Vodacom Business and Novell Partner to Securely Manage and Optimize Cloud Services

Vodacom to provide Infrastructure and Software-as-a-Service solutions across Africa using many of Novell's Intelligent Workload Management technologies

AMSTERDAM, May 19, 2010 - Novell(R) BrainShare(R) Europe — Novell, Inc. and Vodacom Business,
majority-owned by UK-based Vodafone Group Plc today announced a partnership
that will integrate much of Novell's Intelligent Workload Management
(www.novell.com/intelligent-workload-management) portfolio including:
SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server (www.novell.com/products/server),
Platespin(R) Virtualization and Workload Management
(www.novell.com/solutions/virtualization-workload/virtualization.html),
and Identity and Security (www.novell.com/solutions/identity-and-security)
solutions into the network provider's cloud hosting solutions. The
partnership is aimed at helping businesses across Africa securely provision,
manage and monitor multi-tenant applications deployed from Vodacom
Business's cloud infrastructure.

Managing the Cloud

As businesses move to the cloud (www.novell.com/cloud),
successfully managing all aspects of infrastructure technology including
service quality, security and availability, become more critical. Customers
need comprehensive information about their physical and virtual server
environments to obtain a true picture of how resources are being used,
especially when trying to scale and rapidly provision workloads. Designed to
take the guesswork out of complex server consolidation
(www.novell.com/solutions/virtualization-workload/data-center-consolidation.html)
and capacity planning initiatives, Vodacom Business is using SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server from Novell and virtualization and workload management
solutions including PlateSpin Recon (www.novell.com/products/recon),
PlateSpin Migrate (www.novell.com/products/migrate)and PlateSpin
Protect (www.novell.com/products/protect) from Novell to respond to
growing business demands, improve server workload performance, reduce energy
consumption and lower costs.

Securing the Cloud

A major benefit of cloud computing is the flexible, on-demand model that
allows enterprises to rapidly acquire additional computing power only when
needed. However, this presents significant security and audit challenges.
Today's regulations require a complete audit trail when demonstrating
identity and security compliance (www.novell.com/solutions/compliance-management).
Vodacom Business will leverage Novell identity and security management
solutions to give customers the ability to treat their cloud assets as an
extension of the data center. A core tenet of Intelligent Workload Management
is the integration of identity and security management into cloud resources.
This ensures policies and procedures for regulatory compliance and prudent
business practices will be enforced ubiquitously.

"Cloud computing will change the way companies do business. The service
delivery model is vastly scalable and less resource and energy intensive,
enabling organizations to purchase robust and reliable infrastructure and
application services for a reduced cost," says Richard Vester, Executive Head
of Hosted Services, Vodacom Business. "However, security concerns are
inhibiting the adoption of cloud computing. Our partnership with Novell
enables us to deliver infrastructure and application services that can
support our customers' specific security policies and regulatory compliance
requirements."

Both companies have proven experience working together to enable
application providers the ability to offer secure business practices in the
cloud. For example, BasisOne, a hosting provider based in South Africa, uses
Novell identity and security solutions for its platform that deploys SAP ERP
solutions as a service using Vodacom Business's private cloud. Using Novell
identity and security solutions, BasisOne can extend an enterprise
organization's security policies onto the applications that are running on
virtual servers at Vodacom Business's state-of-the-art data center.

"Cloud computing is core to Vodacom Business's strategy and we're pleased
to be their engineering and technology solution partner for their cloud
strategy," says Markus J. Krauss, VP Service Providers, Novell EMEA. "Vodacom
Business is another proof point for Novell's strategy to become the leader in
the intelligent workload management marketplace. We're looking forward to
providing our partner with a more agile, cost effective and scalable way of
managing, optimizing and securing cloud environment so they can pass the full
benefits of cloud computing onto their customers."

About Novell

Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL), a leader in Intelligent Workload Management,
helps organizations securely deliver and manage computing services across
physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. We help customers reduce
the cost, complexity, and risk associated with their IT systems through our
solutions for identity and security, systems management, collaboration and
Linux based operating platforms. With our infrastructure software and
ecosystem of partnerships, Novell integrates mixed IT environments, allowing
people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit
www.novell.com.

Novell, PlateSpin and SUSE are registered trademarks and BrainShare is a
registered service mark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other
countries. *All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.

About Vodacom Business

Vodacom Business was launched in February 2008 and offers a total
communications service portfolio to corporate customers. Vodacom Business has
invested in significant infrastructure and has a Tier 1 internet network
capability as well as a corporate grade national MPLS VPN. Vodacom Business
services include next-generation IP voice, managed networks and
infrastructure, internet access, hosting and storage. In 2008, Vodacom
Business launched a dedicated internet access service and also a broadband
internet access service. It also launched a managed MPLS VPN service together
with a managed enterprise voice and VoIP gateway in April 2008 and May 2008,
respectively. These service offerings are supported by a new data centre at
the headquarters in Midrand, the development of a soft switch and the
development of a client services operations centre.

Amie Johnson of Novell, +1-801-861-2893, amie at novell.com; or Becki Parkhurst of PAN Communications, +1-978-474-1900, securenovell at pancomm.com, for Novell