While much work has been done to address bandwidth and other network-related Internet application performance issues, some of the biggest bottlenecks remain behind the firewall in getting the data out of the directories and databases fast enough,” said Tim Matthews, president and co-founder of Ipedo. “Ipedo’s ‘active caching’ strategy attacks the inefficiencies in retrieving, handling, transforming and delivering the core dynamic content by staging it in high-speed servers closer to the applications that need it, and the end result is dramatically better performance for both wired and wireless Internet applications.
The all-Java Ipedo Directory Cache works with any LDAP v3 directory server, including those from iPlanet, Novell and IBM, and installs quickly with no disruption to back-end servers. Multiple caches accessing a single master directory can store redundant sets of information for high availability, or the data can be split up among the multiple caches to boost performance.
From the Ipedo product page, Ipedo Directory Cache First in a line of products, the Ipedo Directory Cache is designed to add increased performance to standard LDAP v3 directory servers. Without replacing existing directory servers, Ipedo can immediately increase overall lookup speed for time-critical provisioning, security and personalization operations.
This looks like a great product on the surface, although I will want to see benchmarks for both loadballancing and fault tollerance tests. If someone has used this product, or is looking at it, please post a comment and let us know your experiences…
