IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition V6.3 provides rapid cloud integration
IBM United States Software Announcement 212-494December 11, 2012
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Companies that adopt cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications view application integration as an important component to harmonize business processes across their hybrid application landscape. WebSphere® Cast Iron® Cloud Integration can offer these key benefits:
- Ability to quickly connect cloud and on-premise applications: WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration can help companies integrate in days, instead of weeks or months, with rich connectors and integration templates.
- Synergy with other IBM® integration products: Companies with significant application integration investment can use Cast Iron as the cloud gateway, allowing SaaS applications to become part of the larger integration framework.
- Ability to collaborate with IBM Mobile Foundation: Cast Iron works cooperatively with IBM Mobile Foundation to externalize enterprise data and processes in mobile applications.
- Flexible pricing options: Your purchasing options can range from paying by monthly subscription to acquiring a one-time charge license with unlimited endpoint connectivity.
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| Overview |
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The arrival of cloud computing and social media has changed the way we share, connect, and collaborate. Companies of all sizes are embracing this change and transforming their business to engage in new ways with their clients, employees, and business partners. Two trends have emerged as a result of this transformation:
- Software as a Service (SaaS) is a consumption and delivery model: Provides applications, data, and IT resources to you as services delivered over the network. SaaS applications help reduce the extensive IT costs of application deployment and help increase productivity by making applications available when you need them.
- Mobile computing: Can help reduce time-to-market, cost, and complexity of development while enabling an optimized customer and employee user experience across multiple environments.
With all their benefits, SaaS applications and mobile applications are still part of the enterprise computing platform and must work together with the rest of the enterprise landscape, which can often include on-premise systems and applications. Clients working to transform an enterprise today often face a hybrid environment consisting of SaaS applications, mobile applications, and traditional on-premise applications. Integration is one of the keys to successfully driving value from SaaS applications and mobile solutions in this hybrid environment.
The WebSphere Cast Iron product portfolio is a platform that can enable rapid, no-coding construction of integration among SaaS applications, on-premise packaged applications, custom applications, and generic systems such as databases, files, and web services. The key features and capabilities of Cast Iron Cloud Integration are:
- Out-of-the-box, rich connectors to applications, especially to enterprise-grade packaged applications, such as large ERP and CRM applications: A connector enables you to connect to the targeted application and access the content of the application in a no-coding manner.
- Simple user experience: The Cast Iron portfolio provides rich capabilities in transformation, integration logics, and integration management. It can also provide infrastructure for custom connectivity and reuse of integration best practices. This infrastructure can provide a no-coding, highly usable user experience.
- Support for a wide range of integration paradigms: The Cast Iron portfolio includes process integration, data integration, UI mashups, and combinations.
- Flexible deployment options: Capabilities can be accessed in three form factors which are designed to be easy to access and use:
- Virtual appliance - WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition
- Multi-tenant cloud service - WebSphere Cast Iron Live and Cast Iron Express®
- Physical appliance - WebSphere DataPower® Cast Iron Appliance XH40
With WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition V6.3, IBM continues to expand upon its capabilities to address the needs of these hybrid environments by providing rapid access to application data for application developers.
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| Key prerequisites |
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For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.
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| Planned availability date |
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- December 14, 2012 (electronic)
- January 4, 2013 (media pack)
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| Description |
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WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration solutions help you quickly connect hybrid environments comprised of cloud and on-premise applications and help achieve lower cost and a higher return on investment in cloud, SaaS, and mobile applications.
You can develop integration using a "configuration, not coding" approach, and deploy in the following form-factors, each providing the same functionality:
- WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition: A virtual appliance that can be installed on your existing servers using virtualization technology. Virtual appliances allow better utilization of hardware and faster response to demands for newly deployed systems on the real appliance, thus helping to reduce the costs of both hardware and software operation and maintenance. Deploying virtual images may help businesses reduce the potential for errors and enable the rapid deployment of working systems for development, test, or production because virtual images are built with known, stable, and tested configurations.
- WebSphere Cast Iron Live: A complete multi-tenant cloud offering to connect cloud and on-premise applications. WebSphere Cast Iron Live enables you to design, run, and manage integrations in the cloud without any infrastructure footprint on-site.
- WebSphere DataPower Cast Iron Appliance XH40: A self-contained physical appliance that provides everything needed to connect cloud and on-premise applications. The appliance can be installed and managed within a local data center.
A related product, WebSphere Cast Iron Express is a business-user-friendly, self-service cloud offering that allows you to rapidly connect and integrate data between your salesforce.com applications and other applications.
WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration
WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration portfolio delivers the following sets of capabilities:
- Integration scenarios
- Connectivity
- Reusability
Integration scenarios
Each of the WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration components provides the following comprehensive integration capabilities:
- Cloud data migration: Allows data handling, using the WebSphere Cast Iron data cleansing and data migration capabilities, and enables expedited adoption of SaaS and cloud applications. This approach to data integration enables companies to cleanse, enrich, and migrate data from existing applications to cloud applications in real time.
- Cloud data synchronization: Provides connectivity, workflow, and transformation features, enabling you to coordinate or orchestrate integration processes across multiple applications in real time. SaaS and cloud users can view data that is hidden in applications, minimizing any duplicate entries and maximizing decision making and productivity.
- Integration in visualization (UI mashups): Provides the capability to mashup information from disparate sources and to display this information using the native user interface of a cloud application in real time.
- Integration that drives mobile applications: Supports mobile applications by harnessing data and processes from other parts of the enterprise.
For additional information on IBM Mobile Platform applications, refer to Software Announcements 212-157, dated April 24, 2012 and 212-486, dated November 13, 2012 .
Connectivity
WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration offerings come with built-in connectivity to hundreds of cloud, packaged, and proprietary on-premise applications, including ERP, CRM, databases, web services, and flat files. WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration offerings are completely self-contained and include everything needed to complete integrations in one place.
This approach to integration makes no distinction between local and remote applications because they establish connectivity to the endpoints by using native application protocols. The advantage to this approach is that no additional adapters are required, and there is nothing to install or change at the endpoints.
A Connector Development Kit, provided with this offering, allows skilled developers to use WebSphere Cast Iron to add connectors to custom applications. With connectors built using the Connector Development Kit, users get the same development experience on IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Studio as with the built-in connectors. Cast Iron Studio is a downloadable development tool that can be used to design, test, and publish integration projects to a WebSphere Cast Iron Integration Appliance.
Reusability
The WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration portfolio includes hundreds of reusable template integration processes (TIPs) that are searchable in an online library. This online library contains templates for many of the most common cloud integration scenarios. These templates encode common connectivity, known mapping, as well as best practice integration workflows.
Templates provide a question-and-answer-based wizard that walks users through a common integration scenario, customizing as needed. Often, users simply complete the credentials, customize mappings, test, and deploy. Cast Iron clients and partners can create their own wizard-driven, reusable templates with the point-and-click TIP Development Kit and make them available to the entire WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration user community.
Flexible packaging options
- Standard Edition: Everything needed to configure, run, and manage the most common application integrations, including connectivity to cloud and standard on-premise applications, data synchronization and data migration scenarios, and access to hundreds of reusable TIPs. Standard Edition includes the ability to connect two applications, with an option to acquire additional application endpoints.
- Enterprise Edition: Includes everything in the Standard Edition, plus advanced capabilities, including the ability to connect enterprise on-premise applications, use data quality features, develop reusable templates, and manage and monitor the solution remotely through management APIs.
- Application Endpoints: Adds the ability to integrate additional applications, while acquiring only what is needed. Choose from any of hundreds of cloud and on-premise applications. Available with both the Standard and Enterprise Editions.
- Development Edition: Provides a complete, shared development environment for non-production use, and with no limit on the number of applications integrated.
- Unrestricted Application Endpoints: Adds the ability (per appliance) to integrate any number of applications across hundreds of cloud and on-premise applications. Available with both the Standard and Enterprise Editions.
Additional Information
For more information about acquiring WebSphere Cast Iron solutions, contact an IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner, or visit
For more information about WebSphere Cast Iron XH40 Appliance, WebSphere Cast Iron Live, and WebSphere Cast Iron Express , refer to the Reference information section.
Trials are available, allowing you to try and buy, in a self-serve fashion. This includes a:
- 60-day trial: Cast Iron Express is available at
- 90-day trial: Cast Iron Live Web API is available at
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| Reference information |
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For information on WebSphere Cast Iron Live V6.3 or WebSphere Cast Iron Express V6.3, refer to Software Announcement 212-493, dated December 11, 2012 .
For information on IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Live and Express subscription options, refer to Software Announcement 211-486, dated November 29, 2011 .
For information on WebSphere DataPower Cast Iron Appliance XH40, refer to Hardware Announcements 112-229, dated December 11, 2012 and 111-159, dated August 30, 2011 .
For information on WebSphere DataPower Cast Iron Appliance XH40 Support Registration, refer to Software Announcement 211-405, dated August 30, 2011 .
For additional information on IBM Mobile Platform applications, refer to Software Announcements 212-157, dated April 24, 2012 and 212-486, dated November 13, 2012 .
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Program
Program name VRM number
IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition Standard V6.3 5725-C11
IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition Enterprise V6.3 5725-C12
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Education support will be provided for the products in this announcement.
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Flexible training options
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| Offering Information |
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Product information is available via the Offering Information website
Also, visit the Passport Advantage® website
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| Publications |
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No publications are shipped with this offering.
WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition publications will be available on December 14, 2012, in the online Information Center. Visit
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| Technical information |
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
Processor with virtualization technology -- for example, Intel™ VT-x or Advanced Micro Devices AMD-V. Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition uses a 64-bit kernel. Virtualization technology support must be installed and enabled. In some cases this feature is enabled through a BIOS setting. Features required:
- 60 GB of available disk space
- One of these supported configurations, which will be selected during installation:
- 1 CPU, 4 GB RAM
- 2 CPU, 8 GB RAM
Web management console requires hardware compatible with a supported version of Microsoft™ Windows™ to run a supported browser.
Studio tooling requires a minimum of 1 GB memory (RAM).
Software requirements
WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition V6.3
Hypervisor Edition running on VMware -- VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0, 4.1, or 5.0
Hypervisor Edition running on Xen -- Xen server 4.0.0.0 running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux™ Server release 5.6
The Studio component of WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition requires Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 7.
Web management console of WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition V6.3 requires:
- One of the following browsers:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer V8, or later
- Mozilla Firefox V3, or later
- Google Chrome V23
- Adobe™ Flash Player V9, or later
For the most current WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration system requirements visit
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This product is available only via Passport Advantage . It is not available as shrinkwrap.
Product group: WebSphere Product Identifier Description (PID) IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition 5725-C11 Standard IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition 5725-C12 Enterprise Product category: Application Integration Middleware Other
Charge metric
WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition V6.3: ( Passport Advantage )
Program Charge unit
Program/service name number description
IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor 5725-C11 Per install
Edition Standard V6.3 Per Application
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IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor 5725-C12 Per install
Edition Enterprise V6.3 Per Application
instance
Install
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Except for the new media pack part numbers, the remaining ordering information for IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition Standard V6.3 and IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition Enterprise V6.3 is unchanged from the previous release. Refer to the ordering information in Software Announcement 211-327, dated August 23, 2011 .
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
Media pack description Part Number WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition Standard V6.3 multilingual - Media pack BA14NML WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition Enterprise V6.3 multilingual - Media pack BA14PML
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Volume orders (IVO)
No
Passport Advantage applies
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Usage restriction
Yes
WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition V6.3
If Licensee acquires a Standard Runtime entitlement, then notwithstanding any provision in the Agreement, Licensee is not authorized to use any of the following components or functions of the Program:
- Enterprise Application Endpoints: The ability to connect to Enterprise applications such as JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, SAP, Siebel, or other similar type of applications
- Data Quality Features: The specific data quality features or activities within the Program (for example, filter and profile, look up, sort, and merge)
- Template Development Kit: A set of features within the Program used to develop Template Integration Processes (TIPs)
- Management APIs: The set of application programming interfaces (APIs) in the Program that allow users to programmatically perform management, monitoring, user provisioning, and deployment activities.
Software Subscription and Support applies
Yes. Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) is included with licenses purchased through Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express . Product upgrades and Technical Support are provided by the Software Subscription and Support offering as described in the Agreements. Product upgrades provide the latest versions and releases to entitled software and Technical Support provides voice and electronic access to IBM support organizations, worldwide.
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Passport Advantage
System i Software Maintenance applies
No
Variable charges apply
No
Educational allowance available
Not applicable
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