Effectively manage application infrastructure at the edge of your enterprise

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IBM WebSphere
DataPower XE82 Edge
Appliance
Effectively manage application infrastructure at the
edge of your enterprise
Highlights
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Traffic consolidation, monitoring, manage-
ment and acceleration for the delivery of
web applications
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A proxy gateway for the delivery of web
applications
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An integrated edge-of-network control
proxy for use with IBM® WebSphere®
Application Accelerator for Hybrid
Networks to connect to external Software
as a Service (Saas) and cloud-based
applications
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An integrated traffic gateway for use with
IBM WebSphere Application Accelerator
for Public Networks
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Support options for application
optimization and IBM Tivoli® Access
Manager V6.1 are included
IT and business leaders agree: The ability to consistently and respon-
sively reach customers is critical to business success, and it is important
to provide these services consistently regardless of the location of your
customers. It is also important to stay competitive, optimize response
times, amplify protection against malicious attacks and strengthen secu-
rity inside your firewall. In many organizations, an inordinate amount of
time and effort are expended to tune each component of the infrastruc-
ture for each application or use case. Integration appliances meet these
challenges using a flexible, configuration-driven approach to simplify
integration and operation.
The IBM WebSphere DataPower® XE82 Edge Appliance is purpose-
built to help you manage application infrastructure effectively at the edge
of your enterprise network. The WebSphere DataPower XE82 Edge
Appliance intelligently distributes application traffic to server members
or groups, delivering improved customer service and a better web
experience—no matter where in the world your customers or colleagues
are located. When you consolidate functions and simplify deployment,
you reduce costs and keep your best people focused on more-strategic
business goals.
For business and IT leaders at organizations large and small, the news
about application integration is positive: A purpose-built appliance
is available that helps make network simplification a reality. Reduce

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Rapid return on investment with the WebSphere DataPower
XE82 Edge Appliance
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Take action to achieve robust application security provided in the
“demilitarized zone” (DMZ)
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Simplify deployment of new web services, including XML and
Web 2.0 protocols
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Strengthen security, reliability and performance of public-cloud
or Software as a Service (SaaS) applications
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Simplify network traffic management
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Optimize network infrastructure with robust, application-aware
load balancing
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Consolidate operational management
IT security costs without sacrificing your ability to innovate.
With the IBM WebSphere DataPower XE82 Edge Appli-
ance, your team can address the increasing number of security
incidents that plague today’s environment, blocking unwanted
access and malicious attacks at the edge of your network.
The robust capabilities of the IBM appliance enables you
to better manage insider threats, since you can control who
is accessing which applications within your systems. This
IBM edge-of-networking appliance also enables you to make
the most of cloud computing by providing a more-secure,
managed connection to cloud-based application services.
The DataPower XE82 Edge Appliance is your enterprise
gateway, or “front door,” to the network. This IBM appliance
simplifies traffic consolidation, provides content-based routing,
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application-aware load balancing and dynamic workload
management A modular “edge-of-networking” appliance,
the DataPower XE82 Edge Appliance combines network and
application intelligence for those who seek a simplified and
converged solution.
The WebSphere DataPower XE82 Edge Appliance processes
information at the application protocol layer, not at the network
protocol layer. This helps you to address the performance,
scalability and security challenges that are associated with the
delivery of web applications delivery. Remove the security
management from your business applications and consolidate
these services; achieve consistent security-policy enforcement
and management for your enterprise.
This IBM appliance correlates request and response messages
and optimizes throughput by buffering or streaming network
input and output as appropriate. This is a significant advantage
over traditional network security gateways, which inspect
only the individual packets on an IP network. Because this
IBM appliance processes work at the application layer and not
at the packet layer, your team gets higher-level services that
include governance, dynamic content caching, verification
and AAA security policy enforcement.

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The DataPower XE82 Edge Appliance
The latest hardware form factor from IBM WebSphere
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2U, high-density, rack-mount design
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Two network I/O modules for increased flexibility and serviceability
(eight 1-GB ports and two 10-GB ports)
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Latest-generation hardware technology that can increase
performance and capacity
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Increased serviceability; multiple parts can be replaced
“in the field”
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Customized handling of intrusion detection
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LEDs that provide enhanced user feedback
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Enhanced hardware diagnostic tools that make it easier to
isolate problems
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How IBM customers use the DataPower
XE82 Edge Appliance
The IBM WebSphere DataPower XE82 Edge Appliance
has created value for organizations in a number of
industries—and many customers often see results in just
weeks. A wide range of stakeholders (including line-of-business,
research-and-development and supply chain professionals) hold
an interest in network simplification and application
integration.
Here are the ways that some IBM customers use the
DataPower XE82 Edge Appliance to make a positive
difference at their organizations:
Data center consolidation
The WebSphere DataPower XE82 Edge Appliance has been
created to reduce the complexity of the components that are
required to deliver modern web applications. With this
IBM appliance, you can expect a single platform for:
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High availability
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Intelligent workload management (smart load balancing)
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Security-policy enforcement
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Encryption and decryption
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Transport-policy management
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Content compression
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Cache-policy management
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Traffic consolidation
Simplify topology at the edge of your application delivery zone.
The DataPower XE82 Edge Appliance can help you lower the
costs of application delivery. Expect simplification of manage-
ment for your application-delivery components and increased
agility of your application delivery architecture. This scalable,
extensible solution from IBM helps you reduce the need to
purchase many disparate application-delivery technologies from
multiple vendors.
Improve application performance at the
edge of the Internet
Use the DataPower XE82 Edge Appliance to optimize the user
experience for interactive web applications. You can integrate
with IBM WebSphere Application Accelerator for Public

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Networks to improve security and performance for internet
applications. DataPower XE82 Edge Appliance performance
reduces the need to have separate point solutions for network
optimization, load balancing, access control, authentication
and validation and application-systems optimization. This
edge appliance gives you a way to increase the reliability of
broad-based Internet communications for mission-critical
application delivery. Enable cost-effective delivery using man-
aged service flexibility; the IBM approach means that you can
take advantage of a solution that grows with your applications
and with your business.
“The consumability of appliance technology,
like IBM’s WebSphere DataPower
technology, is vital to enabling the necessary
unification by increasing the speed and
efficiency of how IT delivers value to
the business.”
—Dick LeFave, CIO, SprintNextel
Enable cloud and SaaS applications
Provide improved and centralized security policy
enforcement for cloud or SaaS application usage. With the
DataPower XE82 Edge Appliance, you can increase reliability
of the Internet for delivery of externally hosted, mission-critical
applications for your internal users. You can accelerate the
delivery of cloud or SaaS applications to your enterprise
network “backbone” using IBM WebSphere Application
Accelerator for Hybrid Networks and reduce or eliminate
the need for private network connections to public-cloud or
SaaS vendors.
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“One of the strongest points for IBM comes
from its industry-leading experience with
both SOA and appliances. Because IBM has
been in the SOA game for a long time, it
has built up extensive and pervasive SOA
skills globally.”
—Lustratus Research, Inc., A Competitive Review of SOA Appliances

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IBM WebSphere DataPower XE82 Edge Appliance
Feature Business benefit
Traffic consolidation, monitoring, management and Increase response time, strengthen security and take action to please your customers and
acceleration for the delivery of web applications colleagues. Get the granular control you need for application-caching policies and gain the
ability to balance speed and content-refresh rate.
An appliance-based proxy gateway for the delivery Reduce complexity and reduce cost with an appliance that helps you to manage application
of web applications infrastructure effectively at the edge of your enterprise network.
An integrated edge-of-network control proxy for use Control the inordinate amount of time and effort that are required to tune each component of
with IBM WebSphere Application Accelerator for your infrastructure for each application or use case.
Hybrid Networks
An integrated edge-of-network traffic gateway for Reduce the high cost of infrastructure that is required for application delivery of
use with WebSphere Application Accelerator for service-oriented architecture (SOA). The performance of this IBM appliance helps you
Public Networks manage the cost that is involved with the integration of components from many vendors.
An appliance-based proxy gateway for external Address your organization’s lack of reliable delivery of applications over public Internet
application access to Software as a Service (SaaS) infrastructure (SaaS, cloud).
and cloud-based applications
Options for Application Optimization and IBM Tivoli Accelerate the delivery of cloud or SaaS applications to your enterprise network “backbone.”
Access Manager V6.1 support are included as Reduce or eliminate the need for private network connections to public-cloud or
standard SaaS vendors.
Why engage IBM
More than 1,700 organizations of all sizes employ
IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA appliances to
reduce IT complexity, lower their costs, improve their
return-on-investment and foster new business. The
IBM approach to SOA appliances provides value to a variety
of organizations throughout major industries and for customer
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locations that span more than 50 countries—and you can
combine different DataPower models to enable optimal func-
tions at an optimal price. Engage a team whose SOA appliances
deliver powerful performance and give you a fresh ability to
respond to new situations quickly and with ease. Take advantage
of broad technical and industry knowledge. Work smarter
with IBM.

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The best SOA appliance is the one that helps your
business aspirations become reality. To learn more about
IBM WebSphere DataPower appliances, or to confirm
which appliance is the best fit for your organization, contact
your IBM sales representative or your IBM Business Partner,
or visit the following website:
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