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IBM Acquisition Accelerates SOAs |
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Sunday, 23 October 2005 |
SOAs build and maintain applications in an enterprise. Rather than designing applications from the ground up, SOA allows developers to reuse code between departments and combine resources from all over the company.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) Latest News about IBM has agreed to acquire privately held DataPower for an undisclosed sum. DataPower develops software Get your FREE Oracle Database Software Kit today! appliances that improve the security Security, strength, a lower TCO: find out about all the advantages of IBM Middleware on Linux. and speed of computer transactions.
Big Blue plans to use the application to help clients optimize application performance in service oriented architectures (SOAs).
SOAs build and maintain applications in an enterprise. Rather than designing applications from the ground up, SOA allows developers to reuse code between departments and combine resources from all over the company.
While such architectures will improve productivity View Demo: IBM Workplace Services Express. Improves collaboration. Increases productivity. within organizations as well as between partners, this creates a plethora of messages sent between those parties.
This requires optimization technology that allows IT organizations to keep them under control. IBM is betting that the DataPower acquisition will allow it to play a part in that arena.
DataPower has appliances that specialize in XML offloading and processing, and an integration appliance to streamline SOA infrastructures. |