Layer 7 Selects Tarari to Power SecureSpan OX – First Turn-key XML DoS and XML IPS Solution for OEMs

Analyst firm ZapThink predicts XML traffic will account for 48% of network traffic by the end of 2008. Driven by growth in SOA Web Services, XML data standardization and Web 2.0 technologies like AJAX, the increasing volume of network XML traffic will generate new security and performance issues for enterprise networks. Malformed XML can bring down modern applications and carry new kinds of attack vectors. Specialized parsing algorithms and, in high volume environments, dedicated silicon is required to adequately inspect and process XML.

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Interview with John Bromhead,VP of Marketing, Tarari

BK: Where are you seeing the most uptake of your hardware-I know you were initially targeting the XML market but it seems like you’re now selling into virus protection and other areas?

JB: It’s pretty interesting actually. People might think triple play is a tired term – but we’re seeing that people are putting voice, video, and data on their IP network. We’re seeing this more and more and more. We’re also seeing that people are seeing new security threats, and have to look inside content, not just headers, to see the hacking. With XML, you can also do a denial of service attack. There’s a growing XML threat management opportunity because XML is already so widespread. According to Zapthink the traffic due to XML on a network is well over 40 percent. And with Office 12 coming out, applications like Google Maps, which uses XML, and other AJAX based application, there’s more and more XML on the network. If you want to do something with that XML you have to break open a packet and make a decision. I should also mention digital media, where we are moving into. Right now it takes about 70 hours to encode about 2 hours of video to a network or to DVD. Tarari has technology that takes that down to 10 hours, and we are working on real time, one to one encoding where two hours of video can be encoded in two hours.

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Layer 7, Tarari Partner

“Companies today are rapidly adopting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services technologies and approaches to solve their lingering issues around agility, integration cost, and reuse of assets,” said Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst with ZapThink, LLC. “However, these approaches impose significant and consistent load on their existing application server and middleware-based infrastructure. Integrating security and XSLT acceleration in a single XML-based gateway eliminates cost and complexity for end-users contemplating the most effective and efficient way to deploy such solutions.”

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Layer 7 Technologies Expands XML Offload and Acceleration Offering

“Companies today are rapidly adopting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
and Web Services technologies and approaches to solve their lingering issues
around agility, integration cost, and reuse of assets,” said Ron Schmelzer,
senior analyst with ZapThink, LLC. “However, these approaches impose
significant and consistent load on their existing application server and
middleware-based infrastructure. Integrating security and XSLT acceleration in
a single XML-based gateway eliminates cost and complexity for end-users
contemplating the most effective and efficient way to deploy such solutions.”

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ZapForum Webcast — Practical Approaches for Optimizing SOA Performance

“Practical Approaches To Optimizing SOA Performance”

Guest Experts: Michael Leventhal, Sr. Director, XML Products, Tarari and Tim Triemstra, VP, Product Strategy, Rogue Wave Software

Topics:

• Understand where the performance bottlenecks are
• What are the tricks and techniques for surmounting efficiency problems?
• Learn about software, hardware, and other means for optimizing performance …
  

Expert Michael Leventhal, Sr. Director – XML Products at Tarari, Inc. Joins ZapThink Webcast Forum on SOA Performance

Michael Leventhal, Senior Director – XML Products, at Tarari,
Inc., will explain how SOA-aware network appliances can
offload common functionality from the application server in
order to reduce XML processing complexity and make the network
more manageable, as well as utilize specialized network
devices to do XML processing tasks much better and faster than
multiple application servers duplicating that functionality.

WHAT: ZapThink ZapForum webcast: “Practical Approaches To Optimizing
SOA Performance”

Guest Experts: Michael Leventhal, Sr. Director, XML Products,
Tarari and Tim Triemstra, VP, Product Strategy, Rogue Wave
Software

Read more at: Tarari Press Release

Rogue Wave Executive to Share Software Optimization Expertise in ZapThink Webcast on SOA Performance

Tim Triemstra, vice president, product strategy, Rogue Wave
Software, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX) will
discuss the increasing need of companies, particularly in
transaction-intensive industries such as financial services,
for increased levels of performance in their applications. Tim
will explore practical techniques to accomplish this goal,
including parallel processing, access to XML and non-XML data
and how to encapsulate any software component as a service.

Key takeaways from Tim’s discussion will include:

— Practical approaches for increasing performance from your
SOA applications by restructuring your software
architecture to address processing bottlenecks

— Strategies to meet the business requirement challenges to
successfully implement parallel application logic

Read more at: RogueWave Press Release

Reactivity SOA Gateway a Finalist in the Best of Interop Awards for NetWorld+Interop 2005 Las Vegas

“With XML expected to comprise 48 percent of all network traffic by 2008, it is critical that XML infrastructure appliances accelerate cross-system operation such as credential and schema validation,” said Jason Bloomberg at ZapThink. “Reactivity, with their Multi-Way Connect and credential and schema optimization has proven again that they understand and anticipate the issue with enterprise XML Web services deployment.”

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Layer 7 Technologies and Tarari Partner to Deliver Next Generation XML Security and Performance for IBM eServer BladeCenter

“We currently predict that by 2008 XML traffic will increase from under 15% of all network traffic to nearly 48% of all LAN network traffic,” said ZapThink LLC analyst Ronald Schmelzer. “With increased processing requirements focused on the content of messages, and with message sizes now 10 to 50 times larger than non-XML-based messages, vendors must find solutions for ensuring XML-related functionality without performance degradation. We believe that with their highly complementary technologies, Layer 7 and Tarari are taking an excellent step, in the right direction, towards providing solid solutions.”

In a recent study by ZapThink, IT administrators and developers acknowledge that poor performance could challenge the viability of their Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations. As a result, XML appliances and high-performance solutions should experience significant growth in 2005, with the total XML performance optimization market reaching $1.2 billion by 2010.

Read more at: Tarari Press Release

W3C Issues Key Web Services Standards

Zapthink analyst Ronald Schmelzer said the idea of making XML more efficient is becoming more popular, noting that businesses will ramp up the amount of XML they employ in their networks, expanding from 15 percent today to almost 50 percent by 2008.

Schmelzer said the fact that XOP aims to allow XML to support large binary media types is an indication of the prevalence in which XML is being used for new applications that are outside the bounds originally conceived of for the language. MTOM and RRSHB, Schmelzer told internetnews.com, will boost efficiency by trimming the traffic that SOAP messages can create.

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