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BlueSpace and Sun Microsystems Expand Partnership(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) BlueSpace Software Corp., a provider of messaging systems, and Sun Microsystems announced that BlueSpace has become a Global Connect Partner and that Sun Federal Systems will resell BlueSpace TransMail Trusted Edition to defense and intelligence customers. Sun Federal will be demonstrating TransMail Trusted Edition at the DoDIIS Conference in San Diego, CA, the week commencing 17th March. Sun and BlueSpace have been closely collaborating over the introduction and rollout of TransMail Trusted Edition which fully leverages the multi-level capabilities of Solaris 10 with Trusted Extensions and the Sun Ray desktop. TransMail Trusted Edition provides the defense and intelligence users with a unified messaging experience across multiple security domains. The result is much greater user productivity and collaboration without compromising security. "Multi-level messaging is such an important collaborative and knowledge based application for the intelligence community," said Bill Vass, President of Sun Federal. "Our partnership with BlueSpace provides our customers with infrastructure and critical applications that enable them to meet their mission objectives faster, with less risk and at lower cost." "Sun has made major investments and as a result is a leader in providing the infrastructure for secure, multi-level applications," stated Justin Marston, CEO of BlueSpace. "By leveraging the unique capabilities of Solaris with Trusted Extensions and the Sun Ray desktop we were able to bring a much needed solution to this market in record time." Edward Bryant, Technical Director at UCDMO, commented, "I see the BlueSpace application taking advantage of the multi-level capabilities of currently deployed multi-level clients, and this is a critical capability needed to meet information sharing requirements." In addition to TransMail Trusted Edition, Sun and BlueSpace are collaborating on the BlueSpace Trusted Client Framework (TCF) which significantly reduces the time and effort to create multi-level applications. The TCF enables "mashups" of data and applications running at multiple security levels into a single user experience without sacrificing confidentiality or requiring expensive cross-domain management, certification and accreditation processes. Klaus Weidner, Principal Consultant at Atsec (a Common Criteria Testing Laboratory in the US) commented that, "The Trusted Client Framework uses a core trusted component which connects mutually isolated, single-level application services to provide what appears to the user to be an integrated multi-level application. This makes it feasible to pursue a high assurance level with minimized security testing and accreditation footprint." Under the expanded partnership, Sun will resell TransMail Trusted Edition and the two companies will work together collaboratively and with other Sun Partners on sales, marketing, services and support. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) ((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd - http://www.m2.com)) ((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com)) Copyright ? 2008 Wireless News |