Blue Turtle Technologies, the distributor partner for Layer 7 in southern Africa, is pleased to announce the launch of Layer 7's fifth generation XML acceleration technologies available to local customers.
Layer 7 Technologies, the leader in security and governance for SOA and cloud, announced that it is the first vendor to ship fifth generation XML processing silicon in its XML Gateway technology.
Compared to software-only products, which can process less than one gigabit per second of schema validation even with 16 processor cores, fifth-generation silicon can process a full gigabit of complex, real-world schemas using less than half of one core, leaving the remaining cores available for other processes. This translates directly to power savings, an increasing concern in data centre and cloud applications.
The latest version of Layer 7's SecureSpan XML Gateway appliance delivers market-leading XML acceleration while minimising power consumption by economising on processor utilisation. It builds on the performance benefits of Layer 7's parsing technology that pre-processes each task to eliminate wasted operations before the silicon is invoked. The fifth generation, hardware-accelerated XML Gateways are available today alongside Layer 7's software, VMware Virtual Appliance, SecureSpan Gateway AMI for Amazon Web Services and CloudSpan suite of products.
“Customers want flexibility. With Layer 7's SecureSpan products, they can migrate between hardware, software, virtual appliances and cloud gateways as they please,” said Scott Morrison, CTO of Layer 7 Technologies. “But when faced with demanding data processing needs, they want the fastest appliances with the lowest power consumption. Software-only solutions cannot deliver price-power-performance characteristics that the largest telecommunications companies, banks and government organisations need. Layer 7 gives these end-users the ability to scale up without inflated server and power costs, or the fear of vendor lock-in.”
Tommy Erlank, General Manager: Enterprise Application Management, Blue Turtle Technology, adds: “Layer 7 is the first vendor in SOA to introduce the Freedom Licence. It allows customers to migrate from one form factor to another: software to virtual machines (VM) to hardware appliances to cloud. This matters because it gives enterprises the utmost freedom in how they deploy their solutions, eliminates lock-in and protects the buyer from 'forklift' upgrades as proposed by other vendors, especially customers who are using hardware- or software-only solutions. Layer 7 allows customers to mix and match platforms, meaning a customer can deploy on a VM in conjunction with hardware for redundancy and cost savings specific to their application requirements and development life cycles.”
Based on the latest content processing technology from LSI (NASDAQ: LSI), Layer 7's acceleration technology leverages both its own decade-long investment in XML Gateways and LSI's multi-year investment and innovation in content and XML processing. Existing Layer 7 customers can migrate their licences to the new hardware appliance from their software, virtual appliance, cloud, AMI or hardware gateways.
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Blue Turtle Technologies
Blue Turtle Technologies provides solutions for optimising, enhancing and leveraging existing IT investment, and supporting the cost-effective delivery of new technology initiatives. With experience from mainframe to desktop, Blue Turtle delivers solutions for the effective management of IT infrastructures, employing innovative software products, backed by 'best-practice' implementation services. Blue Turtle's strategy leverages 'best-in-class' software products brought together from leading international and South African software providers to deliver compelling and cost-effective technology management solutions to customers. More about Blue Turtle: http://www.blueturtle.co.za
Layer 7
Layer 7 Technologies is the leader in SOA security and cloud governance. Founded in 2002, Layer 7 enables Global 500 enterprises and service providers to connect to the cloud, protect applications in the cloud, and securely span private and public clouds. More about Layer7 at: http://www.layer7tech.com
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