VA Linux Announces Release of 'VA Directory'

VA Linux Announces Release of 'VA Directory', New Easy-To-Manage LDAP
Directory Enterprise Server Solution Featuring Robustness,
High-Availability and Extensibility

Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 24, 2004 - (JCN Newswire) - VA Linux Systems Japan K.K.
(VA Linux), a leading provider of Linux solutions for the
telecommunications and enterprise system markets, today announced it will
release 'VA Directory', a new LDAP directory service server software for
large-scale enterprise systems.  Advance sales of the VA Directory
solution will begin immediately, while delivery and full customer support
for the system will be available from January, 2005.

VA Directory consists of 'UltraPossum', an open source directory solution
now cooperatively developed by the OpenLDAP Project and VA Linux, and 'VA
Core', a GNU/Linux system foundation developed by VA Linux (based on
Debian GNU/Linux).  These two main components are highly integrated, and
it will assure customers of robustness, high-availability and
extensibility while being easy to manage. VA Linux's full and detailed
customer support will ensure to materialize practical LDAP directory
solution.

"VA Linux has been committed to the LDAP technology and its open source
implementations such as OpenLDAP or UltraPossum for a long time" said
Tetsuya Ueda, President and CEO of VA Linux in Tokyo.  "VA Directory is
the first fruit of our hard labor.  We will keep improving it to meet high
demands of enterprise or career use, increasing services or applications
based on VA Directory, and vigorously pushing the adaptation of VA
Directory in the targeted market."

VA Directory Key Features

- Secure transaction:
Implemented security measures such as LDAPv3 startTLS extension or LDAP
over SSL(*1).

- Variety of replication methods:
Supports the search load balancing by replication and synchronized
replication, ensures robust replication of the master server.

- Failover support:
Supports failover by the Active-Standby method for master server, assures
the safety of your precious data.

- Generation of and recovery from DB backup files:
Generation of / recovery from backup files are possible on servers on
which VA Directory runs.

- Monitoring of the LDAP server status:
Provides LDAP server status monitoring via SNMP and full statistic
reports, useful for administrators.

- Extensible system design:
Adopted plugin architecture - core components are all implemented as
plugins, thus very easy to add needed functions.

- Flexible configuration / management framework:
Standardized configuration / management framework brings customized easy
management, various management utilities will be available by request.

The minimum configuration of VA Directory is composed of a master server
and a slave, and the price will start at 880k Japanese Yen. In this case,
the annual maintenance support fee is 17.6k Japanese Yen. VA Linux's
consulting services such as schema design, directory tree design and
performance tuning are also available. VA Linux will aggressively promote
VA Directory to telecommunication carriers, data center providers, ISPs,
ASPs. Also, VA Linux seeks partners engaged in deploying solutions based
on VA Directory.

* VA Directory product page:
http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/products/directory/
* VA Core product page: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/products/core/
* UltraPossum Project: http://ultrapossum.org/

*1: This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for
use in the OpenSSL Toolkit(http://www.openssl.org/).

Trademarks

- UltraPossum and VA Directory are trademarks of VA Linux.
- OpenLDAP is a registered trademark OpenLDAP Foundation.
- Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
- All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders.

About OpenLDAP

OpenLDAP is open source software, managed and developed by the OpenLDAP
Foundation, which provides LDAP Directory Services.  LDAP (Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol) is a directory service protocol developed based
on X.500 directory services.  The core specification is defined in
RFC2251, "The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3)".  OpenLDAP
conforms to LDAP v3, alongside Microsoft's Active Directory and Novell's
eDirectory.

VA Linux has been active in internationalization and debugging of OpenLDAP
from the early stages, and actively participates in the OpenLDAP
Developers Conference.  VA Linux has shown a continuing commitment to the
development of OpenLDAP, including providing the server system for the
OpenLDAP Foundation's web site. Please visit http://www.openldap.org/

About UltraPossum

UltraPossum is a directory solution oriented towards large-scale systems.
It incorporates the OpenLDAP standard open source directory server
implementation, and integrated Heartbeat and mon status monitoring
software.  By combining this software with the LDAP server functionality
provided by OpenLDAP and maintenance and configuration components, a
multi-function directory solution framework can be provided.  Also,
UltraPossum also supports "syncbackup" released by VA Linux in December
2003, which implements the OpenLDAP synchronizing replication necessary
for high-availability and stability in large-scale systems.  Further,
UltraPossum's flexible plug-in architecture allows easy implementation of
LDAPv3 startTLS extensions and LDAP over SSL security functionality (*1).

UltraPossum supports Linux and all major UNIX-like OSes.  For detailed
information, please refer to the UltraPossum web site:
http://ultrapossum.org/

About VA Core

VA Core is an OS based on Debian GNU/Linux with packages, kernel
extensions, security updates and an improved installer maintained by VA
Linux.  It includes the management and configuration framework used in all
of the VA Linux Debian-framework-based products.


About VA Linux Systems Japan K.K.
Founded in September 2000, VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. (VA Linux), which
has based its operations on the development of Linux and Open Source, has
become one of the premier providers of Linux Kernel, technological, and
software solutions in the Japanese domestic market. From March 2004
onward, VA Linux has been the recipient of funding from NTT Comware and
NTT Data. VA Linux is currently at the forefront of implementing Linux
solutions for telecommunication and enterprise system markets. For more
information, please visit http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/

Contact
Orie Tsuzuno
Public Relations
VA Linux Systems Japan K.K.
TEL: +81-3-3293-5151
FAX: +81-3-3293-5152
E-mail: mktg@valinux.co.jp

Nov. 24, 2004, 12:29 (JST)
Source: VA Linux Systems Japan K.K.
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