SILICON GRAPHICS OFFERS MESSAGINGDIRECT'S SOLUTION FOR IRIX.Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : SGI), Mountain View, Calif., has announced the availability of MessagingDirect's enterprise directory solution for its IRIXa operating system. MessagingDirect is a leading provider of high-performance, scalable and robust LDAP/X.500 directory services that support mission-critical applications, particularly extranet and e-commerce applications. The MessagingDirect LDAP/X.500 enterprise directory (MD Directory) server provides a high-performance, robust global directory service for use within large-scale, heterogeneous environments. MD Directory offers full X.500 (1993) and native LDAPv3 support, providing sophisticated standardized X.500 access control, replication (ensuring a very high level of data availability), and X.509 strong authentication, in addition to the LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. functionality. This facilitates a fully distributed service with centralized administration, resilience against network outages and effective scaling. Telecommunications service providers, for example, demand highly effective internal messaging infrastructure management and support, in addition to the ability to offer value-added directory services to their clients. In addition, many organizations, ranging from government agencies to manufacturing, require a wide range of directory-enabled security mechanisms for their intranet, extranet and Internet communications, including full PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) support. The MD Directory is available on Silicon Graphics workstations and scalable ccNUMA servers. The MD Store messaging server based on IMAP IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol 4 and SASL 1. (language) SASL - St Andrews Static Language. 2. (networking) SASL - Simple Authentication and Security Layer. and the MD Switch, a high-volume message transfer agent The store and forward capability in a messaging system. See messaging system. (messaging) Message Transfer Agent - (MTA, Mail Transfer Agent) Any program responsible for delivering e-mail messages. supporting both Internet Mail (SMTP/MIME) and X.400, are also available on IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. . Silicon Graphics powers the most innovative sites and applications on the Internet, including powerhouses like AT&T Alestra (Mexico), GTE, Hiway Technologies, Retevision (Spain), Teleway (Japan) and high-volume Internet sites like Discovery Channel, the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). and Netscape Netcenter. Silicon Graphics, Inc. is a leading supplier of visual computing and high-performance systems. For more information, call 650-933-8587. |
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