Intel Focuses on Security With Sarvega Acquisition

Industry researcher ZapThink projected that XML-based Internet Learn how the leader in Internet services can help you start and grow your business online. Network Solutions. Go Farther. and corporate network traffic will grow from 15 percent in 2004 to almost 50 percent in 2008.

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Intel buys XML router company

Intel buys XML router company
Michael Singer, CNET News.com,
August 18, 2005

Chipmaker Intel signaled that it’s once again interested in selling communications equipment with its purchase on Wednesday of Sarvega, which makes network routers that use the XML standard to improve Internet traffic.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Sarvega, based in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., posted $7 million in revenue in 2003 and lists Intel as one of the supporters that contributed to Sarvega’s $20 million venture capital fund.

The 5-year-old Sarvega has developed what it calls an “XML router,” a device that can look at the content of a message using Extensible Markup Language and send it to the appropriate point on a network.

An XML router is meant to complement the IP routers and switches that carry the streams of data traffic across the Internet, Sarvega said.

Industry analysts at ZapThink have projected that XML-based Internet and corporate network traffic will grow from 15 percent in 2004 to almost 50 percent in 2008.

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Intel Acquires Sarvega to Bolster Software, Enterprise Platform Strategies

Industry analysts have projected that XML-based Internet and corporate network traffic will grow from 15 percent in 2004 to almost 50 percent in 2008.(1) [ZapThink, LLC]

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Intel Snares XML Solution

XML-based Internet and corporate network traffic will grow from 15 percent in 2004 to almost 50 percent in 2008, according to projections released last November by the research firm ZapThink.

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Cisco muscles into software

“In the short term, it’s going to raise the number of opportunities for start-ups, mainly because most (corporate customers) haven’t figured out that they should invest in a hardware form factor to address these problems,” said Ron Schmelzer, an analyst at ZapThink. “But in the long run, Cisco’s going to be a real competitive threat.”

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Reactivity multi-mode addresses security, performance

According to Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink LLC, of Waltham, Mass., handling a small number of large messages is very different from handling a large number of small messages, and Reactivity’s multi-mode feature, which can operate on either a per-service or per-message basis, addresses this disparity.

“Their system can now respond to different security and processing requirements on a message-by-message basis, rather than on a whole-box configuration basis, which is sure to make network administrators much happier,” Schmelzer said.

“There are a lot of repetitive tasks in security policy enforcement, and doing them simultaneously, rather than sequentially, will help improve performance quite a bit,” Schmelzer said.

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Web Services Still at an Impasse

Technical disparities are old hat and legion for Web services, a space research firms like ZapThink estimates will balloon to reach several billion dollars over the next few years.

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XML Security Comes to the Fore at RSA

Estimated by research firms such as IDC, Gartner and ZapThink to be a multi-billion-dollar market over the next five years, Web services allow applications to communicate with each other across different networks, all over the world, to conduct transactions. Cisco is expected to enter the market soon.

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Cisco To Target XML Messaging Market

Ronald Schmelzer, whose research firm ZapThink studies the XML and Web services market, said Cisco wants to take a closer look at the content of the messages themselves, rather than just data about where the messages are going or where they came from. By inspecting the message traffic, Cisco can become much smarter or aware about what that traffic is doing.

For example, if Cisco sees that a message is a Web services (define) call to a purchasing service, it can automatically route, apply security and add constraints to that message. If it’s an XML document for a Web site, the device would apply some transformation and logging to that message.

The bottom line is that such technology, known as application-oriented networking, improves the efficiency of XML-based messages and ultimately, the performance of Web services, which ZapThink said will be a multi-billion industry over the next five years.

“Clearly, Cisco is going to be a challenger for many of the firms that have XML appliances in the market,” said Schmelzer. “However, it’s not entirely clear what features the AONs box will have and how they will enter the market, or when for that matter. So, we’ll have to reserve judgment on its capabilities and impact on the market until it comes out.”

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Forum adds message queuing support

“Forum Systems sees that if you are an appliance, and traffic is going through your box, and you are essentially looking at every message, then the question of ‘should I route it?’ can be made at the same time,” says Ron Schmelzer, an analyst at ZapThink.

Schmelzer says that for companies deploying enterprise service bus technology – a sort of next-generation middleware that combines standards-based transactional messaging – XML transformation and rules-based routing, the question is, would it be more efficient to do that in hardware.

“I think we can start to see more hardware appliances getting into the game of doing things that fundamentally used to be done in software, such as message queuing, [QoS], guaranteed reliability and even transactions,” Schmelzer says.

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