About AXIGEN / Gecad
Company Background
AV/Mail expertise
Dedicated research
Technologies
Mission Statement
Commitment / Support
Business Model - Partners
Agenda
The need for virtualization in a hosted environment
Eyes-on: the SaaS Model
SaaS Maturity Levels
The AXIGEN approach / Tools Used
Security
Levels of services
Technology
Multitenancy
Taking the approach to another level
Integration
Scenarios
Wrap up / Q&A
The need for virtualization in the SaaS model
Objectives
Lower costs
Centralized manageability
Larger user base
Premises
Everyone 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
Evolving IT business
Client-Server Model
Server Based Computing
Virtual Machine Computing
(virtualized-hosted or virtualized)
Few or no apps delivered
from the Data Center
OS and apps
locally installed
Some applications delivered
from the Data Center
Application environments have the
flexibility of running from virtualized
hosted server, depending
on needs
Few or no apps on the client
Complete application runs on
hosted server in data center or
virtualized
The AXIGEN approach, good for ASPs or for Saas?
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
SaaS model explained
Tenancy Partitioning
Delegated Administration
Scaling
Domain Containers
Monitoring & Metering
Reporting plus SNMP
Distributed Services
Internal engine
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
Security by Deployment ?!
Safe defaults of configuration files and user settings
Ongoing process
Centralized upgrading/patching
Security/usability scenarios
Delegated Administration (ACL)
Scope
Methods
Resources
Permisions
Inheritance
Groups
Possibilities
Account classes / Levels of services
Attributes
Inherited/Explicit
Filters
Domain Defaults/Account Classes/User
Gold/Silver differentiatior
AntiVirus / AntiSpam
Customizable
Multiple selectable filtering
Account Classes defined
Proprietary technologies / standards / unsafe world
Technologies
Stardards compliancy
Older safer world / now unsafe
Routing technology
Helps virtualization
More examples of complex routing
Blacklists
Mx-es priorities
Spam blacklisting
Multitenancy of AXIGEN
Aspects of multitenancy:
Cost savings
Complexity
Community
AXIGEN technologies achieve multitenancy:
Customization – i.e. login
Quality of service
Virtualization
Another level of SaaS model: AXIGEN + Virtuozzo
Deployment
Custom config - CLI
Seamless upgrades
AXIGEN’s clustering capabilities
AXIGEN cluster minimal architecture
LDAP
Single sign-on
Possible scenarios
Resold mail service
Freelancer administrator as a client
Outsourcing messaging needs
Ease of scalability even
in virtualized environments
Summary
Virtualized SaaS: technology trend
Easiness of multitenancy
Scalability
Automated custom deployment
Full featured applications
SaaS becoming a viable business model
New business oportunities arrise
New market share
Specific clients
What to do next ?
Find intricate scenarios that would fit this integration:
http://www.axigen.com/usr/files/Axigen-SP-Program.pdf
Start “playing” with AXIGEN
http://www.axigen.com/mail-server/download/
Online Resources:
http://www.axigen.com/mail-server/resources.php
24 x 7 Technical Support
http://www.axigen.com/support/contact.html
Visit Live DEMO
www.axigen.com/demo/webadmin
Wrap up
Q&A Session
Thank You!