Foster-Melliar releases Hummingbird Connectivity 2006

Issued by Teresa Settas Communications for Foster-Melliar

Johannesburg, 05 Oct 2005

Foster-Melliar, master reseller of Hummingbird Connectivity in SA, has announced the immediate availability of Hummingbird Connectivity 2006.

Hummingbird Connectivity 2006 provides a single, consolidated solution that allows organisations to securely integrate heterogeneous legacy infrastructures, such as Unix or Mainframe, with Windows desktops - enabling customers to meet business continuity and corporate governance requirements.

It is a feature-rich, robust and secure suite of products that includes Exceed, NFS Maestro, HostExplorer and Connectivity Secure Shell. Hummingbird products offer integrated enterprise content management (ECM) solutions as well as network connectivity solutions.

The Hummingbird Connectivity 2006 suite supports Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition. In addition, all products in the suite support Windows Terminal Server Edition and Citrix Presentation Server.

Exceed

Continuing its leadership in the PC X Server market, Hummingbird is the first to offer support for the latest X Window release by the X.Org Foundation - the consortium empowered with the stewardship and collaborative development of the X Window System technology and standards.

Through the support for X11R6.8, users will be able to fully experience the superior computing environment that is offered by the X Window system.

NFS maestro

Adapting to the changing NFS market and led by the growing importance of enterprise storage solutions in the industry, the NFS Maestro product family continues to provide value-added, enterprise-oriented features that promote tight, yet transparent, integration with operating systems and other enterprise infrastructures.

The first and only PC NFS vendor with support for NFSv4, closely coupled with enterprise directory services, strong security implementation, and armed with advanced software administration features, NFS Maestro 2006 will continue to be the most advanced and powerful PC NFS solution in the market.

HostExplorer

Multiple Profile Space, a new feature of HostExplorer 2006, allows organisations to manage multiple locations from which profiles and connection settings are stored. Storage locations include local drives, remote file systems, or LDAP directories. User access rights are enforced through a seamless integration with Microsoft Windows ACLs, or LDAP ACLs.

Hummingbird Security

Hummingbird Security 2006, comprised of Connectivity Secure Shell, Connectivity Secure Term, Connectivity Kerberos, Connectivity SSL and Hummingbird SOCKS Client, features a robust and complete security set across all of its product families and components in order to help organisations meet their security and compliance objectives.

Hummingbird Connectivity 2006 is available immediately from Foster-Melliar.

For more information, visit www.foster-melliar.co.za.

Foster-Melliar

Foster-Melliar, a wholly owned subsidiary of black owned Xantium Technology Holdings Limited, is the leading local provider and pioneer of ITIL and IT service management in SA since 1994. Driven towards optimising IT services within organisations, Foster-Melliar offers a host of solutions to assist companies capitalise on their IT investments. Foster-Melliar focuses on an end-to-end service management solution in the form of training and consulting services. FM Software, a division of Foster-Melliar, boasts a broad range of software products that assists organisations to manage and control their infrastructure and in doing so, dramatically improves the efficiencies and effectiveness of their IT services while proactively managing their costs.

For more information on Foster-Melliar, visit www.foster-melliar.co.za.

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