Penguin Computing, VeriSign and Nuron To Enable High-Speed, High-Volume Secure E-Commerce Transactions
Sep 19th, 23:07 UTC
VeriSign Selected as Default Provider of Web Site Digital Certificates for Penguin Computing's Secure Linux-based E-commerce Servers Equipped with Nuron's Encryption Acceleration
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (September 19, 2000) - VeriSign, Inc.
NASDAQ:VRSN), the leading provider of Internet trust services,
along with Nuron LLC, a developer of programmable logic coprocessors, and Penguin Computing Inc., leading provider of reliable Linux-based systems for Internet serving, today announced an agreement to integrate VeriSign's Web site digital certificates into Penguin Computing's Linux-based servers with Nuron's adaptive computing boards (AcB). Penguin Computing's AcB-equipped Web servers will now provide customers with a one-step, out-of-the-box process to deploy secure e-commerce Web sites.
VeriSign's Web site digital certificates authenticate intranet, extranet, and e-commerce sites, enabling encrypted transactions and communications between browsers and servers across the Internet. (See related release,
"VeriSign Trust Services Integrated Into E-Commerce Offerings of More than 70,000 ISVs, ISPs, ASPs, Web Hosting Companies and Other Leading Providers," dated September 19, 2000).
"As the popularity of the Linux platform continues to significantly increase market growth for our Web servers, we must provide our customers with a fast and simple way to create and secure their e-commerce sites," said Sam Ockman, Penguin Computing's chairman and chief executive officer. "By preinstalling VeriSign's Web site digital certificates on every e-commerce system sold with Nuron's high-speed encryption acceleration, Penguin Computing is providing its customers a best-of-breed solution to deploy fast, secure, reliable Internet business applications."
Under terms of the agreement, Penguin Computing is integrating VeriSign's Web site digital certificate enrollment module into all Penguin Computing servers equipped with Nuron's accelerator boards. This enables the automatic generation of "digital keys" required to create a Web site digital certificate. Without this integration, a customer would be required to manually generate certificate keys after installing their Web server software, requiring a multistage process. System administrators can now seamlessly enroll and purchase a VeriSign Web site digital certificate in either standard 40-bit or 128-bit "strong encryption" versions. The management interface allows administrators to monitor the progress of a certificate application. Once the VeriSign authentication process is complete, the Penguin Computing server automatically verifies and installs the user's certificate.
"E-commerce hosting has never had a product anywhere as fast or
secure as this will be," said Chad Barden, COO of Nuron. "We think the combination of Penguin Computing's servers and VeriSign's software fits perfectly with our AcB product, and we're very excited about the potential of this relationship."
The Nuron AcB places a reprogrammable logic coprocessor into the
memory slot of any standard server or workstation, delivering the fastest and most versatile coprocessor capability available. While this continually reprogrammable coprocessor will eventually accelerate a range of functions without human intervention, the first commercial application for Nuron's AcB is SSL encryption acceleration, which speeds the processing of VeriSign-enabled secured transactions by accelerating the server to handle 1,400 transactions per second. This results in site-wide performance enhancements and improves the overall customer experience with secure Web sites. "As e-commerce transactions continue to expand, there is a growing need for Web servers to handle thousands of transactions per second while fulfilling the ever-increasing consumer demand for the best security available," said Ben Golub, senior director of marketing and sales for the Internet Services Group at VeriSign.
"VeriSign's Web site digital certificates integrated with Nuron's
SSL-encryption acceleration inside Penguin Computing's servers give business organizations the optimized speed and encrypted transaction functionality they require to successfully conduct high-volume business transactions over the Internet."
About Penguin Computing
Penguin Computing Inc. (http://www.penguincomputing.com) is the lading provider of reliable Linux systems for Internet serving. Founded in 1998 by Open Source advocate and active Linux community member Sam Ockman, Penguin Computing is based in San Francisco, Calif. (USA) and is privately held.
Linux, an Open Source version of UNIX, is increasingly popular as an operating system for server computers. Industry research analysts have predicted that the market for Linux servers will reach $5.7 billion by 2003.
About Nuron
Nuron is the leading developer and inventor of fluid processing, a new class of technology that will mean a significant leap forward in the speed and efficiency of computer processing. Fluid processing integrates programmable logic as a coprocessor in a mainstream computing system. More information on the Nuron AcB encryption acceleration solution can be found at www.nuron.com.
About VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq:VRSN) is the leading provider of trusted
infrastructure services to Web sites, enterprises, electronic commerce service providers and individuals. The company's domain name, digital certificate and payment services provide the critical Web identity, authentication and transaction infrastructure that online businesses require to conduct secure e-commerce and communications. VeriSign's services are available through its Web sites (www.verisign.com and www.netsol.com) or through its direct sales force and reseller partners around the world.
All rights reserved. VeriSign is a registered trademark exclusively licensed to VeriSign, Inc. Nuron and AcB are trademarks of Nuron LLC.
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(Submitted by Catalina Ortiz of Penguin Computing Inc.)
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