Scale SOA & Application Infrastructure Cost Effectively with Vordel XML Acceleration

XML is a key technology used widely in enterprise APIs and open standards. XML’s flexibility has made it ubiquitous in A2A, B2B, Cloud, and security integrations. XML also underpins the most popular standards such as SAML, XACML, WS-Policy, WS-Security, and more. Traffic volume, the number and variety of clients, and the types of transactions are all increasing, requiring application and SOA infrastructures to scale to meet demand. Vordel API Server offloads CPU intensive tasks from application server and enterprise service bus (ESB), making it the most cost effective way to scale application and SOA infrastructure.

Offload XML Processing & Security Tasks with Vordel XML Acceleration

XML offers extreme flexibility and extensibility, along with extensive security provisions; making it the key enabling technology for APIs of all flavours. However, this flexibility and security comes at a cost. XML processing and security tasks (e.g. signing and encryption) can consume disproportional amount of application and database server resources in very inefficient ways. Vordel API Server offloads these tasks to an ultra-efficient purpose-built engine:

• XML parsing
• XML schema validation
• Protocol translation
• Message transformation
• Signing
• Encryption and decryption
• Hardware security module (HSM) integration
• SSL termination and operations

Purpose Built XML & Security Engine with Vordel XML Acceleration

Vordel API Server is powered by Vordel's patented high performance VXA Engine. Vordel VXA engine accelerates policy driven processing of all common XML formats, including POX (Plain Old XML), SOAP, REST, and AJAX. Vordel VXA Engine is a software program written in native code, delivering wire speed performance without any proprietary hardware or add-on accelerator cards. The use of native code allows Vordel to optimize low-level processes to deliver the same high performance across all form factors, including software and appliance, on-premise and in the Cloud. Independent third-party tests prove our gateway delivers the same wire-speed performance as hardware based solutions and is 15 times faster than other software based solutions.

More Options To Add Speed & Scale with Vordel XML Acceleration

In addition to offloading CPU intensive tasks, Vordel API Server can further improve system throughput and performance by optimizing flow of traffic. It is common to have simple look-up services that have relatively static responses but are used in high frequency. Vordel API Server can cache these responses to reduce the number of requests hitting back-end services. If certain APIs have unusually heavy processing needs or are used heavily, Vordel API Server can route requests to different servers to prevent a few slow services causing system-wide poor performance across all APIs. Vordel API Server can throttle traffic by service to smooth out load and prioritize processing.