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Extensive,
Reliable Scalability
Organizations that adopt EIM quickly grow to depend on its
24x7 availability, and its productivity and decision-making
benefits. Their employees can’t imagine doing business
without it. That’s why reliable scalability is so important.
Working
closely with customers that have large, demanding user bases,
we designed the Bantu Platform for maximum, reliable scalability.
Today, it boasts the industry’s largest EIM deployment:
it serves 1.4 million registered users of the award-winning
U.S. Army Knowledge
Online portal.
Built
to Scale
Scalability means nothing if users can’t reliably access
their EIM, and administrators can’t easily manage increasing
usage. We built the Bantu Platform in a way that enables customers—ranging
from small to extensive deployments—to effectively scale:
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Low-bandwidth: Its browser-based client enables Bantu EIM
to work with limited impact on network resources. This helped
make Bantu particularly attractive for the U.S.
Navy Knowledge Online portal, projected to have over
350,000 registrants by the end of 2003—many of whom
access Bantu EIM while at sea, often aboard ships with low-bandwidth
connections to shore.
- Client
reliability regardless of network stability: Even with poor
network conditions, i.e., multiple interruptions due to
failed connections, you remain connected to Bantu Message
Server and your messages will be delivered without interruption.
- Modular
platform: Bantu EIM components are modular, enabling you
to add servers to scale for usage requirements. For smaller
organizations the Platform can be installed on a single,
standard Windows, Solaris or Linux machine. For larger organizations,
each of Bantu’s virtual servers (Messaging, Presence
and Alerts) can be installed and scaled over separate physical
servers.
- Load-balancing:
Bantu includes software-based, highly flexible load balancing
which ensures 24x7x365 availability. Its maintenance tools
also enable administrators to maintain the system without
ever having to bring it down. Bantu’s load-balancing
enables you to decommission servers and then automatically
move users to other available servers as they log on.
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