DataPower Demonstrates Dramatic New Growth with Significant Third Quarter Customers for Its Web Services Security, XML-Aware Networking Solutions
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Nov. 16, 2004—
ADP, AIG, BAE, Bell Canada, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cendant, CIBC,
The Hartford, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Northrop Grumman, Pfizer, RBC, U.S.
Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), UBS, Vesta and Wachovia Choose
DataPower as the Leading Provider of XML-aware Networking for Secure
Web Services and SOA Enablement Continues to Expand Market Share and
Leadership
DataPower, the original creator and leading provider of
intelligent XML-Aware Network (XAN) infrastructure, today announced a
number of new major customers further extending its continued market
leadership. World's largest firms and organizations use DataPower's
high-end network devices for comprehensive Web services security, XML
acceleration and rapid enablement of service-oriented architectures
(SOA), Customers that have recently selected DataPower include world
leading financial services institutions such as CIBC ($11 Billion
Annual Revenue EY03)(http://www.cibc.com), and JPMorgan Chase Bank
($33 Billion Annual Revenue EY03)(http://www.jpmorganchase.com);
global pharmaceutical leaders, notably Pfizer ($45 Billion Annual
Revenue EY03)(http://www.pfizer.com/main.html); top-tier travel and
hospitality services including Cendant ($18 Billion Annual Revenue
EY03)(http://www.cendant.com/); prominent insurance and annuity
businesses that include The Hartford ($18 Billion Annual Revenue
EY03)(http://www.thehartford.com/); defense and government agencies
among them the US Department of Veteran Affairs; and leading
telecommunications companies including Bell Canada ($19 Billion Annual
Revenue EY03)(http://www.bce.ca/en/).
With numerous other sales across many industries, significant
follow-on business with existing customers, success of the highly
embeddable XG4 XML Chip subsystem and continued growth for its
PowerLine channel program, DataPower continues to expand its lead in
the Web services security market with the highest revenues, most paid
customers, most production deployments and billions of dollars in
securely processed transactions.
"DataPower is consistently chosen over competitors for its
unmatched level of security, its unbeatable performance, and range of
flexibility for XML and Web services security and we have continued to
see significant and steady growth for our XML Web services security
gateway since we first introduced it almost two (2) years ago," said
Jim Ricotta, president and CEO at DataPower. "With each new customer
we not only experience the advancement of our leadership in the
market, but validation of our mature technology and vision for dealing
with the increased sophistication of our customers' Web service
deployments. With today's news, DataPower - the first to pioneer the
XML-aware networking space - further demonstrates its ability to lead
the industry on all accounts: customers, innovation, strategic
partnerships and vision."
"Real customer momentum drives market demand for real Web services
applications for which enterprises are turning to solutions that
provide real Web services security," said Earl L. Perkins, Vice
President, Security & Risk Strategies Technology Research Services at
META Group, Inc. "As more Web services are deployed, particularly
across network boundaries, customers are going to be drawn to those
providers of standards-based, performance-optimized solutions that are
XML-aware and can be implemented, configured and maintained quickly
and easily."
Along with its accelerating growth and lead with deployed Web
services security customers, DataPower's Q3 results highlights
DataPower's expansion of its Integration for Management ecosystem and
its leadership position as the partner of choice for top-tier solution
providers with additional integration that includes RSA ClearTrust,
RSA Federated Identity Management, RSA KEON, and RSA SecureID;
Computer Associates eTrust; IBM's Tivoli; Sun Microsystems' Sun Access
Manager; and Cyclone Commerce's Cyclone Interchange Advanced Server.
About the DataPower XS40 XML Security Gateway
The XS40 XML Security Gateway
(http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html) is purpose-built by some
of the world's top XML and security experts to secure XML Web Services
transactions and designed to help enterprises overcome the two
critical barriers for deploying XML Web services: security risks and
performance bottlenecks. The XS40 is a true network hardware device
that serves as a secure XML Web services proxy and access policy
enforcement point in front of the application servers.
The XS40 delivers hardened security and wirespeed performance
using sophisticated, patented algorithms for XML firewall, XDoS
protection; SOAP filtering; access control; XML schema validation;
field-level digital signatures and XML encryption; XML routing;
service virtualization; SAML-based federated identity management. It
leads industry in integration with identity management solutions
including RSA, Computer Associates, Oblix, IBM, Sun, Microsoft and
Netegrity; support for critical Web services standards like
WS-Security, WS-Addressing, WS-SecureConversation, and other WS-*
specifications; wirespeed XML and Web services security processing
performance; carrier-grade reliability and scale; and its
award-winning, easy-to-use GUI.
About DataPower Technology
DataPower provides enterprises with intelligent XML-Aware network
infrastructure to ensure unparalleled performance, security and
manageability of next-generation applications and XML Web Services.
DataPower's patented XML Generation Three (XG3(TM)) technology powers
the industry's first wire-speed XML-aware networking devices that
provide immediate return on technology investments while streamlining
application deployments. Founded in 1999, DataPower is privately held
and based in Cambridge, MA For more information about DataPower,
please contact 617-864-0455 or visit www.datapower.com.
Contact:
DataPower
Kevin M Anderson, 617-864-0455 x360
kevina@datapower.com
