Storie di Successo
SUN JAVA™ SYSTEM MESSAGINGTHE HOLY SEE - SUCCESS STORYSun Builds Robust Messaging Infrastructure with Sun Java™ System Software.Leveraging Sun Java™ System software, the Vatican has a reliable, secure messaging infrastructure that connects the organization with the worldwide Catholic community. Building a Scalable, Easy-to-manage Enterprise Messaging InfrastructureThe Vatican's new communications infrastructure was designed with reliability, scalability and availability in mind. The infrastructure is based on Sun Java System Messaging Server and Sun Java System Directory Server. The communications solutions are powered by Sun Fire 280R and V120R servers with UltraSPARC™ III Processors running the Solaris™ 8 Operating System. "The Solaris 8 Operating System powering our Sun Fire servers provides a robust, secure infrastructure that is highly available for our demanding e-mail system," says Luigi Salimbeni, Internet Office of the Holy See. "Essentially, we felt that an environment based on Sun Java System Messaging Server and Solaris would perform better than a hybrid solution." 
The disk array provides an affordable, high-performance storage system to support the Holy See's requirements for fast data access. In the cluster, one server node serves as the message store server, which manages user mailboxes. Another node functions as the lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) server, running Sun Java System Directory Server to manage user identity profiles and access privileges. Notes Salimbeni, "Sun Cluster software is robust, easy to maintain and provides the high system availability that our mission-critical e-mail system needs in order to meet user demands." Two Sun Fire V120R servers are dedicated to running the SunScreen' Secure Net 3.1 firewall systems in both LANs. "Keeping things simple allowed us to easily and seamlessly integrate our new e-mail system into our existing network infrastructure," says Salimbeni. "The Sun products we have chosen give us exactly the power and resiliency we need to deliver the expected performance for our current load level. And the architecture that Sun helped us design allows us to easily add systems to increase throughput when needed." Leveraging Sun Technology for a Higher PurposeToday, the Holy See Internet Office manages about 1,000 e-mail accounts, and receives 5 to 10 requests each week to open new accounts. The fact that its Sun communications infrastructure was able to handle the 40,000 daily e-mails that arrived during the 25th anniversary of the Pope's pontificate-many sent directly to the Pope's personal e-mail addresstestified to the robustness of the new solution. The message volume has only increased, and even under high workloads the system has remained available 99.999 percent of the time. "Another clearly noticeable benefit is that very little of our help desk time is now devoted to e-mail issues," says Sister Judith. "Instead, our team can focus on more complex issues such as increasing bandwidth or configuring the LAN. Also, with POP3 e-mail, you can worry less about users downloading viruses onto our network." Adds Salimbeni, "Considering our limited IT staff, we are really happy with the fact that there is literally nothing we have to do for our new messaging infrastructure besides trivial administrative tasks." Moving forward, the Holy See plans to build a new, worldwide portal to strengthen its Web community and centralize its multiple external and internal Internet sites. Sun is now working closely with the team to implement the Portal solution with components of the Sun Java Enterprise System. The new portal will provide users with fast, anytime access to comprehensive applications and services, including content management, streaming, eLearning, and collaboration. Concludes Sister Judith, "Sun developed a keen understanding of how technology and the Internet can be used by the Church, and its expertise has led us to enhance our communications and evangelization efforts securely and cost-effectively."
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