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Security:
Westbridge Partners With nCipher
To Introduce XA2700 Appliance
Westbridge Technology announced a new, fully-integrated Web Services
management and security appliance with nCipher, a leading provider of
cryptographic IT security solutions. The result of the partnership is the
release of the Westbridge XML Message Server (XMS) XA2700 series appliance.
The new single 1U rack-mountable device features a fully-integrated nCipher
hardware-based cryptographic accelerator.
The XA2700 provides customers with a comprehensive set of Web Services
Management (WSM) and XML Firewall features with the performance boost and
physical security of hardened security hardware.
"The Westbridge and nCipher partnership addresses key concerns of companies
adopting Web services -- the ability to process and secure XML transactions
without incurring a performance hit," said Tom Rhinelander, analyst with New
Rowley Group. "Delivering this joint solution in a compact XML appliance
allows customers to quickly roll out XML Web services solutions that need high
performance but must also be secure and manageable."
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Performance is a critical requirement for Web Services. Data-intensive XML
and
SOAP messages require significant processing for message handling and
manipulation. Coupled with the performance demands for security, such as
encryption and digital signatures, performance has risen in importance as
companies deploy significant Web Services projects. Solutions such as the
XA2700 are therefore necessary for ensuring optimum performance processing for
Web Services.
The Westbridge XA2700 provides cryptographic acceleration and hardware-
based
secure key management. The XA2700 provides a significant performance boost for
critical functions such as SSL, XML Encryption, XML Decryption and SAML
processing. The Westbridge XA2700 also provides high performance XML and
security processing coupled with patent-pending Smart Parser technology, that
intelligently and efficiently performs XML operations such as high-speed
parsing, validation and transformation in a fraction of the time. Performance
for certain XML-related functions has improved over 10 times for most XML
processing activities.
"The Westbridge XA2700 represents a quantum leap in performance
capabilities
for XML Web Services networks," said Tom Ryan, CEO of Westbridge Technology.
"We have a strong commitment to provide the best security and management
capabilities with industry-leading performance. We have added significant
performance improvements and integrated with leading edge partners like
nCipher to provide accelerated cryptographic processing. Our joint solution
has the scalability to handle any environment now and in the future."
"We are pleased to work with Westbridge Technology as they strive to meet
their customers demanding performance requirements," said Richard Moulds, vice
president marketing at nCipher. "Our engineers have worked together to provide
the highest performing solution in the marketplace. Our partnership was driven
by customer demand from the market for a highly scalable, high performance Web
Services Management and XML Firewall solution."
Westbridge also offers the WSM Speedometer program, enabling companies to
test
the performance of the Westbridge solution in their network using the
customer's own use cases. Rather than relying on vendor-inflated performance
numbers generated from unrealistic lab environments, customers can obtain
their own customized performance benchmarks that they will experience in their
environment.
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