Comparison to IBM^* DataPower XI50

IBM WebSphere DataPower customers are often surprised to find that the Support and Maintenance they’ve been paying does not entitle them to the latest hardware platform. With IBM recently publishing a number of End of Service (EOS) announcements for multiple WebSphere DataPower SOA appliances, customers are now left with no easy migration path.

DataPower customers are also caught by surprise when learning that:

• When individual DataPower Appliances go out of support (typically between three and four years) customers must completely repurchase the DataPower appliances to have a supported solution.
• When critical bugs are discovered in production, it can often take months for IBM to generate new firmware fixes to solve the problem.
• Datapower appliances do not have built-in visual XSLT generation and non-XML data mapping capabilities and require other products to provide complete solution.
• DataPower doesn’t provide management clustering without installing, deploying and maintaining another Websphere application management tool
• To restart DataPower appliances with Hardware Security Modules, an operator must physically access the server to reset the HSM before traffic can be processed again.
• DataPower cannot be virtualized, this increases developer cost dramatically, as each developer will need access to a physical device.
• Relatively simple logic (like looping constructs and multiple levels of exception) are very difficult to express with XSLT, DataPower’s primary mode of configuration.
• Purchasing DataPower appliances runs counter to cost-saving trends such as multi-core and virtualization.
• Custom firmware based appliances like DataPower can be difficult to integrate into modern software architectures that rely heavily upon Virtualization and standard, off-the-shelf servers.

In Contrast, Intel Expressway Service Gateways offer:

• 8x the throughput at half the cost of the XI50
• Leverage the Intel multi-core/chip instruction set roadmap enabling continuously scalable XML processing
• Easily extensible for remote monitoring, security patches, feature upgrades, rules engines
• The ability to re-purpose hardware at end of capital replacement cycles: 92% of value retained

For a limited time, DataPower customers that take advantage of the replacement program to swap their existing appliances for Intel Expressway Service Gateways will receive the new appliances at a highly discounted rate. Your initial purchase price will be significantly less than a DataPower hardware refresh and your total cost of ownership will be dramatically lower. Intel can provide assistance from industry experts for a seamless migration.

Please contact us at 978-948-2585 or send us an email at asipcustomercare@intel.com for more information on the Replacement Program.