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Crosscheck Networks Drives Business-Critical SOA at World's Largest Enterprises and
Government Organizations
BOSTON and BERLIN, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
New Capabilities for Company's Flagship XML Gateway Ease Enterprise-to-
Cloud Migration; Enable Seamless Extension of SOA to the Cloud
the next generation of its flagship product, Forum Sentry v8.0, helping
organizations seamlessly migrate their enterprise SOA deployments to the cloud
while capitalizing on the cloud computing model for business and competitive
advantage. The company unveiled the latest version of Forum Sentry at the
largest international SOA and cloud computing conference.
Notably, at the show today, Crosscheck Networks (Booth # 13) CEO Mamoon
Yunus will explore enterprise-to-cloud migration in the session, "Requirements
Additionally, company CTO Jason
Macy will share best practices in SOA threat defense in "SOA Threat Modelling:
Attacking and Defending REST, XML and SOAP based Services
With patented XML security acceleration technology and an architecture
certified by NIST and the U.S. Department of Defense, the Forum Sentry XML
industry standard for XML and SOAP security, access control and integration.
Deployment highlights include processing:
- More than one billion transactions per day globally;
- 95% of the world's credit card information; and
- 80% of the traffic at one of the world's largest and most respected
telecommunications services companies.
Underscoring its increasing adoption worldwide, Forum Sentry serves as
the transactional foundation at more than 300 global organizations including:
- One of world's premier treasuries, which leverages Forum Sentry to
accommodate the increased volume, and processing, of large data files -
- up to 10 GB each in size;
- Europe's top counter-terrorism organization, which utilizes Forum
Sentry to coordinate rapid information sharing among its neighbour
countries; and
- One of the U.S.'s longest-standing and largest health benefits
companies, which uses Forum Sentry to promote secure exchange of its
Electronic Health Records (EHR).
According to Lydia Leong, Research VP, Gartner, "Although many
organizations first look at cloud IaaS [Infrastructure as a Service] because
they're interested in cost savings, agility and flexibility, rather than cost,
tend to be the eventual primary drivers; the cost of the cloud IaaS, especially
in comparison to efficient large-enterprise IT, can be higher than IT managers
expect."(1)
"As organizations scale their infrastructures to accommodate rapid business
growth and increased customer demand, they are frequently looking to the public
cloud to help them offset capital expense and operational costs. But without
the appropriate tools, businesses are unable to determine the true costs of
cloud migration," said Crosscheck Networks CEO Mamoon Yunus. "With our
simulation tool, CloudPort
and government entities to perform the requisite cost analysis, and evaluate
and select a provider for migrating all or parts of their infrastructure to
the cloud."
Yunus continued: "Once organizations determine that moving to the public
cloud makes business and fiscal sense, Forum Sentry's next-generation
platform empowers them to take the next step -- migrating to the cloud cost
effectively while securely extending their SOA deployments for the most
seamless enterprise-to-cloud integration."
Helping organizations to successfully leverage the cloud computing model,
key new capabilities in Forum Sentry v8.0 include:
- Integrated Cloud Adaptors for dynamic provisioning, auto scaling and
load balancing across multiple cloud providers including Amazon EC2,
OpSource Cloud, GoGrid and Rackspace.
- A Centralized WSDL Library and Extended Virtualization Support via
Virtual WSDL and WSDL Versioning for increased collaboration and
control of business services across diverse application development,
security and testing roles.
- A Robust Management API for enhanced policy life cycle management, and
secure, versatile cloud configuration, deployment and administration.
- Oracle WebLogic and JBoss Enterprise Middleware Adaptors to bolster
federated SOA deployments. This support builds on Crosscheck Networks',
a Red Hat Ready Partner, announcement earlier this year that the
company has joined the Red Hat Independent Software Vendors (ISV)
joins-red-hat-isv-program-93265139.html).
- REST Identity Adaptor for flexible integration with custom enterprise
identity systems.
About Crosscheck Networks
Crosscheck Networks and its wholly owned subsidiary Forum Systems deliver
solutions for deploying robust, resilient, secure and reliable Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA). More than 50,000 users in 42 countries across
organizations such as the U.S. Treasury, British Telecommunications,
Fidelity, Premera Blue Cross and the Dutch Health Care System rely on
Crosscheck Networks and Forum Systems as the backbone of their secure
transaction processing. Recognized as a technology innovator and security
leader, Crosscheck Networks is the only company granted a patent for its
Forum Sentry XML Gateway and has been certified by NIST and the U.S.
Department of Defense. Forum Sentry is the de facto standard for XML and SOAP
security, and Forum Systems has key OEM relationships with Barracuda Networks
and Radware, among others. For more information, please visit
(1) Gartner, "Cloud Infrastructure as a Service: An Essential Overview"
by Lydia Leong, September 8, 2010
SOURCE: Crosscheck Networks, Inc.
CONTACT: Bryan Grillo of CHEN PR for Crosscheck Networks
+1-781-672-3129
bgrillo@chenpr.com
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