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I recently spoke with Reactivity about their 4.4 release, which includes a new high performance model with a dual-processor, auto-discovery, offloading services, and an expanded OEM program. They are definietly pumped about this announcement. What is fueling their excitement is the fact that customers are starting to see full ROI within 3 months of deployment. Have to agree that’s a pretty compelling case.

For those of you who are not familiar with Reactivity, they produce integration appliances for XML messaging. The point being that XML messages are huge and the network needs help. They have 3 products in the line. The Reactivity Secure XML Router provides authentication and authorization, routing, translation and transformation of XML messages. XML Security Gateway is used for B2B integration, and includes message inspection and virus control. As part of the OEM program, top tier participants are embedding core libraries for virus protection. The XML Accelerator delivers high performance messaging in a configurable network device.

Their message is that when you push XML processing to the network and you’ll save lots of time and money, and improve performance. They claim customers are deploying solutions in 1/10th the time it takes to do with an, ESB or EAI platform: 10-15 days rather than months, cutting development time and costs. In B2B solutions new partner get connected in a matter of hours. The 4.4 release includes new ease of use features as well as expanded standards support for WS-Policy and UDP. Reactivity can pull in services from application servers and registries, apply global policies, and be up and running quickly. Reactivity appliances can be used as co-processors to perform cycle consuming XML schema validation, providing better performance and visibility. Because Reactivity uses a RAID disk to handle messaging, and time stamps messages, it captures message flow information which can be used for compliance solutions. The entry level price point for the 1000 XML Accelerator is $15k. The XML Router 1000 lists for $30k.

If you want to learn more about Reactivity check out the upcoming ebizQ webinar on June 22nd. Definitely worth a look-see.

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