IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances is a family of pre-built, pre-configured rack-mountable network devices (

XML appliance An XML appliance is a special-purpose network device used to secure, manage and mediate XML traffic. They are most popularly implemented in service-oriented architectures (SOA) to control XML-based web services traffic, and increasingly in cloud ...

s) designed to accelerate

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding electronic document, documents in a format that is both human-readable and Machine-r ...

and

Web Service A web service (WS) is either: * a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or * a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...

s deployments while extending SOA infrastructure. Originally these devices were created by DataPower Technology Inc., which was acquired by

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in October 2005.Press release about IBM's acquisition of DataPower Technology Inc.
/ref> This WebSphere family consists of hardware and virtual appliances. The appliances are designed to be scalable, with options for high availability and clustering for increased performance and reliability.

Appliance list

Based on Hardware Model 9235

* WebSphere DataPower Caching Appliance XC10 * WebSphere DataPower XML Accelerator XA35 * WebSphere DataPower Security Appliance XS40 * WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50 * WebSphere DataPower B2B Appliance XB60 * WebSphere DataPower Messaging Appliance XM70 This hardware model is a 1U rack mountable appliance that has four

Gigabit Ethernet In computer networking, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or 1 GigE) is the term applied to transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second. The most popular variant, 1000BASE-T, is defined by the IEEE 802.3ab standard. It came into use in ...

connections.

Based on Hardware Model 7198

* WebSphere DataPower Service Gateway XG45 This model is a 1U rack mountable appliance that has four Gigabit Ethernet connections and two

10 Gigabit Ethernet 10 Gigabit Ethernet (abbreviated 10GE, 10GbE, or 10 GigE) is a group of computer networking technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of 10 gigabits per second. It was first defined by the IEEE 802.3ae-2002 standard. Unlik ...

connections.

Based on Hardware Model 7199

* WebSphere DataPower Caching Appliance XC10 V2 * WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI52 * WebSphere DataPower B2B Appliance XB62 *

Based on Hardware Model 8436

* IBM DataPower Gateway This model is a 2U rack mountable appliance that has 8 Gigabit Ethernet connections and 2 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections.

Technical specifications

DataPower Appliances contain many hardware components, including Application-specific integrated circuit">ASIC An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC ) is an integrated circuit (IC) chip customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use, such as a chip designed to run in a digital voice recorder or a high-efficien ...

-based IPS, custom encrypted RAID drives, and (optional) Hardware security module, Hardware Security Modules. DataPower Appliances operate a single digitally signed firmware containing a Linux-based operating system and application stack. Its firmware runs on a flash storage device. IBM updates the firmware image every 10–20 weeks. Users cannot run third-party applications on DataPower as they would need a traditional server and

operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...

. Instead of a traditional filesystem, it runs with a collection of isolated virtual file systems called 'Application Domains'. As a result, it can appear to its client connections to be any type of

network file system Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems (Sun) in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a computer network much like local storage is accessed. NFS, like ...

with any type of folders and links. DataPower firmware is mostly used to perform electronic messaging functions, like transformation and routing of messages as an enterprise service bus or to protect web services interfaces and the architecture behind them. It helps to integrate any two applications by considering them as services, and is platform and language independent.

Competitors in market

References

External links

IBM WebSphere DataPower Home page

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