XML acceleration is emerging as a critical technology to offload XML processing from applications, especially in the form of hardware-based appliances. Along with processing XML data, XML acceleration ...

DataPower joins a handful of companies building dedicated hardware to overcome the overhead from processing and securing XML-based applications. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

Not long ago, the idea would have been unthinkable: Microsoft and IBM, sworn enemies after their struggle for control of the PC operating system in the early 1990s, laying down their swords and ...

The Digital Evolution XML VPN appliance is an edge device that allows external consumers of a service to connect to Web services that have been authorized. It also allows internal users to access ...

The buzz about Web services has turned to discussions about the added security risks they pose. According to Gartner, Web services is about “moving application integration into firewall-evading ...

Jason Bloomberg and Ronald Schmelzer, senior analysts with the firm, said Microsoft and IBM are far ahead of Sun with their Web services strategies because they have products to back up their plans, ...

A conversation I had over a decade ago on the challenges of network management still rings in my ears. A 3Com product manager was crowing about linking PCs onto a LAN (back in the day when 3Com still ...

Pitfalls aplenty going SOA: A service-oriented architecture's efficiency has often been more of a priority than SOA security. Vendors, however, are compensating with new Web services security features ...

The rise of internetworking was enabled by the use of network-level security technologies such as Secure Sockets Layer, IPsec and firewall filtering to create a secure perimeter around an enterprise ...