SAN FRANCISCO - (Business Wire) Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and governance solutions for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0, today announced it has been selected as a “Cool Vendor” in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in SOA Governance, 2008¹  report. Layer 7 provides flexible and simple-to-use gateways for defining, managing and scalably enforcing policy-based governance policies in SOA.

“Organizations realize that employing simple, scalable and flexible performance management, security and governance solutions is critical to the health of their business,” said Dimitri Sirota, Vice President of Marketing and Alliances, Layer 7 Technologies. “Layer 7 is pleased to have been evaluated by Gartner, which we believe is recognition for its unique family of SOA gateways that provide customers with a broad range of operational SOA management requirements and an extensible, scalable and standards-based approach to better address policy lifecycle from creation to enforcement.”

Layer 7 is renowned for its innovation in SOA governance and for its leadership in addressing SOA security, runtime governance and policy management challenges. Recognized for its strategic global partnerships and co-authoring of the WS-Policy, Layer 7’s family of SOA gateways provide end-users with centralized monitoring and management of production SOA preferences like service access, message security, availability, SLA conformance, virtualization and data validation.

Layer 7 has also invested in major governance interoperability initiatives, including Governance Interoperability Framework (HP) and CentraSite Community (Fujitsu/Software AG).

For those attending JavaOne this week in San Francisco or DISA Customer Partnership Conference in Orlando, FL, you can learn more about Layer 7 and the technology that resulted in Gartner’s “Cool Vendor” designation by visiting booth #432 at JavaOne or booth #1219 at DISA. Layer 7 will also be exhibiting at the Gartner Application Architecture Development and Integration Summit the week of June 9-11^th in Orlando, FL. To schedule a one–on-one with a Layer 7 representative, please contact Victoria Freeman at vfreeman@highroad.com.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About Layer 7 Technologies

Layer 7 Technologies is a leading provider of SOA security and governance infrastructure for next generation service oriented and Web oriented integrations. The SecureSpan™ family of XML appliances and gateway software addresses the security, performance management and operational governance issues associated with deploying and maintaining production Web services.

To learn more please visit www.layer7tech.com

¹ Gartner, Inc., "Cool Vendors in SOA Governance, 2008" by Paolo Malinverno and L. Frank Kenney, April 25, 2008