Reactivity Teams with F5 to Simplify Secure Web Services Deployment

Reactivity Teams with F5 to Simplify Secure Web Services Deployment Reactivity Gateway Certified Interoperable with F5's BIG-IP(R) Application Traffic Management Products BELMONT, Calif., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Reactivity, Inc., the leader in secure XML Web services deployment systems, today announced it has joined F5 Networks' Technology Alliance Partner Program, driven by requests from large enterprises and successful joint deployments of the Reactivity Gateway and F5 BIG-IP(R) Application Traffic Management products. With successful product interoperability completed, customers have the assurance that the combined Reactivity and F5 solution is certified to meet enterprise-level requirements, enabling customers to rapidly deploy and maintain fast, safe and secure XML and Web services. Designed for high-traffic-volume applications, the highly scalable joint solution employs F5's BIG-IP system on the front end to manage incoming service request traffic across a cluster of Reactivity Gateways. Reactivity Gateways provide specific XML infrastructure leveraging deep XML content inspection, the full security stack for Web services including SSL termination, multi-level transformation, and optimized XML processing to offload expensive operations from XML Web services. On the back end, F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager can provide Application Traffic Management across a cluster of provisioned Web services to achieve maximum throughput and minimum latency. The seamless interoperability between F5's BIG-IP products and the Reactivity Gateway gives enterprises an easy-to-deploy solution that provides the security, performance and reliability they need for today's XML and Web services applications. "As a result of growing market demands, Reactivity and F5 have been working together to help enterprises achieve the Web services security, reliability and performance they require using our combined solution," said David Ashton, vice president of business development at Reactivity. "Our partnership with F5 is the latest demonstration of Reactivity's commitment to forming technology partnerships that simplify the deployment of secure Web services, enabling enterprises to efficiently route XML and Web services traffic to a cluster of Reactivity Gateways for greater performance, security, scalability and reliability." The Reactivity Gateway enforces XML Web services security policies and offers the market's leading XML threat defense, while delivering any-to-any XML Web services interoperability. The centralized definition, enforcement and management of security and operational policies establish new levels of trust among applications, and help ensure compliance with privacy and data protection laws. Reactivity's dedicated appliances process and secure XML and SOAP messages to improve network and application throughput, and enable an organization's existing operations staff to operate and maintain clusters of appliances across geographically distributed data centers for maximum operational scalability. "As XML and Web services become a greater proportion of the overall mix of enterprise applications, enterprises need an intelligent, scalable solution that effectively maintains peak performance and reliability without sacrificing security," said Calvin Rowland, senior business development manager at F5 Networks. "The combined F5-Reactivity solution leverages F5's market leading Application Traffic Management solution to deliver a powerful and reliable web services security and deployment platform." About Reactivity Reactivity provides the leading deployment infrastructure used by enterprises to realize the promise of Web services. Reactivity's family of products enables businesses to secure, provision and operate XML and Web services more efficiently and effectively, accelerating their time-to-market and gaining competitive advantage. Reactivity has unique experience with the largest and most demanding Global 2000 enterprises in financial services, publishing, travel and other industries. Reactivity is located in Belmont, California, and can be reached at http://www.reactivity.com/ , +1-650-551-7800 or info@reactivity.com. Reactivity and Reactivity XML Firewall are trademarks of Reactivity, Inc. All other products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies. Source: Reactivity, Inc. CONTACT: Patrick Corman, Corman Communications, +1-650-326-9648, patrick@cormancom.com; or David Finkelstein, Corman Communications, +1-917-523-1161, david@cormancom.com Web site: http://www.reactivity.com/ ------- Profile: International Entertainment