SpitfireOS Operating System
All Bloombase virtual servers are built from and powered by Bloombase's unique SpitfireOS operating system for high security, performance, scalability and availability. Designed to meet the needs of on-the-fly real-time data cryptography of the world's largest security, transaction processing, messaging, SOA, and storage infrastructures etc, Bloombase servers contain advanced threading, cryptographic processing streamlining, self-healing, connection management and monitoring facilities.
Bloombase started with a monilitic Linux kernel and made several major enhancements. First, Bloombase developed a stackless threading model that allows Spitfire servers to support more than 10,000 simultaneous connections, in contrast to the 100 connections supported on traditional OS. Bloombase also developed a high performance I/O file system optimized for real-time and parellel processing of data cryptography. SpitfireOS supports a wide range of PKCS#11 hardware security modules and fully integrates with SpitfireHSM for acceleration of data cryptography using state-of-the-art and purpose-made crypto ICs. Finally, SpitfireOS was designed to have no user-accessible UNIX shell - making it much simpler to administer and inheretly secure. Users interact with a web based GUI or command line interface via RS-232 serial console. The server has a similar feel as other network appliances such as a router, switch or firewall, many of which utilize modified FreeBSD and Linux kernels.
SpitfireOS allows the Bloombase servers to process real time sensitive data over 10x more efficiently than traditional UNIX systems, providing extremely high capacity and availability.
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