A market leader for performance, scalability and compatibility.
Introduction
Reliance you can count on
Proven and trusted by leading enterprises and government agencies around the world, this state-of-the-art directory handles large quantities of data, provides lightning-fast response times and offers the industry’s highest levels of scalability and performance. Directory Server has been deployed in some of the most demanding IT infrastructures.
This highly scalable directory provides high-speed access to user profiles and other data required by mission-critical systems and applications. It delivers reliable, easy-to-manage, distributed access to information.
Features
Reliable, easy-to-manage, distributed access to information
High Performance and Scalability
- Supports millions of entries across a distributed directory infrastructure
- Scales to multi-million entries while delivering sub-second response times with hundreds of queries per second
- Presents a globally unified directory namespace through standard distribution protocol for data population across multiple servers
- Adds directory servers as required to scale services
- Optimises performance and reduces network bandwidth requirements by placing data where it is used or accessed most often
- Achieves optimization through x.500 distribution standards for chaining and replication, as well as with granular replication
Transactional and data integrity
- Ensures authentication, authorization and access control rights are determined using the latest and most up-to-date user profile information
- Guarantees transactional integrity by not fully committing a transaction until all relevant directory components have been updated
- Ensures integrity by committing all transactions to disk instead of caching
Standards support
- Protects and leverages technology investments (supports LDAP, DSML and HTTP standards)
- Easily interoperates with Meta-Directory, access management, single sign-on, account provisioning and security applications
- Enables open access and support for applications and services through X.500 and LDAPv3 compliance
- Securely accesses and efficiently distributes the latest information through standards-based chaining and replication protocols
Granular data control
- Provides total control over global data distribution through granular replication and selected object-class shadowing
- Optimises performance and reduces network bandwidth requirements by replicating only updated attributes rather than full entries or sub-trees on change
- Simplifies replication establishment and selectively shares subsets of data with others by supporting selected attribute replication and multiple sub-tree replications
Data security
- Leverages proven interoperability with industry-leading security applications
- Ensures secure data access with support for security standards, including SSL/TLS and SASL, as well as SSHA and Md5 encryption
Simplified management
- Provides a view to the distributed directory architecture as a whole unit and manages the server from any point on the network via a standard web browser
- Utilises an easy-to-use graphical user interface to reduce administrative burdens and enhance service quality
- Facilitates rapid and easy management to ensure data accuracy and availability
