Tech Shout!

Corpora Software has released version 4.10 of its iOra application acceleration and offline networking software. There are several new, improved features incorporated for support for SharePoint 2007, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) security, advanced configuration user interface, cross-forest access rights replication, automated disk space management and faster SharePoint replication.

According to Corpora, in the present days’ highly competitive global markets, distributed organizations depend on centrally implemented Web applications and collaboration products to provide the information that drives their business. The Corpora iOra software suite extends these enterprise applications to the users on the edges of organizations, by making the same rich Web interfaces available to mobile laptop users and remote users with high latency, slow, intermittent or expensive networks. The net result is higher productivity for the distributed workforce and lower network costs.

“We have seen a large uptake of Microsoft’s recently released SharePoint 2007, which is supported by iOra. For our military customers, support for PKI was a must-have as this has now becoming a mandatory security requirement for our customers such as the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army and Marines. Our commercial customers who need to replicate ever growing volumes of data between world wide offices will now be able to more easily configure their replication and support their scalability requirements with this release,” said Mark Thompson, CEO of Corpora Software.

Benefits offered by iOra 4.10 software include:

Microsoft SharePoint 2007 support:

Server to server replication: Content and views of SharePoint team sites and sub sites can be automatically replicated between servers. By supporting both SharePoint 2003 and 2007 distributed enterprises can now deploy and automate the replication of SharePoint team sites across their worldwide offices.

Offline networking: It’s now possible for mobile users to access the rich new features of SharePoint 2007 when working offline. This means mobile knowledge workers can achieve the same productivity even when they are disconnected from their central servers.

PKI security support: It includes support for Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). PKI is used to ’sign’ iOra network transfers so as to mutually guarantee the validity to the sender and receivers. World wide terrorist threats have made keeping government information secure a high priority.

Enhanced replication configuration user interface: Includes a completely new user interface that significantly simplifies replication configuration. An improved wizard guides the administrator through the steps needed to configure their system, using context sensitive dialogues.

Cross-forest access rights replication: Building on the capability to replicate access rights between SharePoint servers in the same Active Directory Forest, 4.10 provides a method for replicating user access rights between different Forests.

Automated publisher disk space management: Administrators can set limits on the amount of disk space used by iOra on a ‘per publication’ basis. This feature is particularly beneficial when performing two-way replication to remote servers with limited disk space and no local IT support.

Scalability: Replication of SharePoint content, structure and access rights will now be even faster and take less disk space than before.