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New IPivot Commerce Director 8000 Boosts Performance for Large E-Commerce Web Sites by up to 150 Times
May 12, 1999 07:15 AM
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 1999--
Combines High Performance SSL Processing with Intelligent Internet Traffic Management, Providing Faster Transaction Processing, Error Recovery and Intelligent Content Routing
IPivot Inc., the company that "Makes E-Commerce Work," today announced the Commerce Director 8000, a new high-end "Internet Commerce Appliance" specifically designed for large multi-server e-commerce sites.
The Commerce Director 8000 eliminates server performance issues and improves both reliability and Quality of Service (QoS) for secure SSL transactions, essential steps in accelerating the mass adoption of Electronic Commerce. IPivot is demonstrating the Commerce Director at Booth 3222 at NetWorld+Interop/EXPO COMM 99 conference and exhibition at the Las Vegas Convention Center, managed by Ziff-Davis Inc.
The Commerce Director 8000 combines secure SSL acceleration with IPivot's third-generation Internet traffic management technology. This unique capability of the Commerce Director 8000 ensures that customers on secure sites receive timely responses, don't see error messages and are confident that their information is kept private.
IPivot ICA and ITA Technologies Provide Comprehensive Commerce and Content Solutions This new Internet Commerce Appliance (ICA) from IPivot complements the company's previously announced Internet Traffic Appliances (ITA). Those include the Intelligent Broker family developed and marketed by IPivot and available from Nortel Networks as part of its Accelar Server Switch line.
"Customer demand for our Accelar Internet Appliances, developed with IPivot, has exceeded our expectations," said Bert Armijo, director of product marketing at Nortel Networks. "We are enthusiastic about expanding our relationship with IPivot in this hot new category in order to offer our customers leading-edge, best-of-breed technologies to keep their e-commerce sites performing at an optimum level."
Commerce Director 8000 Customer Comments
"Nearly a million consumers every week utilize our Web-based resources to monitor and manage their personal retirement accounts and other important employee-benefit information. In our business, people just won't tolerate long waits or error messages," said Steve McCollum, network architect for Hewitt Associates (www.hewitt.com). Hewitt is the largest employee benefits consulting firm in the U.S. that ranked among the Top 250 of Forbes magazine's listing of the largest private companies. "The Commerce Director 8000 will help us provide the superior level of service that our clients demand. Several Fortune 500 companies and their employees depend on us to deliver information quickly, confidentially and without errors. IPivot's secure Internet Commerce Appliance technology will enable us to do that consistently and reliably."
"The companies that host their sites at digitalNATION are serious about e-commerce, and digitalNATION is serious about providing them and their users with the best Quality of Service that current technology will allow," said Rodney Loges, vice president of business development at digitalNATION Inc., the world's largest provider of dedicated server hosting.
digitalNATION offers a broad range of advanced Web hosting solutions including dedicated server hosting, application hosting, and integrated hosting services. "The Commerce Director 8000 is the only solution we've found that assures that secure SSL transactions are processed at wire speeds, and that's why we're committed to making IPivot an integral part of our e-commerce infrastructure," Loges indicated.
Processes SSL Traffic Up to 150 Times Faster
The Commerce Director 8000 enables e-commerce sites to deliver sensitive information and transact secure business at speeds up to 150 times faster than Web servers alone. The Commerce Director is designed for high-performance multi-server e-commerce sites and provides in-line decryption/encryption for secure SSL transactions. Using patent-pending technology to perform cryptographic processing transparently to the server, it performs all key management and encryption. The result is a tremendous performance boost for heavily trafficked e-commerce sites.
According to Alistair Croll of Networkshop, a leading network consulting and testing firm, "Internet Commerce Appliances are the best way to implement encryption co-processing. IPivot's Commerce Director 8000 represents a new tool in the e-business toolbox, that can scale a server farm significantly while remaining transparent to the particular infrastructure of the site."
Intelligent Traffic Management for Secure Transactions
IPivot's Commerce Director 8000 is the first Internet appliance to implement intelligent traffic management for secure transactions. Typical Internet Traffic Management devices make decisions based only on information available at Layer 4 in the networking stack, but the Commerce Director 8000 is the only solution that combines Layers 4 through 7 (application/content) awareness to speed up response times and eliminate cryptic error messages for secure transactions. It speeds up secure transactions and keeps e-commerce sites open for business, even during back-end transaction problems or content glitches.
Other key benefits of IPivot's Commerce Director 8000:
-- Response-time-based prioritized service for secure
transactions
-- Enables administrators to implement varying classes of
service, assign priority levels and set target response times
for secure transactions
-- Prioritizes e-commerce orders over routine browsing or FTP
requests
-- Ensures that e-commerce merchants are always open for business
by preventing "Server Too Busy" and "File Not Found" errors
-- Predictable performance for high-priority requests, even with
secure transactions
-- Stops CPU-hungry CGI scripts and active server pages from
crippling a Web site
Availability and Pricing
The Commerce Director 8000 is priced at $39,995 and is scheduled for shipment in July 1999.
About IPivot
IPivot Inc. "Makes E-Commerce Work" by delivering solutions that solve Internet performance and reliability problems thus enabling the mass adoption of Electronic Commerce. IPivot markets its innovative family of Internet Commerce Appliances and Internet Traffic Appliances through a network of premier resellers, network integrators and OEMs, including Nortel Networks, NT .
IPivot products support Internet sites using servers from companies such as Hewlett Packard HWP , Apple AAPL , Compaq CPQ , IBM IBM , Sun Microsystems SUNW , and others. IPivot's products are also used with a variety of switches and routers, including those manufactured by Cisco Systems CSCO , Lucent LU and 3Com COMS .
IPivot is a charter member of QoS Forum, an international consortium of organizations devoted to end-to-end Quality of Service solutions. Other charter members include Microsoft Corp. MSFT , IBM IBM , Extreme Networks EXTR , Intel Corp. INTC , and Novell NOVL . |
