Tokyo, JAPAN - December 7, 2004 --
VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. (VA
Linux), a leading provider of Linux solutions for the
telecommunications and enterprise system markets, today announced it
will release 'VA FlexMessaging Solution', a new all-in-one messaging
solution based on Open Source software. VA FlexMessaging Solution has
appealing properties such as robustness, high-availability,
high-performance and extensibility, thus is well-suited for both
small-to-medium body and very large organizations such as network
service providers which have over 1 million accounts. Advance sales
of the VA FlexMessaging Solution will begin immediately, while
delivery and full customer support for the system will be available
from January, 2005.
VA Linux had successfully built many large-scale mail systems using
Open Source software, and accumulated rich knowledge of managing
large-scale systems which often have over 1 million accounts. VA
Linux's technological excellence made it possible to construct such
demanding systems by adding needed functions lacked in the current
Open Source solutions, or applying advanced performance-tuning for
high-traffic environments. This time, VA Linux introduces VA
FlexMessaging Solution, in which it utilizes VA Linux's rich
experience on large-scale mail system design and is provided as an
all-in-one solution package. VA FlexMessaging Solution is an
integrated mail system solution based on carefully tuned Open Source
software including MTA, POP, IMAP, SPAM filter and so forth.
It is an ideally flexible mail system for both small-to-medium setups
and large-scale enterprises.
"VA FlexMessaging Solution is the culmination of rich know-how for
constructing large-scale system, which VA Linux has been accumulating
since its inception", said Tatsuya Ueda, President and CEO of VA Linux
in Tokyo. "VA Linux now possesses technological edge which is
essential to actually employ Open Source software in demanding, real
enterprise world. We are sure that our principle, 'full support from
source code level for customers', will impact on not only mail system
market but also enterprise market as a whole."
This product consists of 'FlexMail', a Postfix-based high-performance
mail transfer engine improved by VA Linux, 'FlexPOP', the original
POP server which supports Maildir style, 'FlexIMAP', a Courier-IMAP
based IMAP server especially tuned for large-scale mail system, 'FlexML',
a GNU Mailman-based feature-rich mailing list manager with easy-to-use
Web-based interface, and the original SPAM filtering solution for MTA
called 'FlexGuard', which is capable of excluding SPAM mails effectively.
These components may fully utilize VA Linux's other solutions such
as the load-balancing solution 'VA Balance' (has been released this
November), the LDAP directory server solution 'VA Directory', and
the core OS 'VA Core'. Since VA Linux provides the whole mail system
from OS to application, customers can expect rich, source code level
(including Linux kernel) technical support by VA Linux's able experts.
VA FlexMessaging Solution adopts a modular architecture, which means
each function for mail systems (MTA / IMAP / POP / LDAP / NFS and so
on) are divided into independent modules and distributed. This
architecture promises configuration flexibility -- for example, just
adding servers or disks is well enough to improve the system
performance as a whole. This level of modularity makes it easier to
cope with large-scale / high-traffic requests from our demanding
customers. Also, all components which comprise of VA FlexMessaging
Solution are designed to make full use of completely replicated
servers on which it works, therefore high-reliability and stability
are guaranteed. Besides, various code improvements and additions
for the carrier / enterprise grade help to accomplish
robustness and high-performance.
The pricing of VA FlexMessaging Solution depends on the number of
servers on which the solution runs, regardless of numbers of users
on those servers. For example, the basic system which has FlexMail,
FlexPOP, FlexML and FlexGuard on two replicated servers, the price
will start at 400k Japanese Yen. In case FlexIMAP servers (5 more
servers, for 5000 people) is added to this basic configuration, the
price will start at 650k Japanese Yen.
VA Linux will aggressively promote VA FlexMessaging Solution to mainly
telecommunication carriers, network service providers and large-scale
enterprises. Also, VA Linux seeks partners such as SI vendors or
hardware vendors engaged in deploying this solution to enterprises.
* VA FlexMessaging Solution : http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/solution/flexmessaging/
* FlexMail : http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/products/flexmail/
* FlexIMAP : http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/products/fleximap/
* FlexPOP : http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/products/flexpop/
* FlexML : http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/products/flexml/
* FlexGuard : http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/products/flexguard/
About VA Linux Systems Japan K.K.
Founded in September 2000, VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. (VA Linux),
which has based its operations on the development of Linux and Open
Source, has become one of the premier providers of Linux kernel, technological,
and software solutions in the Japanese domestic market. From March
2004 onward, VA Linux has been the recipient of funding from NTT Comware
and NTT Data. VA Linux is currently at the forefront of implementing
Linux solutions for telecommunication and enterprise system markets.
http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/
About Trademarks
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
FlexMail, VA Balance, VA Directory, VA Core are trademarks of VA Linux.
All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective holders.
Contact
Orie Tsuzuno
Public Relations
VA Linux Systems Japan K.K.
phone: +81-3-3293-5151
fax: +81-3-3293-5152
Email: mktg at valinux.co.jp
