if it s not stateful it wouldn t seem to be worth the effort although i guess it might help with ddos attacks sounds snake oilish to me but i m biased by lots of experience with firewalls and proxy servers and the limitations thereof ken original message from rohit khare mailto khare alumni caltech edu sent tuesday august NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER pm to fork URL subject datapower announces xml in silicon no analysis yet don t know what to make of it yet but here s the raw bits for all to peruse and check out what s really going on best rohit datapower delivers xml acceleration device by scott tyler shafer august NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER am pt datapower technology on monday unveiled its network device designed specifically to process xml data unlike competing solutions that process xml data in software datapower s device processes the data in hardware a technology achievement that provides greater performance according to company officials the new device dubbed datapower xaNUMBER xml accelerator is the first in a family of products expected from the cambridge mass based startup the datapower family is based on a proprietary processing core technology called xgNUMBER that does the analysis parsing and processing of the xml data according to steve kelly ceo of datapower the xaNUMBER accelerator was conceived to meet the steady adoption of xml the anticipated future proliferation of web services and as a means to share data between two businesses our vision is to build out an xml aware infrastructure kelly said the xaNUMBER is the first of a family kelly explained that converting data into xml increases the file size up to NUMBER times this he said makes processing the data very taxing on application servers datapower believes an inline device is the best alternative in addition to the large file sizes security is also of paramount importance in the world of xml today s firewalls are designed to inspect http traffic only kelly said a soap packet with xml will go straight through a firewall firewalls are blind to xml today future products in datapowers family will focus more specifically on security especially as web services proliferate kelly said according to datapower most existing solutions to offload xml processing are homegrown and done in software an approach the company itself tried initially and found to be inadequate with regards to speed and security after trying the software path the company turned to creating a solution that would process xml in hardware our xgNUMBER execution core converts xml to machine code said kelly adding that to his knowledge no other company s solution does kelly said in the next few months he expects the market to be flooded with technologies that claim to do xml processing claims that he believes will be mostly false other content aware switches such as ssl secure socket layer accelerators and load balancers look at the first NUMBER bytes of a packet while the xaNUMBER provides deeper packet inspection looking at NUMBER NUMBER bytes and thus enabling greater processing of xml data kelly explained the NUMBERu high network device has been tested against a large collection of xml and xsl data types and can learn new flavors of the markup language as they pass through the device the xaNUMBER can be deployed in proxy mode behind a firewall and a load balancer and it will inspect all traffic that passes and will identify and process those packets that are xml kelly said in addition to proxy mode the device can also be used as an application co processor this deployment method gives administrators more granular control over what data is inspected and the application server itself controls the device datapower is not the only company chasing this emerging market startup sarvega based in burr ridge ill introduced the sarvega xpe switch in may and earlier this month tarari an intel spin off launched with a focus on content processing and acceleration the datapower device is now available priced starting at NUMBER NUMBER the company has announced one customer to date and says the product is in field trails at a number of other enterprises datapower has been addressing enterprise networking needs since it was founded in early NUMBER by eugene kuznetsov a technology visionary who foresaw the adverse effects xml and other next generation protocols would have on enterprise networks long before industry interest in xml grew kuznetsov assembled a team of world class m i t engineers and designed the industry s first solutions to address the unique requirements for processing xml the first such solution was a software interpreter called dgxt this software based approach to xml processing is still licensed by many companies for use in their own products today leveraging the detailed knowledge and customer experience gained from developing software based accelerators kuznetsov s team raised the bar and designed a system for processing xml in purpose built hardware in NUMBER datapower s effort produced xml generation three xgNUMBER the industry s fastest technology for xml processing bar none today xgNUMBER technology powers the industry s first wire speed xml network devices enabling secure high speed applications and xml web services while other companies are just now marketing first versions of products datapower is delivering its third generation of technology providing an immediate return on technology investments to industry leading customers and partners datapower s m i t heritage is complemented by a management team that brings decades of experience in the networking and computing industries drawing veteran leaders from several successful companies including akamai argon cascade castle networks sycamore and wellfleet datapower technology secures NUMBER NUMBER million in funding venrock associates mobius venture capital and seed capital back pioneer in xml aware networking for web services cambridge mass july NUMBER NUMBER datapower technology inc the leading provider of xml aware network infrastructure today announced that it has secured NUMBER NUMBER million in series b financing investors for this round include venrock associates mobius venture capital and seed capital partners michael tyrrell of venrock bill burnham of mobius and jeff fagnan of seed capital have joined datapower s board of directors datapower will use this funding to accelerate development marketing and sales of the company s breakthrough technology for xml aware networking founded in NUMBER datapower invented the world s first intelligent xml networking devices capable of transforming xml traffic and transactions at the wire speed enterprises need to effectively embrace web services and other xml centric initiatives datapower s solutions are based on its patent pending xml generation three xgNUMBER technology enterprises are adopting xml at rapid rate to facilitate inter and intra company communications but their network infrastructure is ill prepared to support the requirements of this new traffic type datapower s xml acceleration devices enable the wirespeed processing of xml that is required to support next generation enterprise applications said eugene kuznetsov cto and founder of datapower technology datapower gives companies the ability to use xml that s critical to web services projects without sacrificing an ounce of performance a single datapower acceleration engine delivers the processing power of NUMBER servers breaking the performance bottleneck associated with xml processing and delivering an extraordinary return on investment in addition the datapower platform provides enhanced xml security protection against xml based denial of service attacks connection of e business protocols for incompatible xml data streams load balancing between back end servers and real time statistics reports in the post bubble economy technology investment decisions require laser focused scrutiny datapower s patent pending technology addresses a very real and growing pain point for enterprises said michael tyrrell of venrock associates by turbo charging their networks with datapower s unique xml aware networking technology companies will be free to adopt next generation web services without encountering performance and security pitfalls we looked long and hard for a company capable of addressing the rapidly growing problems surrounding xml message processing performance and security said bill burnham of mobius venture capital datapower is on their third generation of technology their patent pending xml generation three xgNUMBER technology was quite simply the single most compelling technology solution we have seen to date xml is not a nice to have it is a must have for enterprises serious about optimizing application efficiency since NUMBER datapower has been developing solutions to facilitate enterprise use of xml and web services said jeff fagnan of seed capital partners datapower s xml acceleration devices are a key 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technology datapower technology provides enterprises with intelligent xml aware network infrastructure to ensure unparalleled performance security and manageability of next generation protocols datapower s patent pending xml generation three xgNUMBER technology powers the industry s first wirespeed xml network devices enabling secure high speed applications and xml web services founded in NUMBER datapower is now delivering its third generation of technology providing immediate return on technology investments to industry leading customers and partners datapower is privately held and based in cambridge ma investors include mobius venture capital seed capital partners and venrock associates contact datapower technology inc kieran taylor NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER kieran URL schwartz communications john moran heather chichakly NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER datapower URL steve kelly chairman and ceo during over twenty years in the technology industry steve kelly has built and managed global enterprise networks provided consulting services to fortune NUMBER businesses and been involved in the launch of several start ups prior to datapower kelly was an entrepreneur in residence at venrock associates and was co founder of castle networks where he led the company s sales service and marketing functions castle was acquired by siemens ag in NUMBER to create unisphere networks which was subsequently purchased by juniper networks kelly was an early contributor at cascade communications where he built and managed the company s core switching business cascade s annual revenues grew from NUMBER million to NUMBER million annually during kelly s tenure kelly also worked at digital equipment corporation where he managed and grew their corporate network to NUMBER NUMBER nodes in NUMBER countries the largest in the world at the time kelly has a b s in information systems from bentley college eugene kuznetsov founder president and cto eugene kuznetsov is a technology visionary that has been working to address enterprise xml issues since the late NUMBERs kuznetsov founded datapower technology inc in NUMBER to provide enterprises with an intelligent xml aware network infrastructure to support next generation applications prior to starting datapower kuznetsov led the java jit compiler effort for microsoft internet explorer for macintosh NUMBER NUMBER he was also part of the team which developed one of the first clean room java vm s this high speed runtime technology was licensed by some of the industry s largest technology companies including apple computer he has consulted to numerous companies and worked on a variety of hardware and software engineering problems in the areas of memory management power electronics optimized execution engines and application integration kuznetsov holds a b s in electrical engineering from mit steve willis vice president of advanced technology steve willis is an accomplished entrepreneur and a pioneer in protocol optimization prior to joining datapower willis was co founder and cto of argon networks a provider of high performance switching routers that was acquired by siemens ag in NUMBER to create unisphere networks unisphere was subsequently purchased by juniper networks before argon steve was vice president of advanced technology at bay networks now nortel networks where he led both ip and atm related technology development and managed a group that generated NUMBER patent applications developed a NUMBER mbps forwarding engine and led the specification of the atm forum s pnni routing protocol most notably steve was co founder original software director and architect for wellfleet communications a leading pioneer of multi protocol routers wellfleet was rated as the fastest growing company in the u s for two consecutive years by fortune magazine willis is currently a member of the institute of electrical and electronics engineers ieee and the internet research task force irtf routing research group willis has a b d i c in computer science from the university of massachusetts bill tao vice president of engineering with a vast understanding of network optimization technologies and extensive experience in lan and wan networking bill tao brings over NUMBER years of critical knowledge to lead datapower s engineering efforts prior to datapower tao was the vice president of engineering for sycamore networks developing a family of metro regional optical network switches he is also well acquainted with network optimization techniques as he was previously vice president of engineering at infolibria where he led development and software quality assurance engineering for a family of network caching products tao has held senior engineering positions at netedge proteon codex and wang tao received a b s in electrical engineering from the university of connecticut and an m s in computer science from the university of illinois kieran taylor director of product marketing kieran taylor has an accomplished record as a marketing professional industry analyst and journalist prior to joining datapower taylor was the director of product management and marketing for akamai technologies nasdaq akam as an early contributor at akamai he helped develop the company s initial positioning and led the technical development and go to market activities for akamai s flagship edgesuite service taylor s early contribution helped position the service provider to secure a NUMBER NUMBER billion ipo he has also held senior marketing management positions at nortel networks inc and bay networks taylor was previously an analyst at telechoice inc and the wide area networks editor for data communications a mcgraw hill publication taylor holds a b a in print journalism from the pennsylvania state university school of communications board of advisors mark hoover mark hoover is president and co founder of acuitive inc a start up accelerator with over NUMBER years experience in the networking industry hoover s expertise spans product development marketing and business development before launching acuitive hoover worked at at t bell laboratories at t computer systems synoptics and bay networks where he played a role in the development of key technologies such as NUMBER baset routing fddi atm ethernet switching firewall internet traffic management and edge wan switch industries george kassabgi currently vice president of engineering at bea systems mr kassabgi has held executive level positions in engineering sales and marketing and has spearheaded leading edge developments in the application server marketplace since NUMBER he is widely known for his regular speaking engagements at javaone as well as columns and contributions in javapro java developer s journal and other publications in addition to being a venerated java expert george kassabgi holds a patent on smartobject technology and authored the technical book progress vNUMBER marshall t rose marshall t rose runs his own firm dover beach consulting inc he formerly held the position of the internet engineering task force ietf area director for network management one of a dozen individuals who oversaw the internet s standardization process rose is the author of several professional texts on subjects such as internet management electronic mail and directory services which have been published in four languages he is well known for his implementations of core internet technologies such as pop smtp and snmp and osi technologies such as x NUMBER and ftam rose received a phd in information and computer science from the university of california irvine in NUMBER 