Web services management market expected to grow

A recent report entitled “Service-Oriented Management: How Web Services are the Key to the Service-Oriented Architecture” published by ZapThink indicates the potential for significant growth in the Web services management market. The company predicts that the market will increase from $30 million in 2002 to $9.2 billion by 2007.

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Les produits de sécurisation des services web arrivent

Il encapsule tout type d’information structurée et représente 2 % du trafic internet à l’heure actuelle, mais devrait monter à 25 % en 2006, selon le cabinet d’analystes ZapThink.

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Firewall-urile XML – solutia optima pentru protejarea serviciilor web

In prezent, exista doua tipuri de firewall-uri XML – cele bazate pe hardware si cele bazate pe software. Conform Jason Bloomberg, analist la ZapThink, cele doua tipuri functioneaza in mod identic. Totusi, “firewall-urile XML bazate pe hardware au ca avantaje viteza si manevrabilitatea. Prin urmare, acestea sunt si mai costisitoare.”
Conform afirmatiilor lui Bloomberg, firewall-urile XML sunt, de fapt, un subset al proxy-urilor XML, care, pe langa securitate, furnizeaza si alte servicii (de exemplu, transformare sau accelerare XML). Prin urmare, in cele mai multe cazuri, cei interesati de un firewall XML vor obtine protectia firewall ca parte a unui server proxy XML.

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XML Firewalls

There are generally two types of XML firewalls — those that are hardware-based, and those that are software-based. According to Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst at ZapThink, the two work similarly, except that “hardware XML firewalls have the advantages of speed and manageability.” As a rule, though, they cost more as well.

Bloomberg notes that XML firewalls are actually a subset of XML proxies, which provide other services in addition to security, such as XML transformation or acceleration. So in many instances, someone interested in an XML firewall will get firewall protection as part of an overall XML proxy server. While vendors continue to enter the market, the number of paying customers right now is limited. “It’s just getting started,” Bloomberg says. “Companies are just rolling out products. There are a few early customers, but not a significant market for it today. It will get big in the future, but it might not be a separate market in the long run — the traditional firewall market will incorporate a lot of it.”

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“Burning for Web services”

Its SAML-assertion capability makes SOAP Content Inspector a cut above the competing XML firewalls flooding the market, such as those from Vordel, Westbridge Technologies, and Reactivity, said Jason Bloomberg, a security analyst at ZapThink, a Web services research company in Boston.

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XML Proxies

As the use and proliferation of XML and Web Services spreads throughout the corporate IT environment, so too will the demands on optimizing the performance of the XML data and applying enterprise-wide XML policies. Increasingly organizations are seeking to find solutions that can transparently monitor XML traffic on the network and apply business rules or corporate IT policies such as security, routing, performance, management, transformation, or end-point connection provisioning. Enterprises will implement XML Proxies, which can be either hardware Network Appliances,software Proxies, or software Firewalls, as a transparent layer over current LAN and WAN traffic, monitoring and acting on XML data as dictated by pre-configured rules.

XML Proxies

As the use and proliferation of XML and Web Services spreads throughout the corporate IT environment, so too will the demands on optimizing the performance of the XML data and applying enterprise-wide XML policies. Increasingly organizations are seeking to find solutions that can transparently monitor XML traffic on the network and apply business rules or corporate IT policies such as security, routing, performance, management, transformation, or end-point connection provisioning. Enterprises will implement XML Proxies, which can be either hardware Network Appliances,software Proxies, or software Firewalls, as a transparent layer over current LAN and WAN traffic, monitoring and acting on XML data as dictated by pre-configured rules.

“Special Delivery for XML”

Each startup appears to be addressing the problem of non-XML-aware networks with different approaches, said Ron Scmelzer [sic], senior analyst at ZapThink, an XML research company. “There is a fundamental difference between XML and Web protocols. The Web is just HTML, XML is content, and every piece is different,” Scmelzer [sic] explained.

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