eTrust Directory Provides Highly Scalable Repository for Directory Service Applications

Driven by forces such as globalization and online services, today’s directory infrastructures are increasing in size and scope at an unprecedented rate. Banks, corporations, government agencies and OEMs rely on large-scale directory backbone infrastructures for online financial services, intelligent networks, public key infrastructure (PKI) and related business applications and services. To help ensure success for these business-critical applications, you need a directory  solution that combines the highest levels of performance, scalability, reliability and industrial-strength security.

Unparalleled Performance and Reliability

eTrust Directory meets the rigorous demands of large, highly distributed environments without compromising performance, reliability or flexibility. It is unrivaled at the top end of the directory market, having been proven in many large-scale, directory-enabled environments, including ISPs, VISPs, Digital TV networks, government and banks. eTrust Directory offers unique benefits to help your organization:

• Save time for administrators by offering a single management focus for staff, customers and resources, along with associated access and security profiles

• Increase productivity by providing a highly available, fast and secure common information service

• Reduce risk and downtime by delivering built-in fault tolerance, and automatic recovery and failover features

Distinctive Functionalities

Leverage Investments. Distributed directories provide a powerful, standards-compliant platform for managing complex, distributed information. eTrust Directory is a true multi-protocol solution, offering the combined strengths of X.500 and LDAP V3 standards.

Customer Authentication and Authorization. With an eTrust Directory backbone, Internet access to services can be secured by strong authentication of customers via digital certificates and smart cards at very high transaction rates. Many service provider and web-enabled applications rely on the distributed backbone infrastructure of eTrust Directory to manage customer identity, group and security details.

Consolidated Customer Management. eTrust Directory provides a distributed, highly secure store of customer information and account relationships. Information that is duplicated across incompatible legacy systems and back-office applications can be migrated into a unified, easily accessible directory infrastructure.

Applications Integration. eTrust Directory works seamlessly with many third-party applications, such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Netegrity SiteMinder and Tivoli Access Manager.

High-Performance Technology, RDBMS Reliability. eTrust Directory incorporates the predictable performance, reliability and availability of a commercial RDBMS to significantly reduce technology risk and cost of deployment. eTrust Directory helps ensure data integrity through the underlying RDBMS, which can automatically recover from power failures, perform online backup and tuning, maintain journals and “hot” swap underlying database images.

Outstanding Performance. eTrust Directory delivers thousands of searches per second on multimillion entry databases and sub-second multi-cast searching across hundreds of distributed servers.

Industrial-Strength Reliability. eTrust Directory includes advanced replication and routing features, along with an industry leading replication scheme that provides a real-time multi-master capability. Together with intelligent routing, eTrust Directory can automatically failover between masters, perform load balancing and switch routes in the case of network outages.

Powerful Security. eTrust Directory delivers powerful security through an integrated set of authentication, access control and encryption facilities. The authentication levels include password, SSL and certificate-based authentication, as well as mutual authentication and network address validation for servers. eTrust Directory provides stringent access controls, which can be role-based, rule-based and/or dynamic, and can be applied over sub-trees, entries and attributes.

Virtually Unlimited Scalability. Each directory server can hold more than one hundred million entries, and as many directory servers as required can be linked together to form an integrated directory backbone. eTrust Directory can achieve sub-second response times in highly replicated and distributed environments. In addition, numerous servers can be run to support a very large number of concurrent users.

Comprehensive Management Tools and Capabilities. Most configuration is dynamic, and changes to schema, security and operation settings can be performed without taking servers offline. Many forms of logging are provided for auditing, accounting, billing and statistics purposes. Customers immediately realize the benefits of a truly distributed and integrated directory service.