An industry leading, high security application gateway for modern, traditional and hybrid cloud workloads
Overview
What is IBM DataPower Gateway?
With web application attacks making up 39% of all breaches in 2021, IBM® DataPower® Gateway helps businesses meet their security and integration needs. Enterprise-grade security, control and comprehensive transport and data protocol support include IBM MQ, Apache Kafka and traditional business critical data formats.
Features
Feature spotlight
Enables message and protocol mediation by bridging modern and traditional application standards.
Ensure consistent application performance and service protection with traffic control and routing.
Authentication and authorization decision point for all standards, including OAuth and LDAP.
Allows customers to inspect DataPower transactions in full detail including payload and all metadata information.
A flexible, configuration-driven experience that reduces the skills barrier and speeds time to value.
Use cases
Use cases
Specifications
Product versions
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IBM DataPower Gateway versions |
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Physical
Hardware offering for the DMZ with specialized security and message optimization.
Virtual
Physical appliance capabilities as containers or virtual machines across any deployment.
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Version features |
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Physical
- Intrusion detection: hardware protection against malicious altering of physical system
- Secured boot process: Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip decrypts firmware at startup
- Hardware Security Module (HSM): provides tamper-proof storage of private key material
- FIPS 140-2 Level 3 compliance through the use of HSM
- Purpose-built system providing hardware-accelerated operations
- Lower latency and higher throughput than virtual appliances
Virtual
- Deployed on commodity x86 hardware servers and supported cloud environments
- High elasticity—easily moved between servers with flexibility to increase capacity
- Flexible licensing and entitlement options
- Increased workload isolation
- Run multiple instances concurrently on a single physical server
- Provides lower-cost environment for application development and test validation
Case studies
Q8 Petroleum Italia
Q8 Petroleum Italia leads an enterprise-wide move to IBM Cloud Pak for Integration.
