Hummingbird NFS Maestro Gateway Receives Network World's
Prestigious Blue Ribbon Award
TORONTO, July 14 /CNW/ - Hummingbird Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: ''HUMC'' and
TSE: ''HUM''), a world-leading enterprise software company, has received the coveted Blue Ribbon
Award from Network World for NFS Maestro Gateway. NFS Maestro is featured in the July 5,
1999 issue of Network World and on Network World Fusion, at nwfusion.com. NFS
Maestro Gateway outperformed three other leading NFS Gateway products for manageability,
Network Operating System integration, scalability, performance and security.
''For making the most of Network Integration Service and offering cutting-edge support for
WebNFS, NFS Maestro (Gateway) wins our Blue Ribbon Award,'' said Tere Parnell, from the
Network World Test Alliance. ''When we looked at each product as a whole, we realized we would
recommend any of them depending upon the environment in which they would operate.... in terms of
performance, manageability, scalability and ease of use, the overall winner for networks of all sizes
was Hummingbird's NFS Maestro Gateway.''
During the product review NFS Maestro Gateway excelled in scalability through support for
Network Information Services (NIS); remote administration tools allowing administrators to manage
multiple gateways from a single console; client browsing of NIS maps; automated drive mapping; and
deviceless connection implementation. NFS Maestro Gateway was the only product of the four
tested that supports the WebNFS protocol and has the most thorough NIS support allowing
Windows users to browse and access NFS resources as easily as UNIX clients.
''Being selected as the best NFS Gateway product by Network World is truly significant,'' said Fred
Whiteside, Senior Director of Research and Development and a principal architect of the NFS
Maestro product line. ''The Blue Ribbon award brings recognition to the exceptional technical
capabilities of NFS Maestro Gateway including flexible scalability, remote administration, excellent
NIS integration and automated drive mappings. This recognition is especially important to us as we
seek to differentiate our Enterprise Information Portal with such industrial-strength capabilities.''
NFS Maestro Gateway provides controlled NFS access to UNIX file systems while offering
centralized management for network administrators. NFS Maestro Gateway acts as a proxy between
UNIX/NFS and SMB networks and eliminates the need to install NFS client software on individual
PCs. With NFS Maestro Gateway, users can seamlessly access UNIX-based applications and
printers using native Microsoft networking functionality.
About Network World's Blue Ribbon Awards
Network World's Test Alliance reviews products of enterprise scope every week. Network World
Blue Ribbon Awards are given to the highest scoring product in a Network World comparative
product review. Network World's Test Alliance publishes the results of reviews conducted on
network products, including Ethernet switches, routers, VLANs (virtual LANs), enterprise SNMP
managers and servers. Test results are published each week in Network World, the leading
newsweekly of enterprise network computing, and on Network World Fusion, the leading network
information site for Network IS professionals on the Web at nwfusion.com. |
