Control Data Weds Global Directory and LDAP Technologies for Performance Breakthrough.

ARDEN HILLS, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 1998--Control Data Systems, Inc. today announced Global Directory 2000 (GD2000), a higher-performing, more scalable version of the company's foundation X.500 enterprise directory products.

GD2000 includes significant updates to Control Data's enterprise directory product (GDS500) and its metadirectory product (GD Meta Edition). Like its predecessors, GD2000 is fully compliant with the latest X.500 technology standards, and provides a unifying conduit through which a wide range of users, applications and systems can access a shared catalog of information under superior access control security. It also can scale within and across enterprises.

But the GD2000 includes several distinct features--including a new embedded LDAP server with the latest LDAP V3 technology--that provide much higher performance, scalability and security than Control Data's other directory products.

GD2000's ability to secure data flow and protect pathways inside large, globally distributed companies is one of its most significant advancements. SSL protection has been added not only to provide secure access to the new LDAP server but also to secure access to metaconnector pipelines that link to other metadirectories and reference data repositories.

As metadirectories allow information to flow more freely, GD2000's ability to protect information helps resolve a critical and growing problem for many large companies. The underlying technology for GD2000 also forms a key part of the secure user administration provided by GUA2000, Control Data's new global user administration application.

"Control Data is clearly one of the major players in directory technology today," said Ron Rassner, vice president and chief analyst for Creative Networks, Inc. "The release of an updated directory that includes an improved LDAP server only solidifies the company's standing."

For superior continuing support of Control Data's existing customer base, GD2000 provides supply-side replication for NT, an advancement that allows an NT system to become a complete participant within a directory system. The new LDAP server also provides automatic conversion of the internal X.500 character set T.61 to UTF8.

Control Data Systems, Inc. delivers E-Commerce solutions that help organizations transform the way they do business through web, messaging, directory and security technologies and services. With its Rialto(tm) brand of directory-enabled software tools and services, the company is focused on the architecture, implementation and lifetime support of digital commerce and enterprise-wide client-server solutions for business and government. For more information, call 1-888-742-5864 in the U.S. (1-651-415-2999 internationally) or visit our web site at www.cdc.com.