FOSTER CITY, Calif., August 30, 2004 -
Furthering its leadership as the premier provider of solutions that
secure, manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer
(P2P) applications, FaceTime Communications today announced that
independent testing and certification center KeyLabs has completed
scalability testing of FaceTime's industry-leading IM and P2P
security and compliance solution, IMAuditor 5.0. KeyLab's
scalability testing was completed using its Independent
Verification of Performance service under intensive user and
message load scenarios that replicate a production environment.
"IMAuditor scaled in a stable manner with low processor and memory
utilizations," said Suzanne Wagstaff, testing director at KeyLabs.
"Furthermore, IMAuditor actually improved the performance of the
enterprise instant messaging system we were testing against." Key
Findings Included:
- Stable scalability with low processor and memory utilization:
As simultaneous user populations increased, no upper limit of
support for large populations appeared.
- Prescriptive architecture for the support of 40,000
simultaneous users in a 100,000 user environment with the following
configuration: four IMAuditor servers, one database server, and the
optional addition of a load balancer or the utilization of
IMAuditor's statistical routing capabilities.
- Consistent scalability and performance of the enterprise IM
systems when used in conjunction with IMAuditor's in-stream proxy
architecture, which dramatically contrasted against common
"connector" architectures that degrade enterprise IM server
performance.
- Standard server hardware configurations: 2.7GHz CPU's, 1 GB RAM
and 100Mbit Ethernet connections are adequate to obtain these
levels of performance.
"IMAuditor is the most widely deployed end-to-end IM security
and compliance solution in the market today," said Kailash Ambwani,
president and CEO of FaceTime. "As our customer installations have
grown in size, we felt it important to complete an independent test
of our enterprise scalability and offer that data to our customers
and prospects." A complete copy of the KeyLabs Performance Test is
available from FaceTime by contacting a FaceTime sales
representative or requesting a copy at www.facetime.com/scalability.
Scalability testing was completed using KeyLab's Independent
Verification of Performance service. Further details can be found
at www.keylabs.com.
About Actiance, Inc. (Formerly FaceTime Communications, Inc.)
FaceTime Communications became Actiance, Inc on January 11, 2011 following an agreement to
transfer the FaceTime trademark to Apple.
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of Unified Communications and Web 2.0,
including instant messaging, blogs and social networking. Ranked number one by IDC for five consecutive
years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by more than 1,500 customers for the security,
management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships
with all leading IM, unified communications providers and social networks including AOL, Google, Yahoo!,
Skype, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-3223.
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