Why hardware appliances?

Most enterprises have invested in hardware and software systems which are mission-critical and operate in full capacity. Cryptographic operations like digital signature generation and encryption are computational and resource intensive tasks that normally are not welcomed by business systems like ERP, sales management and BI. This is the reason why majority of enterprises seek for hardware accelerators to offload SSL processes from their web servers.

Same applies to EAI, XML, email and file data which are integral part of business document exchange, messaging and storage systems. Bloombase's security strategy has common goal in

• Platform independence
• Scalability
• Performance

Only self-contained hardware appliances that are purpose-built to fit in dedicated applications and environments can fulfill the above requirements. Network and communication protocols are relatively stable standards across the industry for years if not decades and designed to support all vendors and platforms. Bloombase appliances are purposely designed on the network layer supporting any computing environments of enterprises through high level modular interfaces.

Bloombase appliances can easily scale up by configuring multiple boxes in a cluster. Loadbalancing and high-availability can be achieved on the network layer. Customers can have a better control of their investment and buy-as-they-go.

Security relies heavily on computational intensive mathematical operations that degrade overall system performance and throughput. By utilizing dedicated hardware acceleration, processing latency can be greatly reduced with enhanced throughput. It also guarantees transparent operations and seamless deployment to existing enterprise infrastructure.