Sun Announces OpenDS Standard Edition 1.0 - Performance and Scalability

Sun is announcing the general availability of the Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 1.0, the world's first commercially available pure Java-based directory server, based on the technologies developed in the OpenDS community.

All in one product, the Sun OpenDS Standard Edition brings to market a standalone and embeddable LDAP v3 compliant directory that is easy to install, use, manage and extend. It also has a new architecture designed to provide great performance and scalability.

Sun OpenDS SE is capable of running in very low-memory environments so that all essential directory components can be functional on edge devices like cell phones or PDAs. In addition, Sun OpenDS can scale to hundreds of millions of entries per instance on appropriately-sized hardware, making effective use of multi-CPU multi-core machines.Even better, adding in replication capabilities enables the directory server to achieve even higher levels of scalability and fault tolerance for the more demanding deployments.

Main features

• Intuitive administration

• Easy graphical installation tool that gets your server configured, up and running in less than 3 minutes!
• Nice graphical status panel
• A rich command line tool to perform all online administrative tasks both interactively or scripted
• Multi-master replication (4-way MMR)
• Enhanced LDAP extended operations and controls

• Security
  

• Advanced security and password policies in addition to advanced backup and restore capabilities
  

What's in it for you?

• Simplicity & Compliance: A simple and easy to use LDAP compliant directory server, the LDAPv3 server passes all of the compliance, interoperability and security tests suites.
• Interoperability: Sun OpenDS SE 1.0 implements most of the standard and experimental LDAP extensions defined in the IETF as RFCs or Internet-Drafts, so you'll get maximum interoperability with LDAP client applications.
• Open Source: OpenDS SE is based on open source technology and Sun offers enterprise-level support and indemnification.
• Small Footprint: the Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 1.0 is an embeddable directory, making it an efficient solution for any Web 2.0 developers, OEMs, ISVs, and SMBs that over time will need to address larger-scale deployment requirements.

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Posted at 01:29PM Jul 31, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events  |  Comments[0]