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Isilon | Citrix | Ubuntu | Novell | VMware

Isilon

"Likewise Enterprise has proven that it can provide effective centralized authentication and access control for Linux, Unix and Mac computers in Active Directory-centric environments. Its core benefits complement what we are trying to achieve with our clustered storage systems, from enhanced security to considerably reducing IT costs,”

- Ashish Bhargava, Director of Business Development, Isilon System

Likewise Software and Isilon Systems work to create streamlined solutions for managing mixed storage environments. Isilon Systems is the worldwide leader in clustered storage systems and software for digital content and unstructured data, enabling enterprises to transform data into information. Datacenter managers running Isilon clustered storage systems on single or mixed operating systems – including Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OS - can more easily manage the provisioning and security of these storage devices by using Likewise software.

About Isilon

Isilon Systems, Inc. (Isilon Systems) is a provider of clustered storage systems for digital content. The Company has designed and developed its clustered storage systems specifically to address the needs of storing and managing digital content. The Company’s systems comprise three or more nodes. Each node is a self-contained, rack-mountable device that contains industry standard hardware, including disk drives, a central processing unit (CPU) memory chips and network interfaces, and is integrated with its OneFS operating system software, which unifies a cluster of nodes into a single shared resource.

Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc., the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure, has teamed up with Likewise Software to provide customers with enterprise ready solution to improve security and operational efficiencies and help achieve regulatory compliance in mixed network environments.

About Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. designs, develops, markets, sells and supports multiple products in an information technology (IT) market category called Application Delivery Infrastructure. Its product family brand for all its infrastructure solutions is the Citrix Delivery Center. These products include solutions for application, server and desktop virtualization, Web application optimization, application performance monitoring, branch office application delivery and wide area network (WAN), optimization, secure sockets layers/virtual private network (SSL/VPN), gateways and Internet Protocol (IP) telephony. It also offers GoTo services, such as GoToMyPc, GoToMeeting, GoToAssist, GoToWebinar and all their variants, collectively called Online Services, through its Online Services Division. It organizes its products into four principal groupings: Delivery Systems, Virtualization and Management Systems, Online Services and Technical Services.

Ubuntu

“We are excited about the Likewise Open project and the solutions that it will provide Canonical's enterprise customers and other major deployments of Ubuntu. Likewise Open allows us to provide end users of the Ubuntu operating system the ability to join their systems to Microsoft Active Directory for user authentication. We look forward to the debut of Likewise Open in the April release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long Term Support).”

- Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Ubuntu project

Canonical’s Ubuntu 8.04 offers easy integration with Active Directory environments for the first time, thanks to a new software package called Likewise Open. Likewise Open utility makes it rather easy to integrate Ubuntu Linux clients into an Active Directory authentication scheme, and the addition of new installation options for Ubuntu has lowered the bar for trying out the system on machines running Windows.

About Ubuntu

Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is a global organization headquartered in Europe, committed to the development, distribution and support of open source software products and communities. World-class 24x7 commercial support for Ubuntu is available through Canonical's global support team and partners. Since its launch in October 2004, Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users around the world. Ubuntu will always be free to download, free to use and free to distribute to others. With these goals in mind, Ubuntu aims to be the most widely used Linux system, and is the centre of a global open source software ecosystem. For more information visit www.canonical.com or www.ubuntu.com.

Novell

“The non-Windows desktop group policy advancements in Likewise Enterprise are a significant advancement. With thousands of group policies to offer, Novell and Likewise Software are working with some of our largest SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop customers to lock down their desktops with Likewise Enterprise, for increased security and control. The ability to manage SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop machines using existing Active Directory group policies makes it even easier for customers to deploy Linux desktops alongside their existing Windows machines.”

- Guy Lunardi , Senior Product Manager , Novell for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop

Likewise Software and Novell work to ensure Likewise technology integrates with SUSE Linux and other open source products. Novell delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one.

About Novell

Novell, Inc., incorporated on January 25,1983, is a global infrastructure software and services company. The Company develops, implements, and supports mixed source and open source software for use in business solutions by providing its customers with enterprise infrastructure software and a range of training and support services. Novell, Inc. offers an open source platform along with fully integrated identity, security, and systems management solutions. Its specific offerings include identity and access management products, a portfolio of systems management products led by its ZENworks suite of offerings, and workgroup products, including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Open Enterprise Server, NetWare, and collaboration products on several operating systems, including Linux, NetWare, Windows, and Unix. Its business units segments include: Open Platform Solutions, Identity and Security Management, Systems and Resource Management, and Workgroup. Its home page is www.novell.com.

VMware

In the fall of 2009, VMware licensed Likewise technology for future versions of vSphere. After looking at the alternatives, VMware selected Likewise as its preferred partner for integration with Active Directory. Likewise technology will be present in future versions of vSphere, which includes the popular hypervisors ESX and ESXi.

Using Likewise technology, VMware customers can require vSphere administrators to log in to the hypervisor or other vSphere applications using their Active Directory credentials. Instead of using root passwords, administrators are provisioned in Active Directory and given privileged access to vSphere at the directory level. This privileged access enhances the administrative security of vSphere and allows for monitoring and reporting available through Active Directory.

In addition, any Linux or Unix virtual machines created on VMware hypervisors can be integrated with Active Directory using Likewise. Using Likewise Open, administrators can connect the virtual machines to AD, and using Likewise Enterprise, administrators can manage access control, group policy, auditing, and reporting functions.

Likewise is a Select Member of the VMware TAP Alliance.

About VMware

VMware delivers customer-proven virtualization solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity. VMware accelerates an organization’s transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments and enabling more efficient, agile service delivery without compromising control. Organizations rely on VMware, its partners and its industry-leading virtual infrastructure platform, VMware vSphere, to energize their business through IT, while saving energy-—financial, human and the Earth’s. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, VMware has more than 170,000 customers and 25,000 partners worldwide.

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