16 January 08 - 07:40One for the Good Guys

Howard and OpenLDAP got a nice mention in this InfoWeek main blog ... shame they didn't mention Symas. Talks about an earlier post here about our Xeon vs Opteron recent benchmarking called Does it Scale?. (more)

- OpenLDAP - No comments / No trackbacks - § ¶

09 January 08 - 21:51Isode Revisited

A few years ago Isode published a benchmark of their version 10.1 server against an unspecified version of OpenLDAP (most likely 2.0).

http://www.isode.com/whitepapers/m-vault-benchmarking.html

Recently we at Symas were given the opportunity to work with Isode to test out their new 14.0 server with a completely rewritten backend, so we took this chance to compare against the current OpenLDAP 2.4.7 release.

(more)

- OpenLDAP - No comments / No trackbacks - § ¶

07 January 08 - 08:03Uncle!

In early 2007 we stopped releasing CDS Silver (the unsupported free version of CDS) concurrently with CDS Gold (the subscription version) and we were thinking about dropping the Silver packages entirely. Due to popular demand and to ensure that both Symas and the OpenLDAP Project always put our best foot forward, we've decided not only to keep the Silver packages but to enhance them by adding new capabilities that were previously available only in the Gold packages. (more)

- CDS - four comments / No trackbacks - § ¶

04 January 08 - 10:02Does it Scale?

With thanks to AMD for providing us a pair of 8-core systems to play with, I've been able to spend some quality time over the past few months doing more detailed profiling of OpenLDAP's concurrency behavior. As a result, OpenLDAP 2.4.7's performance on multiprocessor machines has again improved beyond previous releases. Just around the New Year I was also loaned access to an 8-core Intel server for testing. With all the hype about quad core designs flying around the web, I thought a detailed comparison would be interesting. (more)

- OpenLDAP - sixteen comments / No trackbacks - § ¶

04 January 08 - 04:13OpenLDAP #2 to AD?

A frog in the valley grabbed the money quote and pointed to this trade magazine online article for the full story.

Money quote?:

But we were a little surprised by what occupied the No. 2 slot among identity stores: the open-source OpenLDAP project. That is, we were surprised until we started talking to readers. What we learned is that OpenLDAP is driving a number of Fortune 500 enterprise IdM efforts, and adoption doesn’t appear to be slowing.

We at Symas are not surprised. OpenLDAP is gaining momentum as major enterprises seriously consider their Identity next steps. (more)

- OpenLDAP - two comments / No trackbacks - § ¶