Hummingbird announces release of Hummingbird Connectivity 10

Your connectivity "window" to Windows: Latest version features robust and complete security set across all components to help organisations control costs and meet corporate compliance requirements

Foster-Melliar, leaders in IT service management (ITSM) in SA and sole distributor of Hummingbird, has announced the immediate availability of Hummingbird Connectivity 10, a feature-rich, robust and secure suite of products including Exceed, NFS Maestro, HostExplorer and Connectivity Secure Shell.

Hummingbird Connectivity 10 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.

The valuable productivity features integrated within the Hummingbird Connectivity 10 products offers administrators and users simplified software management and increased employee efficiency. The Hummingbird Connectivity 10 suite supports any Microsoft 32- and 64-bit operating system including Citrix MetaFrame and Windows Terminal Server.

"Hummingbird Connectivity 10 delivers unparalleled product functionality. It is the only product on the market that supports all the major network connectivity requirements," says David Anderson, CEO of Foster-Melliar. "The unique, innovative features in this latest release help our customers realise significant savings on their overall IT budgets and a substantial return on investment."

With Exceed 10, Hummingbird continues its leadership in the Windows PC X Server market by providing organisations a whole new way of leveraging their X Window applications. Exceed 10 Desktop Sharing instantly adds non-intrusive collaborative capability to any X application. Workers that use Exceed 10 are able to share their X Window environment with other employees, partners or suppliers, regardless of their location. User productivity will be greatly increased with this new capability and organisations will achieve significant cost-savings while extending the lifetime of their IT investment.

Adhering to accepted industry standards, NFS Maestro 10 is the first and only PC NFS solution that supports NFSv4, the latest version of the NFS protocol. The increased demand for storage over the last few years makes interoperability, security and performance of data transfers an important issue within the IT community. NFS Maestro 10 and NFSv4 support are critical elements that will help organisations seamlessly integrate mission-critical heterogeneous environments.

HostExplorer allows organisations to access their mission-critical data on Mainframe, AS/400 and Unix systems. HostExplorer 10 breaks new barriers in the Host Access integration process. The new Theme Manager offers the smoothest migration path available to desktop administrators. In addition to automatically converting existing macro commands, HostExplorer 10 comes packaged with settings and user interface themes for the most common terminal emulation software on the market: Attachmate Extra!, NetManage Rumba, IBM Personal Communications and WRQ Reflection.

Hummingbird Security 10, comprised of Connectivity Secure Shell, Connectivity SecureTerm, Connectivity Kerberos and Connectivity SSL, supports a wide range of key industry security protocol including SSL, Kerberos and Secure Shell 2. The latest release of Hummingbird Security introduces support for Axalto and ActivCard smart card solutions as well as Safenet iKey USB authentication device. A new product in the Hummingbird Security family, Connectivity SecureTerm 10 offers a comprehensive, full featured, desktop-based and browser-based secured terminal and file transfer solution.

Hummingbird Connectivity 10 is available immediately. For more information, please visit http://connectivity.hummingbird.com.