IBM WebSphere DataPower
X150 Integration Appliance
The IBM WebSphere DataPower XI50 Integration Appliance is a 1U (1.75" thick) rack-mountable network device that comprises all the functions of the XS40 (and the XA35) whilst adding support for industry standard message brokering technology.
By making on demand data integration part of the shared SOA infrastructure, the XI50 is one of the few disruptive technologies for application integration. Easy to configure, operate, and own, the XI50 reduces the operational complexity of the IT environment while cutting cost and risk.
The XI50 delivers common message transformation (including binary, legacy, and XML) and provides message routing and security, MQ/HTTP/FTP connectivity, and transport mediation.functions. The XI50 Provides transport-independent transformations between binary, flat-text, and other non-XML messages, including COBOL Copybook, CORBA, ISO 8583, ASN.1, and EDI, to offer an innovative solution for security-rich XML enablement, enterprise message buses and mainframe connectivity. The encryption levels supported in both the security capable devices are 1024, 2048 and 4096 bits. Certificate/key pairs can be created on the devices and external certificate authorities can be used.
Features:
- Acceleration of existing integration hubs
Powered by wirespeed transformation technology, the XI50 can be used to off-load XSLT processing, XPath routing, legacy-XML conversion, and other resource-intensive tasks from servers to reduce latency, improve throughput, and free up compute resources - Mainframe modernisation and Web services
The XI50 can help protect and XML-enable mainframe systems, instantly connecting them to enterprise SOA and Web services - Any-to-any transformation
The XI50 can parse and transform arbitrary binary, flat text, and XML messages, including EDI, COBOL Copybook, ISO 8583, CSV, ASN.1, and ebXML. Unlike approaches based on custom programming, DataGlue technology uses a fully declarative, metadata-based approach - Integrated message level security
The XI50 includes mature message-level security and access control functionality. Messages can be filtered, validated, encrypted, and signed, helping to provide more secure enablement of high-value applications. Supported technologies include WS-Security, WS-Trust, SAML, and LDAP. The XI50 is a sealed network device for high reliability and increased security assurance - Sophisticated multi-step message routing, filtering, and processing
- Multiple synchronous and asynchronous transport protocols
- Detailed logging and audit trail
The XI50 includes non-repudiation support - Standards-based interfaces
The XI50 features standards-based interfaces for broad, uniform connectivity across enterprise infrastructure - Agile, highly flexible underlying scripting/configuration support
The XI50 enables comprehensive "out-of-the-box" support for fast, easy-to-handle standard, non-standard, or off-standard, partner/vendor implementations - XML enablement and wirespeed application integration
The XI50 helps reduce the time, cost, risk, and complexity of traditional integration approaches - Metadata-based integration
The XI50 uses a fully declarative, metadata-based approach. The unique technology enables data-oriented programming (DOP) paradigms to be employed without introducing bottlenecks. Easy-to-use visual tools are available to assist business analysts in configuring format descriptors, mappings, and message choreography - Security and performance
The XI50 can parse, filter, transform, route, and enforce access-control messages of disparate format at wirespeed. It also provides encryption and decryption, as well as digital signature signing and verification capabilities
Business Benefit:
- Quickly and cost-effectively XML-enable existing systems without adding to operational complexity
- Realise an architecture that is easy to scale and manage
- Enable interaction among multiple heterogeneous applications
- Bridge mission-critical transaction networks to SOAs & ESBs
- Secure access to newly exposed applications