Rizwan Mallal

Jack Vaughan interviewed Mamoon Yunus, CEO of Crosscheck Networks, at the Gartner AADI Event regarding prevalent deployment scenarios for SOA/XML Gateways (e.g., Forum Sentry), specifically on how Mobile Computing is being enabled using through gateway technologies. Here is an excerpt from the interview: It was all a bit of a whirl when we caught up with Mamoon Yunus, CEO of Crosscheck Networks, at a Gartner event in December. The topic on the docket then has more momentum today. So we decided to revisit our notes and share this take on strong-walled SOA gateways, lightweight SOA, REST and mobile applications. –J. Vaughan, site editor. SearchSOA: How is SOA today relating to new interest in REST and mobile application building?  Mamoon Yunus: Primarily what we're seeing is that companies have invested a lot in building a SOA infrastructure and now they're extending that... (more)

Forum Systems Latest XML Gateway Targets SOA Federation

Looks like Forum Sentry, the pioneer and leader of XML Gateway and XML Firewall technology has announced its latest product that now addresses the growing need for handling not just XML/Web services traffic, but also HTML/Portal traffic. From a technology standpoint, this is not a revolutionary jump, but a gradual evolution of the XML Gateway that now handles HTTP/HTML-header information, which is by far easier than looking deeper into the XML packets. However, the business implication of this is significant since companies can now use a single platform for HTML and XML processi... (more)

Reducing the Complexity of Application Security

Integration is the Enemy of Security and so is Flexibility - an attribute that is essential for organizations to survive.  A corporation that cannot service its customers and suppliers, establish long sticky relationships with them and build an infrastruture that enables rapid addition of both suppliers, buyers and partners for information exchange will perish and get demolished by a nimble and flexible competitor whose infrastructure has integration capabilities for rapid information exchange. Mike Vizard from CTOEdge talks about the business drivers that compel companies to inte... (more)

Frequent XML Gateway Uses

XML Gateways are becoming standard in enterprise SOA deployments with the following common themes: Identity mediation is the first step for the majority of SOA Deployments. Identities come in may shapes and sizes represented at both the protocol level (e.g., HTTP Basic Auth, SSL Mutual Auth) and message level (WS-Security tokens X.509, SAML, etc.). Even if an enterprise successfully standardizes on a single identity representation, it cannot dictate how it's trading partners should represent its identities. Thus, inditites need to be accepted in many forms and changed to a singl... (more)

Three XML Gateway Myths

There are some common XML Gateway myths that this post would like to dispel. These myths are a manifestation of vendors overwhelming the customers with the latest bells and whistles of their product without explaining to the user fundamental basic capabilities of the product. Myth #1: FTP protocol is only used to transfer unstructured bulk data to our back end systems. FTP (File Transport Protocol) is the workhorse protocol that is still used today for majority bulk file transfers between enterprise corporations. FTP maybe a legacy protocol, but this legacy protocol is one of the m... (more)