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| Hummingbird Connectivity 2007 Is Ready for Windows Vista Hummingbird has announced the immediate availability of Hummingbird Connectivity 2007, a feature-rich and robust suite of technologies that helps organizations meet the challenges of integrating heterogeneous legacy infrastructures, such as UNIX or Mainframe, with Windows desktops, while providing cost effectiveness. Hummingbird Connectivity includes Exceed, NFS Maestro, HostExplorer and Hummingbird Security product families and supports 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems such as Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Additionally, all products in the suite support Windows Terminal Server Edition and Citrix Presentation Server. Connectivity 2007 is Hummingbird's first suite of products to be ready for Windows Vista - the upcoming Windows operating system. Features: o Support for latest X11 standard - Exceed is first in offering commercial support for X11R7.1 - the latest X Window System technology release. o Event Monitoring Server - A new addition to Hummingbird Connectivity 2007, Event Monitoring Server is a robust and scalable facility designed to help administrators gather information about their Connectivity infrastructure. o Delegation and SECINFO Support - NFS Maestro is the first PC NFS solution in the industry to support advanced NFSv4 features such as Delegation - a performance enhancing feature that is achieved through aggressive client caching, allowing NFS server to delegate particular operations to NFS clients and reduce over-the-wire network traffic and the latency associate with it; and SECINFO - a mechanism that allows an NFS client to discover what security flavor is required in order to successfully connect to a shared file system on a remote NFS server. o Central Repository - Multiple Profile Space allows organizations to set up one or multiple central repositories to store Exceed and HostExplorer connection settings including local drives, remote file systems or LDAP directories. User access rights are enforced through a seamless integration with Microsoft Windows ACLs or LDAP ACLs. o Xinerama and X Video Support - Exceed 2007 provides support for Xinerama - an extension that allows X applications and window managers to properly recognize multiple physical monitors and adjust the behavior of the application accordingly; and X Video - an extension that utilizes hardware capacities to speed up video playback and to reduce total CPU time on both systems running Exceed and the X client. The Hummingbird Security product family grows even stronger in Connectivity 2007 with several key enhancements: o X.509 Certificate Authentication for SSH - Connectivity Secure Shell now offers support for the draft RFC of the SSH public key authentication based on a user X.509 certificate. o Integrated SOCKS Support - SOCKS is a networking proxy protocol that enables hosts on one side of a SOCKS server to gain full access to hosts on the other side of the SOCKS server without requiring direct IP-reachability. Often used as a network firewall, this new feature allows users to configure sessions to use a SOCKS server. o LIPKEY Support - NFS Maestro 2007 introduces support for Low Infrastructure Public Key (LIPKEY) as an alternative GSS provider for RPCSEC_GSS authentication. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |