ZapForum Podcast: Understanding Identity & SOA

ZapForum Podcast for September 1, 2007 features

Guest Expert Toufic Boubez, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Layer 7 Technologies.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn what identity is and how it fits into SOA
• Understand the relationships between identity and governance and between identity and policy
• Grasp the nature of federated identity, and the standards that support it

Layer 7 Technologies Introduces First Virtual Appliance for Service Oriented Architectures

“An increasing number of enterprises are exploring virtualization 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.”

Read more at: Layer 7 Press Release

Layer 7 Technologies Announces New Tool to Reduce Complexity Customizing SOA Governance

“Governing service interactions is essential for effective security, reliability and availability in an SOA,” explained Ronald Schmelzer, Senior Analyst at ZapThink, LLC. “End-users require tools and technologies such as the Custom Policy Assertion SDK in order to better tailor their governance policies to reflect changing business priorities and SOA growth.”

Read more at: T-Net

Layer 7 Delivers Kit to Deliver Secure SOA Appliances

“Governing service interactions is essential for effective security, reliability and availability in an SOA,” explained Ronald Schmelzer, Senior Analyst at ZapThink, LLC. “End-users require tools and technologies such as the Custom Policy Assertion SDK in order to better tailor their governance policies to reflect changing business priorities and SOA growth.”

Read more at: eBizQ

Layer 7 Technologies Announces Products Support The Solaris 10 Operating System

“Building real world SOA implementations requires comprehensive XML security across all platforms and technologies,” said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, ZapThink. “The fact that Layer 7 Technologies continues to expand their deployment options in the enterprise gives them a competitive advantage over both hardware-only or software-only SOA security and networking options.”

Read more at: Layer 7 Press Release

Cisco bolsters SOA with Reactivity buy

“The AON platform movement hasn’t yet resulted in as much market traction as originally supposed,” says Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst with ZapThink. “It’s possible that this acquisition can give Cisco the kick in the pants it needs to effectively take advantage of a growing opportunity for management of XML and Web services traffic.”

Read more at: InfoWorld

Cisco To Acquire XML Gateway Provider Reactivity

“Reactivity adds robust security and policy management capabilities to the Cisco platform where it was sorely lacking,” Ronald Schmelzer, analyst for ZapThink, said in an email. Cisco’s application management platform hasn’t received the market traction as originally expected, so “it’s possible that this acquisition can give Cisco the kick in the pants it needs to effectively take advantage of a growing opportunity for management of XML and Web services traffic.”

Read more at: Cisco To Acquire XML Gateway Provider Reactivity

Cisco Fills XML Processing Gap With Reactivity

ZapThink analyst Ronald Schmelzer said Reactivity would give Cisco robust security and policy management capabilities to the Cisco platform where it was sorely lacking.

“It seems that the AON platform movement hasn’t yet resulted in as much market traction as originally supposed, and so it’s possible that this acquisition can give Cisco the kick in the pants it needs to effectively take advantage of a growing opportunity for management of XML and Web services traffic,” Schmelzer said.

Read more at: InternetNews

Cisco’s Reactivity Buy Further Consolidates SOA

This latest acquisition is further evidence that the markets for XML, Web services, and SOA are experiencing significant consolidation, said Ronald Schmelzer, an analyst with ZapThink. “With IBM adding Datapower to their lineup, Intel adding both Sarvega and Conformative, and F5 Networks further maturing their offerings, the addition of Reactivity to Cisco’s offerings goes a long way to signaling that we’re in the era of incumbents increasingly dominating the space once pioneered by the startups,” Schmelzer said. “Of course, there are certainly outstanding startups like Layer 7 Technologies, Forum Systems, and companies like Xambala and Tarari still making waves in the market.”

Moreover, Reactivity adds robust security and policy management capabilities to the Cisco platform where it was “sorely lacking,” Schmelzer added. “Indeed, it seems that the AON [Cisco's Application-Oriented Networking technology] platform movement hasn’t yet resulted in as much market traction as originally supposed, and so it’s possible that this acquisition can give Cisco the kick in the pants it needs to effectively take advantage of a growing opportunity for management of XML and Web services traffic.”

Read more at: eWeek

Cisco Systems buys Reactivity in SOA networking play

Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink LLC, said the acquisition may help SONA gain traction that has so far eluded it.

“Specifically, Reactivity adds robust security and policy management capabilities to the Cisco platform where it was sorely lacking,” Schmelzer said. “Indeed, it seems that the SONA platform movement hasn’t yet resulted in as much market traction as originally supposed, and so it’s possible that this acquisition can give Cisco the kick in the pants it needs to effectively take advantage of a growing opportunity for management of XML and Web Services traffic.”

Read more at: SearchWebServices