Forum Systems Launches Forum Vantage XML Accelerator(TM) for High-Performance Data Center Deployments; Enables Greater than 10,000 XML Transactions Per Second Scaling to Extreme Web Service Application Demands.SALT LAKE CITY -- Forum Systems, the leader in Web services and SOA security for threat protection and trust management, today announced the availability of Forum Vantage(TM) XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Accelerator, a new product designed to provide XML acceleration across networks for secure and optimized delivery of Web Services. XML applications automate interactions, adding more users and transactions from many different sources -- at near real-time. The fact that XML messages can consume more than double the bandwidth of traditional binary data formats leads to system-wide performance degradation. Forum Vantage XML Accelerator has been designed to eliminate the XML performance penalty with as much as a 200 percent increase in response times. Forum Vantage XML Accelerator is a high performance appliance that leverages a 64-bit platform architecture for XML/SOAP parsing, XML Schema Validation, XPath processing and XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema). functions to streamline the operation, maintenance and security of next generation Application-Oriented Networks (AON). For IT administrators, the burden of unpredictable capacity planning is no longer an issue allowing for on-demand service-levels and a reduction in operational risk. For developers, integration is a simple matter of pointing to a WSDL (Web Services Description Language) An XML-based language for defining Web services. Developed by Microsoft and IBM, WSDL describes the protocols and formats used by the service. (Web Services Description Language “WSDL” redirects here. For other uses, see WSDL (disambiguation). The Web Services Description Language (WSDL, pronounced 'wiz-dəl' or spelled out, 'W-S-D-L') is an XML-based language that provides a model for describing Web services. ) file and elimination of error-prone XML Schema validation, complex XSLT code and knowledge of low-level protocols. Forum Vantage XML Accelerator realizes the vision of shared XML processing in the data center for lower total cost of ownership. "The AON infrastructure overlay adoption wave should be good news for enterprise Web services adoption, which Forrester expects to transform applications and IT systems of all types in the next 10 years," wrote senior analyst Larry Velez in a recent Forrester Research report(1). "This adoption wave will trigger exponential growth in XML-based network traffic, accompanied by new security issues that firms will have to manage." "Companies looking to implement Service-Oriented Architectures face increasing challenges associated with processing content-intensive, metadata-formatted messages," said Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink. "The biggest challenge is that today's application servers consume up to 80% of processing capacity on XML parsing, validation and data transformation, even though companies are demanding increasing levels of performance and lower latency. Forum Systems is addressing a significant pain point associated with the performance of SOAs by introducing the Forum Vantage XML Accelerator to provide high-performance data center deployments." High-performance, Secure, XML Acceleration Forum Vantage XML Accelerator is the third member of the Forum Systems Web Services and SOA security product family that includes the award-winning Forum Sentry(TM) 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. Gateway and Forum XWall(TM) Web Services Firewall with XML Intrusion Prevention and XML Antivirus. "Forum Vantage is not only a value-add for pure performance needs, but a tool for organizations looking to consolidate hardware within their data center and gain an edge on total cost of ownership," said Walid Negm, Vice President of Marketing for Forum Systems. "By enabling greater than 10,000 XML messages per second and streaming very large multi-gigabyte files, Forum Vantage XML Accelerator is more than 200 times faster than software-based XML parsing and 1.8 to 3.3 times faster than competitive hardware alternatives." "Forum Vantage XML Accelerator builds upon Forum's award-winning XML Web services security hardware and software solutions," said Mamoon Yunus, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Forum Systems. "By focusing on core XML optimization while leveraging off-the-shelf components such as crypto accelerators and 64-bit processors, we have alleviated the performance pain points in today's SOA networks." Pricing and Availability Forum Vantage XML Accelerator(TM) is available immediately as 1U Appliance with pricing starting at $45,000. About Forum Systems Trustworthy, ubiquitous and robust Web services can only be achieved by combining security controls that are proactive, always on and systematic. Forum Seamless Security Solutions Architecture (Forum S3A(TM)) is an adaptive approach to building security minded service-oriented applications and data-level networks using life-cycle solutions including vulnerability management, testing systems, firewalls and gateways. Forum products are available as software, PCI-card and appliance options and comply with government requirements including CheckPoint OPSEC (OPerations SECurity) The U.S. military term for concealing critical information as part of a counterintelligence plan. A form of "security by obscurity," OPSEC determines what information adversaries can obtain or piece together from observation and to provide measures for Certification, FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) A series of publications issed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that specifies information security guidelines for federal government departments and agencies. Certification, Common Criteria EAL EAL English as an Additional Language EAL Evaluation Assurance Level EAL Eastern Airlines EAL Emergency Action Level EAL Environmental Analysis Laboratory EAL Evidence Analysis Library (American Dietetic Association) 4+ (in process) and JITC JITC Joint Interoperability Test Command (formerly Joint Interoperability Test Center) JITC Joint Interoperability Test Center (obsolete; now Joint Interoperability Test Command) DoD PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of Certification. Forum Systems is an active a member of OASIS and WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization, www.ws-i.org) A consortium founded by Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and Intel that is dedicated to the development of Web services. Its goals are to provide guidance and education, to promote interoperability and to ensure that Web services helping mature standards such as WS-I Basic Profiles, SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) An XML-based format from OASIS for exchanging security information for single sign-on. The "assertions" are statements from a SAML authority that authenticate a user, confirm some attribute about the individual and grant or and WS-Security. Customers can benefit from Forum technology that is bundled with market-leading products: Microsoft ISA Server 2004, NetContinuum NC-1000 WSE WSE Web Services Enhancements (Microsoft) WSE Warsaw Stock Exchange (Warsaw, Poland) WSE Symposium on Web Site Evolution (IEEE International Symposum) , Crossbeam Systems, Breach Security and Network Engines NS6300X. For more information on adaptive solutions for Web services security visit http://www.forumsys.com. Forum Systems, Inc. is the Leader in Web Services and SOA Security(TM) with a comprehensive suite of trust management, threat protection and information assurance solutions for the automated Web. Forum Systems' flexible hardware, software and embedded products make vibrant business communications possible by actively protecting XML data and Web services across networks and business boundaries. Forum's products have been chosen by over 150 Fortune 1000 industry leaders and are winners of Network Computing Magazine's Well-Connected 2004 Award and Product of the Year 2004 Award, Network Computing Magazine's Editor's Choice 2003 Award, Network Magazine's Product of the Year 2003 Award and DEMO 2004 Invitation. Forum XWall Web Services Firewall is the industry's only XML Firewall selected by InfoWorld LEADERBOARD lead·er·board n. A board that displays the leaders in a competition. leaderboard Noun a board displaying the current scores of the leading competitors, esp in a golf tournament 2004. Visit Forum at http://www.forumsys.com/. (1)"Getting It On" With AON, Forrester Research, Inc., June 2005. |
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