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The Impact on Disk Space Usage

The benefits of having compact entries in the database are available today with Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7 and Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 2.2, writes Ludovic Poitou in his blog “Sun Directory Compresses Data for Better Performance,” adding that both solutions are helping customers to reduce the overall cost of ownership of the directory services.

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Updated Core Directory Server, Significant Improvements in Read/Write Performance

Sun OpenDS Standard Edition (SE) 2.2 provides improvement to the core directory server as well as a new proxy server capability to manage requests between LDAP client applications and remote LDAP servers (either Sun OpenDS SE 2.2 or Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition (DSEE) 7.0). It also includes a web-based “Namefinder” lookup sample application to browse users in the Directory.

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List of Features and Benefits

Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition (DSEE) 7.0 improves performance by more than three times when compared to its predecessor, Sun reports, and improves authentication and modification performance by 60 percent, allowing customers to accelerate their applications without changing one line of code. See a comprehensive list of DSEE 7.0’s features and benefits for more information on this release.

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Improves Authentication, Modification and Over 3x the Performance

Version 7.0 of the Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition (DSEE) improves performance by more than three times when compared to its predecessor, and improves authentication and modification performance by 60 percent, allowing customers to accelerate their applications without changing one line of code, Sun reports. It is now available for download along with supporting documentation.

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Virtual Directory in Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition

Consolidating the growing stores of disparate identity data, where increasing numbers of users and applications are the rule rather than the exception, is one of several daunting tasks facing system administrators. The recent Sun white paper “Top Three Reasons to Deploy a Virtual Directory” explains why a virtual directory can help solve this task by providing a single consolidated view of disparate identity data to organizations dealing with diverse legacy resources.

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