But they may be better off waiting for Novell's own backup and recovery tool due out in three to four months. This will afford them the ease of administration and both the primary software and the backup tools from a single vendor. The new version of ZENworks' ability to broadcast software and other data across an entire global network from a single console is an advance over the previous versions of the product. While earlier iterations of the product had some broadcast capabilities, IT managers first had to install the software manually on each server. The latest version of the software is more comprehensive.
Software is broadcast in a two-stage process.
Subsequently, it travels from each of those servers to their client desktops. The ZENworks software runs on NetWare, and can manage Windows NT and Windows 2000 servers, and Windows desktops running any version later than Windows 95.