Vordel Gateway Offers Cisco ACE Gateway Replacement Program in Response to End-of life Dates
Vordel's Centralized Policy Management and Web Usage Reporting Offers New Capability to Cisco Customers
November 8, 2010 - Boston, MA, USA
Vordel, a provider of fast, safe, connectivity for SOA and Cloud services, today announced its Cisco ACE Gateway replacement program. This replacement program addresses the needs of enterprises impacted by Cisco's recent news regarding the end-of life dates for the Cisco ACE XML Gateway. Cisco customers using this product now have to replace it with another XML Gateway, and Vordel has stepped into the breach with its Cisco ACE Gateway replacement program. Vordel's program offers Cisco customers the opportunity to get up and running quickly with Vordel's XML Gateway offering the benefits of increased performance, strengthened security and enhanced interoperability in SOA and Cloud deployments.
Vordel has already successfully migrated Cisco users to the Vordel Gateway delivering a fully supported scalable platform that meets their current business needs and future growth plans. Additionally, enterprises can benefit from Vordel's centralized policy management across multiple appliances and its Web Service usage reporting capability offering increased visibility into SOA and Cloud-based service usage. The Cisco ACE Gateway does not provide these capabilities. For more information on Vordel's ACE Gateway Replacement Program: http://www.vordel.com/products/gateway/cisco_replacement.html
The Vordel Gateway is a purpose-built Gateway available in multiple form factors, designed to accelerate, secure and integrate all types of traffic on the SOA network. Artifacts used by the Cisco ACE Gateway including WSDLs, Schemas and certificates among others can be easily imported into the Vordel Gateway. Global enterprises in multiple sectors leverage Vordel's Gateway because its enables them to get products quickly to market with rapid time to production and accelerated deployment of new services and products. The Vordel Gateway also offers increased return on investment via the re-use of data and policies stored in existing Identity Management and SOA infrastructure. Additional cost savings via the Vordel connectors built into the Vordel Gateway enable enterprises to avoid heavy integration costs. Vordel also reduces the costly overhead of unnecessary application server licenses and enables decreased license costs.
"Vordel recognizes the end-of-life for the Cisco ACE XML Gateway has created an additional capital expense for organizations. This is why Vordel is running a special limited discounted offer until December 23, 2010 to replace existing appliances for the Cisco ACE XML Gateway," said Jacques Declas, VP Worldwide Sales, Vordel. "Vordel understands the key challenges that customers will have in migration from Cisco to a new platform and has a strong track record of successfully migrating key customers from Cisco to Vordel. By choosing Vordel, Cisco customers will be able to mitigate risk, ensure compliance and drive the efficient running of enterprise applications on a fully supported scalable platform that meets current business needs and facilitates future growth plans. Additionally, one of the key advantages of the Vordel platform is time to market. Vordel continually delivers significant cost savings with notable return on investment and reduced total cost of ownership. "
Key features of the Vordel Gateway includes:
- Vordel Policy Director: ensures changes to policies are controlled centrally, across a farm of Vordel Gateway SOA appliances including software and virtualized instances. Policies are deployed across multiple gateways in a single step to govern complex integration tasks. This means enterprises can immediately scale the role out of policies across their entire gateway network from one central administration console.
- Vordel Reporter: offers Cisco customers a new and beneficial experience by offering greater visibility on their SOA usage. Vordel Reporter provides service visibility via real-time metrics and comprehensive, drill-down reports to allow organizations see who is using SOA services, how often they use them and what service levels they are experiencing.
- Vordel can also offer companies a clear path for incorporating their internal SOA-based services with Cloud hosted applications. As the only gateway vendor supporting VMware's vCloud initiatives, enterprises can natively deploy solutions up into the cloud and know that Vordel will support enterprise security policies out of the box, for both on premise as well as in the cloud.
The Vordel Gateway offers policy-driven efficient processing of SOAP, REST, XML and other data formats; protocol and content transformation on the wire; XML filtering and access control to services and enables organizations to govern their SOA infrastructure. Deployable either as a standalone offering or as an integral component of a strategic enterprise SOA infrastructure, the Gateway interfaces with Enterprise Service Buses, Enterprise Management, and Identity Management platforms. Easy to install and maintain, it offers the greatest deployment flexibility possible, and is available as a hardened network appliance, software, virtual appliance or an Amazon AMI.
To learn more about Vordel's Cisco ACE Gateway replacement program and the special pricing incentive on offer: contact a Vordel Sales Representative on 1866 460 0987 or +44 203 427 5082 or sales@vordel.com to find out more about this special offer.
About Vordel
Vordel delivers fast, safe, connectivity for SOA and Cloud services. Customers rely on Vordel's Gateway and Cloud Service Broker to increase performance, strengthen security and enhance interoperability in SOA and Cloud deployments. Businesses leverage Vordel's unique management capability to govern service usage and enable the efficient running of applications in SOA or Cloud architectures. Vordel has global enterprise customers in banking, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, media, pharmaceutical, telecoms, utility and government organizations. To learn more and obtain a free evaluation of Vordel's products, go to: www.vordel.com and follow us on twitter and our blog
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