January 28, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Application security provider Deny All (denyall.com) announced on Friday that it has integrated server load balancing functionality in its flagship rWeb application firewall, a move the company says will improve overall Web application performance and server availability.
The rWeb Web application firewall, designed to secure Web applications in large corporate environments, comes with filtering, “on the fly” compression, SSL acceleration, traffic management and multiplexing of connections to Web servers.
Integration of server load balancing, the company says, will enable all http and https requests sent from outside a company to be distributed to a Web server farm. The resulting improvement in Web application performance eliminates the need to invest in additional infrastructure, the company says.
“The opening up of Web information systems is resulting in an exponential growth in traffic. Web servers rapidly reach their limits in terms of numbers of simultaneous users,” says Xavier Tardif, managing director of Deny All. “In a context in which productivity gains are all-important, carrying out server load balancing with securing of flows from end to end, and without investment in dedicated units, meets a major requirement of our customers.”
