Nov, 2003 : Redline, DataPower Partner for Data Center Solution

📅 November 7, 2003 - Redline Networks (redlinenetworks.com), a designer and manufacturer of networks appliances, and DataPower Technology (datapower.com), a provider of XML-aware network infrastructure, announced yesterday a partnership to market their products together as a single solution that allows Web-enabled data centers to provide enhanced Web services.

"Global 2000 companies are making strategic investments in Web services inside the enterprise with the goal of consolidating previously disparate business-critical functions," said Craig Stouffer, vice president of marketing for Redline Networks. "XML is core for Web services, enterprise portals and application integration. DataPower is the original creator of the XML-Aware Networking concept and has some of the world's top XML experts. The combination of Redline and DataPower uniquely enables enterprises to secure, accelerate and deploy enterprise Web services and XML-based application integration with reduced infrastructure."
According to the companies, the solution will address two trends. The first trend is the move toward Web-enabling enterprise applications by converting them to HTTP and the second being the use of XML, the core language of Web service and application integration architectures.
"DataPower and Redline share a common philosophy of offloading processor-intensive tasks to let costly application and Web servers focus on business-level processing for vastly improved performance and security," said Bill Tao, vice president of engineering at DataPower. "Redline's product is a perfect complement for ours because it performs a host of functions that are key to large-scale XML applications - including load balancing and compression - eliminating the need for point devices such as dedicated load balancers. Together our products form a reliable foundation for the highest-capacity New Data Center and the most secure Web services environment."