DataPower Demonstrates Dramatic New Growth with Significant Third Quarter Customers for Its Web Services Security, XML-Aware Networking Solutions

["Kevin Anderson" <kevina@datapower.com>]

DataPower Demonstrates Dramatic New Growth with Significant Third
Quarter Customers for Its Web Services Security, XML-Aware Networking
Solutions

ADP, AIG, BAE, Bell Canada, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cendant, CIBC, The
Hartford, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Northrop Grumman, Pfizer, RBC, U.S.
Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), UBS, Vesta and Wachovia Choose
DataPower as the Leading Provider of XML-aware Networking for Secure Web
Services and SOA Enablement Continues to Expand Market Share and
Leadership 	 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2004--DataPower, the
original creator and leading provider of intelligent XML-Aware Network
(XAN) infrastructure, today announced a number of new major customers
further extending its continued market leadership. World's largest firms
and organizations use DataPower's high-end network devices for
comprehensive Web services security, XML acceleration and rapid
enablement of service-oriented architectures (SOA), Customers that have
recently selected DataPower include world leading financial services
institutions such as CIBC ($11 Billion Annual Revenue EY03)
(http://www.cibc.com), and JPMorgan Chase Bank ($33 Billion Annual
Revenue EY03) (http://www.jpmorganchase.com) ; global pharmaceutical
leaders, notably Pfizer ($45 Billion Annual Revenue EY03)
(http://www.pfizer.com/main.html) ; top-tier travel and hospitality
services including Cendant ($18 Billion Annual Revenue EY03)
(http://www.cendant.com/) ; prominent insurance and annuity businesses
that include The Hartford ($18 Billion Annual Revenue EY03)
(http://www.thehartford.com/) ; defense and government agencies among
them the US Department of Veteran Affairs; and leading
telecommunications companies including Bell Canada ($19 Billion Annual
Revenue EY03) (http://www.bce.ca/en/).

With numerous other sales across many industries, significant follow-on
business with existing customers, success of the highly embeddable XG4
XML Chip subsystem and continued growth for its PowerLine channel
program, DataPower continues to expand its lead in the Web services
security market with the highest revenues, most paid customers, most
production deployments and billions of dollars in securely processed
transactions.

"DataPower is consistently chosen over competitors for its unmatched
level of security, its unbeatable performance, and range of flexibility
for XML and Web services security and we have continued to see
significant and steady growth for our XML Web services security gateway
since we first introduced it almost two (2) years ago," said Jim
Ricotta, president and CEO at DataPower. "With each new customer we not
only experience the advancement of our leadership in the market, but
validation of our mature technology and vision for dealing with the
increased sophistication of our customers' Web service deployments. With
today's news, DataPower - the first to pioneer the XML-aware networking
space - further demonstrates its ability to lead the industry on all
accounts: customers, innovation, strategic partnerships and vision."

"Real customer momentum drives market demand for real Web services
applications for which enterprises are turning to solutions that provide
real Web services security," said Earl L. Perkins, Vice President,
Security & Risk Strategies Technology Research Services at META Group,
Inc. "As more Web services are deployed, particularly across network
boundaries, customers are going to be drawn to those providers of
standards-based, performance-optimized solutions that are XML-aware and
can be implemented, configured and maintained quickly and easily."

Along with its accelerating growth and lead with deployed Web services
security customers, DataPower's Q3 results highlights DataPower's
expansion of its Integration for Management ecosystem and its leadership
position as the partner of choice for top-tier solution providers with
additional integration that includes RSA ClearTrust, RSA Federated
Identity Management, RSA KEON, and RSA SecureID; Computer Associates
eTrust; IBM's Tivoli; Sun Microsystems' Sun Access Manager; and Cyclone
Commerce's Cyclone Interchange Advanced Server.

DataPower XS40 XML Security Gateway
The XS40 XML Security Gateway
(http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html) is purpose-built by some
of the world's top XML and security experts to secure XML Web Services
transactions and designed to help enterprises overcome the two critical
barriers for deploying XML Web services: security risks and performance
bottlenecks. The XS40 is a true network hardware device that serves as a
secure XML Web services proxy and access policy enforcement point in
front of the application servers.

The XS40 delivers hardened security and wirespeed performance using
sophisticated, patented algorithms for XML firewall, XDoS protection;
SOAP filtering; access control; XML schema validation; field-level
digital signatures and XML encryption; XML routing; service
virtualization; SAML-based federated identity management. It leads
industry in integration with identity management solutions including
RSA, Computer Associates, Oblix, IBM, Sun, Microsoft and Netegrity;
support for critical Web services standards like WS-Security,
WS-Addressing, WS-SecureConversation, and other WS-* specifications;
wirespeed XML and Web services security processing performance;
carrier-grade reliability and scale; and its award-winning, easy-to-use
GUI.

About DataPower Technology

DataPower provides enterprises with intelligent XML-Aware network
infrastructure to ensure unparalleled performance, security and
manageability of next-generation applications and XML Web Services.
DataPower's patented XML Generation Three (XG3(TM)) technology powers
the industry's first wire-speed XML-aware networking devices that
provide immediate return on technology investments while streamlining
application deployments. Founded in 1999, DataPower is privately held
and based in Cambridge, MA For more information about DataPower, please
contact 617-864-0455 or visit www.datapower.com.