LAS VEGAS -- Tarari Inc., the only company currently shipping wire-speed subsystem building blocks for content processing and acceleration, announced today at NetWorld+Interop (N+I) Las Vegas 2003 in Booth #4336, that the industry's first XML Content Processor will be generally available for shipment in June 2003. The Tarari XML Content Processor, designed to accelerate core functions, such as the parsing and cryptography functions in the XML and Web Services processing model, is dynamically reconfigurable and easily snaps into the standard PCI interface of servers, appliances and network devices. Using Tarari XML Content Processors, OEMs, ISVs and companies will be able to implement powerful XML-based solutions that work at wire speeds, minimize the need for costly new hardware, and are easy to deploy, maintain and upgrade. "XML message size, complexity and traffic are all increasing at an alarming rate in the network and on servers," said Randy Smerik, President and CEO at Tarari, Inc. "Processing and securing this traffic is slowing down networks and negatively impacting inter-company communication. The Tarari XML Content Processor, with its optimized parallel searches and extreme algorithmic acceleration, offloads the most compute-intensive XML activities and enables network administrators to cost-effectively handle XML traffic growth while maintaining acceptable performance." As clearly outlined by ZapThink, a Massachusetts-based research firm focused on XML and Web Services, "For vendors building XML proxy solutions, OEMs and ISVs looking to improve the performance of their offerings, and end-users looking to optimize XML-aware network processing, Tarari can help provide a solution that allows users to realize the benefits of processing XML and Web Services without having to sacrifice the network performance they require." XML and Web Services provide enterprises with a standard, flexible way to exchange information among disparate clients, systems and applications. However, an XML-based message, with its human-readable format, is bloated and inherently insecure. To process XML messages efficiently and securely requires significant additional computing power to encrypt XML content, examine attachments, and process complex structures at several points in the network. Existing networks simply can't handle these tasks at wire speeds. In a separate release: Tarari Inc., the first company currently shipping wire-speed subsystem building blocks for content processing and acceleration, announced today at NetWorld+Interop (N+I) Las Vegas 2003 in Booth #4336, the availability of the industry's first Anti-Virus Content Processor capable of accelerating anti-virus functions up to 10 times. The Tarari Anti-Virus Content Processor, designed to accelerate the compute-intensive functions of anti-virus decoding and decompression in servers and gateways, is dynamically reconfigurable and easily snaps into the standard PCI interface of servers, appliances and network devices. Using Tarari Anti-Virus Content Processors, OEMs, ISVs and System Integrators will be able to quickly configure more powerful anti-virus solutions that maintain network throughput, minimize the need for costly new hardware, and are easy to deploy, maintain and upgrade. Anti-virus applications have become a critical component of enterprise network security models. With anti-virus solutions based on the Tarari Anti-Virus Content Processor, administrators are be able to stop viruses at the network edge -- scanning even very large files -- while achieving high network throughput, fast response times and higher user productivity. Anti-virus processing is a well-established market, with steady growth fueled by increasing concerns over security. It is estimated that up to 1000 new computer viruses are released every month, and the desire to stop these increasingly complex viruses before they get into the network is forcing the migration of anti-virus solutions to gateways, appliances and servers. Scaling these solutions to gigabit throughput levels, especially for in-line devices such as gateways and appliances, is currently defined by the amount of processing required to check for viruses. By off-loading this processing to the Tarari Anti-Virus Content Processor, anti-virus solutions can achieve gigabit throughput levels while actually lowering total cost of ownership by reducing the need to purchase more expensive hardware. "Scanning performance is critical," said Randy Smerik, CEO of Tarari, Inc. "Many enterprises simply won't implement gateway anti-virus solutions until they can scan at wire speeds. Fortunately, the results of anti-virus application performance testing confirm the real-world performance of the Tarari Anti-Virus Content Processor, making wire-speed anti-virus solutions a reality. Tarari is the first content processing company to focus on the real performance issues in the anti-virus marketplace." Tarari Inc.