Digital Evolution Introduces Industry's First XML VPN for .NET

Digital Evolution Introduces Industry’s 
First XML VPN for .NET

 New B2B Web Services Security Solution 
for .NET Drives Partner Communications Using .NET Web 
Services

 

RSA Conference & Expo, San 
Francisco (Booth #1619)—February 15, 2005—Digital 
Evolution™, a leading provider of SOA and Web services management and security 
software; 
today announced the 
release of the industry’s first business-to-business Web services security 
solution for .NET Web services.  
Digital Evolution’s XML VPN version 4.2 is now shipping and is in 
production at several large retail and financial service organizations.  The XML VPN is the ideal platform for 
offering .NET services to partners. It can secure any XML Web service and 
provides specific extensions for discovery and automated provisioning of .NET 
services, making Web services communication and consumption between partners 
easy and secure.

 

With 
the rapid adoption of Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) standards by 
enterprises and government organizations, XML and Web services are becoming the 
inevitable and best choice for exposing and consuming corporate information 
among disparate parties. More and more organizations are 
creating Web services in .NET, and need to expose these services to partners. 
Enterprise 
partners need to share information to support critical business processes 
including inventory management, purchasing, accounting, trading and numerous 
emerging business models. By offering XML and Web services to partners, 
companies are reporting dramatic business growth and cost savings.

 

“Companies are increasingly using 
Microsoft .NET-based Web services for business-to-business interactions,” said 
Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst with ZapThink, LLC.  “Tapping into this rapid growth, Digital 
Evolution’s XML VPN for .NET will significantly add to the capabilities of the 
.NET platform by helping organizations manage the provisioning and security of 
partner communications.” 

 

Digital Evolution’s XML VPN allows 
companies to drive their partners to consume Web services securely and 
easily.  The powerful provisioning 
technologies built-in to the XML VPN automatically create virtual service 
tunnels between partners, allowing applications to consume partner services 
securely without worrying about the complexity and cost of building security 
technologies into the application. Digital Evolution’s strong experience with 
all types of SOA and Web services including J2EE, .NET and back-office 
application services (mainframe, Oracle, SAP and others) applied to the XML VPN 
for .NET solutions ensures complete interoperability between .NET and other Web 
services.

 

“Increasing numbers of 
organizations are building new applications using .NET, and are exposing .NET 
Web services to their partners,” said Paul Gigg, CEO of Digital Evolution.  “XML VPN for .NET helps organizations 
securely expose their services, and more importantly, to drive partner adoption 
of these services to speed time-to-value.”

 

The 
Digital Evolution XML VPN product family securely extends XML and Web services 
based application interfaces into selected partner organizations giving them the 
ability to manage their XML communication with partners in three fundamental 
ways. 

  
Security - 
  the XML VPN product family supplies the critical security needed to manage 
  transactions, authenticate users, authorize what can be done by users as well 
  as provide privacy and non-repudiation.   It also includes compressive 
  automated PKI support. 
  
Provisioning - 
  the XML VPN controller is a provisioning tool that gives enterprises an automated means 
  to invite, and then coordinate a community of Web services consumers. 
  
  
Manageability 
  - 
  the Digital Evolution XML VPN product family leverages Digital Evolution’s 
  market-leading Web services management technology to give users the 
  flexibility to guarantee Quality-of-service, deal with change over time, and 
  add additional services while supporting the rapid growth that is expected as 
  organizations reap the benefits of Web services. 

 

About XML VPN

The 
Digital Evolution XML VPN ensures secure and managed Web services communication 
between business partners, clearing the final hurdles in the transition from Web 
sites to Web services. By minimizing security risks and automating the 
provisioning process, the XML VPN both helps organizations and their partners 
leverage the benefits of Web services, and accelerates the use of Web services 
for business-to-business communication.  
XML VPN is available both as a hardware appliance and as 
software.

 
About 
Digital Evolution
 
Digital 
Evolution is the leading provider of comprehensive enterprise class SOA 
security, management, registry and provisioning solutions.  Digital 
Evolution’s products include the XML VPN for B2B XML, Web services management 
and security; and the Service Manager for complete Enterprise SOA management, 
security and registry.  These products combine to create the only complete 
SOA Fabric solution available today. Digital Evolution is a privately held 
company backed by leading investors including Redpoint, Mellon Ventures, Paladin 
Capital Group, and Palisades Ventures Fund. The Digital Evolution Service 
Manager is the Winner of 2004 Gold Product of the Year Award for Web Services 
Management from SearchWebService.com. For more information, please visit 
www.digev.com.