Blue Titan Advances Industry's First Enterprise SOA Fabric; Network Director 2.5 Delivers Increased Scalability and Extensibility.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2003 Blue Titan Software, Inc., today announced the immediate availability of Network Director 2.5, the industry's first and only enterprise service-oriented architecture See SOA. (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) Fabric(TM). Network Director 2.5 introduces significant improvements in scalability and extensibility validated directly from numerous real-world Fortune 500 customer deployments. Network Director 2.5 is the first and only enterprise SOA Fabric(TM) that provides a unified control layer, bringing security, reliability and manageability to Web service-based interactions and enabling enterprises to realize the true value of Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. . Network Director 2.5 allows users to define, enforce and adapt consistent enterprise-wide infrastructure policies in a distributed, non-invasive approach. "Service-oriented architectures represent a rapidly emerging infrastructure software solution for companies with real integration plans," said Bill Robins, principal at The Stencil stencil, cutout device of oiled or shellacked tough and resistant paper, thin metal, or other material used in applying paint, dye, or ink to reproduce its design or lettering upon a surface. Group. "Smart Fortune 500 companies are partnering with vendors who have mature SOA offerings, and have experience bringing SOAs to scale, thereby ensuring a solid return on this strategic investment." New Levels of Scalability and Extensibility Network Director 2.5 meets the growing scalability requirements of large enterprise customers. Network Director 2.5 now delivers: -- Proven scalability up to 2,000 messages per second and beyond in a distributed deployment using only Linux-based commodity hardware; -- Throughput throttled and increased with zero administrative effort in configuration or deployment; and -- Deployment across multiple network topologies See topology. and line of business boundaries in a geographically transparent manner. Network Director 2.5's unparalleled extensibility is already helping customers create adaptable Enterprise SOAs: -- Using Blue Titan's extensible policy framework, a customer created and deployed a highly customized service-based, priority access policy, based on real-time network availability that is re-useable for any service across the SOA Fabric. -- One customer met their immediate need to address Web services security concerns while simultaneously scaling out an Enterprise SOA by integrating a best-in-class XML firewall First brought to market by Forum Systems, an XML firewall is a specialized firewall used to provide security for XML messaging such as Web services. XML firewalls are types of XML appliances that are separated from internal computer systems and frequently reside in an into their Blue Titan Fabric as a third party security policy implementer, effectively creating a secure SOAP channel. -- Two Fortune 100 customers created custom management and visibility applications using Blue Titan Fabric services. These projects each took less than two weeks, demonstrating the ease of leveraging Fabric services; and enabling customers to avoid creating silos of critical operational metadata within proprietary management consoles A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. . "Network Director 2.5 furthers our commitment to delivering a scalable and extensible SOA Fabric," said Frank Martinez, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. and chairman of Blue Titan. "One thing we've learned is that customers don't want vendors that pile on more and more features they cannot use. Our customers use Network Director to realize Enterprise SOAs at scale that consistently work across all of their systems -- regardless of tooling, platform, control boundary, or geography." About Blue Titan Software, Inc. Blue Titan is The Titan I was the United States' first true multistage ICBM. It was the first in a series of Titan rockets, but was unique among them in that it used LOX and RP-1 as its propellants, while the later Titan versions all used storable fuels instead. the only company dedicated to address the unique requirements of building, controlling and managing an SOA Fabric within distributed enterprises. The company has customer relationships with Fortune 500 companies, including Sony, Pfizer, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Forbes and others. The company also maintains strategic partnerships with major software developers, system integrators and value-added resellers. Based in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Blue Titan was founded in 2001 by a seasoned management team and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments. . Blue Titan, Network Director, Web Services Fabric and SOA Fabric are registered and pending trademarks of Blue Titan Software. |
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