“Novell, the leading provider of Net services software, today
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 — to provide Net services
software that secures and powers all types of networks across all
leading operating systems,” said Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO,
Novell, Inc. “Novell’s eDirectory was designed with exactly this
sort of deployment in mind — delivering large scale customized
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 individualized 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.”