Progress Offers Secure Cloud Application with OpenEdge SaaS Platform

In this fast Internet world, a lot of discussion is going on about how networking vendors and emerging cloud network providers can make infrastructure and networking more dynamic and intelligent in order to provide better computing experience to users.

Progress Software, a software infrastructure provider has updated its two products - Progress OpenEdge and SaaS (News - Alert) platform with a highly compliant and cost effective data privacy solution.

Cloud computing is an emerging new computing paradigm for delivering computing services. This new feature enables Progress to comply with the latest Payment Card Industry "PCI (News - Alert)" regulations, an important requisite for the ongoing expansion of Cloud Computing. It increases developer productivity, while reducing the total cost of ownership of a business application.

Colleen Smith, vice president, Software as a Service, Progress Software (News - Alert), states that this application would help companies ISV partners to develop secure and highly compliant applications for the Cloud.  He adds that software architects will no more need to take arduous task of encryption and will be able to keep themselves fully engaged in developing application.  The security will be improved because programmer will never need to access the sensitive production data.

The Progress OpenEdge Enterprise RDBMS now supports Transparent Data Encryption which encrypts data that is available in the database, a backup, or a binary dump, and it stays encrypted throughout its lifecycle.

According to Carl Verbiest, product manager for Claerhout Computer Engineering, these new features can be used without rewriting your applications. He also noted the ease with which OpenEdge makes possible the migration to the latest version.

Speaking about the service of the product, Rob Levy, chief products officer, Progress Software states that as data volumes and complexity grow the enterprises want more data security and compliance that they have long expected from applications run on-premises in their own data centers.