IBM United States Hardware Announcement
110-102, dated April 30, 2010
IBM United States Hardware Announcement 110-102
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IBM WebSphere DataPower XC10 caching appliance
can save time, money, and rackspace
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At a glance
This new appliance offers an innovative, pragmatic approach to harness the power of
distributed caching as a complete, purpose-built, easy-to-use solution. It allows you
to leverage the value of your existing infrastructure investments. The DataPower®
XC10 appliance lets you bring higher performance, fault tolerance, and scalability to
common distributed caching scenarios including:
• HTTP session replication
• Extended Dynamic Cache service of WebSphere® Application Server
• Web side-cache accessed via a network connection
A large (160 GB), remote, partitioned, replicated, scalable data cache can be used
for storage of simple key/value pairs. This cache can be utilized instead of a back-
end database to provide increased application scalability and performance.
The DataPower XC10 appliance can offer:
• Reduced hosting charges / processing on more expensive systems (lower cost per
transaction)
• A mechanism to free up strategic systems to do more important work
• Better scalability and support for future growth (no bottlenecks)
• More robust support for cross data-center data replication
For ordering, contact your IBM® representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM
Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: NE001).
Overview
IBM DataPower XC10 appliance is a purpose-built, easy-to-use appliance designed
for simplified deployment, exceptional performance, and hardened security at the
caching tier of your enterprise application infrastructure. It adds distributed caching
functions to the IBM DataPower line of appliances, enabling your business-critical
applications to scale cost effectively with consistent performance.
The DataPower XC10 appliance is designed for simple installation and rapid use
("plug-and-play") with WebSphere Application Server V6.1 and V7.0, where it can
deliver a cost-effective distributed caching solution in support of common distributed
caching scenarios such as HTTP Session Replication, and Web side-cache accessed
via a network connection. DataPower XC10's fault tolerance and large 160 GB cache
