Synopsis
This is Volume I of the long-awaited second edition of the 'bible' and expert guide to deploying, using, and managing IBM DataPower Gateway Appliances. DataPower appliances can simplify deployment, strengthen security, enhance performance, and dramatically improve return on investment for many use cases, such as mobile, Web, API, legacy, cloud, and SOA/Web Services. In this book, a team of leading experts show how to make the most of DataPower appliances in any IT environment. The authors present DataPower information and insights that are available nowhere else. Writing for working architects, administrators, developers, and security specialists, they draw extensively on their deep experience, helping IBM customers use DataPower technologies to solve challenging system integration problems. The Handbook begins by introducing the rationale for appliances and explaining how DataPower appliances work from network, security, and other perspectives. Next, the authors work through installation and configuration. This second edition contains invaluable new sections on virtual appliances, performance, the latest generation of hardware and firmware, as well as comprehensive updates to the first edition content. Subsequent volumes will dive deep into areas including network configuration, development, security, appliance management, and problem determination.
About the Author
Bill Hines is an IBM Executive I/T Specialist, working out of Lake Hopatcong, NJ. He has many years of DataPower solution design and implementation experience. He is the lead author of the IBM DataPower Handbook and co-author of IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from New York Institute of Technology.
John Rasmussen is a Senior Engineer within IBM DataPower since 2001 and has worked as a product development engineer (where he developed the original WebGUI Drag and Drop Policy Editor) and as a client DataPower consultant. John has a degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Simon Kapadia is IBM's MobileFirst Platform Security Architect. He was previously with IBM's Software Services for WebSphere (ISSW) focusing on Security and Appliances. Simon holds a Bachelor's degree in English and Drama and a Master's degree in Computer Science. He has owned a computer since six years of age, and has turned a lifelong hobby into a career.
Jim Brennan is president of McIndi Solutions, an IBM business partner based out of Hackettstown, NJ specializing in DataPower. He has over ten years of experience with WebSphere Application Server training, development, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and administration. Jim has a certificate from the Chubb Institute of Technology and also attended Felician College in Lodi, NJ.
Ozair Sheikh is a Senior Product Manager for IBM DataPower. He is an experienced SOA/ESB/Mobile IT professional with over 10 years in managing, consulting, instructing and developing enterprise solutions using WebSphere technologies. Ozair holds a bachelor of Mathematics with specialization in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
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