Delivering Secure, Highly Available, Scalable, and Easy-to-Manage Directory Services. Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition serves as the backbone to an enterprise identity infrastructure, enabling today's mission-critical enterprise applications and large-scale extranet applications to access consistent, accurate, and reliable identity data for significant operational and cost efficiencies. This solution provides a solid foundation for identity management by providing a central repository for storing and managing identity profiles, access privileges, and application and network resource information. It integrates smoothly into multiplatform environments, and provides secure, on-demand password synchronization with Microsoft Windows Active Directory.

Market Leader
With over 1.5 billion entries, the Java System Directory Server is the most widely deployed general-purpose, LDAP-based directory server. The Java System Directory Server is rated #1 in the Directory Server Magic Quadrant by Gartner Research, #1 market share leader by Radicati Research, #1 in market penetration by The Burton Group.

At a Glance
Providing industry-leading directory capabilities, Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition delivers highly available, scalable, manageable, and secure services that:

• Enhance security
• Lower costs
• Provide investment protection
• Reduce IT complexity
• Improve manageability

Key Features:

• Centralized repository for identity, application, and network resource information
• Directory proxy services
• Secure password management
• Four-way multi-master replication
• 64-Bit support on HP and SPARC platforms, and linear scalability

System Requirements
Operating Systems and Platforms:*

• Sun Solaris 9 or 8 Operating Systems (SPARC Platform Edition)
• Sun Solaris 9 Operating System (x86 Platform Edition)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
• Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server and Advanced Server
• HP-UX 11.11
• IBM AIX 5.1
   
  *Platforms listed for LDAP server only.

Companion Products & Services:

Sun Java System Access Manager
Open, standards-based access control, single sign-on and federation services that help control costs and minimize the security risks of conducting business more openly.

Sun Java System Identity Manager
ntegrated user provisioning and identity synchronization services for efficiently and securely managing identity profiles and permissions throughout the entire identity lifecycle.