1. World of HELIOS: Subscription adds flexibility
2. Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard client support
3. Time Machine backup server
4. Create PDF Server on Mac for Distiller 8&9
2. Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard client support
3. Time Machine backup server
4. Create PDF Server on Mac for Distiller 8&9
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HELIOS Newsletter 5/2009 |
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Dear HELIOS client,
Welcome to the latest information from the world of HELIOS. Keep your networking lead and stay one step ahead. Turn your colleagues on to this newsletter as well, subscription details are below. Enjoy the news.
Your HELIOS team
Helmut Tschemernjak, CEO & President
Welcome to the latest information from the world of HELIOS. Keep your networking lead and stay one step ahead. Turn your colleagues on to this newsletter as well, subscription details are below. Enjoy the news.
Your HELIOS team
Helmut Tschemernjak, CEO & President
1. World of HELIOS: Subscription adds flexibility
Did you know that HELIOS products and user expansions can be rented? Basically, instead of purchasing the software, it can be rented for a period of one year. This means that using HELIOS software for short terms without long-term investment has become easier and more attractive. Lately we added the possibility to mix purchased and rented products; details can be found in our press release at:
We feel that the yearly software subscription offer is a modern way for customers to quickly implement HELIOS solutions with very little budget and risk.
Interested? You are welcome to ask for details.
2. Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard client support
Apple has just released Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and we are pleased to report that Mac clients running Snow Leopard are fully compatible with HELIOS UB+ based servers. EtherShare volumes and print queues, as well as all other services work the same as with Mac OS X 10.5 clients.
3. Time Machine backup server
Great news for Mac users: HELIOS AFP volumes can now be used as a backup disk for "Time Machine" backups from Mac clients. The updated HELIOS Admin (u0831) can be used to enable "Time Machine Backup" in the volume configuration. If a HELIOS volume is mounted and "Time Machine Backup" is enabled, "Time Machine" on the Mac OS X client detects the volume, and it can be selected as a backup device. Backups are saved on the server as a bundle directory per workstation containing HFS disk images. "Time Machine" remembers the user name/password and automatically creates a hidden AFP connection when the backup schedule is active.
This is really cool, it works with 10.5 and 10.6 clients without any additional software installation and setup, pretty much like a connected USB backup disk.
We love to backup your Macs!
4. Create PDF Server on Mac for Distiller 8&9
We are glad to announce that the latest Create PDF Server on Mac now supports current Acrobat Distiller versions (8&9). Create PDF Server now offers the same Acrobat Distiller versions support for Mac and Windows.
Did you know that HELIOS products and user expansions can be rented? Basically, instead of purchasing the software, it can be rented for a period of one year. This means that using HELIOS software for short terms without long-term investment has become easier and more attractive. Lately we added the possibility to mix purchased and rented products; details can be found in our press release at:
We feel that the yearly software subscription offer is a modern way for customers to quickly implement HELIOS solutions with very little budget and risk.
Interested? You are welcome to ask for details.
2. Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard client support
Apple has just released Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and we are pleased to report that Mac clients running Snow Leopard are fully compatible with HELIOS UB+ based servers. EtherShare volumes and print queues, as well as all other services work the same as with Mac OS X 10.5 clients.
3. Time Machine backup server
Great news for Mac users: HELIOS AFP volumes can now be used as a backup disk for "Time Machine" backups from Mac clients. The updated HELIOS Admin (u0831) can be used to enable "Time Machine Backup" in the volume configuration. If a HELIOS volume is mounted and "Time Machine Backup" is enabled, "Time Machine" on the Mac OS X client detects the volume, and it can be selected as a backup device. Backups are saved on the server as a bundle directory per workstation containing HFS disk images. "Time Machine" remembers the user name/password and automatically creates a hidden AFP connection when the backup schedule is active.
This is really cool, it works with 10.5 and 10.6 clients without any additional software installation and setup, pretty much like a connected USB backup disk.
The main advantages are:
- Automatic hourly, daily and weekly backups
- Easy restore by users using the “Time Machine” Finder interface
- Mac backups are stored as HFS disk images on the server (no trouble with millions of files)
- No software installation needed
- Excellent backup performance – it is really fast!
- Easy Mac disaster restore (Mac “Migration Assistant” can restore entire Mac from Time Machine Backup)
We love to backup your Macs!
4. Create PDF Server on Mac for Distiller 8&9
We are glad to announce that the latest Create PDF Server on Mac now supports current Acrobat Distiller versions (8&9). Create PDF Server now offers the same Acrobat Distiller versions support for Mac and Windows.
Server automated PDF generation provided by PDF HandShake has
been essential to users for years, and is the fastest and most
automated PostScript to PDF generation we know about. Some of
its capabilities include:
- Usage of industry standard Acrobat Distiller – server automated
- Server based printer queue access for Mac and Windows clients
- Distiller job and security settings are assigned per server print queue
- Additional “Hot Folder” job input
- Per user folders for generated PDFs
- Additional PDF preflight option after the PDF file is generated
- Create PDF Server works over the network like a printer (no volume access needed)
- Load-balancing/clustering supports fail-safety and extremely high throughput
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