HOB RD VPN Compatible with New HP Integrity Servers and HP-UX 11i v3

Cadolzburg, 15 February 2007: HOB, the German manufacturer and developer of connectivity and security solutions, announced that its secure remote access solution HOB RD VPN supports the latest generation of HP Integrity servers, including, the HP Integrity rx2660 server and the BL860c Integrity blade server, and the new HP-UX 11i v3 operating environment.

“We see the latest generation of HP Integrity servers combined with HP-UX 11i v3 as a strategic platform for our security solutions, especially for HOB RD VPN, which enables universal, secure access to business-critical data,” said Patrick Oliver Graf, HOB’s Director of International Sales. “In the near future we are going to enable additional key products from our portfolio to run on HP Integrity servers, for example, our IPSec VPN software HOBLink VPN.”

The powerful secure remote access software suite HOB RD VPN is the flagship of the HOB product range. It provides SSL-encrypted access to business applications and data, and gives employees, business partners, suppliers, and customers extremely flexible and easy access to dedicated, enterprise internal resources. In combination with LDAP directory services, this provides IT administrators with a convenient and secure solution for central user management with Single-Sign-on functionality.

Access to enterprise and web servers is clientless, the user doesn’t have to install any software at all on the terminal. Also, any standard user can work with this solution, as no administrator rights are required. The applications included in the scope of delivery provide access to blade centers, legacy systems, Windows Terminal Servers and workstations.

“With the porting of HOB RD VPN software on HP Integrity servers, enterprises get a powerful solution that enables secure remote access to centrally installed applications and data,” said Michelle Weiss, vice president of marketing, Business Critical Systems, HP. “HOB RD VPN fully utilizes the flexibility and secured availability inherent in HP Integrity servers.”

The central component of HOB RD VPN is HOB’s proxy server, HOB WebSecureProxy. Usually installed in the DMZ, it takes care of client authentication, handling certificate and token management as well as supporting SmartCards. Via the integrated HOB Web-Server-Gate, queries from Web browsers are automatically forwarded to the appropriate Web server. This can be used, for example, for mobile employee time tracking, inventory queries, orders from external business partners or information on delivery notes from external suppliers.

Also included in HOB RD VPN is the HOB Universal Client for communication between local applications on PCs, laptops, or mobile devices (xDAs such as Pocket PC, PDA, MDA, etc.) with central servers (e.g. a mail server). The HOB UC utilizes highly performant data compression which takes place on the user protocol level instead of, as with IPSec, on the packet level.

The German IT enterprise HOB GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 1964. Now a global enterprise, HOB has been concentrating since 1981 on the development of comprehensive PC-to-Host- and network connectivity solutions. Over the course of time, HOB has expanded its portfolio to include database connectivity, security and server-based computing solutions. As of 2005, the secure connectivity manufacturer has been marketing the comprehensive secure remote access solution HOB RD VPN, including Desktop-on-Blade computing. HOB has subsidiaries in France, the Benelux-States and Austria. In addition to this, HOB also has a sales office in the USA and a development division in Malta.

HOB GmbH & Co. KG
Schwadermuehlstr. 3
90556 Cadolzburg

Patrick Oliver Graf
marketing@hobsoft.com
www.hobsoft.com

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