Nothing better on the edge than DataPower
February 26, 2018
Nothing better on the edge than DataPower
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with WebSphere DataPower Gateway
DataPower is used on the edge as a security device. It is used across the organisation and managed by the integration competency. DataPower is used to securely allow the sharing of data with external parties including cloud systems.
- The most obvious thing that DataPower does exceptionally well is security. All the built-in supported security capabilities allow us to isolate most security tasks to DataPower and as a result "protect" down steam services/systems to have to deal with security.
- DataPower is very good at protocol conversion and as it is usually used on the edge allows you to narrow down the protocols used between the companies public and private networks.
- The appliance concept makes maintenance, recovery and, management so much simpler.
- The fact that once an appliance reaches end-of-life it becomes a doorstop. A company made a big investment and knowing that in 5 to 9 years you will be left with nothing makes the deal not so appealing.
- Positive is the time to market for the implementation and management of complex edge integrations.
- Finding skilled DataPower developers has proven a bit of a challenge. Integration specialists are a special breed and DataPower specific developers even more so.
Using WebSphere DataPower Gateway
Enterprise integration competency
3 - Good understanding of:
- Data formats XML, JSON and CSV
- Networking
- Security
- Connectivity
- Edge security device
- Protocol switching
- Abstracting security away from downstream systems
- (s)FTP client and server
- API Management
- Encryption and/or decryption engine