Most Competitive
aeSLAPD offers
a fresh approach to directory pricing. Least total cost of
ownership (TCO), period.
Zero stored-user charges for all
academic and most commercial users, with nominal charges
only for very large directories. Compare this to per-stored user
charges for Sun
JavaSystem Directory/LDAP Proxy or Novell
eDirectory. Our rates are lowest industry wide for average
per-user
entry Right To Use (RTU).
A "directory" is a virtual concept, meaning it
really may be composed of one or more servers in a tree/peer/hub
model. aeSLAPD server classes (Office, Institutional, Enterprise)
determine the maximum concurrent connections a single server
can support.
AE provides free Right-to-Copy (RTC) up to the
number of servers your scale of directory requires. Unlike
web servers where pages are explicitly addressed via a
URL, at the heart of directories is a database search-engine.
For massive directories that cannot be fully cached into
memory, the disk access/read times and operating system
overhead will limit the size of a database that can be searched
on one machine in a tolerable amount of time. In other words,
to maintain acceptable levels of response, large directories
are replicated (to better manager network volume), and/or
divided and logically connected via referrals to reduce
the physical size of each database. Either approach means
multiple server copies will be needed for scalability.
No Hidden Costs
The
hidden cost with other vendors such as Microsoft is that they force customers
to purchase separately for each server in the directory,
which is inevitable to support large directories.
| Server |
Concurrent
User Capacity |
RTC |
Description |
| Office |
50 |
0 |
No RTC, performance reduced
if greater than 1000 entries at max usage. |
| Institutional |
100 |
1-7 |
RTC based on estimated
5 copies needed to adequately service 500,000 user DIT. |
| Enterprise |
250 |
1-N |
Same as above. RTC based on estimated copies
needed to adequately service up to a 50 million user DIT. Ask for pricing scales. |
Other Advantages
aeSLAPD has many advantages which make it highly competitive
to better penetrate the burgeoning LDAP market, among them
are:
- lowest total cost of ownership
- lowest base prices
- highest stored-user ceiling before capacity scaling charges are applied
- lowest per-entry RTU rates in the
industry, ask for scales)
- free RTC (right-to-copy for scalable
directories based on size
- LDAP v3 and v2 compliant
- truly lightweight, native LDAP – many competitors
(such as Novell eDirectory) are still merely LDAP gateways to X.500
- smallest "footprint" for
required hardware
- Windows version runs as either an NT service or Win32 process
- Advanced user front-end
and native Windows Directory Management tool
- low cost of
administration – U. Mich and OpenLDAP SLAPD configuration
compliant; the most widely used, openly
documented LDAP server
- Compatible with other LDAP servers and Softerra LDAP Administrator™
client (included)
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