Windows 64bit, Terminal Services, Citrix, Thin Client, VMware / VirtualPC / VDI

Idokorro Mobile Inc., the industry leader in providing solutions for mobile access, is proud to announce that their new application, the Citrix Presentation Server™ Client for BlackBerry®, has won the Grand Prize in the BlackBerry Developer Challenge competition sponsored by AT&T. Idokorro's solution gives BlackBerry and Citrix users the ability to access and use any Citrix -published Windows application on their BlackBerry devices, including the Microsoft Office Suite, SAP, PeopleSoft, Crystal Reports and the Desktop-even view the graphical windows and control the mouse and keyboard.

Citrix Presentation Server™ Client for BlackBerry brings the power of application virtualization to the BlackBerry platform, giving mobile employees a secure and reliable way to access important corporate resources, and providing an opportunity for significant productivity and efficiency gains.

"Delivering real value-and a competitive edge-to our customers in the form of secure, reliable and cost-saving applications is Idokorro's primary goal. Receiving this kind of recognition for our most recent innovation is another confirmation that we are reaching that goal." says Rob Woodbridge, President and CEO of Idokorro Mobile Inc.

"This significant achievement for Idokorro's BlackBerry Client for Citrix Presentation Server is the result of their continuous efforts to provide reliable mobile application solutions with demonstrable productivity benefits and quickly-realized ROI," says Chris Fleck, Citrix Vice President of Strategic Alliances. "By extending Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure platform to include color BlackBerry smartphones, the Idokorro solution clearly adds value by enabling customers to access their Citrix based applications from BlackBerry simply, securely, and without application rewrites."

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IBM Unveils New Blade "Eco" System for Next-Generation Client Computing
Blade.org Partner Devon IT Invests $8M in R&D with IBM BladeCenter;
New Solution Eliminates 90 Percent of the Energy Consumed by Desk Side Computing

On the 1st May 2007 - IBM previewed the latest in next generation client computing with the new BladeCenter "Workstation Blade", developed in collaboration with Blade.org partner Devon IT. The new offering will include the new IBM Workstation Blade and its associated "eco" system of connection broker software and desktop device from Devon IT, designed to help customers host workstation environments remotely to significantly reduce energy consumption in the workplace.

The new blade-based solution from IBM and Devon IT will be ideal for traders in financial services and CAD design engineers, who find themselves traditionally surrounded by several workstations generating heat and noise. By moving desktop and applications to blade servers designed to more efficiently dissipate heat, and utilizing a desktop device with no spinning hard drives for storage or fans needed to dissipate heat, the energy consumed desk side can be reduced by up to 90 percent. While a typical workstation can consume up to 300 watts, a desktop device from Devon IT consumes merely 15 watts, the equivalent of the amount of energy consumed to run an electric shaver.

"Prior to the desktop PC boom 25 years ago, desktop client computing was hosted by networks of connected servers. By the 1990s PCs became connected and played a driving force in server and networking advancements," said Doug Balog, vice president and business line executive, IBM BladeCenter. "Today, new advances in servers and networking is helping to enable efficient hosting of complex client environments on servers allowing centralized management and security under the control of the datacenter. With its highly efficient design, IBM BladeCenter has arrived as the ideal platform for server-hosted client computing."

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The Terminal Services Management Pack for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 monitors the health and performance of Terminal Services components. It includes a rich set of views, tasks, and reports, and provides monitoring for Terminal Services, the Licensing Server, and the Session Directory.

This Management Pack detects and alerts problems with performance, health, and availability. It can automatically respond to critical events and performance indicators. In some cases it identifies issues before they become critical, enabling you to increase the overall availability and performance of your Windows operating systems.

Feature Summary:

• Independent discovery of Terminal Server Service (application mode), Licensing Server Service, and Session Directory Service (Windows 2003 only)
• Optional discovery of Terminal Server installations in Remote Desktop (Remote Application) mode
• Performance threshold monitoring on key Terminal Services Metrics using Self-Tuning Thresholds
• Comprehensive performance metric collection (optional collection rules)
• Comprehensive event rules with associated knowledge
• Availability and Event Reports

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Build 44356 is a release build of VMware Server 1.0.3

Issues Resolved in VMware Server 1.0.3

• This release fixes a problem with VMware Tools that caused the guest to run out of memory.
• VMware Server 1.0.3 fixes a bug introduced in the VMware Server version 1.0.2 VIX API. As a result of this bug, if Vix_ReleaseHandle (vmhandle) and VixHost_Disconnect (hosthandle) are called, a crash occurs in VixHost_Disconnect(). This crash is accompanied by the following error message:
  VMware Server Error:
  VMware Server unrecoverable error: (app)
  ASSERT /build/mts/release/bora-39867/pompeii2005/bora/lib/vmdb/vmdbCtx.c:487 bugNr=23952
  A log file is available in "/tmp/vmware-mark/vix-3749.log". Please request support and include the contents of the log file.
  To collect files to submit to VMware support, run vm-support.
  We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.
  

Security Issues Resolved in VMware Server 1.0.3

• Virtual machines can be put in various states of suspension, as specified by the ACPI power management standard. When returning from a sleep state (S2) to the run state (S0), the virtual machine process (VMX) collects information about the last recorded running state for the virtual machine. Under some circumstances, VMX read state information from an incorrect memory location. This issue could be used to complete a successful Denial-of-Service attack where the virtual machine would need to be rebooted.
  Thanks to Tavis Ormandy of Google for identifying this issue.
  The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the name CVE- 2007-1337 to this issue.

• Some VMware products support storing configuration information in VMware system files. Under some circumstances, a malicious user could instruct the virtual machine process (VMX) to store malformed data, causing an error. This error could enable a successful Denial-of-Service attack on guest operating systems.
  Thanks to Sungard Ixsecurity for identifying this issue.
  The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the name CVE-2007-1877 to this issue.

• Some VMware products managed memory in a way that failed to gracefully handle some general protection faults (GPFs) in Windows guest operating systems. A malicious user could use this vulnerability to crash Windows virtual machines. While this vulnerability could allow an attacker to crash a virtual machine, we do not believe it was possible to escalate privileges or escape virtual containment.
  Thanks to Ruben Santamarta of Reversemode for identifying this issue.
  The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the name CVE-2007-1069 to this issue.

• In a 64-bit Windows guest on a 64-bit host, debugging local programs could create system instability. Using a debugger to step into a syscall instruction may corrupt the virtual machine's register context. This corruption produces unpredictable results including corrupted stack pointers, kernel bugchecks, or vmware-vmx process failures.
  Thanks to Ken Johnson for identifying this issue.
  The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the name CVE-2007-1876 to this issue.

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