and powers all types of networks across all leading operating systems," said Novell managing director Richard Beytagh. "Novell`s eDirectory was designed with exactly this sort of deployment in mind 3/4 delivering large scale customised services over the Internet."
"The Internet is the future of operating platform development, deployment and management. Novell`s eDirectory enables Red Hat to provide customers with individualised services over the Internet that improve the security and reliability of their Red Hat Linux systems while reducing the cost of systems management," said Michael Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat. "A scalable directory service is key because it provides the policy-based management that enables a large deployment of distributed systems to be managed efficiently."
Novell`s eDirectory will be used by Red Hat to provide customers with centralised management and authenticated access to services for deployment and management of distributed networks of Red Hat Linux systems over the Internet. eDirectory and DirXML provide an integrated framework for linking system preferences, administration policies and customer service entitlement into an easy to use Web application for system deployment and management. This provides the personalised experience for each customer and partner on Red Hat Network. Using DirXML to integrate customer information with the appropriate network services allowed Red Hat to realise substantial savings in time and money on development cycles.
DirXML is powerful new integration software from Novell that makes possible new solutions to accelerate a company`s transformation to eBusiness. DirXML extends the capabilities of eDirectory, allowing companies for the first time to fully integrate business processes and existing applications across the enterprise. By combining state-of-the-art directory technologies with the common language of eBusiness, XML, DirXML powers secure cross-platform and cross-network information exchange. DirXML is platform independent and requires only eDirectory, Novell`s cross-platform directory service.
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