IBM DataPower services.
Gateway engineering for teams that still rely on DataPower — physical appliances, virtual editions, and the container form factor. We design, run, modernise, and migrate DataPower estates without the rip-and-replace pitch.
- ▸ Physical appliances (XI52, XG45, IDG)
- ▸ DataPower Virtual Edition
- ▸ Containerised (Kubernetes, OpenShift)
- ▸ DataPower for Developers (Docker)
DataPower, in real production.
DataPower Gateway is still terminating TLS, enforcing WS-Security, and brokering SOAP, REST, and MQ traffic in plenty of enterprises. It's powerful and unforgiving in equal measure — and the people who know XSLT, GatewayScript, and the DataPower object model well enough to be useful at 3am are getting rarer.
We've worked across the editions and form factors: rack-mounted appliances in financial services, virtual editions in private clouds, and containerised DataPower in OpenShift. Whether the estate is one box doing perimeter security or a dozen load-balanced gateways fronting a SOA, we can pick it up, work with what's there, and leave it in a better state than we found it.
Capabilities
Gateway design and policy authoring
- ▸Multi-Protocol Gateway (MPGW) and Web Service Proxy (WSP) design
- ▸XSLT, GatewayScript, and stylesheet-based policy authoring
- ▸Schema validation, message transformation, and routing rules
- ▸Service Level Monitoring (SLM) and rate-limiting policies
Security and crypto
- ▸WS-Security, WS-Trust, SAML, and message-level encryption
- ▸mTLS, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT enforcement at the edge
- ▸Certificate, key, and crypto-object lifecycle hygiene
- ▸FIPS and PCI-DSS-friendly configurations
Modern deployment
- ▸Containerised DataPower in Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift
- ▸GitOps for DataPower configuration with the deployment policy model
- ▸DataPower for Developers (Docker) for laptop-local development
- ▸CI/CD pipelines that promote stable, signed configs across environments
Operational support and rescue
- ▸Production incident triage on appliances and virtual editions
- ▸Performance tuning: streaming, parsing, and back-end timing
- ▸Firmware upgrade planning and rollback runbooks
- ▸Log streaming to ELK / Splunk / observability backends
Migration paths
- ▸DataPower → IBM API Connect: phased plans that keep policies working
- ▸DataPower → modern API gateways (Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure APIM)
- ▸Hybrid: keep DataPower for SOAP / WS-Security, move REST to a modern gateway
- ▸Decommission plans for end-of-support physical appliances
Familiar situations.
- ▸Your appliance hardware is approaching end-of-support and IBM is suggesting a forklift upgrade you don't have appetite for.
- ▸DataPower is in production but only one or two engineers in the team can read the stylesheets. Bus factor is a constant worry.
- ▸You're standing up API Connect and need help moving policies across without breaking existing SOAP clients.
- ▸Containerised DataPower looks attractive but your operations team wants a realistic picture before committing to OpenShift.
- ▸TLS certificates, crypto objects, and shared secrets have grown organically over the years and nobody is confident a rotation won't take down production.
Have a DataPower problem worth solving?
Tell us about the estate. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team for it.
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