Commerce Accelerator 1000 from IPivot Delivers up to 50-Times Performance Boost for E-Commerce Sites; The First Product in the New Internet Commerce Appliance Category.LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 199-- IPivot Inc., the company that "Makes E-Commerce Work," today announced the Commerce Accelerator 1000, a new product that eliminates server performance bottlenecks during secure 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. transactions, dramatically improving the overall performance of e-commerce sites. IPivot is demonstrating the Commerce Accelerator at Booth 3222 at the NetWorld+Interop/EXPO COMM 99 conference and exhibition at the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. . "There's a huge problem in the industry with processing secure transactions," said Brett Helm, IPivot president and chief executive officer. "Many e-commerce merchants are finding that their servers are significantly under-powered for secure transactions. IPivot is the first company to offer an easy drop-in appliance that solves one of the most significant challenges in the e-commerce industry today." Introducing the Commerce Accelerator 1000 The IPivot Commerce Accelerator 1000 is the first of a new breed of Internet Commerce Appliances (ICA Ica (ē`kä), city (1993 pop. 108,724), capital of Ica dept., SW Peru, on the Pan-American Highway. It is a commercial center for the cotton, wool, and wine produced in the region. There are several summer resorts nearby. ), that connect in-line between routers and servers to address the complex performance issues associated with processing secure transactions, an essential step in accelerating the mass adoption of electronic commerce. "An increasing number of companies are following the lead of Dell and Intel, and are gearing up to perform a significant percentage of their business at Internet Web sites," wrote The Standish Group International Inc., a market research and advisory firm specializing in mission-critical software and electronic commerce. "Prudent Internet buyers rightfully demand the protection of 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. (SSL) site authentication and data encryption for their transactions. The computation intensive encryption and authorization calculations performed by SSL bog down even the most powerful Web servers, reducing the transaction rate to a trickle... IPivot's Commerce Accelerator 1000 is a new product that presents a clean and effective solution to the SSL performance problem." Improved SSL Performance for E-Commerce Servers According to Alistair Croll of Networkshop, a leading network consulting and testing firm, "A typical Web server processes secure SSL transactions at a significantly slower rate than normal http traffic. On the servers we measured, we found a surprising reduction in performance when SSL transactions are initiated. This means that users have to wait a long time for transactions to be processed and the overall reliability and availability of the entire site is negatively impacted." "The most compelling approach we have seen to overcome these problems is the Commerce Accelerator 1000 from IPivot. Secure transactions require complex cryptographic processing. The Commerce Accelerator restores the lost speed by taking over these CPU-intensive tasks from the server and improving the SSL performance of an e-commerce site by up to 50 times," Croll added. "Drop-in" Installation The IPivot Commerce Accelerator 1000 is an Internet commerce appliance that is easily connected in-line between a router and any Web server. The server enclosure does not have to be opened (and therefore no voided warranty issues are introduced) and no new server hardware or software is needed. It works with any operating system or Web server, and there are no software compatibility problems. A technician simply installs the Commerce Accelerator and initializes the unit. It's that simple. Scalability, Reliability and Full Compatibility Other important benefits of the IPivot Commerce Accelerator include: - Scalability through Dynamic Cascading -- By offloading encryption and decryption processing from the server to the Commerce Accelerator, secure transactions can be handled as fast as normal http traffic. Multiple Commerce Accelerators can be cascaded together to handle as many as 1,500 secure transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term Transactions Per Second refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restrictied view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number of database transactions performed . - Reliability through Fail-Safe Passthrough -- If a Commerce Accelerator becomes inoperable, it automatically takes itself out of service and all of its functions are taken over by another Commerce Accelerator or the transaction processing software that was previously running on the server. - Full compatibility -- Works with IPivot's and other vendors' Internet traffic management devices and load balancers, and other popular IP network infrastructure products. IPivot ICA and ITA ITA abbr. initial teaching alphabet ITA initial teaching alphabet: a partly phonetic alphabet used to teach reading ITA n abbr (BRIT) (= initial teaching alphabet) → Technologies Provide Comprehensive Commerce and Content Solutions This new Internet Commerce Appliance (ICA) from IPivot complements the company's previously announced Internet Traffic Appliances (ITA). Those include the Intelligent Broker family developed and marketed by IPivot and available from Nortel Networks as part of its Accelar Server Switch line. "Customer demand for our Accelar Internet Appliances, developed with IPivot, has exceeded our expectations," said Bert Armijo, director of product marketing at Nortel Networks. "We are enthusiastic about expanding our relationship with IPivot in this hot new category in order to offer our customers leading-edge, best-of-breed technologies to keep their e-commerce sites performing at an optimum level." Availability and Pricing The Commerce Accelerator 1000 is priced at $9,995 and is scheduled for shipment in June 1999. About IPivot IPivot Inc. "Makes E-Commerce Work" by delivering solutions that solve Internet performance and reliability problems thus enabling the mass adoption of Electronic Commerce. IPivot markets its innovative family of Internet Commerce Appliances and Internet Traffic Appliances through a network of premier resellers, network integrators and OEMs, including Nortel Networks, (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NT/TSE:NTL NTL Nevertheless NTL National Transportation Library NTL Norsk Tjenestemannslag NTL National Training Laboratories NTL Never Too Late NTL Nothing to Lose NTL National Training Laboratory NTL None the Less NTL Number Theory Library ). IPivot products support Internet sites using servers from companies such as Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ), Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL AAPL Apple Computer, Inc. (stock symbol) AAPL American Association of Professional Landmen AAPL American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law AAPL Advance Audiovisual Presentation Limited AAPL Advocates for Arkansas Public Libraries ), Compaq (NYSE:CPQ), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ), and others. IPivot's products are also used with a variety of switches and routers, including those manufactured by Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), Lucent (NYSE:LU) and 3Com (Nasdaq:COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ). IPivot is a charter member of QoS Forum, an international consortium of organizations devoted to end-to-end Quality of Service solutions. Other charter members include Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Extreme Networks (Nasdaq:EXTR), Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC INTC Intel (NASDAQ symbol) INTC Intercept INTC Interrupt Controller ), and Novell (Nasdaq:NOVL NOVL Novell, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ). The company is located in Poway, Calif., near San Diego. For more information, call toll-free 877/347-4868 or visit http://www.ipivot.com. |
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