BoostWorks Announces Robust Enterprise Application Acceleration Solution With Advanced Security Integration.Business Editors/Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 2002 BoostWeb 4.2 Multi-Level Acceleration Solution Incorporates SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. Encryption and Digital Certificate Management for Fastest Delivery of Secure, Browser-Based Enterprise Applications BoostWorks, Inc., the leading provider of end-to-end application acceleration solutions, today announced BoostWeb 4.2, the newest addition to the industry's most comprehensive and powerful browser-based enterprise application acceleration solution. BoostWeb 4.2 is a standards-based software solution that accelerates browser-based enterprise applications and Web content, increases transaction rates and enterprise user productivity, and reduces network traffic, allowing enterprises to maximize existing corporate bandwidth and reduce costs. BoostWeb 4.2 supports comprehensive data security via OpenSSL (Secure Sockets Layer (networking, security) Secure Sockets Layer - (SSL) A protocol designed by Netscape Communications Corporation to provide secure communications over the Internet using asymmetric key encryption. ) technology, enabling full encryption and certificate management of accelerated enterprise applications and data. In addition, the product provides support for industry-standard SSL acceleration SSL acceleration is a method of offloading the processor-intensive public key encryption algorithms involved in SSL transactions to a hardware accelerator. Typically, this is a separate card that plugs into a PCI slot in a computer that contains one or more co-processors able to add-in cards. BoostWeb can be deployed either co-resident on a Web server or on a stand-alone platform. Enhancements available later this month will provide an encrypted connection between the content server and the BoostWeb solution for deployments in which BoostWeb is installed on a dedicated server. These capabilities, coupled with existing security features, make BoostWorks a key player in the financial arena and in other industries requiring robust, end-to-end communications data security. "Unlike conventional acceleration products that offer only one or two low-level acceleration techniques, BoostWeb is the only solution to deliver a comprehensive suite of intelligent application acceleration technologies for the most demanding enterprise environments," said Vincent Titolo, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BoostWorks. "BoostWeb provides immediate performance benefits without requiring any changes to enterprise network infrastructures--allowing enterprises to recoup their investment through cost-savings and productivity benefits in as little as three months." The intelligent BoostWeb product architecture implements multiple levels of text compression, visually lossless See lossless compression. (algorithm, compression) lossless - A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression. image optimization, real-time image conversion, object caching, and protocol optimization for today's most complex enterprise applications and Web content. It applies dynamic optimization to Web pages, object-by-object, to accelerate delivery and reduce bandwidth requirements Bandwidth requirements (communications) The channel bandwidths needed to transmit various types of signals, using various processing schemes. Every signal observed in practice can be expressed as a sum (discrete or over a frequency continuum) of sinusoidal for those pages. BoostWeb also caches previously optimized pages. When deployed on a dedicated server, BoostWeb offloads requests for cached objects from the content server to reduce processing latency. The new BoostWeb 4.2 product also incorporates the industry leading application acceleration features of the existing BoostWeb product family, including: -- Robust image optimization capabilities - provides automatic intelligent conversion of GIF images to JPEG or PNG format, five levels of PNG or JPEG optimization, image tag rewriting, and the integration of improved optimization libraries for better response time and improved image quality -- Tunable text compression - supports HTML and MIME text context compression with real-time adaptation to browser capabilities -- Comprehensive protocol optimization and management - allows source IP preservation, provides delivery optimization, supports HTTP 1.1 extensions and NTLM -- Deployment flexibility - can be installed on the Web server or on a dedicated server, is compatible with load balancing, and can support multiple applications concurrently--offers many additional features to support complex enterprise applications -- Comprehensive administration and configuration capabilities - provides remote browser-based administration, detailed performance statistics and full access logs, user-controlled profiles plus SNMP administration and monitoring -- Intelligent object-level caching - stores both original and optimized objects and directly serves cached objects upon request by an end-user, thereby offloading processing and reducing latency at the Web server BoostWeb 4.2 delivers unmatched application acceleration functionality, and supports the most widely used operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. (Solaris, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , Linux, Microsoft NT/2000), protocols (HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. 1.0/1.1, TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. , FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to ) and Internet browsers (Netscape, Internet Explorer, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Opera, Mozilla). BoostWeb is easy to deploy and configure, and does not require any modification to existing enterprise Web or application servers. Pricing and Availability Available now, BoostWeb pricing starts at $17,500. Please visit www.boostworks.com or call 1-888-98-BOOST for more information. About BoostWorks BoostWorks, the leading provider of solutions designed to accelerate the end-to-end delivery of browser-based application data over wide-area networks, offers a suite of products for intra-enterprise and customer- and supplier-facing applications, including BoostWeb, BoostVT and BoostSQL. BoostWorks' cost-effective, easy-to-deploy solutions dramatically improve response time and reduce bandwidth requirements through intelligent discovery, optimization, caching, and delivery. BoostWorks products are used by a broad spectrum of more than 300 global customers, including The Home Depot, ChevronTexaco, AlloCine, France Telecom, and Silitek. Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., BoostWorks is a global company with European offices in France, and sales offices in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and the Philippines. For more information, please visit www.boostworks.com |
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