Company BackgroundAV/Mail expertiseDedicated research

Technologies

Mission StatementCommitment / SupportBusiness Model - Partners

About AXIGEN / Gecad

The need for virtualization in a hosted environmentEyes-on: the SaaS Model

SaaS Maturity Levels

The AXIGEN approach / Tools UsedSecurityLevels of servicesTechnologyMultitenancy

Taking the approach to another levelIntegrationScenarios

Wrap up / Q&A

Agenda

ObjectivesLower costsCentralized manageabilityLarger user base

PremisesEveryone has a computer Computing itself is a commodity Applications are standardized Parametric applications are usable Web systems are reliable enough Security is sufficiently well trusted and transparent Wide Area Network's bandwidth has grown drastically following the Moore's Law

The need for virtualization in the SaaS model

Few or no apps delivered from the

Data CenterSome applications

delivered from the Data Center

Evolving IT business

OS and apps locally installed

Application environments have the flexibility of running from virtualized hosted server,

depending on needs

Client-Server Model Server Based Computing

Few or no apps on the client

Complete application runs on hosted server in data

center or virtualized

Virtual Machine Computing(virtualized-hosted or virtualized)

ASPs host applications with HTML frontends added as an afterthought.

The focus in SaaS is more on what the customer wants rather than what the vendor could give.

Multitenancy ready

The AXIGEN approach, good for ASPs or for Saas?

Delegated Administration

Domain Containers

Reporting plus SNMP

Internal engine

SaaS model explained

Tenancy Partitioning

Scaling

Monitoring & Metering

Distributed Services

SaaS maturity levels

1. Individually customized for each tenant

2. Detailed configuration capabilities

3. Each customer’s data is kept separated

4. Load balancing, scalability

Safe defaults of configuration files and user settingsOngoing processCentralized upgrading/patchingSecurity/usability scenarios

Security by Deployment ?!

ScopeMethodsResourcesPermisionsInheritanceGroupsPossibilities

Delegated Administration (ACL)

AttributesInherited/ExplicitFiltersDomain Defaults/Account Classes/User

Gold/Silver differentiatior

Account classes / Levels of services

CustomizableMultiple selectable filteringAccount Classes defined

AntiVirus / AntiSpam

Technologies

Stardards compliancyOlder safer world / now unsafe

Proprietary technologies / standards / unsafe world

Helps virtualizationMore examples of complex routing

BlacklistsMx-es prioritiesSpam blacklisting

Routing technology

Aspects of multitenancy:Cost savingsComplexityCommunity

AXIGEN technologies achieve multitenancy:Customization – i.e. login Quality of serviceVirtualization

Multitenancy of AXIGEN

DeploymentCustom config - CLISeamless upgrades

Another level of SaaS model: AXIGEN + Virtuozzo

AXIGEN cluster minimal architectureLDAP Single sign-on

AXIGEN’s clustering capabilities

Possible scenarios

Resold mail serviceFreelancer administrator as a clientOutsourcing messaging needs

Ease of scalability even in virtualized environments

Virtualized SaaS: technology trendEasiness of multitenancy

Scalability

Automated custom deployment

Full featured applications

SaaS becoming a viable business modelNew business oportunities arrise

New market shareSpecific clients

Summary

Find intricate scenarios that would fit this integration:

http://www.axigen.com/usr/files/Axigen-SP-Program.pdf

Start “playing” with AXIGENhttp://www.axigen.com/mail-server/download/

Online Resources: http://www.axigen.com/mail-server/resources.php

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Visit Live DEMO www.axigen.com/demo/webadmin

What to do next ?

Q&A Session

Thank You!

Wrap up