Novell Events & trainings

• Groupwise 8 Administartion Online Advanced Technical Training - free for Partners.
  Join to learn how to upgrade existing GroupWise environments to the newest version, Novell GroupWise 8, explore the new features and enhancements to both the server and client (Windows, Linux/Mac, WebAccess) and practice doing an installation and migration to GroupWise 8. Save the date: December 22-23 at 14:00. Seating is limited, register now!

• Novell® BrainShare®, the IT industry's premier technical conference, is the must-attend event for innovation-minded IT professionals. Packed with hundreds of technical breakout sessions, in-depth workshops and hands-on labs, BrainShare is the best place to find out how Novell is making IT work as one. Register today

• Save the date: 10th February, London & 12th February, Manchester. Microsoft and Novell invite you to the Interoperability for Virtualisation Seminar. Join them to learn how to take advantage of Windows and Linux interoperability to employ virtualisation and to reduce systems overhead. Find out how select customers are taking advantage of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Support Certificate Program to migrate to a more interoperable Linux, and the preferred Enterprise Linux Server platform recommended by Microsoft. Click here for more info...

• Novell On-demand Training. It's smart made simple. Knowledge creates success for Novell partners. Where do you find the time and money for live training in the face of shrinking budgets, rising travel costs and tough economic times? Novell offers you a smart new solution to this complicated puzzle—free, convenient on-demand training that makes the knowledge you need available online.

  Click here to start taking advantage of free Novell on-demand partner training right now....

• Become a Novell Certified Engineer Enterprise Services! This new certification shows that you have acquired and can demonstrate engineer-level skills in your area of Novell product expertise. As an NCE ES you install, configure, maintain, support and troubleshoot the Novell services that keep your enterprise running efficiently and productively. Click here for more details..

• New course: Novell® ZENworks® 10 Configuration Management Administration.
  The key to using Novell® ZENworks® Configuration Management is understanding policy-based administration and how it can work to your advantage. Taking Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Administration (Course 3098) provides you with the knowledge and skills you need to install, configure and perform basic administrative tasks with the product. Register today!

• Find out how your collaboration concerns compare to those of your peers.
   IDG Research Services and CIO Magazine recently surveyed 100 CIOs around the world on the topic of collaboration. A new interactive web survey allows you to answer the same questions and see how your concerns compare to those of your peers. Click here

• Experience the benefits of next-generation collaboration for FREE! Novell® Teaming offers critical next-generation collaboration capabilities your organisation shouldn't be without. And with the Novell Teaming Starter Pack program, you can get 20 licenses of the product absolutely free. Click here to request your licences and access useful resources for testing and deploying the product today.

• Technical Events at the Novell Offices in Bracknell, UK.

  A Novell Training Partner, MindWorks Inc Ltd, are running a number of two-day technical events in the Novell Offices in Bracknell and we would like to pass on details to you. Discounts are available for people booking more than one event - see the booking form for further details.

• Novell Utopia Enablement Training 4th November 2008. The Utopia Framework from Novell is a solutions framework designed to enable Novell partners to demonstrate, pilot and test Novell solutions in a fraction of the time it would take to build an environment from scratch.
  Agenda:
  9am - 9.30am - Registration 
  9.30am - 11am - Overview of the Utopia Framework
  11am - 11.15am - Coffee break
  11.15 - 1pm - Workshop on Utopia
  1pm - 2pm - Lunch
  2pm - 4pm - Further Workshop if required
  Click here to register...

• Novell Partner Technical Workshop 23rd October 2008.
  Novell's partners have the opportunity to profit from the services required to migrate customer workloads from Unix to SLES. This one day workshop is aimed at our partners' technical teams, and sets out the steps required to migrate to Linux, from initial planning, evaluation, and decision points through to recommended methods of moving application code, software packages, databases, operational procedures and backup routines. There will be a particular focus on migration from Solaris to SLES. Click here to register..

• Novell UK & Ireland Partner Summit - 11th December 2008. You are kindly invited to our one day UK & Ireland partner summit for the Sales, Marketing and Pre-Sales employees of our Platinum, Gold and Silver Partners. The summit will be held on Thursday 11th December 2008 at Novell's Bracknell offices

• Novell Advanced Technical training: optimizing and troubleshooting SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. Find a class near you.