Bull and Vordel combine their TrustWay® box and Vordel Gateway® products to provide security and performance for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs)

Vordel's SOA technology for securing and managing XML flows has been ported for Bull's Trustway HSM (hardware security module) box, to offer a comprehensive solution enabling public and private sector organizations to meet data protection and security regulations

Paris, March  30, 2010 -

Vordel - the publisher/vendor of SOA and Cloud governance software and hardware - and Bull are today announcing that the flagship product Vordel Gateway has been ported for Bull TrustWay encryption boxes.

The TrustWay box equipped with Vordel Gateway offers a powerful combination of innovative SOA security and management technologies and cryptographic services, as well as managing Common Criteria-certified keys to protect the implementation of Service-Oriented Architectures.

The TrustWay Vordel Gateway box:

- Combines the TrustWay Crypto PCI encryption card with the Vordel Gateway software

- Offers both security and performance

- Ensures conformity with even the most stringent data protection regulations.

"Nowadays, protecting sensitive data is a priority for every single organization," confirms Max Tu Ba, head of the Bull TrustWay product line. "Our partnership with Vordel is absolutely in line with our vision to offer our customers in the public and private sectors alike the ability to operate systems that can be totally trusted, while focusing on their core business activities. So the new TrustWay Vordel Gateway box opens up new market opportunites, both for Bull and Vordel."

Hervé Aubin, Director of Vordel France, comments: "The fact that Bull and Vordel have decided to offer a shared platform for securing and managing XML flows for SOA and Cloud architectures demonstrates that both partners want to offer innovative and high-performance solutions to their customers. Vordel's reputation in the security and management of XML infrastructures has been further strengthened by this partnership, which will enable us to develop new strategic markets."

Key features of the TrustWay Vordel Gateway box include:

• Common Criteria certification
  Incorporates the TrustWay Crypto PCI card, which is Common Criteria EAL4+ certified and approved by ANSSI

• XML processing
  Vordel XML Accelerator (VXA) engine, which enables XML analyses

• Identity management and transformation
  Security Token Service (STS) mode, SAML token management and injection, support for WS-Trust, credential mapping, token mapping (X.509 to SAML, Kerberos, etc)

• Extended protocol support for the following
  HTTP 1.0 and 1.1, JMS, MQ, FTP, SFTP, TIBCO Rendezvous, TIBCO EMS, SMTP, POP, TCP

• Support for Web Service-oriented protocols
  SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 , Plain XML (POX), REST, Web 2.0 (XMLHttpRequest, JSON)

• Web Service governance
  WSDL 1.2, WS-Policy 1.2, WS-SecurityPolicy 1.1, WS-Policy Attachment, UDDI

• Safeguarding of confidential data
  The same security regulations apply to Clouds as already apply to companies: SOX, HIPPA, Basle II, Basle III...

About Vordel

Vordel provides high performance, enterprise-level hardware and software products to enable governments and large enterprises confidently deploy SOA and Cloud-linked applications. Vordel uniquely accelerates, manages and protects applications to enable enterprises govern their service usage and performance in a cost effective manner.

For more information visit: http://www.vordel.com/

About Bull

Bull is a leader in secure mission-critical digital systems. The Group is dedicated to developing and implementing solutions where computing power and security serve to optimize its customers' information systems, to support their business.

Bull operates in high added-value markets including computer simulation, Cloud computing and 'computing power plants', outsourcing and security.

Currently Bull employs around 9,000 people across more than 50 countries, with over 700 staff totally focused on R&D. In 2011, Bull recorded revenues of €1.3 billion.

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