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DataPower delivers XML acceleration device
By Scott Tyler Shafer
August 27, 2002 5:46 am PT

DATAPOWER TECHNOLOGY ON Monday unveiled its network device designed 
specifically to process XML data. Unlike competing solutions that 
process XML data in software, DataPower's device processes the data in 
hardware -- a technology achievement that provides greater performance, 
according to company officials.

The new device, dubbed DataPower XA35 XML Accelerator, is the first in a 
family of products expected from the Cambridge, Mass.-based startup. The 
DataPower family is based on a proprietary processing core technology 
called XG3 that does the analysis, parsing, and processing of the XML 
data.

According to Steve Kelly, CEO of DataPower, the XA35 Accelerator was 
conceived to meet the steady adoption of XML, the anticipated future 
proliferation of Web services, and as a means to share data between two 
businesses.

"Our vision is to build out an XML-aware infrastructure," Kelly said. 
"The XA35 is the first of a family."

Kelly explained that converting data into XML increases the file size up 
to 20 times. This, he said, makes processing the data very taxing on 
application servers; DataPower believes an inline device is the best 
alternative.

In addition to the large file sizes, security is also of paramount 
importance in the world of XML.

"Today's firewalls are designed to inspect HTTP traffic only," Kelly 
said. "A SOAP packet with XML will go straight through a firewall. 
Firewalls are blind to XML today."

Future products in DataPowers family will focus more specifically on 
security, especially as Web services proliferate, Kelly said.

According to DataPower, most existing solutions to offload XML 
processing are homegrown and done in software -- an approach the company 
itself tried initially and found to be inadequate with regards to speed 
and security. After trying the software path, the company turned to 
creating a solution that would process XML in hardware.

"Our XG3 execution core converts XML to machine code," said Kelly, 
adding that to his knowledge no other company's solution does. Kelly 
said in the next few months he expects the market to be flooded with 
technologies that claim to do XML processing -- claims that he believes 
will be mostly false.
Other content-aware switches, such as SSL (secure socket layer) 
accelerators and load balancers, look at the first 64 bytes of a packet, 
while the XA35 provides deeper packet inspection, looking at 1,400 bytes 
and thus enabling greater processing of XML data, Kelly explained.

The 1U-high network device has been tested against a large collection of 
XML and XSL data types and can learn new flavors of the markup language 
as they pass through the device.

The XA35 can be deployed in proxy mode behind a firewall and a load 
balancer, and it will inspect all traffic that passes and will identify 
and process those packets that are XML, Kelly said.

In addition to proxy mode, the device can also be used as an application 
co-processor. This deployment method gives administrators more granular 
control over what data is inspected and the application server itself 
controls the device.

DataPower is not the only company chasing this emerging market. Startup 
Sarvega, based in Burr Ridge, Ill., introduced the Sarvega XPE switch in 
May, and earlier this month Tarari, an Intel spin-off, launched with a 
focus on content processing and acceleration.
The DataPower device is now available, priced starting at $54,995. The 
company has announced one customer to date and says the product is in 
field trails at a number of other enterprises.

=========================================================================

DataPower has been addressing enterprise networking needs since it was 
founded in early 1999 by Eugene Kuznetsov, a technology visionary who 
foresaw the adverse effects XML and other next generation protocols 
would have on enterprise networks. Long before industry interest in XML 
grew, Kuznetsov assembled a team of world-class M.I.T. engineers and 
designed the industry's first solutions to address the unique 
requirements for processing XML. The first such solution was a software 
interpreter called DGXT. This software-based approach to XML processing 
is still licensed by many companies for use in their own products today.

Leveraging the detailed knowledge and customer experience gained from 
developing software-based accelerators, Kuznetsov's team raised the bar 
and designed a system for processing XML in purpose-built hardware. In 
2001, DataPower's effort produced XML Generation Three (XG3™), the 
industry's fastest technology for XML processing, bar none.

Today, XG3™ technology powers the industry's first wire-speed XML 
network devices, enabling secure, high-speed applications and XML Web 
Services. While other companies are just now marketing first versions of 
products, DataPower is delivering its third generation of technology, 
providing an immediate return on technology investments to 
industry-leading customers and partners.

DataPower's M.I.T. heritage is complemented by a management team that 
brings decades of experience in the networking and computing industries, 
drawing veteran leaders from several successful companies including 
Akamai, Argon, Cascade, Castle Networks, Sycamore and Wellfleet.

=========================================================================

DataPower Technology Secures $9.5 Million in Funding

Venrock Associates, Mobius Venture Capital and Seed Capital Back Pioneer 
in XML-Aware Networking for Web Services

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - July 8, 2002 - DataPower Technology, Inc., the 
leading provider of XML-Aware network infrastructure, today announced 
that it has secured $9.5 million in series B financing. Investors for 
this round include Venrock Associates, Mobius Venture Capital and Seed 
Capital Partners. Michael Tyrrell, of Venrock, Bill Burnham, of Mobius, 
and Jeff Fagnan, of Seed Capital, have joined DataPower’s Board of 
Directors.

DataPower will use this funding to accelerate development, marketing and 
sales of the company’s breakthrough technology for XML-Aware networking. 
Founded in 1999, DataPower invented the world’s first intelligent XML 
networking devices, capable of transforming XML traffic and transactions 
at the wire-speed enterprises need to effectively embrace Web services 
and other XML-centric initiatives. DataPower’s solutions are based on 
its patent-pending XML Generation Three (XG3™) technology.

"Enterprises are adopting XML at rapid rate to facilitate inter-and 
intra-company communications but their network infrastructure is ill 
prepared to support the requirements of this new traffic type. 
DataPower’s XML-acceleration devices enable the wirespeed processing of 
XML that is required to support next generation enterprise 
applications," said Eugene Kuznetsov, CTO and founder of DataPower 
Technology.

"DataPower gives companies the ability to use XML that’s critical to Web 
services projects without sacrificing an ounce of performance." A single 
DataPower acceleration engine delivers the processing power of 10 
servers—breaking the performance bottleneck associated with XML 
processing and delivering an extraordinary return on investment. In 
addition, the DataPower platform provides enhanced XML security, 
protection against XML-based denial-of-service attacks, connection of 
e-business protocols for incompatible XML data streams, load balancing 
between back-end servers and real-time statistics reports.

"In the post-bubble economy, technology investment decisions require 
laser-focused scrutiny. DataPower’s patent-pending technology addresses 
a very real and growing pain point for enterprises," said Michael 
Tyrrell of Venrock Associates. "By turbo-charging their networks with 
DataPower’s unique XML-Aware networking technology, companies will be 
free to adopt next generation Web services without encountering 
performance and security pitfalls."

"We looked long and hard for a company capable of addressing the rapidly 
growing problems surrounding XML message processing performance and 
security," said Bill Burnham of Mobius Venture Capital. "DataPower is on 
their third generation of technology. Their patent pending XML 
Generation Three (XG3) technology was quite simply the single most 
compelling technology solution we have seen to date."

"XML is not a nice-to-have, it is a must have for enterprises serious 
about optimizing application efficiency. Since 1999, DataPower has been 
developing solutions to facilitate enterprise use of XML and Web 
services," said Jeff Fagnan of Seed Capital Partners. "DataPower’s 
XML-acceleration devices are a key requirement for enterprises that rely 
on XML for mission critical applications."

About Venrock Associates
Venrock Associates was founded as the venture capital arm of the 
Rockefeller Family and continues a tradition of funding entrepreneurs 
that now spans over seven decades. Laurance S. Rockefeller pioneered 
early stage venture financing in the 1930s. With over 300 investments 
over a span of more than 70 years, the firm has an established a track 
record of identifying and supporting promising early stage, technology- 
based enterprises. As one of most experienced venture firms in the 
United States, Venrock maintains a tradition of collaboration with 
talented entrepreneurs to establish successful, enduring companies. 
Venrock's continuing goal is to create long-term value by assisting 
entrepreneurs in building companies from the formative stages. Their 
consistent focus on Information Technology and Life Sciences-related 
opportunities provides a reservoir of knowledge and a network of 
contacts that have proven to be a catalyst for the growth of developing 
organizations. Venrock's investments have included CheckPoint Software, 
USinternetworking, Caliper Technologies, Illumina, Niku, DoubleClick, 
Media Metrix, 3COM, Intel, and Apple Computer. With offices in New York 
City, Cambridge, MA, and Menlo Park, CA, Venrock is well positioned to 
respond to opportunities in any locale. For more information on Venrock 
Associates, please visit www.venrock.com

About Mobius Venture Capital
Mobius Venture Capital, formerly SOFTBANK Venture Capital, is a $2.5 
billion U.S.-based private equity venture capital firm managed by an 
unparalleled team of former CEOs and entrepreneurs, technology pioneers, 
senior executives from major technology corporations, and leaders from 
the investment banking community. Mobius Venture Capital specializes 
primarily in early-stage investments in the areas of: communications 
systems software and services; infrastructure software and services; 
professional services; enterprise applications; healthcare informatics; 
consumer and small business applications; components; and emerging 
technologies. Mobius Venture Capital combines its technology expertise 
and broad financial assets with the industry's best entrepreneurs to 
create a powerhouse portfolio of over 100 of the world's leading high 
technology companies. Mobius Venture Capital can be contacted by 
visiting their web site www.mobiusvc.com.

About Seed Capital Partners
Seed Capital Partners is an early-stage venture fund affiliated with 
SoftBank Corporation, one of the world's leading Internet market forces. 
Seed Capital manages funds focused primarily on companies addressing 
Internet-enabled business-to-business digital information technology 
opportunities, which are located in the Northeastern U.S., the 
southeastern region of the Province of Ontario, Canada, and Israel. Seed 
Capital’s portfolio includes Spearhead Technologies, Concentric Visions 
and CompanyDNA. For more information on Seed Capital Partners, please 
visit www.seedcp.com.

About DataPower Technology
DataPower Technology provides enterprises with intelligent XML-Aware 
network infrastructure to ensure unparalleled performance, security and 
manageability of next-generation protocols. DataPower’s patent-pending 
XML Generation Three (XG3™) technology powers the industry’s first 
wirespeed XML network devices, enabling secure, high-speed applications 
and XML Web Services. Founded in 1999, DataPower is now delivering its 
third generation of technology, providing immediate return on technology 
investments to industry-leading customers and partners. DataPower is 
privately held and based in Cambridge, MA. Investors include Mobius 
Venture Capital, Seed Capital Partners, and Venrock Associates.

CONTACT:

DataPower Technology, Inc.
Kieran Taylor
617-864-0455
kieran@datapower.com

Schwartz Communications
John Moran/Heather Chichakly
781-684-0770
datapower@schwartz-pr.com

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Steve Kelly, chairman and CEO

During over twenty years in the technology industry, Steve Kelly has 
built and managed global enterprise networks, provided consulting 
services to Fortune 50 businesses, and been involved in the launch of 
several start-ups. Prior to DataPower, Kelly was an 
entrepreneur-in-residence at Venrock Associates, and was co-founder of 
Castle Networks, where he led the company's sales, service and marketing 
functions. Castle was acquired by Siemens AG in 1999 to create Unisphere 
Networks, which was subsequently purchased by Juniper Networks. Kelly 
was an early contributor at Cascade Communications, where he built and 
managed the company's core switching business; Cascade's annual revenues 
grew from $2 million to $300 million annually during Kelly's tenure. 
Kelly also worked at Digital Equipment Corporation where he managed and 
grew their corporate network to 50,000+ nodes in 28 countries, the 
largest in the world at the time. Kelly has a B.S. in Information 
Systems from Bentley College.

Eugene Kuznetsov, founder, president and CTO

Eugene Kuznetsov is a technology visionary that has been working to 
address enterprise XML issues since the late 90s. Kuznetsov founded 
DataPower Technology, Inc. in 1999 to provide enterprises with an 
intelligent, XML-aware network infrastructure to support next-generation 
applications. Prior to starting DataPower, Kuznetsov led the Java JIT 
Compiler effort for Microsoft Internet Explorer for Macintosh 4.0. He 
was also part of the team which developed one of the first clean room 
Java VM's. This high-speed runtime technology was licensed by some of 
the industry's largest technology companies, including Apple Computer. 
He has consulted to numerous companies and worked on a variety of 
hardware and software engineering problems in the areas of memory 
management, power electronics, optimized execution engines and 
application integration. Kuznetsov holds a B.S. in electrical 
engineering from MIT.

Steve Willis, vice president of advanced technology

Steve Willis is an accomplished entrepreneur and a pioneer in protocol 
optimization. Prior to joining DataPower, Willis was co-founder and CTO 
of Argon Networks, a provider of high-performance switching routers that 
was acquired by Siemens AG in 1999 to create Unisphere Networks; 
Unisphere was subsequently purchased by Juniper Networks. Before Argon, 
Steve was vice president of advanced technology at Bay Networks (now 
Nortel Networks) where he led both IP and ATM-related technology 
development and managed a group that generated 24 patent applications, 
developed a 1 Mbps forwarding engine and led the specification of the 
ATM Forum's PNNI routing protocol. Most notably, Steve was co-founder, 
original software director and architect for Wellfleet Communications, a 
leading pioneer of multi-protocol routers. Wellfleet was rated as the 
fastest growing company in the U.S. for two consecutive years by Fortune 
magazine. Willis is currently a member of the Institute of Electrical 
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Internet Research Task Force 
(IRTF) Routing Research Group. Willis has a B.D.I.C. in Computer Science 
from the University of Massachusetts.

Bill Tao, vice president of engineering

With a vast understanding of network optimization technologies and 
extensive experience in LAN and WAN networking, Bill Tao brings over 25 
years of critical knowledge to lead DataPower's engineering efforts. 
Prior to DataPower, Tao was the vice president of engineering for 
Sycamore Networks, developing a family of metro/regional optical network 
switches. He is also well acquainted with network optimization 
techniques as he was previously vice president of engineering at 
InfoLibria, where he led development and software quality assurance 
engineering for a family of network caching products. Tao has held 
senior engineering positions at NetEdge, Proteon, Codex and Wang. Tao 
received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of 
Connecticut and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of 
Illinois.

Kieran Taylor, director of product marketing

Kieran Taylor has an accomplished record as a marketing professional, 
industry analyst and journalist. Prior to joining DataPower, Taylor was 
the director of product management and marketing for Akamai Technologies 
(NASDAQ: AKAM). As an early contributor at Akamai, he helped develop the 
company's initial positioning and led the technical development and 
go-to-market activities for Akamai's flagship EdgeSuite service. 
Taylor's early contribution helped position the service provider to 
secure a $12.6 billion IPO. He has also held senior marketing management 
positions at Nortel Networks, Inc. and Bay Networks. Taylor was 
previously an analyst at TeleChoice, Inc. and the Wide Area Networks 
editor for Data Communications, a McGraw Hill publication. Taylor holds 
a B.A. in Print Journalism from the Pennsylvania State University School 
of Communications.

=================================================================
Board of Advisors

Mark Hoover
Mark Hoover is President and co-founder of Acuitive, Inc., a start-up 
accelerator. With over 20 years experience in the networking industry, 
Hoover's expertise spans product development, marketing, and business 
development. Before launching Acuitive, Hoover worked at AT&T Bell 
Laboratories, AT&T Computer Systems, SynOptics, and Bay Networks, where 
he played a role in the development of key technologies, such as 
10-BASET, routing, FDDI, ATM, Ethernet switching, firewall, Internet 
traffic management, and edge WAN switch industries.

George Kassabgi
Currently Vice President of Engineering at BEA Systems, Mr. Kassabgi has 
held executive-level positions in engineering, sales and marketing, and 
has spearheaded leading-edge developments in the application server 
marketplace since 1996. He is widely known for his regular speaking 
engagements at JavaOne, as well as columns and contributions in JavaPro, 
Java Developer's Journal and other publications. In addition to being a 
venerated Java expert, George Kassabgi holds a patent on SmartObject 
Technology, and authored the technical book Progress V8.

Marshall T. Rose
Marshall T. Rose runs his own firm, Dover Beach Consulting, Inc. He 
formerly held the position of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 
Area Director for Network Management, one of a dozen individuals who 
oversaw the Internet's standardization process. Rose is the author of 
several professional texts on subjects such as Internet Management, 
Electronic Mail, and Directory Services, which have been published in 
four languages. He is well known for his implementations of core 
Internet technologies (such as POP, SMTP, and SNMP) and OSI technologies 
(such as X.500 and FTAM). Rose received a PhD in Information and 
Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 1984.


