Layer 7 Technologies Introduces First Virtual Appliance for Service Oriented Architectures.New Soft-Appliance Supports Virtualized Data Center Environments and Reduces Deployment Complexities NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of 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. security and networking for Service Oriented Architecture (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. ) and Web 2.0, today announced its SecureSpan[TM] 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 is now available as a virtual soft-appliance. The first of its kind, this soft-appliance for SOA enables enterprises and services providers to rapidly deploy a SOA security Service-oriented architecture (SOA) allows different ways to develop applications by combining services. The main premise of SOA is to erase application boundaries and technology differences. As applications are opened up, how we can combine these services securely becomes an issue. appliance on commodity server hardware and VMWare virtualized computing platforms, reducing time to deployment and implementation costs while improving architectural flexibility. The virtual soft-appliance features the same properties as Layer 7's SecureSpan XML Firewall hardware appliance and provides advanced Web services identity and message level security to address the broadest range of SOA integration, portal and B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business security challenges. The solution enables end users to implement identical XML Firewall hardware appliance functionality on any server infrastructure running VMWare Player, VMWare Server or VMWare ESX See VMware. through a simple download and installation. "An increasing number of enterprises are exploring virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. strategies for maximizing their hardware investment," said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst at ZapThink. "Layer 7's soft-appliance provides those organizations a production-ready SOA security and networking solution that can scale on demand to meet changing transaction loads." Key benefits of the Layer 7 virtual appliance include: - Real-time download and deployment - Support for multi-tenant data center environments - Full clustering for simplified load scaling - Utility computing over shared server, CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and memory resources - Broad operating system (OS) support - Interoperability with Layer 7's SecureSpan hardware appliances "By introducing the SecureSpan XML Firewall soft-appliance we are giving enterprises and service providers unmatched choice in where and how they implement their SOA architectures," said Dimitri Sirota, VP of Marketing, Layer 7 Technologies. "Layer 7 is the first SOA security and networking vendor to offer advanced XML firewall functionality through a purpose built hardware-accelerated physical appliance or a software instantiated virtual appliance. This allows our customers to decide which platform best suits their needs." The Layer 7 XML Firewall soft-appliance is now available for a free 15-day trial at www.layer7tech.com/softappliance. For more information please contact Layer 7 Technologies at www.layer7tech.com or at +1.800.681.9377. About Layer 7 Technologies Layer 7 Technologies is a leading provider of XML security and networking infrastructure for next generation service oriented and Web oriented integrations. The SecureSpan family of XML appliances and gateway software address the security, complexity, performance and networking issues associated with deploying and maintaining production Web services. To learn more please visit www.layer7tech.com or call +1.800.681.9377. Trademarked company and product names are the property of their respective owners |
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