UNIXPROS Selects ICL'S i500 Directory.RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 1998-- Leading Outsource Supplier Chooses i500 to Support PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of Security and Enterprise-Scale Directory Needs for Fortune 100 Customers ICL (International Computers Ltd., London) The former name of Fujitsu Services, the European-centered arm of the global Fujitsu Group and one of the leading IT services companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. announced today an agreement with UNIXPROS, Inc., Eatontown, NJ, through which UNIXPROS will resell the ICL i500(R) Enterprise Directory for security and directory applications. UNIXPROS is a leading supplier of outsource IT solutions to Fortune 100 companies and the U.S. Department of Defense. The ICL i500 directory is a global directory server that offers the speed and scalability large organizations require for 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. and X.500 directories, along with simplified management and ease of use. i500 also integrates with security tools supplied by a variety of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) vendors such as Entrust; it provides a highly scalable repository for public keys used in the largest organizations' security systems. "We decided on i500 for its ability to complement the security solutions we develop for our customers," said UNIXPROS Senior Vice President Jay Thompson. "Its unlimited scalability and support for X.509 authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. , Entrust and other security tools made it the best choice for our customers. As a natural extension, we also plan to provide i500 to customers that need high-performance, distributed directory services See DNS, ENUM, XDI and X.500. ." UNIXPROS (www.unixpros.com) specializes in custom software development and products for the telecommunications and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. industries. The company offers complete project lifecycle services including planning, analysis, design, development and testing of all original software systems. In addition to its expertise in the leading UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms, UNIXPROS is also a Microsoft Solutions Provider. UNIXPROS offers its clients a wide range of complete software solutions for telecommunications, legacy systems reengineering, Year 2000 compliance, network management, security management, electronic commerce and Web software development. Clients include such global firms as J.P. Morgan, Andersen Consulting See Accenture. , Deloitte & Touche, AT&T, Lucent and others. About i500 (www.i500directory.com) ICL's i500 Enterprise Directory is designed for use by large organizations with distributed IT environments. It can support millions of entries on a single LDAP or X.500 directory server, and multiple servers can be linked together for larger applications and unlimited scalability. The directory can perform multiple searches in less than one second. Designed to act as a key component in secure, PKI environments, i500 conforms to the international X.509 standard for authentication. The product has been selected by leading PKI suppliers such as Digital Signature Trust Company (DST (1) (DeSTination) Contrast with SRC, which is an abbreviation of "source." (2) (Digital Signal Trust Company, Salt Lake City, UT, www.digsigtrust.com) An organization that sets up and manages PKI systems for companies and industry groups. ), a premier provider of digital signature authentication and certification services to business and government; and Entrust Technologies, the industry leader in public key infrastructure technologies including encryption, digital signature and automated key management. Add-on products that provide simplified management and ease of use include the iGateway, which enables directory client access to external databases; and iCon, a single-point directory configuration tool. About ICL Inc. ICL Inc. is the U.S. software marketing arm of ICL PLC, a $4 billion global IT firm that specializes in implementing IT systems for major projects and providing innovative services to a range of industries. The company is the developer of DAIS(R), a CORBA-conformant Object Request Broker See ORB. (programming) Object Request Broker - (ORB) Part of the OMG CORBA specification, an ORB's basic function is to pass method invocation requests to the correct objects and return the results to the caller. ; the ICL i500 Enterprise Directory Server and Dialogue Manager(TM), which provides desktop access to legacy databases. ICL Inc. is headquartered at 11490 Commerce Park Drive, Reston, Virginia Reston is an internationally known planned community whose goal was to revolutionize post-World War II concepts of land use and residential/corporate development in American suburbia. 20191, and can be reached by phone at 703/648-3300, by fax at 703/648-3350 or on the Web at http://www.iclinc.com. -0- ICL i500 and DAIS are registered trademarks and Dialogue Manager is a trademark of International Computers Limited in the USA, UK and other countries. CONTACT: ICL Inc. Anne Prine, 714/855-5505 aprine@iclinc.com or Mesa Communications, Inc. Audrey Bakke, 303/220-7356 Afbakke@aol.com |
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