What is IBM DataPower Gateway?
IBM DataPower API Gateway is a purpose-built secure appliance for handling traditional or cloud-based workloads using enterprise-grade security, integration capabilities, controlling the workloads by using rate limiting and routing features, and optimizing the workloads by using built-in features like TLS and XML/JSON offload, and caching, etc.,
What does IBM DataPower Gateway offer?
- Support for security, encryption/decryption, authentication, and authorization.
- Transport layer security
- Various message formats support
- Database support
- Programming language support like JS, and XSLT.
IBM DataPower Gateway key capabilities
Secure
- Authentication, authorization, auditing
- Security token translation
- Threat protection
- Schema validation
- Message filtering
- Message digital signature
- Message encryption
Integrate
- Any-to-any message transformation
- Transport protocol bridging
- Message enrichment
- Database connectivity
- Mainframe connectivity
- B2B trading partner connectivity
- Hybrid cloud integration
- Multi-cloud support
Control
- Quota enforcement, rate limiting
- Content-based routing
- Failure re-routing
- Integration with governance, monitoring, and management platforms
- B2B partner management
Optimize
- SSL/TLS offload
- Hardware-accelerated crypto operations
- JSON, XML offload
- JavaScript, JSONiq, XSLT, XQuery acceleration
- Response caching
- Intelligent load distribution
IBM DataPower Features
- Seamless configuration migration
Easily move configuration between form factors - Deployment flexibility and elasticity
“Right size” the deployment, quickly deploy where needed & rapidly scale - Workload isolation
Projects can use their own instances - Unbounded memory scalability
Memory can be added to instances without additional licensing - Low cost for Dev & Test environments
Developers & Non-Prod versions include add-on software modules at no additional charge - Free disaster recovery
Warm or cold backup without additional licenses when licensed for Production - Flexible licensing and entitlement
Sub-capacity licensing, Monthly licensing option - Entitlement to future product versions
at no additional charge with active maintenance (S&S)